A good friend of mine has become ‘involved’ with the job centre (because any other word gives the impression that she would like to spend time there). Like many of my other friends, and myself, who have had to throw themselves upon the bosom of a faceless bureaucracy, I hated every single moment of the [...]
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17 May
Job Centre Lowdown
Posted by graduatecalling in Finding a job, list. Tagged: being vulgar, career options, dole, employment, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, interview, job centre, job centre plus, jobcentre fun, looking for a job, looking for a proper job, looking for jobs, on the dole, ooooh! distracting, the economy, unemployment, volunteering, what to do in the job office. 1 Comment
7 May
Hung like a horse
Posted by graduatecalling in Not actually employment related, Stunned, This could go horribly wrong.... Tagged: cameron, clegg, conservative, day off, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, Gordon Brown, hung like a horse, hung parliament, labour, lib dem, Not actually employment related, not actually job related, ooooh! distracting, politics, the economy. Leave a Comment
Last night, when I toddled off to bed after realising that I was so tired I couldn’t understand what people were saying on the tv, I honestly thought that any idea of a hung parliament was next to nil. After all (I considered as I brushed my teeth), the press had been going on about [...]
28 Mar
Work Experience
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, better luck next time, Finding a job, Stunned. Tagged: 14, bad economy, classroom assistant, day off, Diversion, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, Not actually employment related, ooooh! distracting, school, schools, the economy, volunteering, work experience. Leave a Comment
Child at School: “Miss! Miss! You look, re-ealllllly tired.” Moi: “Uh… Thanks.” *is secretly embarrassed that make up does not hide the fact that she got up earlier than usual, on her day off, and she has already had a driving lesson before turning up in the class today* Child: “I’m tired too, Miss.” Moi: [...]
1 Feb
Interview-tastic shenanigans and getting up on my high horse
Posted by graduatecalling in Uncategorized. Tagged: Andrew Hankinson, career options, Diversion, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, interview, job centre, jobcentre fun, looking for a job, looking for a proper job, shop assistant, shop work, the economy, unemployed, unemployment, volunteering, working in a shop. Leave a Comment
Well, I had the interview on friday and a follow up on monday, and once again I am being all cautious about it. This is out of habit and a semi-superstition that I have. I am scared that if I turn round from the interviews, particularly a second stage interview, and say ’actually, that went [...]
26 Jan
Out of recession
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, Academia, better luck next time, Finding a job. Tagged: applications, career options, end of the recession, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, interview, job centre, jobcentre fun, playground, playtime, recess, schools, the economy, the recession, unemployed, unemployed rabbit, unemployment, working in a shop. 2 Comments
Today, the British government announced that we are now not out/almost out/out of recession now/by as much as we should be/yet. How does this make me feel? Plain. Neutral. Nothing. Nothing at all. I know that, with the announcement of the recession being over, I should be happy as things will get easier. Theoretically, I’ll [...]
23 Dec
Happy Christmas, and other seasonal tidings.
Posted by graduatecalling in Not actually employment related. Tagged: career options, Checkout, christmas, Christmas job, employment, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, happy new year, job centre, jobcentre fun, looking for a job, looking for a proper job, looking for jobs, ooooh! distracting, seasonal greetings, the economy, unemployment, university, working, working as a christmas temp, Working over Christmas, youtube. Leave a Comment
I wish you all a relaxing and enjoyable Christmas, with a swanky and healthy New Year. If you are of a different faith/full of seasonal cheer for an entirely different reason, then please substitute the name of your celebration where ‘Christmas’ should be. To all of those who are jobless and applying, part timing, sort [...]
15 Dec
You know when you are working over Christmas when…
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, better luck next time, Finding a job, list, Stunned, This could go horribly wrong.... Tagged: Christmas job, Christmas Temp, customers, customers being right, day off, Finding a job, finding a proper job, full time work, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, looking for jobs, ooooh! distracting, selling, shop work, the economy, tills, working, working as a christmas temp, working in a shop, Working over Christmas. 1 Comment
You can go to work, walk past a busy shop floor full of people whilst wearing your work top, and never get asked a question. However, the moment that one person queries you for something, you have 4 or 5 people try to interrupt you. You develop a personal relationship with the till.In fact, you [...]
2 Oct
New Maths
Posted by graduatecalling in better luck next time, Finding a job. Tagged: applications, being vulgar, career options, driving test, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, internships, interview, job centre, jobcentre fun, looking for jobs, ooooh! distracting, the economy, unemployed, unemployment, volunteering. Leave a Comment
This is a calculation I have had swimming round my head for the past month or so, that I feel I want to share with you all. Since about May, I have not counted how many jobs I have applied for. However, rough calculations based on at least 2-3 applications completed every week, alongside the [...]
2 Sep
Avoiding laziness and avoiding National Service…
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, Finding a job, Not actually employment related. Tagged: career options, Channel 5, Daily Mail, Diversion, dole, employment, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, hospital radio, interview, jobcentre fun, National Service, ooooh! distracting, Private Eye, signing off, the economy, u2, university, volunteering. Leave a Comment
Ever since signing myself off the dole last month, I’ve become scared of doing nothing. Admittedly, for the last three weeks I haven’t really had the chance to do nothing, but now I am back and sort of settled back into a routine (a routine that means that, for some reason, I have discovered the [...]
7 Aug
If
Posted by graduatecalling in better luck next time, Finding a job. Tagged: Anna Sam, career options, Checkout, Finding a job, finding a proper, finding a proper job, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, guitar hero, job centre, jobcentre fun, looking for jobs, Morcombe and Wise, New Deal, retail, shop assistant, stuff, stuff'n'things, the economy, Victoria Wood. Leave a Comment
I know that there is something sad about dragging out computer equipment in order to type in the sunshine, but I can’t quite figure out why others think that is. After all, I’m actually getting work done, and my body is so sun starved thanks to the biblical proportions of rain that have been falling, [...]
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