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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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  • At least you can say to yourself the only way is up.  You could be like me: got my first job even before I left school, managed a string of office jobs (with a brief stint in a shop that I got sacked from in-between), got overlooked for promotions, got sent on an assertiveness course because they thought my bluntness and faux pas meant I was too assertive (I came out as passive in the tests, hah!), was made redundant and had a long string of temp jobs, followed by jobs where I was again made redundant (well, if your face doesn't fit) suffered workplace bullying, went on stress leave and have ended up now barely functioning, in no way fit for work and defeated by NT society.

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  • At least you can say to yourself the only way is up.  You could be like me: got my first job even before I left school, managed a string of office jobs (with a brief stint in a shop that I got sacked from in-between), got overlooked for promotions, got sent on an assertiveness course because they thought my bluntness and faux pas meant I was too assertive (I came out as passive in the tests, hah!), was made redundant and had a long string of temp jobs, followed by jobs where I was again made redundant (well, if your face doesn't fit) suffered workplace bullying, went on stress leave and have ended up now barely functioning, in no way fit for work and defeated by NT society.

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