I hate offices

SkimmySim

elsien wrote: »

To get the full NVQ and demonstrate competence you generally need to be working the role.
So if the employer has given an interview when they know the OP doesn't have the qualification must mean there is a chance they'd be offered the job, surely? It's a waste of the employer's time otherwise. Although obviously if a good qualified candidate applied they'd be top of the list.

I also am not suited to office work. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just not for me.

To do the course you have to have a placement lined up... Agencies can sometimes offer dreams and then have you sat at home twiddling your fingers (i've signed up to a few like that!!) I think it's something the OP needs to look into because before they send her out she will have to pay for her CRB to be done and that can cost up to £50.

lush_walrus

libramoon175 wrote: »

I think it's just that I'm not suited to an office environment and mundane work. I'm very creative.
Rest of my life is fine - I just don't want to be someone who waits for 5pm to come before I start getting some satisfaction from my life.

A lot of creative industries are run from offices, perhaps those are the admin jobs you would get satisfaction from. Architecture, Graphic design, advertising, research, industrial design, publishing, branding, fashion, even some aspects of tv and radio are. If your interests are creative and your experience is office why not target those industries, even if your role is duller you will be around creative types who may inspire you or it may offer in some cases the platform to move from admin into an associated role.

Planet_Switzerland

I used to go from temp job to temp job a few years ago, all office jobs, but the bad ones were more about size and location rather than being an office.


I once did a 6 month job in a huge open plan office that was so big it would take me 10 minutes to walk to my car in the car park. After that job I went to work in a small office in a village and I found it so depressing, I was only there a month but it was the longest month of my life and it taught me big office = good, small office = bad.


These days I work in an office of around 600 people over 3 floors in the centre of London, which suits me. When I get contacted about job opportunities from agencies, I look at the location and company size, if the location is too remote or the company is too small I reject it outright, I don't care how interesting the job itself might be, working in that environment would drive me up the wall.