What to do at 25?

Some good news?

2007-08-14T20:35:49+02:00

I might have a job!
It seems like the the endless running around from one agency to another in the West Midlands area is going to pay off for me tomorrow when I'm given the opportunity to work as of next week. I must have registered with 15 - 20 agencies in the last 2 months and only now have I been offered a job. The funny thing is that the position is part of a branch of the company I used to work for, it's temporary so wont be there forever.

OOw this morning I also registered with a dentist, who confirmed what I already knew though some pain that I'd been experiencing - I'd need filling aagghhh. I don't hate the dentist it's just why must they use a mini steel cook for scratching and poking your teeth , surely that can't be any good for them. So gotta get my teeth filled in next week Tuesday , can't wait.

After this visit it was off to Sign on for some government charity, or other wise known as Doll. Yea I'm on the doll but not for long as I'm working from next week.
Fairly simple process this signing on you go in tell the person who calls your name where you've been looking for work and he signs you off, Friday you get a little money in your bank account. Fair enough you won't get any mortgage with it but it's money for nothing. anyway as many of the unemployed would say it's YOUR tax money going to good use!

Bear with me I'm slowly getting back into the whole writing a blog thing

Cheers

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Applying for jobs isn't what it used to be!

2007-08-14T13:36:32+02:00

So yesterday was Monday, and we all have that same feeling at the begining of the week, is it a slight feeling of depression? But let me tell you when you're unemployed that Monday morning is a 100x worse. Not only do you have to look for a job but if you get one then you know that the quickest you'll be heading back into the office will be the following week. And some might say that the time between jobs is good to clear your thought and find out where you're heading in life. For me due to money constraints its so far been 2 months of stress and dealing with those ass's in the recruitment business. 2 faced, that's what they are. I wish when I go to register with them they'd be honest and say, "Look mate you have no degree and the job opportunities at the moment are thin. best you sign on straight away." or something like that. Lucky for me though after relocating I'm living with relatives at the moment so outgoings are low. But all I wanted was a customer service job and there is nothing around. Kinda gets you thinking where they are all going, Asia I guess.
Dealt with one of those recruitment consultants yesterday, she made be do a word and excel test, after which she and 3 other members of staff tried to print out the result. With no joy after 15 min and so not much confidence in this company finding me any work.
walked out the door and home only to be called by the bloody consultant 2 hours later when she realised She forgot to get me to complete some forms.....needless to say I unregistered myself from there today.

So another week begins and I'm still unemployed, stress and money are clouding my judgement on my ideal job. Who knows it'll come to me one day I guess.

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So this is how it starts?

2007-08-12T20:41:54+02:00

Let me start by saying that this is my first go at blogging. I'm using this to get things off my chest.
Basically I've found a job and have three weeks to kill before I start and I thought I'd get some things of my chest before going back into the 9-5 again.

I recently hit the big 25 years of age and for the first time in my well short life it hit me that I'm getting older.
This has been a little shock to my male system mainly because one would presume while sitting on the classroom floor in junior school that by this point you would have figured out a career and started your journey to that first million.
Now for me this is not the case having left my country of birth, South Africa to try and hack it in the country of my parents, England.
So I swapped the lovely warm climate, land full of wonder, wild animal and an exceptional coast line(fair enough it does have a few hickups but then which country doesn't?).
For this. Now I'm not going to go on and on about the weather over here, we've heard it all before. But what they don't tell you about this England are the inhabitants. Funny before I arrived I was sure all the guys walked around in bowler hats, cane in hand, newspaper in the other talking about the cricket. While the ladies where at home drinking tea and gossiping over someone down the street who had not yet drawn the curtains.

Very different story which I'll surely touch on some other time because I kinda went of topic a bit there.

Let me just tell give you a outline of my current situation. I have no skills, nothing. I believed that skills were something you obtained on the job not what a piece of paper with degree stamped at the top said you could do. Never going to university I am without this. Which when apply for jobs can make it increasingly difficult to convince other just what you can do. I do have great people skills however, able to connect with others on levels that allow them to confined in me. Offloading some secrets they'd never told anyone. People trust me I guess.
I have a sense of humour, not to every ones taste mind you.
I don't believe that one person can make every one laugh all the time but only some of the people some of the time. yea but these don't get you a sales job or even retail position.
I don't even want these jobs they are everything I hate in the working world. But they're all that is going at the moment in this 'lovely' area that I'm living in at the moment. Dudley, The West Mildands in England. Dull and grey it should say on any tourist map discribing the area, even some of the younger locals think so. Local backing always the best.
Again I wonder off my topic.

So I've blabbered on a bit here and there most of which I'll come back to in some detail I a sure you. I'm 25 and have no mortgage, no wife, no kids nothing but a little debt holding me down and with 3 weeks to kill before I start working again. This freedom is kinda freaking me out a bit. So I've started this blog to tack my toughts on my life so far and where it could be heading.

cheers

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