I hear you Rorie, I am 24 lack of experience in the right area. and I have been stuck unemployed for 2 and half years straight now if you forget my 8 month work i have been unemployed for 5 years. I was volunteering at a charity shop since I was 20 untill the last year as I wanted a job and experiance so badly I was willing to "simulate" having a job. However I feared being too cushy in this "simulation" I have left and trying more on getting a real job. However no one wants me.
I have had interviews since at the charity shop I had 6 months retail experience before hand i was entrusted with the shop floor and it became mine. I understand business, enterprising and Advertising as-well as customers. I was a great pillar to the shop so much I was left to run it alone most of the time and was more of an assistant manager.
Even became a relief manager going to another shop and covering it. It was a terrible shop and I had the permission and trust to help turn it around. I ripped that place a new one so much the Area manager would come and visit to help out. I would tell her all the things wrong and how to fix them she agreed 100% and helped me pull strings. I helped the place out greatly, sadly it turned to hell once I wasn't needed to be relief manager (it was very far to be regular manager) it was closed down due to poor economy in the area.
There were times the shop would be -16 since I had to take out my travel expenses.
With all this experience I am utterly stuck, I am too good to be Sales assistant as they just want a monkey yet I dont have enough credible experience as an Assistant manager.
Tax on in Scotland its not uncommon to have a thousands people fighting for the one job. The maths work out that the chances of someone being better or fitting more to the employer is very high. Its a major fight even for cleaner jobs.
I want to stop relying on the Government and pull my own weight as for most of my life I haven't really paid back to society aside from Charity.
Rorie you work in the same world as I do I mean with your finances NEVER get into debt. If you cant afford it YOU CANT AFFORD IT. Keep out of Debt as much as possible and adjust to life while keeping sane.
I have done college before and ended up failing despite being the best in classes and even tutoring people on the subject. As I am dyslexic 4x the effort for 1/4 of the credit was my experience I spent many long nights on pretty simple things to get a decent mark and ended up back logged and doing my best. Over all failed.
The experience was life changing new interests new people and new confidence. I am now greatly interested in journalism as it was a media course. Sadly its not a field I could attempt to venture...A dyslexic journalist....yeah that works in such a crowded field.
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