jobsearching

[viciousred]

Looking for jobs is mind numbing. Especially when there is nothing you have experience in or want to do.... today fails!
How is everyone else's Sunday afternoon going?

 

[mysnakesau]

There are plenty of jobs out there that advertise experience preferred but not essential. This means they are prepared to give ppl a fair go. Coles don't ask for experience. Them, Bunnings and other retail places, you can apply online. Or another suggestion I can offer would be to enrol in a TAFE course and get involved in work experience or volunteer work. Yes these are non-paying but this is called being seen, your efforts as a worker gets noticed, and gets you a foot in the door. Doesn't always work, but it puts more experience on your resume.

 

[viciousred]

Yeah I did the tafe and work experience and volunteering, thats how I got the job I have, but its been cut down to 2 days a week, I tried waitressing on the side but omg i'm to clumsy lol. Thinking of going back to tafe and trying something different or build on what I did before, only problem is its been 2-3 years and i've forgotten it all! lol. Not having my licence is a problem as well witch i hope to rectify soon.

 

[BigWillieStyles]

Looking for work is tough and it really kills your confidence over time. Getting a job is possible, finding a good job is the difficult task.

Im currently heading back to study as I just cant get a decent career in my qualified area.

 

[viciousred]

Yeah i'm thinking the same, i'm not going to get any further in the field I want unless I do more study.. witch isnt a bad thing, i just need to pay rent while doing it

 

[euphorion]

I hear you! I'm a locum vet nurse and don't get enough shifts to cover my living expenses, thank goodness i sell a lot of rodents for snake food. Don't know what i'd do otherwise.

I've been looking for suitable part-time/ full-time work for a while now, so have a few of my mates, and it is HARD. Just keep on trying, chip up, look for jobs in unlikely places You can try putting 'entry level' in your search criteria when using online job sites too

 

[viciousred]

Thats a good idea! Thanks for the pep talk its actually made it all feel slightly more possible...
Vet nurse? Awesome i've done my Cert II in animal studies, but that was 2 years ago, don't know if a remeber enough to go on to cert III wonder if i can re-do it.. Vet nursing or captive animals would of been my goal

Just applied for cert III Full time. YAY

 

[Defective]

I know for a fact that only 2% of epileptics ever get full time work. We are obligated to tell our employers but only once we have the job not before. I volunteer in about 4 different places makes no difference. I feel the op's pain but if you have nothing holding you back just apply for every job the your suitable for nomatter how lame because it gives you experience

 

[viciousred]

Its the suitable for part thats the problem.... And yeah I know what you mean, my brother has sever Epilepsi and has given up on getting work, isn't allowed to drive after almost killing himself and his girlfriend when he had a fit while driving.

 

[Defective]

I'll never drive an have been fired from 2 jobs because of being an epileptic even though the employers claim that wasn't. My mother still treats me like I'm a frigile little kid and I want to move out but I need a job to do that

 

[Crystal..Discus]

I just dropped $12k on a course and every where I look it's "Must have minimum two years experience in studio setting!" It's a mind numbing grind at best, sending off resumes and portfolios.

 

[euphorion]

Why not advertise locally as a pet sitter/dog walker? You can ask for experience at a vet clinic and try and do your Vet Nursing quals. externally through a clinic

And ditto all the comments re health problems and experience! SO frustrating.

 

[browny]

sounds like a similar situation to mine, moved to Melbourne late march and even tho I have a job the pay is woeful something with decent pay is the harder catch, so many here go 'oh your from W.A. .....oh' wth stuff em I keep looking and stopped counting after the hundredth application

Trick for everyone is just keep trying every angle and every job, like everything in life try not to stress things too much life is far too short

 

[reptilian1924]

Trick for everyone is just keep trying every angle and every job, like everything in life try not to stress things too much life is far too short[/QUOTE]

Browny, well said in regards to wanting to find employment, l to am having trouble in getting a job all because of a lack of training skills, and not having stable employment with one employer for a few years, where l myself have worked casual at a number of places most of myli

lf it wasn't for my love and passion with reptiles l myself would not be has motivated in getting a job or to try better mylife, so having a hobbie can entice us to keep on looking for work or else we wont be able to afford to continue our hobbie in keeping and breeding Reptiles.

So keep on looking for work why you enjoy your love and passion with Reptile keeping & breeding, you will eventually find a job if you keep up your motivation in job searching.

