Through complex and boring circumstances, I am planning to try and go back to work part time, although up to now we have been ok. I have no idea how to go about it. Just ….none. It’s been about 20 years since I looked for a job in general, and I’m a lone parent with a child who’s old enough to be left, but not full time and is too old for formal child care options, so there are barriers.
I’ve been faffing over it for ages. I got a degree, I’ve worked in admin, and I retrained as an HCP worked in the NHS for fifteen years (registration now lapsed) I’ve been part-time self employed since having a child, who has just started secondary school.
My skills are at best outdated and ‘transferable’. I’m not above stacking shelves for minimum wage, but is that my only realistic option? Where do I even look for something beyond that? Google has produced either ‘surveys’ for pennies, obvious pyramid schemes or recruitment agencies that endlessly spam me with things I am not remotely qualified for. Where are all the in-between jobs for people with transferable skills?
I feel utterly pathetic and clueless, but I genuinely can’t get a grip on how the process works these days. It all seems so different from the local-paper-and-cards-in-the-job-centre process I remember. It feels impossible. Clearly, I need to pull myself together and go looking for my good attitude, but I think I also need help. Or do I just need a slap?