"Just get a job" advice

webitha

i dont think that there is a job "beneath" me
i will scrub toilets with a toothbrush, pluck turkeys (if there was one near me) anything
i am not on benefits apart from CB as we can afford to live (just) on OH wages but now that my LO is in school full time , i feel i should get back to work even maccy ds have turned me down as they can employ younger people therefore cheaper nmw

Eyeballs99

webitha wrote: »

i dont think that there is a job "beneath" me
i will scrub toilets with a toothbrush, pluck turkeys (if there was one near me) anything
i am not on benefits apart from CB as we can afford to live (just) on OH wages but now that my LO is in school full time , i feel i should get back to work even maccy ds have turned me down as they can employ younger people therefore cheaper nmw

No advice here but wanted to say good luck, you are clearly the sort of person who should be given something.

Keep it up and I’m sure somebody will recognize what a good employee you’ll be

Makes a change from all these "what am I entitled to for free" threads

snowqueen555

Finding a job is very hard as I was out of work for a few months after graduation... I got 13 interviews (mostly retail and low level jobbs) and failed them!

Thats why it boggles the mind and sometimes irritates me a little to know a lot of people I know have the luxury to just live at their parents home and only apply for jobs they want. Not eveyrone, but a lot of my friends are in this situation, but its their life not mine!

I hate my job but I am doing it, I hope to find something new in the year though, I wonder how the job market has changed since 2009 when I last looked, as it wasq terrible back then.

nomoreboomandbust

snowqueen555 wrote: »

Finding a job is very hard as I was out of work for a few months after graduation... I got 13 interviews (mostly retail and low level jobbs) and failed them!

Thats why it boggles the mind and sometimes irritates me a little to know a lot of people I know have the luxury to just live at their parents home and only apply for jobs they want. Not eveyrone, but a lot of my friends are in this situation, but its their life not mine!

I hate my job but I am doing it, I hope to find something new in the year though, I wonder how the job market has changed since 2009 when I last looked, as it wasq terrible back then.

I hate to say it but its pretty much the same or even worse :mad:

A_nice_fellow

I wll emploiy intelligent people with good work ethic, PM me. SERIOUS REQUEST.

Hammyman

Person_one wrote: »

Can we please start to accept that maybe, just maybe, it isn't actually all that easy to get a job at the moment

Not whilst there are adverts in the papers, I get emailed 40+ daily (even though I live in rural county) and the jobcentres and employment agencies have tons advertised.

Its quite easy to get a job if you're not fussy about what you do and how much you earn.

Loanranger

Hammyman wrote: »

Not whilst there are adverts in the papers, I get emailed 40+ daily (even though I live in rural county) and the jobcentres and employment agencies have tons advertised.

Its quite easy to get a job if you're not fussy about what you do and how much you earn.

Just out of interest, then, are you working at the moment?

A_nice_fellow

A_nice_fellow wrote: »

I wll emploiy intelligent people with good work ethic, PM me. SERIOUS REQUEST.

Had a reply. Am drunk but will seriously do it cause only fair to honour what I say

Person_one

Hammyman wrote: »

Not whilst there are adverts in the papers, I get emailed 40+ daily (even though I live in rural county) and the jobcentres and employment agencies have tons advertised.

Its quite easy to get a job if you're not fussy about what you do and how much you earn.

Each advert in the paper will have dozens of applicants, only one of which will actually get that job.

Who is e-mailing these 40+ jobs to you every day and what kind of jobs are they?

katerinasol

It's incredibly difficult to get a job at the moment, I was unemployed for 8 months and was applying for McD's, cleaning jobs, everything really. I must have applied for about 800 jobs in those months and barely even had a response. I'm working now, on a temporary contract for a year but hoping they will keep me on afterwards, or I can go for another job in the same company. It really annoys me when people say "just get a job" - well-presented, well-spoken, well-educated people get turned down because of the sheer volume of applicants per job, there is so many that even being spotted turns into a game of luck. Good luck to you OP, hopefully something will come up for you soon!