Bionic Commando wrote:Yeah, fair play to you for sticking with your pride and actually going out and doing something even if it isn't something you want to do. I am kinda on the same boat but not really. I have applied to loads of places I never thought I would ever see myself working just to get in and apply elsewhere like you say but even most of them are strict on their hiring procedures. I just could never see myself stooping to the level of McDonalds or whatever primarily because I despise the place and everything it represents, plus It'd be kinda embarrassing and depressing to go work places like that. I wouldn't mind working in supermarkets or wherever but there are certain levels I couldn't see myself hitting, especially given that I have debt that I need to be paying off and I wouldn't nearly earn enough to do that in places that pay you next to nothing. Either way I'll keep looking. Like you said, unemployment benefits aren't much if you don't have a family to raise. I get about £200 a month which is very little in this day and age, plus I give a good 50-60 of that to my family for living there (it ain't much but at least its something). It ain't the end of the world though, something will come up, for now I'll keep applying and keep myself busy through writing and doing odd jobs and chores.
I never thought that I would hear myself say this, but I agree with Scotswahey on this one (its a good job I am already lying down at the moment)
I have a law degree, and up until July I was employed as an office manager/managing director of a mortgage brokers. For reasons that I won't go into here I had to leave. Since then I temped as:
1. A cleaner, cleaning up student flats at the local uni.
2. A cafe assistant in the local law courts, manning the till, helping in the kitchens etc.
3. A call centre operative - 3 days calling up various branches of Boots to ask them why they hadn't sold any of a particular product yet.
And at the moment, I am working in a Jobcentre call centre, taking calls from people who want to claim benefits. Meu will back me up here that this job requires all the intelligence and application of a used teabag to do, being as how you just read the script and type in the answers you are given, but hey, ITS A JOB. Its no good saying that you have limits and there are things that are too humiliating to do, because in this market and this climate you have to take what you can get. Anything that pays you any money at all is better than getting paid **** all to sit at home, and I guarantee you that even working at poundland or Maccy D's or whatever will pay you more than the dole does. And guess what? The old Cliche is true because since starting at the DWP I have been interviewed for another much better job that I will hopefully be starting in January if all goes well.
So, sorry to sound harsh man, but its time to realise that the entire world is in recession, and it don't matter if you're a qualified fucking rocket scientist - if no bugger needs rocket scientists and the only job left open is flipping burgers at Maccy D's then guess what? Its time to put on your apron, silly hat and name badge and get flipping. Trust me, you will be better off in the long run - you never know where opportunity will come from. Mrs G is being made redundant at the end of this year and she has just been offered another job through an outside activity that she does in her spare time, and not just any job but her absolute dream job. You never know, the first customer you serve at Maccy D's might be someone looking for and English Lit graduate. Stranger shit has indeed happened.
