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poppysarah

PasturesNew wrote: »

I didn't say kids.
These were young 20-30 year olds. 24 of them. No kids.

We had a house here full of lithuanians. The serious assault I witnessed will stay with me for a very long time. The house had to be completely renovated when they left.

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

neas, I'm only a year older than you and I am making job applications right now too. I am also a graduate with good skills and experience and I am applying to 'basic' jobs, (most of them part time) and I have also had no interview offers. Last time I was doing the round and still a career gal I was told I would be bloody hard to employ until I had kids with five yers afterwards (ie had reproduced and got them to fulltime school age) or menopausal. It can be tough getting a job if you are a woman of reproducing age. Now I'm married and have travelled with DH or work leaving more CV holes its even harder. I have a terribly English surname;), a pretty enviable cv up until marriage and references so fabulous my mother could have written them (but she didn't) and I've applied for anything and everything including factory shifts and local admin work. Incidently the factory I applied to recruits in the local town hall once a week and it is rumoured is only hiring foreign workers as they work harder and don't bang on about rights It could be less racism than you imagine.

Believe me it gets harder when you do have kids, even if they are at school.

I am also well qualified and very well experienced in office based jobs but do you think anyone wants to take me on?

Nope

And the feedback received is because I have children (who are not particularly young now, 10,11 and 14) who may need my attention during the day (ok it doesn't help that 2 of those childen are also disabled and do need me to leave at a moments notice - but these occasions are becoming ever more rare)

I don't mind starting at the bottom again, I did it in my last job (after returning after having kids), they took a chance as my dad also worked for the company - they got 5 good years out of me.

Since looking for employment again, I have applied for approx 50 jobs and have not even got to the interview stage! Pre kids, I would apply for one, get an interview and get the job.

SquatNow

PasturesNew wrote: »

I didn't say kids.
These were young 20-30 year olds. 24 of them. No kids.

Just how big WAS the house.

Bet they are all heading home now.

neverdespairgirl

dubsey wrote: »

Still staying OT sorry , but we have Polish girls at work who are lovely. Two are Polish, one Russian and two Albanian guys in the kitchen.

Hope the non-EU citizens have their papers in order?

SquatNow

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Hope the non-EU citizens have their papers in order?

Else they wont be allowed OUT of the country.

You WILL stay here and pick crops for £1 an hour for the rest of your life...

tomstickland

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PasturesNew

SquatNow wrote: »

Just how big WAS the house.

Bet they are all heading home now.

The usual, probably:
1 living room as a bedroom = 4
3 double bedrooms = 6+6+4
Illegal loft space = 6
Shed in the garden = 3 (yes, 3 in a 10x12 ramshackle old garden shed with one shared extension lead for a lamp/heater)

24 was what he publicly advertised were in it when he put it up for sale, but I know there were more. More like 30. You could see inside all the rooms from the road as they had 6' high bay windows mainly. And I had a house like that so knew the size/layout too. Just me in mine though.

He charged £50 each/week. Rooms all had bunkbeds in. When the fire people came round, they'd turf a load out and 2 days later they'd be back in.

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

Since looking for employment again, I have applied for approx 50 jobs and have not even got to the interview stage! Pre kids, I would apply for one, get an interview and get the job.

I don't think that's to do with kids. It's probably just age.

I've never had kids and it's been the same for me too.

Up to about 30 you can pretty much walk in/out of jobs on a whim.
30-40 it gets a bit tougher.
Over 40 even tougher.
50ish ... pffffft

KiKi

neas wrote: »

Its harder to get an admin job than it is to get a electronic engineer job it seems.. for me at least .... or maybe its cause i have a surname with 1 vowel? :P

I'm not saying that racism isn't necessarily the case...but the simple answer is: yes. It is a hell of a lot easier to get an electrical engineer role in the UK than an admin role at the moment. Right now, we have a national skills shortage of engineers, particularly in electrical and signal engineering. Administrative skills are easy to get hold of.

When we have engineers apply for roles with us, even without the right experience, we bite their hand off to take them on and then train them in the bits they're missing, simply because it's that difficult to find them. We offer a lot more money for them, and do a lot to try and retain them.

Administrative skills can easily be found, bought in, transferred from most other areas of an organisation and are not specialist in the same way.

For every engineering role we advertise for, we have maybe two applications - at most. Sometimes none. For every administrative role, we will have twenty. So with admin staff, we can choose to be selective, we only shortlist the best of the best, and only those that meet the top of the top criteria.

So yes, it is harder to get an admin job - I'm surprised you're surprised!

Totally OT, sorry OP. I hope you get a buyer that sticks with you, soon.

KiKi

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't think that's to do with kids. It's probably just age.

I've never had kids and it's been the same for me too.

Up to about 30 you can pretty much walk in/out of jobs on a whim.
30-40 it gets a bit tougher.
Over 40 even tougher.
50ish ... pffffft

Damn, only 2 years to get a job before it becomes even tougher! :rotfl:

Very true though......

My dad managed to get himself another job in his 50's by using humour on his application, went along the lines of "Would your company do the honour of employing a ageing,balding, stick in the mud, male chauvinistic pig who works blooming hard?"

They loved his humour and took him on until his retirement at the age of 65.