I've recently been made redundant and have been looking for a job for a month or so which in itself is stressful enough. I've had 2 successful interviews this week with 2nd interviews booked in for next week and have signed up with various recruitment agencies, so feel I am doing ok.
However, I'm constantly finding myself getting annoyed with my boyfriend giving his opinions and advice on the matter. He asked me this morning how my job search was going and I told him that I was going to town to sign up to a recruitment agency tomorrow with interest for a potential job. His response to this was why haven't I already signed up with this agency?? I told him I've signed up to about 15 agencies and can't join every single one and then he went on to say how he would have and I need to really knuckle down with my job search and giving me tips on what he would do to find a job. "You should be calling companies not wait for them to advertise a role" "Last week you spent 2 hours doing some market research instead of searching for a job, you need to be concentrating on this first and foremost. You really ought to be taking this more seriously".
I seriously feel like a child when he talks to me like this, rather than a capable 30 year old woman.
He says he's trying to help me but it just feels really patronising.
How should I deal with this?
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I think he's patronising but he says he's "trying to help". How to deal?
VIX1307 · 16/05/2016 14:22
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