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Im full time so not got time to volenteer now.0
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Not all apprenticeships are below minimum wage, some are even higher than min wage. Did you look on the site I suggested to see if anything interested you?I cant take the pay cut to volenteer or apprenticeship. I just feel like a dead end
You can volunteer at weekends or just once a month even, it doesn't have to mean you have to reduce your hours.
If you want your life to change, you're going to have to sacrifice some things to make it happen. Either spend time in education of some sort, eg the links I posted before or evening school, or look for other ways to gain more work experience eg volunteering / second job to be able to change career.MFW OP's 2017 #101 £829.32/£5000
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Im full time so not got time to volenteer now.
Lots of people work full time and volunteer in their spare time. In my Brownie unit, two guiders work full time, one part time, and two are carers. Another unit near me - three full timers who are also guiders. Most of us have children as well, and guiding isn't just the time in the unit - there are trainings, planning meetings, trips, sleepovers, pack holidays, accounts, sorting resources, buying resources, researching information....
If you want to volunteer, being a full time worker is not a barrier. It's similar to people who want to study. There are lots of full timers who choose to do a degree with the OU in their spare time. The difference is that studying is likely to take up more hours per week.
Volunteering can be for as little as an hour a week.
You just don't sound interested or motivated.0 -
Working 55 hours a week I used to volunteer about twice a month for 4-6 hours.
If you want/ can only do 20-30 hours and you have no particular skills, then you either need to retrain, be prepared/able to work longer hours or accept that you are very unlikely to improve your situation much.
PS, this was typed on a phone.0 -
Just so we're clear, you're looking for a job that has to meet the following criteria:
Not be retail....7 years in retail is a bit too long ...
Not have to work with the public.... iv worked with the public and i want to get away now ...
Not be shouted at.... i want to get away now from being shouted at ...
Just has to be different...... and just have a didferent job ...
...but not cabin crew.... id always wanted to do cabin crew which was my dream but iv done that and im glad but its not what i want to do ...
Preferably pay decently.... obviosuly a job with any decent money is great ...
You'd like office work, maybe.... maybe ofice work ...
You'd like to limit your working hours to 20-30 hours per week.... 20-30 hours a week ...
Local to Liverpool.... and local to me(liverpool) ...
But not in a call centre environment.... but not on the phones to customers ...
Mustn't require working unsociable hours because 'reasons'.... The hours didnt agree with me lol ... Just reasons at the moment health etc, doesent really matter why ...
Mustn't involve taking a pay cut.... I cant take the pay cut to volenteer or apprenticeship. ...
And, more broadly, a job that requires very little in the way of spelling, punctuation and grammar (the excuse of using a smartphone only goes so far in enabling you to get away with the odd missing or extra comma, apostrophe or full stop.
Please do come back and let us all know how that job search works out for you.0 -
Haha will do your such a unhelpful lot i come here for advice and help but getting a hard time, a pay cut from full time to 20/30 hours il still earn nearly £1000 a month in the job i do now rather than volenteering and getting nothing,0
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I don't mean to make light of your situation but you have to see it from other people's view.
You don't appear to know what you want - which is fine - but makes it really difficult to give you any meaningful advice.
I think you need to do some proper soul-searching and decide what you want to do. Also, bear in mind that it's not often that people's desires and realities come together - that's just the way life goes. I'm sure we all have something we'd prefer to do over our day job.
I know a lot of people would love to have the opportunity to have a job in retail, it's all relative.0 -
Haha will do your such a unhelpful lot i come here for advice and help but getting a hard time, a pay cut from full time to 20/30 hours il still earn nearly £1000 a month in the job i do now rather than volenteering and getting nothing,
What bit of volunteering to get experience of another field do you not understand?
You have no idea of what you would like to do. Volunteering opens you up to new ideas and skill sets which can be transferred to new jobs0
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