Can't get a bleeping job

[gustavofring]

I'm fed up with looking for a job. Recruiters don't even reply to me anymore. It used to be way easier, but I guess once you're beyond 25 you're getting too expensive or something. I'm sick of pretending to be enthusiastic in motivation letters.

The field I studied in is pretty hopeless for me atm. I did an animation study and my creative abilities have severly diminished because of my depression. I haven't made anything in a year. Also, my networking ability (important in the creative field) is hopeless. That's why I am looking for a "normal" job so that hopefully I will get back some routine so that I can at one point pick up again in animation freelance work.

I just want a decent job that doesn't involve lots of people. Something like mailman, parking attendant, data entry. Maybe I should just try and do catering/retail for a while, I have avoided this because I feel I would f*ck it up, but it seems to be the only option.

 

[Flanscho]

I don't know where you live, but finding a job is often also a matter of where you live. So sometimes moving might be in order.

 

[gustavofring]

Moving is out of order until I get a job.

I live in a pretty big city, so it shouldn't be a problem. But it's all temporary jobs or higher educated that doesn't fit with my studies.

 

[coyote]

ahh yes, good ol' retail - the unwanted stepchild of employment

some of us actually make a good living at it

 

[gustavofring]

Actually I mistranslated that or mistook the word for something else.

Retail isn't what I ment. I ment generally working behind the counter in a commercial place, at a food place or at a shop. I loathe this because of my difficulty working with people and discalculi.

 

[jaim38]

Me too, I wish I can get a job that doesn't involve interacting with lots of people.

 

[Section_31]

I count myself extremely lucky.

My job i have an office with a door and, while i do get ppl bugging me all the time its usually on the phone, though for emergencys its in person.

I worked retail for 8+ yrs before this and it can be diffcult.

At the risk of sounding like "that guy" hang in there. You WILL find somthing, i promise!

 

[coyote]

Actually I mistranslated that or mistook the word for something else.

Retail isn't what I ment. I ment generally working behind the counter in a commercial place, at a food place or at a shop. I loathe this because of my difficulty working with people and discalculi.

yep, that's retail - you got it right

although it also involves working out on the floor selling stuff, helping customers, straightening the store, stocking, etc.

 

[ImNotMyIllness]

I'm fed up with looking for a job. Recruiters don't even reply to me anymore. It used to be way easier, but I guess once you're beyond 25 you're getting too expensive or something. I'm sick of pretending to be enthusiastic in motivation letters.

The field I studied in is pretty hopeless for me atm. I did an animation study and my creative abilities have severly diminished because of my depression. I haven't made anything in a year. Also, my networking ability (important in the creative field) is hopeless. That's why I am looking for a "normal" job so that hopefully I will get back some routine so that I can at one point pick up again in animation freelance work.

I just want a decent job that doesn't involve lots of people. Something like mailman, parking attendant, data entry. Maybe I should just try and do catering/retail for a while, I have avoided this because I feel I would f*ck it up, but it seems to be the only option.

I completely relate as a fellow creative. My field also requires extensive networking. Without knowing people, it's practically impossible. I have the talent and education but that's not enough.
:sad:

 

[mikebird]

Maybe where it's gone a bit wrong for me

is because I'm from a different hemisphere of the planet. Not by location. Not the divide between Britain & Australia

My skills are in IT, databases, maths, logic & design, and all the stuff I've learnt by myself, and recruiters seem to be the other hemisphere, who thrive on pleasantries, smiling, giggling, friendliness, shiny teeth, tea drinking, joyous euphoria - office life, and no experience of reality, where bad things do actually happen. A little slap on the cheek (not from me; anything in life) might put these people off, horrifying them, and making them run away.

No way to show these people: what I know, what I can do, what I want to do. They have no clue what's what. They just need a joyous phone call to their candidate, and I do that. I say "I love it!! Yes!! Yeah! Ooohhh! Yeeeaaahhh!!!" It doesn't seem to please 'em. Can't really do the DiCaprio act of being on the bow of the Titanic while on the phone. Although there are times in life when I feel like that

What is it? Recruiters. How can they ever expect to cater for their client by finding an applicant, if the job doesn't involve being a recruiter?

Have they tried phoning a wild Bengali Tiger to get them to do some knitting, once they've succeeded in their office interview?

 

[ImNotMyIllness]

I wish I could snap my fingers and have the dream job I went to school for. I would be a mental wreck but I would do a great job-that's for sure.

 

[dancingintherain]

Only get 2 available jobs a week in my town :/
I want a creative job but around here it's 'unrealistic'. That was a major disappointment to me after studying for three years. My mother is unemployed too so it's a difficult time for both of us right now. Being unemployed isn't good for your self-esteem and definitely isolates you. I wonder how long this will take..