Yuletide month...
December already! How the hell did that happen?
what have I been up to?.....bashing my head against a wall mostly....
I have been trying to find a "real" job...you know one of those career bettering type things that everyone is always going on about...problem is I don't really know where I'm headed so that is making the looking rather difficult....that and the fact that HR SUCKS.
the last month I suppose you could put down to a gut-wrenching, ball-busting, soul-crushing learning experience of how horrible the world of HR really is...an I'll tell you it ain't pretty!
they are the gate keepers of the employment world and they know it....unfortunately for me I fall into a rather awkward category 'overqualified and under-experienced' coupled with a flexibility that usually labels me "too hard"....
I thought the logical conclusion to this dilemma would be temp work.....not only would it provide the requisite experience but would also let Fate possibly deal me a winning hand aswell.....how wrong I was!
The gatekeepers are notoriously hard to get past even in this situation...I have 2 degrees so am obviously not a complete idiot but apparently given that I haven't been parked behind a desk for x-period of time I clearly can not cope with y-job....don't get me started on that nasty catch-22....there is nothing I can do about not having experience unless you give me the opportunity to gain experience!!....as it turns out I mustn't be very intelligent after all, what was I thinking...
Given my inability to secure a job and the ever increasing abyss opening around me, I decided to registered with Work and Income...and after spending the best part of a week on hold and jumping through the required set of never-ending hoops....I thought I had managed to officially join the ranks of the unemployed.....little did I know that despite my status being granted I am still unable to work for the government and am of course unable to clarify why....I almost feel that 'WINZ' should count towards previous experience working in the government sector; it provides you with an overview of the incompetance required, the ability to produce masses of repetitious paperwork and to spend thousands of loggable hours working towards an insignificant result...
I am ready sensei, now if only it wasn't almost Christmas....
what have I been up to?.....bashing my head against a wall mostly....
I have been trying to find a "real" job...you know one of those career bettering type things that everyone is always going on about...problem is I don't really know where I'm headed so that is making the looking rather difficult....that and the fact that HR SUCKS.
the last month I suppose you could put down to a gut-wrenching, ball-busting, soul-crushing learning experience of how horrible the world of HR really is...an I'll tell you it ain't pretty!
they are the gate keepers of the employment world and they know it....unfortunately for me I fall into a rather awkward category 'overqualified and under-experienced' coupled with a flexibility that usually labels me "too hard"....
I thought the logical conclusion to this dilemma would be temp work.....not only would it provide the requisite experience but would also let Fate possibly deal me a winning hand aswell.....how wrong I was!
The gatekeepers are notoriously hard to get past even in this situation...I have 2 degrees so am obviously not a complete idiot but apparently given that I haven't been parked behind a desk for x-period of time I clearly can not cope with y-job....don't get me started on that nasty catch-22....there is nothing I can do about not having experience unless you give me the opportunity to gain experience!!....as it turns out I mustn't be very intelligent after all, what was I thinking...
Given my inability to secure a job and the ever increasing abyss opening around me, I decided to registered with Work and Income...and after spending the best part of a week on hold and jumping through the required set of never-ending hoops....I thought I had managed to officially join the ranks of the unemployed.....little did I know that despite my status being granted I am still unable to work for the government and am of course unable to clarify why....I almost feel that 'WINZ' should count towards previous experience working in the government sector; it provides you with an overview of the incompetance required, the ability to produce masses of repetitious paperwork and to spend thousands of loggable hours working towards an insignificant result...
I am ready sensei, now if only it wasn't almost Christmas....
