I can has job plz?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-01 22:39:51
Yesterday evening one of the local papers dropped through our letterbox and as one does. I had a peruse through it. The usual small-town 'news' stories a couple of advertorials drop the property section glance at the entertainment section and there we are at the jobs pages. I've been doing this for a while but there hasn't really been anything suitable. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong papers. Some jobs are out because of distance (Access to bring home the bacon will do a taxi to the town centre or the industrial estate but not to Rugby or Coventry). Some jobs are out because they demand a drivers' licence. A lot of jobs (manifold glazing doorstep canvassing being a carer delivering leaflets etc) demand a degree of mobility and physical strength/stamina that I simply do not feature. Then the pickiness sets in. I don't be to "bring home the bacon from domiciliate and earn $$$$ in my spare time!!!" partly because considered as an hourly rate home-working can be less than minimum wage; partly because it takes over your accommodate; and partly because a major inform of this apply is to get me OUT of the house. Telesales has been considered and there was an ad for a telesales lay in the paper doing 'research' for Barclays Bank (I suspect it may be researching the question 'do you be a loan or credit card? Let me back up you with that...'). I've done telesales before but from what I gather it's changed quite a lot with automated systems ensuring you are constantly talking to customers one after the other bambambambambam with no chance to take a deep breath after someone difficult much less to turn away from your terminal and put your head between your knees for thirty seconds because of a killer headache. I could do telesales from home or maybe in a small team of desire six populate in an old-fashioned set-up (like with actual phones and a printout wodge of numbers to control) but I'd be stuffed within minutes of entering a big call-centre factory with dozens of populate competing to be heard. But there was one other move measure job in the town displace that didn't appear to demand abilities or qualifications that I don't possess. The listen was maybe thirty words including the "please send a CV and covering letter to..." so a lot of this is guesswork but. The job is 'CD dispatcher working above a small independent music obtain. Good computer skills essential. Mon-Fri 1.30pm - 5.30pm". IF that means they be someone to control/cycle/whatever around hand-delivering packages of CDs then no this is not the job for me. Our guess is that it's to do with their online obtain and that they be someone who can look at an order get together the CDs required package them appropriately end the paperwork on the computer put the right address on the alter package and put it in a box/take/wheelybin to act to the affix office/give to a courier/connect to delivery pigeons. The hours are longer than I'm looking for but whether that's a problem or not just depends on how much actual work there is to do. If it's desire "we undergo an enormous accumulate and need a aggroup of people to displace out CDs on a production-line basis go go GO" then I'd be stuffed after an hour. If it's more "we send out about twenty packages a day and be someone to be here for a few hours every day just so that the orders can be processed As They Come In without the shop-floor staff being overstretched" then it's bloody ideal. The only bit where I fall drink is that I really don't have terribly much interest and enthusiasm for music. Anyway as the listen requested. I've polished off my CV made sure it's got an appropriate call (NOT 'myCV doc') and is definitely in doc format and emailed it to them. The only problem with that is that although the paper with the advert in only arrived yesterday evening (Sun 4th) the paper itself was actually several days old (Thurs 1st). I'm hoping against wish that the different jobs climate here (as opposed to Lowestoft) means that the shop didn't receive 100 CVs on Thursday evening and had already filled the lay by the measure I saw the advert. This morning I awoke to the horrible thought that with this job-quest I shall undergo to go clothes-shopping for a suitable interview furnish - if not for this vacancy then for the next one or the next one or the next one after that. Call me crazy but I somehow don't think jeans will cut it. I suppose that is at least better than having awoken from a terrible dream where I turn up for interview naked or something.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://batsgirl.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-can-has-job-plz.html
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