I'm unemployable :(

Penny-Pincher!!

Get together a CV.

Keep it simple but precise...list your GCSE grades or anything else you have, interests and a personal statement. Get a personal referance if you can't get an ex employer to do one. Get them to list your qualities...time keeping, eagerness, personality etc etc.

Be prepared to go in on minimum wage and though not ideal it will give you a regular income and a step on the ladder.

Keep your attitude positive and you should be fine.

Good luck

PP
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Buttercup.x

chippy_250 wrote: »

2nd job , july 2007. this was in a well known supermarket. but they put me in the customer cafe as an assistant and it was the worst job ever, having to clean dishes, tabels and the cookers etc. so i quit that after about 10 days.

So? Ive done this job before prob for the same company and i hated it to but at the end of the day it pays the bills would of been better looking for another job before you decided to quit :rolleyes:

cannylass_2

You have mentioned several times that you are suffering/have suffered from depression/anxiety. Have you totally recovered from this, as you sound as if you may still have some self-esteem/motivational problems which can go along with these? Have you seen your GP at all? Sorry if I have read this wrong, but I wonder if your mental health could be a factor in your lacking motivation.

coldstreamalways

Wow, you really need to grow up a bit. Hardly anyone in the whole world actually wants to work for a living, I do it because if I lived on benefits, knowing that I could do a job (be it toilet cleaning or wiping tables) I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror.

I'm amazed, I don't want to sound harsh but really, your attitude is unbelievable.

Horace

I can remember what it was like being 18, I also did crummy jobs - one was a Saturday job in Woolworths and each member of shopfloor staff had to cook lunch for everybody else, I did Latin at school instead of domestic science so I had to make a salad but didnt wash the lettuce so it had green fly on it (extra protein), I had to cook something but cannot remember what it was and I managed to burn a hole in the ancient kettle that had to be boiled on the hob - needless to say I was made redundant:rotfl: It's life that you have to start at the bottom and work your way up because that is the only way in which you are going to learn - you cannot reasonably expect to go in at chief executive level and work your way down.

I am currently on JSA but hopefully won't be for long because I have to be test-trading by 22 October - yes, I am becoming self-employed at the grand old age of 46:D

If you like travel and tourism then why not apply to be a member of cabin crew (men do the job too), it is hard work but it is extremely well paid with crew earning £40K when they reach the point of being senior stewards. Don't get me wrong it is hard work but fun, lots of long haul travel, lots of expenses and you get to stay in 5 star hotels courtesy of the airline (I know about this because one of my friends used to be senior steward with Thomson). You can have a good life with this job.

Try joining the RAF too as they have lots of trades and they are a reasonable employer.

I would put both jobs on the CV, explain that the first one was a temporary job and that the other didnt fit in with your studies. Ask one of the tutors at your school/college if they would give you a reference when the time comes.

Try not to fret you are certainly not unemployable. You will find though that if you go for a cabin crew job you could be the only chap but don't let that phase you, some of the best cabin crew are men.

In this life you have to do things for you and not for anybody else.

Good luck.

Bagpuss741

Where in South Wales are you?

squashy

Agreeing with what lots of the others have said- work sucks, i'm afraid that is life. I also left school with similar grades but unlike you I didn't manage to finish my A levels, as I think I had self esteem issues, I struggled, I was in a bad relationship at hte time and needed to earn money so my saturday job turned into a full time one after I kept on accepting overtime.

My first job was working in a fruit and veg shop, which involved cleaning the whole shop from top to bottom each night after spending an hour single-handedly bringing in the displays from outside and running up the stairs with crates of heavy foods to the fridge. I was paid £2.50 an hour for this (in the nineties). I then worked in a clothes store, which included taking the 50 crate delivery upstairs (hhm I'm begining to see a theme), three times a week, before taking it out of the wrappers, hanging it, and sticking on the correct size sticker to the hanger, then climbing ladders to put it away in the stockroom. For this I had graduated to a salary of £7,500 per year. I worked part time in a toning tables salon where I had to measure sweaty ladies inside thigh measurements and sponge down the beds. I later worked in a building society where I had to get 10 people a day to get a quote for insurance, even though it was the same line of people week in week out. I would also have to stay behind if there were any discrepancies in the banking, whether they be my doing or not. I didn't get to leave till it was sorted, even if it was 9pm.

Do you ge the picture?

I have worked my way up the ladder through honest graft and I now have a respectable office job in the education sector, it is a great job for me doing lots of things I love, but I STILL get fed up on some days. Today was the day from hell and I would have walked out if I could but I would have been letting a hell of a lot of people down- including myself.

My advice is to see hte next job you get as a challenge, give it a really good go. Who knows, you might grow to like it and even advance with the company once you've proved yourself.

Oldernotwiser

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

Get them to list your qualities...time keeping, eagerness, personality etc etc.

If they do this honestly he really will be unemployable!

chippy_250

um ok so many questions.
what part of wales someone asked? swansea
has my mental health improved? well my anxiety is fine now but i do have some mild depression now and again.
i just dont see the point in doing 40 years of work doing something i hate, theres no such thing as a good job in my opinion. i dont know one person that enjoys going to work. i'd rather someone break my finger everyday and get paid for it that go and do a 8 hour shift, thats how much i hate it. full time is too many hours for me also, i think i'll just settle for part time for now, i could just manage that. my thinking is = if i cant be the best or do what i want, why bother at all?
i've i didnt have a girlfriend i could life off my £48 JSA a week easily becasue im used to not buying anything. i dont want to live for only the weekend, i want to actually live everyday doing what i enjoy. such as playign football, tennis and socializing.

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chippy_250 wrote: »

um ok so many questions.
what part of wales someone asked? swansea
has my mental health improved? well my anxiety is fine now but i do have some mild depression now and again.
i just dont see the point in doing 40 years of work doing something i hate, theres no such thing as a good job in my opinion. i dont know one person that enjoys going to work. i'd rather someone break my finger everyday and get paid for it that go and do a 8 hour shift, thats how much i hate it. full time is too many hours for me also, i think i'll just settle for part time for now, i could just manage that. my thinking is = if i cant be the best or do what i want, why bother at all?
i've i didnt have a girlfriend i could life off my £48 JSA a week easily becasue im used to not buying anything. i dont want to live for only the weekend, i want to actually live everyday doing what i enjoy. such as playign football, tennis and socializing.

I appologised in an earlier post for sounding harsh,not this time though
you say you have mild depression now and again,the reason for this is YOU ARE BONE IDLE,you are of the opinion that theres no such thing as a good job,how the hell would you know,youve never stuck at one more than 5 minutes.:mad: :mad: :mad:
I could go on but hopefully even someone as thick skinned as you is getting the picture :mad: