Diving In - and the world of work
December 25th 2006 02:29
Getting another blog under way is always an interesting task. This is the third I've got running now, and that's giving me plenty to do. (My second blog is a family related one, so it's not really on public display.)
I'll be writing about whatever takes my fancy, though the focus will be mostly on the arts: music, movies, writing and so forth. And then there's the matter of work: since the end of August I've been pretty much unemployed (apart from a part-time evening job), after having worked solidly for seventeen years at the same job. Trying to find something else has brought me face to face with the sheer difficulty of starting out in the world of employment again. It's a bit like starting to date again, I guess, though that's something I haven't had to deal with for over thirty years. And hopefully won't have to again in a hurry unless my wife gets thoroughly fed up with me and decides that she can't stand another day. At this point, that's not a likelihood, thank goodness.
As for the matter of work: I've applied for umpteen jobs, mostly ones that don't require more stress (the last one gave me enough) but either I'm writing my letters of application wrongly, or am doing my CV up in the wrong way, or am the wrong age, or the wrong sex, or they think I want a lot more money that I do. It's something I haven't figured out yet.
Being of the generation that is more used to staying with a job for the long term than hiving off every few years (months?) to something different, it's hard to know why the employers I've applied to are taking on all the younger people (I presume) when it's likely those people won't stay long.
Well, it'll be an ongoing saga, no doubt, in these posts.
I'll be writing about whatever takes my fancy, though the focus will be mostly on the arts: music, movies, writing and so forth. And then there's the matter of work: since the end of August I've been pretty much unemployed (apart from a part-time evening job), after having worked solidly for seventeen years at the same job. Trying to find something else has brought me face to face with the sheer difficulty of starting out in the world of employment again. It's a bit like starting to date again, I guess, though that's something I haven't had to deal with for over thirty years. And hopefully won't have to again in a hurry unless my wife gets thoroughly fed up with me and decides that she can't stand another day. At this point, that's not a likelihood, thank goodness.
As for the matter of work: I've applied for umpteen jobs, mostly ones that don't require more stress (the last one gave me enough) but either I'm writing my letters of application wrongly, or am doing my CV up in the wrong way, or am the wrong age, or the wrong sex, or they think I want a lot more money that I do. It's something I haven't figured out yet.
Being of the generation that is more used to staying with a job for the long term than hiving off every few years (months?) to something different, it's hard to know why the employers I've applied to are taking on all the younger people (I presume) when it's likely those people won't stay long.
Well, it'll be an ongoing saga, no doubt, in these posts.
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