Key to a good job.

Riq

studentphil wrote: »

if you don't get killed by a robber.

I survived 5 years (half through uni), my mum survived 10 years before I came along and she left.

I know loads of people who have worked there for 30+ years ad they have never known anyone be shot!


But what about thos agressive people that come into the library? They could beat you with an encyclopedia.

I had a few inches of bullet proof glass between me and customers, so i was safer than you

studentphil

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

SO WHY AREN'T YOU?

You don't have any initiative, do you?

You could work part time at a bookshop while you do this job. best of both worlds.

But no, you wasted your time sat on your @rse moaning.

Congratulations.

It is not that, I am not right confident and I would find it difficult to start again somewhere else.

TNG

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

SO WHY AREN'T YOU?

But no, you wasted your time sat on your @rse moaning.

*sits back and waits for the "Why did I spend my entire early twenties on MSE whingeing instead of getting experience" thread*

zfrl

studentphil wrote: »

if you don't get killed by a robber.

Just how many bank staff do you think get killed. The most dangerous job is actually builder. Although if your job is really bad they do say you can die of boredom!

Riq

studentphil wrote: »

It is not that, I am not right confident and I would find it difficult to start again somewhere else.

So you know what is wrong, but do nothing to help yourself.

Well, that's it from me in this thread I have had enough!

Horace

Troll-baiting is fun - may I join in and have my six penny'worth?

StudentPhil - if you don't like the job that you are doing, then why not leave, better still instead of working for someone else (employers obviously bore you to tears because they make you do all sorts of nasty things like WORK) why not set up your own business. If you become self-employed you can be your own boss and do your own thing without a horrid boss breathing down your neck. I am sure that with your bountiful experience and knowledge you will be earning £1 million and retiring to the Bahamas before you know it:D

Please do not denigrate people on here who may or may not have a job be it highly paid or not. If you have so much money and so much time, why not go and do something useful with it insteading of whinging about how hard your life is - some folks on here have to get on with it and so should you!

Soph

studentphil wrote: »

Then as soon as they apply to be a manager they say, no you can't as you have never been a manager before. So if you don't have experience you will never get a better job and you can't get the experience without a better job.

Absolute rubbish studentphil.

The answer would more likely be 'no you can't as you don't display the level of competence we are looking for in a manager'. It's very unlikely that you would be turned down for a managerial position on the sole basis that you had never managed before. There would have to be other reasons. How do you think people get into management roles?

Your lowly 'shelf stacker', for example, may on a day to day basis (despite being in their 'mundane' & 'boring' role!), display some of the skills and qualities that make them stand out from their colleagues. For example, they may take time to show a customer to the product they want, rather than simply telling them which aisle it's on; they may use their initiative to see that the tins of tuna are getting low and re-stock them without constantly having to be told what to do next etc.

Because of this, their immediate line manager may start to give them additional responsibility and the opportunity to extend their experience and skills within their current role. The lowly shelf stacker may start to display a real flair for team work, job committment, delivering on deadlines and going the extra mile for the customer and because of this, the next time a shift manager position comes up they will be able to demonstrate that they have the necessary skills and competencies that are essential in a manager.

I would not have progressed from a 'lowly' mortgage admin consultant, through to senior consultant to team manager without displaying the skills, qualities and competencies required for the role of manager. Management training and experience was a constant process of learning and development.

Maybe you should think about the skills, qualities, competencies and qualifications that are required in your ideal role and then work out how you can display or obtain them within your current role. Bear in mind however, that this will require enthusiasm, ambition and most of all effort.

tinkerbell84

Riq wrote: »

So you know what is wrong, but do nothing to help yourself.

Well, that's it from me in this thread I have had enough!

Me too.

SP - you are beyond help. There's a 3 ft thick wall in front of me that takes much more advice than you. I'm off too.

seven-day-weekend

Phil, I understand your job at the library is part-time?

Why don't you see if you can get another part-time job to go with it, (that's as well as your library job, not instead of) preferably in a bookshop but any retail job would give you customer-facing skills and cash skills, and many retail places are open in the evening and of course weekends.

Try Matalan. They seem to have four-hour shifts and are open until 8pm.

Or even some voluntary work in a charity shop .

TNG

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

Me too.

SP - you are beyond help. There's a 3 ft thick wall in front of me that takes much more advice than you. I'm off too.

Only if you repeatedly bang your head against it?