 

[Defective]

Browny, well said in regards to wanting to find employment, l to am having trouble in getting a job all because of a lack of training skills, and not having stable employment with one employer for a few years, where l myself have worked casual at a number of places most of mylife.

l to have very minor epilepsy which as stopped me from being able to drive a car since early 1990, early this year l was given the all clear to go for my drivers licence again, after l had a MRI and a EEG scan on my brain to see if epilepsy is a serious issue with my health or not, the results after the 2 scans stated that my brain is functioning properly and l had only very minor epilepsy, so l am fit to go for my drivers licence again if l choose to.

Me not being able to drive all these years made it very difficult for me in gaining employment and getting around socailly, where l had to look at issues such as hours-transport and whether or not the job required a full manual drivers licence or not.

People in my position who have epilepsy really do struggle to fine employment let me tell you, l myself have been envolved with lots of employment service providers, that a funded by the federal government to help you gain employment and training, but when you have 1 or more barriers in place such as health issues lack of training & education and poor employment history, they don't seem to want to help you turn your life around or help you get a job at all, cause they know they will have to work much harder with employers to get you a job, and it will take them alot longer to claim money from the government that they are intitle to each time someone gets a job.

your lucky you even got the all clear seizure-wise! i'll never drive because my neurologist refuses to give me the all clear. mind you i do have absence epilepsy so it would be pretty irresponsible of me to drive as half a second and i could kill someone. but i get around it and when i do leave home i'll eventually find a job in the cbd to make transport easier and living close to everything easier none of this live out in gawler bollocks!

 

[viciousred]

Thanks for all the tips guys Just stuck in a stupid little rutt at the moment..
You'd be surprised how few vets offer work experience or let you volunteer But I'll keep trying. Might actually try my luck at CPS in Newtown again.

 

[jedi_339]

Don't worry, you'll find something, and that goes for everyone who posted here, things will happen when you least expect them too Sort of makes me feel bad reading this thread that I have a good job and haven't had trouble with the experience or qualifications bit :S GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!!!!!!

 

[Recharge]

Yeah I did the tafe and work experience and volunteering, thats how I got the job I have, but its been cut down to 2 days a week, I tried waitressing on the side but omg i'm to clumsy lol. Thinking of going back to tafe and trying something different or build on what I did before, only problem is its been 2-3 years and i've forgotten it all! lol. Not having my licence is a problem as well witch i hope to rectify soon.

you don't have a licence at 20? that the heck have you been doing?

 

[viciousred]

lol thats a long boring story

 

[Chris212]

I actually have the opposite situation, I run a Fencing/Excavation and Landscaping business and find it incredibly hard to find anyone to work. I am constantly trying the employment agencies for suitable workers and sort through resumes and interviews nearly every week in an attempt to get someone willing to have a go.

Considering most of the people I find are on unemployment I have had guys tell me straight up that they are better off sitting at home than get paid $20/hour (as an unskilled laborer) even though the federal award is only about $16/hour, I thought I was paying them well..apparently not. If I was on unemployment and suddenly was handed a job that paid around $42k for the year I would be ecstatic. One guy who had some experience in this kind of work, turned down $25/hour, a paid holiday to Bali or Thailand etc at the end of the year and his own Triton dual cab all decked out with tool boxes etc for work.

Its crazy but I think in the last year I have gone through 20+ workers. Most recently one clown while working away had a girl turn up to his cabin from 200km away (he was cheating on his girlfriend who has a child to him) After noise complaints from the park owners and not turning up for work the next day, it was the straw that broke the camels back and I told him I no longer needed him. Both he and his "girlfriend-on-the-side" then proceeded to trash the cabin they were in. It culminated in them both peeing all over the bed, walls and floors (plus other unspeakable acts) and then running from the place.
Not long before I had a guy just not turn up for work for 4 days claiming that he was sick in the hospital, he was caught out in a lie, it turned out he was just sitting at home playing a Wii console all day and night he had purchased on his last payday. Oh I have to mention another guy who insisted he should be paid for 20 hours travel time each week, because he liked to spend his weekends in Singleton.

There is work out there, I know what its like when you see jobs advertised that need credentials as long as your arm along with 10 years experience to boot, I think most employers would be happy to employ a person willing to get up out of bed each morning and just turn up and have a go, I know I would.