So...who else is looking for a new job?
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Sweaty Betty
Hemo rising!
me!!!!
moonsi til
worked it out now!
yep! 2008 is new job year for me too. Normally I just think about it and sometimes that I should or will get a new job but this year I'm actually going to apply for jobs too !
I have my 1st interview on 29th Jan. Already feeling a little sick with nerves and need to prepare a presentation too !
I have my 1st interview on 29th Jan. Already feeling a little sick with nerves and need to prepare a presentation too !
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
_pH_ said:Me.
I have decided today i am going to look for a new job. My boss is an utter c*nt who blames me for other peoples cock-ups/inadequacies, including his own, yet doesn't allow me any leeway to sort out the problems, i get paid a stupidly small amount, haven't had a pay rise in 2 years (since i started, despite actually doing shitloads more than i was employed to do).
Not sure what to do though, same thing? Something different?
ok, now no one should blame you for anything because quite frankly you're too adorable to be to blame!
Me, I've meant to look for a new job for the last 6 years, pretty much the whole time I've worked in my present job. I'm so stuck in a rut it's not even funny. I keep waiting for that elusive Masters funding I hope comes my way next (academic) year - then I'm jacking it in and won't need to look for another one.
AnnaKarpik
Queen of all she surveys
I'd like a job 
that is very sweet, thank you 
chainsaw cat
Tea. Biccies. Happy now?
AnnaKarpik said:I'd like a job
You can have mine if I move on.
AnnaKarpik
Queen of all she surveys
chainsaw cat said:
Great, what do you do? And can I commute by scooter from Hereford/Ross?
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
My boss is behaving like a complete arsehole at the moment.
He refused me a payrise (I'm doing two jobs, and have been for a number of months - he says I'm only doing what's expected of me)
He wandered in at 10am yesterday and sat at his desk grunting and moaning the whole time.
He's being so deliberately negative I wish he'd just go and leave me to get on with the work.
He refused me a payrise (I'm doing two jobs, and have been for a number of months - he says I'm only doing what's expected of me)
He wandered in at 10am yesterday and sat at his desk grunting and moaning the whole time.
He's being so deliberately negative I wish he'd just go and leave me to get on with the work.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
equationgirl said:My boss is behaving like a complete arsehole at the moment.
He refused me a payrise (I'm doing two jobs, and have been for a number of months - he says I'm only doing what's expected of me)
He wandered in at 10am yesterday and sat at his desk grunting and moaning the whole time.
He's being so deliberately negative I wish he'd just go and leave me to get on with the work.
Fucking hell! You should shit in his desk drawer
chainsaw cat
Tea. Biccies. Happy now?
AnnaKarpik said:
Yes! Couldn't be better placed, if you don't mind getting to Wrexham once a week at least....
Big application process though.
22k rising to 30 after 2 years.
PM if you are serious.
I just started looking yesterday and did awfully well to apply for one that had expired last week. It was part-time too, which is very appealing to somebody like me 
Alas.
Then another that after I sent I realised wasn't really at all suitable.
But an agency called me today with a job that seems to encompass the academic research type stuff that I know + the charity sector work stuff which I do & love - right up my street - + pays shit loads. I won't get it of course but it's nice to get off to a more positive start today. Oh and you never know I suppose.
I anticipate that in a few weeks I'll be feeling super dooper negative again.
Alas.Then another that after I sent I realised wasn't really at all suitable.
But an agency called me today with a job that seems to encompass the academic research type stuff that I know + the charity sector work stuff which I do & love - right up my street - + pays shit loads. I won't get it of course but it's nice to get off to a more positive start today. Oh and you never know I suppose.
I anticipate that in a few weeks I'll be feeling super dooper negative again.
CalmerChameleon
famous destroyer of peace
I've just been turned down for a job I had an interview for last week
Usually I get told I haven't got enough experience when I'm turned down for jobs (when I know I could do the job with my eyes closed, experienced or no). This time I was told I was a bit too good for the job and wouldn't be stimulated enough in the position!
I Can't win!
Usually I get told I haven't got enough experience when I'm turned down for jobs (when I know I could do the job with my eyes closed, experienced or no). This time I was told I was a bit too good for the job and wouldn't be stimulated enough in the position!
I Can't win!
One should always be on the lookout for new opportunities. And especially, one should always go for a job interview at least once every 6 months even if you are in a job you like. Interviewing is a skill you need to keep honed and in practice. Look around for likely jobs and go on the interview if nothing more than to get a closer look at other positions open, their salaries and benefits, which gives you something to compare your current position to.
KeyboardJockey
Clowns to the Left of me
I am. I'm hoping that I'm going to be made redundant today. I hate my job. I really cared about it when I started by now it is just amorass of corruption, venal and self centred senior managment and I really want out.
Yeah I know it doesn't sound like fun but it sure does take away the interview anxiety that some people have been complaining of. By going on a few interviews a year they become familiar and they are much much less intimidating. And another fun thing is when you get job offers you can turn them down or ask for more money or whatever to get them to lure you away from your current job. It puts you in the driver seat, which is great.tastebud said:
Just keep the CV simple and up to date and whenever you see an interesting job just fling the CV at it. Its only difficult because its unfamiliar. Do it a few times and enjoy the results.
KeyboardJockey
Clowns to the Left of me
MrFalafel said:Do you work where I do?
You are probably sitting at the next workstation if my description chims so much with yours.
vauxhallmum
had to scrap the cheap car
I wasn't thinking of it but my boss is being such an arse that fantasies of working for myself keep creeping into my head today
I want to live by the sea and eat shellfish
I want to live by the sea and eat shellfish
MrFalafel: Yeah it's true, I'm quite confident in my work, but interviews really freak me out. I get SO nervous... and practise would reduce this I'm sure. But not only is it about as opposite to 'fun' as you can get, applying for jobs is a full-time job! (And having two of those really sucks).
The effort to job hunt when you already have a job is to: 1) spend an hour a week looking through a few job websites 2) Sending your CV to any jobs that look interesting 3) Responding to interview requests. I don't see that as a hugely time consuming task myself.tastebud said:
And nothing boosts your confidence level at interviews than to already have a good job and put the focus on the potential employer trying to sell you the job and to get you excited enough to take it.
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