There Goes That Plan

So I sit here frustrated as all hell, a little worried with a sprinkle of screwed, blogging. With TAFE finished for the year, and summer holidays now very much in progress, I've noticed that this wasn't the way I wanted to spend it. Rather being all cryptic like, I'll be straight forward with this blog.

Towards the end of TAFE I had two plans which revolved around my holidays.

Plan #1 - Work at Safeway but get my hours reduced to like 10hrs a week or something, and get a full-time job during the day. I was looking at places like Cotton On and JayJays as a Christmas casual. I wanted a day job where I work during the day, and since the stores aren't open late, it gave me time at night to relax, or do a shift or two.

Plan #2 - Work at Safeway with increased hours, and get some work experience with a design firm. This could have tired me out something shocking, as I'd need to work a lot to live, and do work for free during the day.

I then decided I wanted to use this summer to make money, so I can save up for uni in a couple years, and worry about experience next summer. So I started looking for a second day job, and applied for a couple, but no responses. I thought, 'No big deal, I can keep looking, I still get a income from Safeway'

The last two weeks of TAFE, which was the busiest time of the year with assessments due, work was giving me 20-25hr weeks, which I just couldn't do. The first week I did it, and I ended up going to TAFE on the Wednesday from 9-5, came home to work on assessments, then went to work from 8-3am, then continued working on assessments, pulled an all-nighter, went to TAFE on the Thursday from 9-5, then worked from 8-12am, then finally slept. This killed me, and I knew I couldn't do this again, so I left a note at work saying I couldn't do some shifts the next week. I went in and did the shifts I could, checked next weeks roster, only to find no shifts....

That wasn't such a big deal because I could of lasted one week without work, but then I was hoping for a phone call. Fast forward 3-4 weeks now, and still no shifts. I approached the department manager about it and he said there was no work around, which was BS. Anyway, the main point is, I haven't had work for about a month now. This is the summer holidays where I want to work a lot, and the irony being they gave me work when I couldn't do it, and haven't given me work when I can.

So there goes that plan.

I thought then, f' them, I'll find a new job, which hasn't ended in the desired result. Most jobs around the area are for skilled workers, like for today's paper for example...

Graduate accountant
GIS contractor
Chef
Truck drivers
Presser
Quad dog driver
Shed erectors
Tyre fitter

They were the bulk of jobs, I could not find a job I could apply for. Sure there was a Trainee aftersales assistant, but I'm not looking for a traineeship because I already have a large study commitment. Saturday's paper was not much better, advertising jobs for teachers, professors, accountants, drivers, everything under the sun which I couldn't apply for.

If I'm to find a job, I need like a cafe job (low money and crappy work, but requires next-to-no experience), or a pizza delivery driver, or another supermarket job. Thought about the old Maccas, KFC and that, but I've applied for them jobs about 8 times each, and I've figured out why I can't get a job. Why would they want to pay a 22 year old $21/hr when they could get a 16 year old to work for $10/hr....

My brother then encouraged me to apply for a job as a designer/draftsman/anything in industry they may have for me. So I got a resume all done up, got a portfolio of my work for the year gather up in a nice display folder and hit a few builders. You can read about my efforts below.

It would appear most places wouldn't be hiring until the new year, so I need to hit it again after that. But, it still leaves me jobless, and the possibility of being jobless until the new year, which isn't good at all. I've applied for Centrelink again, and waiting to get a letter back from the landlord so I can continue with it, which might be able to keep my head above water for the time being, but certainly not to live.

So now that vision I had for summer, care-free, fun, hanging out, working and all that junk, has been dismantled. I now face a stressful summer, with no money go out and enjoy and reward myself, having to deal with banks and phone companies and looking for work. It's funny, I remembered I wrote a blog about looking for a job, well now it's time to practice what I preach.....



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