My sister is still job hunting. She’s looking daily online and in the newspapers for work and she still hasn’t had anything positive back from anything. She even applied for KFC and was told that she doesn’t meet their requirements. What kind of requirements do you need to work at KFC?! I worked there and got the job within days of applying. I also left after my first day because I spilt a big tub of fat all over the floor and was too embarrased to go back. That and the fact that after a whole four hour shift of just making burgers, I forgot how to make them all. It was probably just nerves and it would have come back to me when I did my next shift but what I’m saying is, if they can employ someone like me who forgets how to make burgers after doing it all day and spills a tub of fat all over the floor then surely my sister is qualified. She’s not as stupid as me! She’s still looking at different types of jobs and I really hope she finds something soon because it’s getting a bit ridiculous now. She just wants to work and get off benefits so she can pay her own way. Keep your fingers crossed for her.

I’m very close to being enrolled at college now. I have had assessments at both college’s I applied for and have had an interview at one. I’ve also spoken to both college’s about financial assistance and have been given advice on that. I’m waiting for a letter or call from the first college about coming in to enroll and I’m waiting on a letter from the second college about coming in for an interview. I didn’t realise just how much hard work it would be just to get into college! I hope university isn’t as stressful but I have a feeling that it will be. I think its the financial aspects that are wearing me down more than anything.

One of the reasons I have made the decision to go to college and university is so that I can get myself a decent career and then I’m not stuck on any form of social security benefits for the rest of my life. Even now, if I were to get a job, I would still be relying on receiving a benefit to help me pay my rent and another benefit to top up my wages. I’m hoping to be able to have a job that will allow me to live completely independently. Lets hope that these four years are worth it.

The best thing about the business I want to create – being my photography business – is that I don’t really need all that much to get it started. I already have the camera and several lenses as well as a tripod and business cards. I could do with two more lenses, for variety really and I would also like to purchase an external flash and maybe an umbrella with a stand. I think the most expensive thing I need for my business is for me to learn to drive. I would have a lot more oppertunities if I could drive as I could get further out and not have to worry about whether I can do certain jobs because of my travelling.

At least I don’t need to worry about things like renting an office block or buying a receipt printer, although that may come in handy! I pretty much have everything I need as I am, just need to make a few adjustments.

While I’m looking for work, my sister is also looking too. She lost her job last week so is now back to being unemployed again. She is not happy but there’s not a lot she could do about it. She’s now got qualifications in Customer Service though so its not all been for nothing. She’s applied for a few retail vacancies and had one interview but wasn’t successful so she’s now signed on with a recruitment agency. Hopefully she will be given some temping work through that. I think as long as she doesn’t have to sell people affordable life insurance quotes like she was at her last job, she’ll be happy! She hated it and was glad to be out of there.

I had a random job search last night and managed to find a job that is very close to home and isn’t too many hours. It wasn’t really such a random search, its just that I haven’t job searched for a long time because there’s never anything out there. The job I found is in the evening from 5.30-8PM and even though its only cleaning an office, I’d rather be doing that than working at a fast food restaurant or working shifts in retail and never knowing what I’m doing each week. I’m making a phone call to the employment agency tomorrow morning and I hope the vacancy hasn’t gone already. It has been online for two weeks now so it may have gone but fingers crossed.

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I’ve been looking for work on and off now for about two years. I really thought I had the job I was interviewed for back in December but apparently I didn’t have what they were looking for. I think that’s where employment screening comes in handy as the employer doesn’t have to do anything as everything is done for them. I’m sick of being told I don’t “meet the high requirements” they are looking for when they tell you in the description that you don’t need any experience.

My sister has done an apprenticeship in customer service and now as an NVQ in it. When she applied for Vodafone, she was told that she doesn’t meet their requirements. How does having a qualification in customer service NOT meet requirements?! She’s on the phones selling life insurance all day so I think she could deal with having customers call in to ask for help on their mobile phone problems. She’s coming to the end of her time with the apprenticeship with this company at the end of the month and she still hasn’t been told whether she has a full-time job or not. I hope she has because she deserves to be employed after all the effort she puts in.

I’m still looking for a job but still not having a lot of luck. Apparently, according to a government survey, my town is one of the worst for unemployment in the UK. So its not for want of trying, there just isn’t anything out there. The job search websites just have nothing in my area and things outside of my area that I can actually do, are not worth travelling too because by the time I have paid to get there and back, I won’t have really earned any money! I’d love to go on the job websites I go on and find it looking like the West Palm Beach job search website where there are loads of jobs to choose from. Hopefully the economy will improve in the next couple of years so I can find something.

