Looking for a Job [No Giveaway - Just Venting]

First of all, your vocabulary is one of the most British things I have ever seen.
Second of all, the only reason I have employment for the summer is that I have a very kind grandmother who owns her own company and openly offers me employment because I've proven to be useful before.
Third of all, fuck all the companies who employ people on horrible pay to deal with the assholes of the public, it's an abysmal place to be in for work.
Also, never be honest in an interview, you'll never get employed however good you are, you need to silver line everything you say and pretend to be better than you are even if you are the perfect human being.

P.S I hope your situation improves and thanks.

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/pat

I worked once as a salesman, I won't do it again. I hate all those lies, twists, and ways of taking advantage of a person that wants his/her business to improve (I sold business sw). I haven't been studying for too many years at university to end up as a second hand car salesman. I'm so sorry for all the people that do that kind of job, but that's not for me.
At least in your country, you might be able to find something, because here (in Spain) I can't. That is even sadder, don't you think?

I can see myself with this story . Thanks for share .

I can't work either, due to my medical problems that stop me from doing many physical things (basically my body can handle itself about as well as a 95 year old man could) and, well, that's not something appealing to companies looking for someone to hire

so I'm stuck sitting home most of the time with $00.00. Doesn't help that my family is under the poverty line for sure
I feel your pain !

Yup, just remember when you get a job, even despite the trite things you have to say about a company when attempting to get hired, most of the people who will be your workmates won't care much about the company either, and you can all joke about it, just don't go for a position in sales if you cant handle having to lie constantly, there are other kinds of jobs out there

Do you have skills and determination to learn by yourself?

You can pretty much start looking for video-tutorials, e-books and similar stuff and start freelancing as a web designer/developer, graphic designer, social network manager for a company, making parties/raves/events, etc. Or start an e-commerce thing, selling t-shirts and other small and cheap (you buy in a large scale somewhere else and resell them for slightly a few more) made by your own or for a theme that you like (ie, games or movies, whatever), electronics, whatever. Basically, 'home working' at all!

You won't profit much at the beginning and it won't be easy, mostly you'll work to pay the bills. As soon as you are more commited, gaining experiencie and start gaining the trust of your current and possible clients, there's no limit that you can go, if you know where to go!... For me, that was quite enough when I started and today I've lots of perspectives to raise my own company and also I have lots of quite profitable freelance stuff to go...

You have lots of ways to follow, there's no need to rush for and think about just on mostly boring 'sales' positions... The world is yours, my friend, you just have to find your way and take it!

/me apologizes for the bad English.

you could always try your luck on redbubble. you probably won't make a fortune, but it's better than nothing.

Im trying to say whatever I think openly and loudly. So far this has led to 3 years of unemployment for me (even though I managed to work twice for a month during summer which helped but not enough). Basically, since Im not Einstein the 2nd, dont have influential relatives nor am I willing to shut up and keep with the flood Im sort of "defective" as far as society goes. Oh well, life sucks anyway for most of us, just in a different way :D

Mate, I am in the exact same situation. Word for word. Weird.

Can't you get anything on steamgifts? I mean you are here all the time? :/

Well I'm in the same situations (in a latter stage) I've stopped university in an almost natural way "monday going to university, tuesday hmm no, wednesday hmm no...." one month later, "I should get a job, instead of thinking I'm a student when I don't go to school". So I got into mcdonald's since it's the only company that hire you even if you don't lie.
Seriously I totally said to them that I hate idiots, I'm drunk everynight, I can't respect my superiors etc, etc...." Well I really didn't want to work there, so during the interview I tried to make them hate me but...it didn't work and I worked there. XD
you can see the end of the mcdo story in the giveaway comments and I'm now unemployed for more than 1 year now, and do some undeclared work left and right, and some translation work for small company trying to work with japanese company to keep me afloat, and trying to ask japanese indie game developpers if they want to translate their games but facing a big wall there.

By the way, what were you studying ?

Dang that must suck. Not good at coming up with jobs tho..

Why did your University boot you out? Seems lame not supporting students with various issues, over here they pretty much beg you to become an alcoholic or suicidal.

I'm studying myself now, I dropped out of high-school years ago and ended up doing casual labor but it was a waste of time for me. It could be good for you though if you use the time wisely and don't get distracted, watching those lovely $$$ fly out the window.

Steve Jobs dropped out, while being allowed to do that walk-in thing and learn about other topics. But yes, you're right about jobs wanting you to sell yourself to them as if they're the best thing since sliced bread when they're nothing more than a salary for the time you're generously offering to waste on their pathetic tasks.

You can always try to do some startup yourself. You need a skill in something to acquire money no matter what though.

Not everyone has the luxury of loving their job. Get the job first, bitch later. Practical reality comes first. At the same time, appreciate that there are always interesting things to learn, no matter the job, though you may have to dig a little to find those nuggets to appreciate. If you don't have a job, you don't build skills, and you will become infinitely less attractive as an employee as time goes on.

And with regard to being a traveling salesman, no one expects you to walk into a customer's home sopping wet. But you would be expected to be on the road, no matter the weather, so that you can make your sales call when the weather improves. You're focusing on a lot of minute detail that doesn't matter provided you deliver. Don't lose sight of the forest.

Job hunting sucks the big one. But stay optimistic, the road to a perfect job will have it's fair share of bumps. The way I see it, every job/time spent at university (however short), is an experience whether you enjoyed it or not. You get to discover what interests you or what irritates you. My advice is to try and stay optimistic, no what what shit you have to deal with. The perfect focus for your life is out there waiting to be discovered. As long as you keep trying out different things, you'll find it eventually!

Companies are not looking for you to be dishonest, rather they are looking for particular job candidates which you apparently are not. You want a job that you will love, and companies want employees that will love (or at least give a reasonably passionate effort towards) their job.

You seem to want to use the company that hires you for short term ends and then dump it. I'm sure companies are looking for, and can find, people that are willing and able to develop long term relationships within the company. I certainly would not want to hire someone who is going to take the valuable training I give him and walk away after a short time, and all the while he was with me he was not willing to work his hardest for my company (e.g. you being unwilling to go out in all-weather). There are plenty others that will.

sorry to hear about that..
maybe enlisting in the military could be an option? but if you're not up to that, i wish you luck finding something you will enjoy doing and will suit your needs

I understand that you dropped out of the studies of the subject you wanted to wanted to work at, so any job you'll try will likely feel second best, but try to think what other things will appeal to you. Even if you don't find work right now, try to set up time to do something that would have some appeal to you and could grow into a job. You express yourself well and you're on a gaming related site, maybe you could start a blog writing about games, or maybe something else you're interested in. I don't know what appeals to you and what you're good at, but doing visible things without pay can help you get paid for them in the long run.