Anyone been down the Job Centre?

PasturesNew

mvengemvenge wrote: »

My partner is an insolvency examiner. 3 years hard training.

It might be. But apart from that 3 years, I just don't get it ... life ... all of it. I don't get how you pick something, how/where you study it ... and more importantly, how you know that there will be jobs that you can get when you've finished.

If it were just 3 years and if I knew how/where to study and if I knew where/what jobs (and how much) would be available at the end, I'd feel confident enough to think about that, or something else.

It's all very random though isn't it. Life. Life and study. All hit and miss. Random... You can't plan it.

I just hope I'll find something doing "the thing I do best/have a piece of paper for" before the end of March. After March I hit the "oh, just go for anything and sod 'em if you don't actually like the job and dump them the minute you find something else/better", which is the reason I probably wouldn't get those jobs either (because that's what they assume you'll do).

babydaisy

No PasturesNew, luckily for me I'm not.

mvengemvenge

mewbie wrote: »

reported. moron with no sense of humour.

Moron is fine as it is...

I've spent many years on a music message board where you give people negative marks as well as praise. If they get too many negatives, they can't post, kind of self-policing in the community.

mvengemvenge

PasturesNew wrote: »

It might be. But apart from that 3 years, I just don't get it ... life ... all of it. I don't get how you pick something, how/where you study it ... and more importantly, how you know that there will be jobs that you can get when you've finished.

If it were just 3 years and if I knew how/where to study and if I knew where/what jobs (and how much) would be available at the end, I'd feel confident enough to think about that, or something else.

It's all very random though isn't it. Life. Life and study. All hit and miss. Random... You can't plan it.

I just hope I'll find something doing "the thing I do best/have a piece of paper for" before the end of March. After March I hit the "oh, just go for anything and sod 'em if you don't actually like the job and dump them the minute you find something else/better", which is the reason I probably wouldn't get those jobs either (because that's what they assume you'll do).

The best thing to do, until the government completely runs out of money, is get a job in the civil service and become so good they simply can't function without you. It may stop promotion, but you'll have that security element.

PasturesNew

mvengemvenge wrote: »

£60.50......that 50p goes miles in the pound shop.

I don't know exactly how much it is, I don't get any benefits. I just know roughly.

PasturesNew

mvengemvenge wrote: »

The best thing to do, until the government completely runs out of money, is get a job in the civil service and become so good they simply can't function without you. It may stop promotion, but you'll have that security element.

You can't just get a job with them. Most jobs I could do need some previous civil servant experience.

My friend linked me into NHS jobs earlier, I pointed out to her that every job I COULD do I wouldn't get because they said they wanted NHS experience, or were on a grade that implied there were probably already 1000 other staff on a lower grade, who might also be applying and would therefore score more "done it/been there" points.

Unless you start at the bottom in those sort of Govt jobs it's difficult to progress. It's certainly hard to enter in your twilight years in a middle grade job. Everybody competing will already have the "experience of working with partnerships and similar agencies" and fundraising groups etc that most of those jobs have as a pre-requisite.

PasturesNew

Oh we're so !!!!in' cliquey it hurts

My poor old mate mewbs... who is probably ginger.

mvengemvenge

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh we're so !!!!in' cliquey it hurts

My poor old mate mewbs... who is probably ginger.

He likes musicals?

kunekune

You are absolutely right about NHS IT, PN (did I get it right, that it is IT?). Even top level experience in another country's public health service does not help.

mewbie_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh we're so !!!!in' cliquey it hurts

My poor old mate mewbs... who is probably ginger.

You're right about the cliquey thing, but I don't quite understand. Do I need to?