I’m still looking for a job. There really is nothing out there and everything that catches my eye, the company is asking for all this experience and these qualifications and I just don’t have either of them. Its quite hard to get work experience without having work in the first place! I don’t really know what they expect you to do. There seems to be quite a few jobs in call centres at the moment but I can’t do that shifts that they ask and plus, the few times I have applied for jobs like that, I have been turned down after the telephone interview. I just don’t know what they expect from you anymore. Its been four years since I last worked and its getting longer and longer as time goes on. I really want to get back to work because I’m so bored in the house and I’m sick of struggling for money week after week. I need to get some training behind my back; sales training for example but I don’t know where to go. I have an appointment at the local adult learning centre on Thursday afternoon to discuss some free computing courses that are available to me. Hopefully they will help me a little in my job hunt.

Most people job hunt; right now, I’m currently career hunting. With Britain’s economy being pretty much in the bin and company after company handing out redundancies, I have decided that this isn’t the best time to be thinking about university. Its too costly and it doesn’t guarantee me a job when I leave even if I do have a degree behind me. Last night I was looking around online for jobs that would give me a life long career and I think I may have found something. Yes, photography still is my main goal in life but if it happens then great, but if not then at least I still have it as a hobby and I can always do the odd show and wedding to keep me active with it. I’m not going to mention what the job was because I need to do a lot of research on it yet and I’m also waiting for a reply about some information I asked for. I just don’t want to be stuck in a say, jobs in logistics because thats the kind of job that I’ll constantly be switching companies and I just want to settle down into one company and not have to move until I choose to. I’m hoping this works out but I might change my mind yet. Here’s to hoping.

Alex and I went to another day nursery yesterday to have a look around and decide whether we would like to send Meghan there. One thing that caught my eye about it was the location – its a five minutes bus journey from our house – and the cost. Online it said that it was only £29 for a full day and only £120 for a full time week which is fantastic. Unfortunatly, when we got there we were told that the prices online were wrong and that it was £36 for a full day and £160 for a full time week. Plus we didn’t actually like the nursery. We got there and we weren’t told anything about anything about the nursery or the care or shown around properly. At the nursery I initially was going to put her in, I got told everything I could ever want to know and more. They showed me around every single part of the nursery, even the bits she wouldn’t be going in for a few years. They told me all about the nutrition, potty training, daily activities and everything else I wanted to know. At this new place, I was given a brochure to look at, told the prices and then left to look around myself. I’m sorry but if I’m putting my child in your complete care for up to 40 hours a week, I need to know that you are going to do a decent job! Its safe to say that she won’t be going to that nursery and I still love the first one.

The reason for the title of this blog is the price of day nursery verses the total amount of wages earned. As someone with not much experience I can pretty much get no more than £6 per hour. So if I work forty hours a week that works out at £240 a week (without the tax taken off remember) and if the nursery is around £160-£180 a week I’m going to end up working a 40 hour week for £80-£60 a week. Is it seriously worth it? Its so difficult finding a job that will work around me. I would love an evening and weekend job that I can just do around Meghan and Alex. Just then if I work evenings and weekends, I’ll get to be with Meghan all day but I’ll never see Alex. Even though I’d only be working something along the lines of 20 hours a week, I’d still come out with more than I would if I put Meghan in nursery and worked forty hours.

I can’t tell you how much I would love a work at home job. I know a few people online who do freelance writing online and get paid of it, I just don’t know where to begin. Most of the work at home jobs I see online seem like scams and I just genuinely want to work. If I was earning enough money then I would still put Meghan in a nursery one or two days a week so that I could get most of my work done in a bit of peace and quiet.

I just don’t know where to go right now. I feel inadequate not working yet I can’t work because I’ll be working for nothing. I really, really want to go out and work. I want to show Meghan that I work and I contribute to the household. I know I have a job at home cleaning the house and taking care of Meghan but that doesn’t bring in the money that we desperately need. We’ve been putting off me working for a while now and we just can’t do it for much longer. Wouldn’t it be perfect to have a job where I told them what days I could work and thats what days I did?

Any ideas you can throw my way would be fantastic. I need to think of something. Soon.