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(heh at unseasonable) to want a JOB

27 replies

Alameda · 04/12/2012 13:08

even though I don't have any useful skills, referees, get bored easily and am just generally quite rubbish

I'm sure there is something I could do? Please inspire me?

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Wheresmycaffeinedrip · 04/12/2012 13:09

Can I share this with u? I wanna know the same thing :)

Alameda · 04/12/2012 13:10

Yes, sharing is caring and aptly seasonal!

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lljkk · 04/12/2012 13:11

I have a long list of things I'm rubbish at, too.

Getting started is one of them. Wink

wannabedomesticgoddess · 04/12/2012 13:12

Me too.

Or to start my own business, with no money and no knowledge of business and no good idea.

RillaBlythe · 04/12/2012 13:17

me too! I want a job, I feel the need to do something different. But due to a variety of reasons, I am 29 & essentially in the same place as a brand new graduate... Hmmm...

lljkk · 04/12/2012 13:19

LOL!

My rubbish-I-am list:
I am very squeamish, no powers of persuasion (could not sell booze to an alcoholic), shy and dread performance tasks (like public speaking, teaching), creatively and mechanically declined, easily distracted.... and I don't scrub up well (poor at personal presentation). I know all this for FACT because I have tried but failed to overcome them.

Other than that I'm very clever and reasonably patient, hard-working, tolerant & conscientious.

(off to do next dull task I've been procrastinating about)

ps: and I'm always hungry. Cannot think if I haven't been fed.

Wheresmycaffeinedrip · 04/12/2012 13:34

I also make a suit look scruffy. I'm
Not good at pushing things mainly as I feel guilty especially if I don't think what I'm having to push people into doing is a good deal or that it's not going to benefit them.

I'm too honest I couldn't lie In order to sell something or blag it if I don't know the answer to a question.

I do however always turn up on time, do as I'm supposed to do and will help out where I can.

redexpat · 04/12/2012 14:04

I once temped with a girl who temped because she got too bored in a regular job. 3 days here, 4 days there... suited her fine. Worth a shot?

Alameda · 04/12/2012 14:07

temping! What a brilliant idea!

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HerRoyalNotness · 04/12/2012 14:11

I did temping for 6mths after splitting up with xH, it was brilliant. Most of the jobs were, just sit here and fill the spot. A was at a lawyers firm for a week and the told me to bring in a book to read, I was there in case they wanted something typed up. Brilliant I tell you.

Useful skills for temping: typing, use of Word, Excel at a push, answering phones, ability to look busy when actually not.

Alameda · 04/12/2012 14:20

mmm sounds like stuff I can do

although whether I can sustain it for a whole working day at hours to suit someone else remains to be seen

but in meantime have made important decision to volunteer at a museum, if they will have me, will find out tomorrow. Then will find out whether am compatible with Work or not?

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lljkk · 04/12/2012 16:27

I'd love temping, but the hours are too inconsistent & short notice for me to arrange childcare & transport.

The best strategy with temping or any supply work is, I reckon, you say yes every time they ask. If it's at all physically possible to do it. Then they will put your name top of the list the next time they need to ask someone, they don't want to have to make more phone calls than necessary.

HerRoyalNotness · 04/12/2012 21:57

"compatible with working" Grin. I think you'll find your wallet will LOVE it.

Alameda · 05/12/2012 09:45

although maybe voluntary work is not the perfect way to make my wallet happy at first it might give it some hope for the future?

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E320 · 05/12/2012 11:36

Can I just ask how you all manage to live without paid employment?

Doingakatereddy · 05/12/2012 11:41

I Never know why more women don't work in factories. Repeatitive work, limited scope for office bitchiness, free uniform. It's not glamorous, but money is above NMW & if you learn basic skills such as manual handling, use of welding machines (not as hard as it sounds) or FLT Licence you can get regular or temp work easily.

Just a thought!

Wheresmycaffeinedrip · 05/12/2012 11:47

E320 perhaps we all do have jobs only hate them.

Alameda · 05/12/2012 12:52

obviously
by being extremely very frugal E320 (apart from horses and holidays)

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RillaBlythe · 05/12/2012 13:23

E320 I started a really long reply explaining why I don't have a job, but it bored even me. Short answer - two kids under 4, a relocation, & a DP who earns enough for us to get by on.

Alameda · 05/12/2012 13:28

I have a tiny mortgage so it would probably be a different story if I desperately needed several hundred pounds a month for that.

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Mandy2003 · 05/12/2012 13:31

OP - based on analysis of the personal qualities you've listed, the job that would suit you best is....

....Prime Minister Xmas Grin

Alameda · 05/12/2012 13:36

Ooh goodie, I will dust off the coffe-stained gdl then (with extra emphasis on constitutional matters) and start my campaign. Grin

Although actually will be very pleased if I can get a voluntary job in the museum, interview in a MINUTE. Good luck me!

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bigmouthstrikesagain · 05/12/2012 13:45

E320 I am independently wealthy have a dh earning enough Wink I am also useless and out of touch after several years on 'career break' not convinced sitting on commitees and selling at the occasional car boot will convince any future potential employer of my worth - but I want to get geared up to work when dd2 starts school next September.

Maybe I can be a mumpreneur! Barf at the word thoughHmm

lljkk · 05/12/2012 14:39

E320: When I was well-paid we became mortgage free so we can get by on DH salary. I quit my old job (burned out anyway) thinking I'd find something else soon enough. Decade later, still haven't found it. Blush.

Alameda · 05/12/2012 16:55

what might you like to do lljkk?

am really pleased about volunteering at the museum, starting next week, it is very similar to A Job isn't it? Even if absolutely nobody else thinks so!

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