ARGH!! Gimme a job already!

[cerah]

So I found out today I didn't get the job I was hoping on. I thought the first n second interviews went really really well too... like I totally got along with the interviewers n shit and I have the qualifications but no I got shafted.

I send out gobs of resumes every week. I have a poo load of office experience and other experience like wtf? I've even signed up with 4 different temp agencies and I never hear anything from them. I get maybe one interview outta 20+ resumes sent out and then they never call me back to say I didn't get the job (which is annoying as hell because I ask them to call me either way).

Fuck I even talk to them about my piercings and how I understand some people dislike them and that I'm willin to take them out and still I get nothing.

It's just so goddamn bloody frustrating! I need a job so I can get back on my fuckin feet and get out of my parents house cuz White Rock is driving me insane and I need money to save for school.

It's so depressing... I feel like punching things and crying at the same time.

*sighs*

[thorn]

This is when you should find a poor unsuspecting pillow, punch it untill you can't anymore, then cuddle up to it and go to sleep.

[cerah]

Unsuspecting pillows have done me no harm... not to mention it feels so much more gratifying to punch something of substance i.e. a wall or person.

[thorn]

Agreed, punching someone may feel better than a pillow, but people fight back. Pillows don't.

[cerah]

No people are just bigger then me n grab my heads n prevent me from hitting them :(

[Sarah...]

lifes a bitch.....
no matter how hard and frustrating shit gets just keep goin... things change with time

[cerah]

Ya I know... things also fuck up with time *grumbles*

It's not like I haven't dealt with this before I just thought it'd be a hell of a lot easier with 3 years office experience. Apparently not.

Back to the classifieds I go.

[cerah]

A lot of the places I apply to I get on job sites online so all I really have is their info/human resources email. I need full time office work... if I were looking for service/food industry or retail jobs I would totally follow up but like I said it's a lil hard with the jobs I'm applying for.

Also a lot of them say not to contact them that they'll contact you just because of all the resumes they recieve.

*stretchs*

I just applied to 13 more jobs today.

Blah.

[e_BoY]

Originally Posted by Shining Sal

do you call and do follow ups to the places you apply at? i never did but turns out it works ... i called second cup and i have an interview tomorrow morning...

thats a double edge sword. it can do wonders but some employers look at it different. to some its an act of desperation which they dont like. but i think it will probably be helpful most of the time.

[DiamondDash2k]

what kind of piercings do u have in.. if it's not that many have u considered maybe taking them all out before the interview and doing the interview without the piercings? even though that's maddd discrimination but it's just a thought.

[cerah]

Visible... I have a nose ring, a vertical industrial, 0g lobes (w/plugs in instead of my 00g tunnels), tongue ring, and a madonna.

I don't take them out before I go on interviews because it would be a pain in the ass. That why I talk about it with my interviewer and say that I'm willin to take them out and that I understand that people have misconceptions about people with piercings. Every time I've brought it up none of the people have had a problem with it and they've told me I come off as a very intellgent well rounded person and they won't base their decision on my piercings. A few of them I've actually discussed my piercings with and they ask where I got them done and such as they have daughters/sons that have a lot of piercings.

I got an email back from one of the places I sent a resume off to tonight though... they said they'd get back to me shortly so I guess that's a good sign.