best agency for easy/brain-dead work?

morganedge

Despite the apparently improving job market, i'm finding it harder than before to find a job.
Generally no replies, but worse than that is that every job just seems out of my depth when I read the job description.
(Other than the occasional cleaning job advertised who want experience which I don't have)

I guess I need to look for warehouse type jobs where the duties are lifting boxes, packing goods etc, but I never see these types of jobs advertised.

Is there a particular agency who tends to specialise in such posts?
(When I was a teenager, Adecco used to do lots of packing work etc)

Should I just contact (email?) the agency and ask if they have any such work going in my area?

thanks

Icematikx

You say "braindead" work as in you consider yourself over-qualified for it. What are you qualified to do? Where are your strengths? What would be your ideal job?

morganedge

Icematikx wrote: »

You say "braindead" work as in you consider yourself over-qualified for it. What are you qualified to do? Where are your strengths? What would be your ideal job?

Sorry.
I didn't mean to imply that I was over-qualified. Far from it! I just meant an easy job whereby no real experience/intelligence should be required.
For example, I once had a job stapling cheques to letters all day.
Another job scratching painted logos off of a large batch of radios.

I wonder which agencies most frequently have such roles.

To answer your questions, and at the risk of going off-track:
I don't have any qualification other than GCSE'S from when I was younger, other than an intermediate IT qualification which is the equivElent of a GCSE, I believe (GNVQ)

Strengths? I don't really know. Maths was my best subject at school, although I wouldn't say i'm particularly good at it.

Ideal job? I guess a footballer? I can't really think of an ideal job when it comes to realistic job titles, though.

BillJones

morganedge wrote: »

For example, I once had a job stapling cheques to letters all day.
Another job scratching painted logos off of a large batch of radios.

I wonder which agencies most frequently have such roles.

This sort of job will be getting less and less common, as we move away from paper-based transactions, and as we are able to offshore more and more unskilled work.

I don't know where the best place is to find this sort of menial work today, but unless you work on gaining some marketable skills, you'll be finding it harder and harder to stay employed over the coming years and decades.

As you'll have seen elsewhere on here, benefits are being cut, sanctions are being introduced, and life in general will be less pleasant for the unproductive than it was a few years back. The future is very bleak if you do not sort yourself out.

morganedge

BillJones wrote: »

unless you work on gaining some marketable skills, you'll be finding it harder and harder to stay employed over the coming years and decades

Yeah, it's rough out there.
Any suggestions regarding 'marketable skills'?

BillJones wrote: »

As you'll have seen elsewhere on here, benefits are being cut, sanctions are being introduced

So I hear. I actually don't sign on and don't get any benefits, though. I live off savings from my previous menial job for now whilst I search for more work.

BillJones wrote: »

The future is very bleak if you do not sort yourself out.

You mean the 'marketable skills' thing?

mattcanary

BillJones wrote: »

The future is very bleak if you do not sort yourself out.

We're not all capable of doing jobs that require a good brain, or being smart. Some people have learning disabilities too.


We should do the best we can, of course.
But it is part of a government's job to ensure that everyone within the country is catered for (either through work, or some type of subsistence living, if not in work.

Icematikx

morganedge wrote: »

To answer your questions, and at the risk of going off-track:
I don't have any qualification other than GCSE'S from when I was younger, other than an intermediate IT qualification which is the equivElent of a GCSE, I believe (GNVQ)

Strengths? I don't really know. Maths was my best subject at school, although I wouldn't say i'm particularly good at it.

Ideal job? I guess a footballer? I can't really think of an ideal job when it comes to realistic job titles, though.

No offence intended, but you really sound like a person with no career prospects. You come across as having low self-esteem and low self-confidence in terms of your skills.

If somebody came to me and said, "what are you good at"...I would have absolutely no problem turning around and saying, "I know I am good at digital marketing, SEO, raising brand awareness, content creation etc"; whilst I am weak at customer service and being in highly social environments such as retail.

I believe you need to sit down and ask yourself that question. What ARE YOU GOOD AT?

Everybody is good at something. My girlfriend isn't great at English. Nor Maths. But you know what? She's a really caring person who has everybodies best interests at heart - making her a great care worker or nurse.

Believe it or not, even YOU have career prospects doing something that you enjoy. If that requires you taking a degree for 3-4 years then DO IT.

BillJones

morganedge wrote: »

You mean the 'marketable skills' thing?

Yes. Wages are under pressure inn all sorts of jobs, as the marketplace becomes more global. In my job, it's a bit of a pain, but we are being knocked back from very high wages to just quite high wages. If you are going to make your way on or about minimum wage, in "brain dead" roles, then there's a good chance that you end up in a very bad place.

And I don't just mean Basingstoke...

duchy

What about agricultural work ?

BillJones

mattcanary wrote: »

But it is part of a government's job to ensure that everyone within the country is catered for.

Well, I disagree with you there, and fortunately, so does the government.

I'd say that it's the government's role to make sure that everyone has an opportunity to be able to care for themselves, and that those who cannot are taken care of.

If someone chooses simply not to bother, then the government has no obligation to do any more than keep them breathing.

Even Marx was agreed on this point "He that does not work, neither shall he eat" was, I believe, the gist of his views on the subject of people who won't participate to the best of their ability.

fufu_banterwaite

Icematikx wrote: »

No offence intended, but you really sound like a person with no career prospects. You come across as having low self-esteem and low self-confidence in terms of your skills..

I think low self-esteem is the point here. Morgs you write coherently and come across as sensible and fairly intelligent. I don’t think you are as unskilled and useless as you seem to think you are. I just don’t know whether you have always suffered from low self-esteem or whether something triggered it.


I think first and foremost before you consider getting a job you need to look at ways of boosting your own self-esteem.