Job AIBU - what the hell do i do?

[MoiMocheetMechant]

I'm probably being a bit U, but at the end of my tether.

AIBU to ask you all where and how I could find a job that's:

• London-based
• 9-5 (roughly)
• Graduate-level
• Good for someone who's not really good with numbers (ie. not an accountancy or finance job)
• Has opportunities for writing within the job
• Decent salary (above £21,000, for example)
• Involves helping people in some way.

I've been job-hunting for nine months now, and haven't found anything yet unfortunately. To get by, I've been doing a lot of freelance work (tutoring), and although I really enjoy it and it pays quite well, it's not a very stable source of income and it takes me quite a long time to travel to my clients.

I've been using a few different websites for job-hunting (Charity Job, Civil Service Jobs, W4MP, Indeed, my old university's Careers Service website for example, and also have Google Alerts set up for different companies so I'll find out if any jobs come up with them).

Have got a second-round interview tomorrow for a full-time job that has some tutoring involved in it but still involves working from home, which I'm a bit frustrated by, as I'd much prefer to work in an office environment and with colleagues.

Could anyone help please?

I am an Administrative Law Judge. What I actually do is conduct public assistance hearings. When someone's public assistance is denied or terminated, they have appeal rights. I hear the appeals, and then make a determination based on the evidence and regulations. My job involves helping people, writing, and I make $82,000 a year. I do sometimes have to work with numbers, but it's simple budgets, nothing complicated.

I'm in the US, but I would imagine that the UK has a similar type of job available. I know you all have public assistance programs, so there must be an appeals process. Could you look into something like that?

Marketing?

If you got a job as a marketing assistant then it often involves some writing of copy (depending on the business), generally office hours, lots of London based jobs and good career progression.

Depending on the specific industry you may not really find it involves helping people as such, but if you get some experience you could easily move into the charity sector.

You may or may not start above 21k, but equally you can progress quickly if you're good and within a year could move to exec level, which would normally pay 22-28k.

You do sound as if you might be being a bit fussy - figure out the one or two things that are most important to you and work around those. FWIW I think you'll find it tough to find part time work that's office based, so if you commit to the CAB course, you might want to look at waitressing or similar.

Has the OP come back? I find the question really odd tbh.

Has the OP come back? I find the question really odd tbh.

Why? I think it's quite clear. The OP seems to be a bit unsure about what they're doing and what they'd like to go into. It was similar with my DC - one finished an English Lit Masters, and had no clue about what they wanted to do afterwards, and another did a Geography degree and felt a bit uncertain after finishing. Me and DH sat down with them and talked through any ideas they had about what they wanted to do, and they both actually found their university careers services helpful in giving them some direction and an idea of where to go. I don't know about German and French though - maybe with Brexit, it's all a bit up in the air. Don't know.

Thank you to all who've replied, you've been helpful.

Boak, I haven't posted before about this. Why - what makes you think i may have done?

Guardian jobs. In the olden days Mondays were devoted to journo/PR type jobs and Wednesday focused on voluntary sector roles (or vice versa). It might have changed since my day, but it was very Londoncentric. Might be worth a look.

I would second university administration if you want set hours. Salaries tend to be pretty good too and good progression once you have a foot on the ladder. Although the sector is a bit unstable at the mo due to brexit, funding issues etc. Good luck.

Yes I agree with OP I think it's healthy to expect a work life balance and work extra hrs for a expectional deadlines. in our office that's common and expected