Why is work so hard to find?

[stoxs]

ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE!!.... da dum... da dum.... dee dumm... dee dum.

 

one big step forward, keep it going.

[Grass hopper]

Well done mate , your alive inside , great news go get it with both hands.

[chipper080]

I hope it keeps going like this now, I will wait for the call in the morning and go from there.

If i don't get the call i have other options to use if need be hope i can get the work i am into doing and know what i am doing.

And one day get my own 4x4 to travel with.

[Stereo]

I've been skint a few times and down a few times and to be honest, jobs are easy to get if you have anything about you. I would smarten myself up (not suit etc.) and walk up the high street. Usually would have a job by the time I got to the top. Driving a van on deliveries, cleaning up, night porter, recieving early deliveries, whatever. Part time usually but money in your pocket. Once you are working, at anything, you are credible. You have a few pounds to play with and you have a much better outlook on life. Plus if it's a basic job, it gives you time to think about what your next move is.

 

8 years or so ago, I was in a mess. We had just lost our first baby and it did me in big time. I got a job delivering flowers for a florist (the last thing berieved parents want is a sobbing delivery driver but that's what they got). But it kept me going and gave me time to think and plan without sitting on my arse all day. I now run a couple companies with a combined turnover of £1m or so (vanity I know, sanity is in short supply at the mo!).

 

So my advise, is just get a job doing anything, then get something better. Work IS good for the soul. Be positive and out-perform, even if it's stacking shelves or whatever. Be better than your job and you will find something better.

 

No excuses, just go for it. You need to convince employers that you will be a bonus, not a PITA. You will be punctual, honest, polite and friendly and do a good job whilst being prepared to learn (and be told sometimes) with good grace.

 

Good luck. Chagford is pretty nice place to live.

[mendiplogs]

I have found out information today that could give me a boost back into work.

I think it was my fault as looking at it the wrong way round i found out who to take my car test with and do all the test in one week and i can get help with doing a business plan and the advertising of it.

Feel better now as made some phone calls to find potential work and it is looking better then expected.

And if need be they will help organise it for me to get more tickets i will have to pay but they will set it up for me.

I could get financial help with it but wish to pay for it my self as things are looking up just a little.

 

HI MIKE thats more like it mate let us no how you get on with HI LINE mate ring them jon

[Hodge]

I hope it keeps going like this now, I will wait for the call in the morning and go from there.

If i don't get the call i have other options to use if need be hope i can get the work i am into doing and know what i am doing.

And one day get my own 4x4 to travel with.

 

If they haven't called by lunch time, ring them.

[chipper080]

I will but if they haven't call by the i have a few others to try, not as close as hi line but same work.

chagford is ok just some of the people that live here can make life hard just with gossip they make up.

[Andy Collins]

I've dipped in and out of this and the only comment I have is that I think people should remember Silky Fox is/was a qualified and very experienced climber.

I have enjoyed his thread like many but I think whenever some "greenhorn" comes on asking or bemoning the work situation people point to His Foxness and say "you wanna be a bit more like him!" or "crawl to work on your belly if need be!" (being a bit facetious there)

This is no reflection on the OP but I think their situations are very different.

Just a thought:001_smile:

 

In a way I agree, but also disagree. It's not the skills, or the abilities of the individual here that's an issue, but the negative mindset, and I think that's why people encouraged Mike to look at the Fox-Meisters thread.

If crawling to work on your belly is all you have left, then that is what you need to do. Yes, Mike is in a different boat, he is looking for a break in a very competitive market, with a lot loaded against him. But to be able to see this and address it, with a better outlook, he will stand a better chance.

[Le Sanglier]

In a way I agree, but also disagree. It's not the skills, or the abilities of the individual here that's an issue, but the negative mindset, and I think that's why people encouraged Mike to look at the Fox-Meisters thread.

If crawling to work on your belly is all you have left, then that is what you need to do. Yes, Mike is in a different boat, he is looking for a break in a very competitive market, with a lot loaded against him. But to be able to see this and address it, with a better outlook, he will stand a better chance.

 

Yes, point taken, I said my bit:001_smile:

[chipper080]

In a way I agree, but also disagree. It's not the skills, or the abilities of the individual here that's an issue, but the negative mindset, and I think that's why people encouraged Mike to look at the Fox-Meisters thread.

If crawling to work on your belly is all you have left, then that is what you need to do. Yes, Mike is in a different boat, he is looking for a break in a very competitive market, with a lot loaded against him. But to be able to see this and address it, with a better outlook, he will stand a better chance.

 

If people put post like this it encourages people to look ahead and lift your head high and sometimes it helps more then belly crawling.

It makes you stand up as someone out there know what you are going through, if people can encourage you to lift you head up and look to the future and the brighter side of life is that not better then putting them down.

Thanks andy.