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Paid Work Woes

Pandoren

I'll start the thread by saying I'm skint. I still live with my parents and I'm sort of in debt to them now...

I picked up an application form today for a Sunday job at the local supermarket... but she said it was working the tills and I think having to interact with the public for six hours a week is my idea of hell. I already work three voluntary jobs where I don't really interact with the public but also don't really interact with my own coworkers! When I did work experience at a shop when I was at school, I did my best to avoid everybody.

There's also the awkward question "Please account for any periods of non-employment" and other than the voluntary stuff, I've never been employed- I left college at 18 and have spent 7 useless years at home. Frown

Sometimes I think I'll never be employed. Frown

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  • Thankfully we do have a bus stop here, where the buses come every hour. Most of the trouble I have with public transport is a) the cost and b) that often the final destination doesn't have the last leg of the journey available by public transport, which is annoying.

    No, my relatives are all either pensionable or are married with young children. I actually don't talk to my extended family at all (actually, including my brother since he moved out). They don't interest me. 

    Part of my problem is that I have no talents that I've found yet. I'm not good at anything, or even "reasonable" at anything. My only apparent talent is the ability to sweep up piles of rabbit poo, (a compliment taken from one of my volunteering managers). The only jobs I feel up for are things they don't pay people for anyway (I wish I got paid for clearing up rabbit poo!)

    ~Edit- I just found, in our county capitol, a week long job for a litter picker. Now there's something I could do... except there is very little information on the notice and that worries me a bit, but also that they want an 8am start and there aren't buses that early here *sigh*

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  • Thankfully we do have a bus stop here, where the buses come every hour. Most of the trouble I have with public transport is a) the cost and b) that often the final destination doesn't have the last leg of the journey available by public transport, which is annoying.

    No, my relatives are all either pensionable or are married with young children. I actually don't talk to my extended family at all (actually, including my brother since he moved out). They don't interest me. 

    Part of my problem is that I have no talents that I've found yet. I'm not good at anything, or even "reasonable" at anything. My only apparent talent is the ability to sweep up piles of rabbit poo, (a compliment taken from one of my volunteering managers). The only jobs I feel up for are things they don't pay people for anyway (I wish I got paid for clearing up rabbit poo!)

    ~Edit- I just found, in our county capitol, a week long job for a litter picker. Now there's something I could do... except there is very little information on the notice and that worries me a bit, but also that they want an 8am start and there aren't buses that early here *sigh*

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