SYG, I need a job

phoenix · 06.13.2009, 11:13 PM

There is no work to be found. anywhere.

Sonic Youth 37 · 06.13.2009, 11:16 PM

Ditto'd. 8 applications and not even a "we're sorry, but we're not interested"

deflinus · 06.13.2009, 11:24 PM

"yeah, unless you want to work 40 hours a week"

Everyneurotic · 06.13.2009, 11:25 PM

yep, i hear all of that.

truth of the matter is, i can't work a straight job myself.

amerikangod · 06.13.2009, 11:25 PM

How about an h-job?

Everyneurotic · 06.13.2009, 11:37 PM

no, thanks, i don't need one now.

i do appreciate the thought, though.

pbradley · 06.14.2009, 12:52 AM

I've been looking for work for almost a year now.

phoenix · 06.14.2009, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by deflinus

"yeah, unless you want to work 40 hours a week"

I'd be happy with any number about now.

phoenix · 06.14.2009, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by amerikangod

How about an h-job?

it doesn't pay enough!

phoenix · 06.14.2009, 01:53 AM

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Originally Posted by pbradley

I've been looking for work for almost a year now.

how are you surviving? I've been out of full time work for almost six months, I can't imagine another six like this... I'm running out of savings.

pbradley · 06.14.2009, 02:01 AM

Leeching off my parents is how I'm surviving.

_slavo_ · 06.14.2009, 02:58 AM

I'm so happy I have a job that I like, a boss that I don't loathe and which pays pretty well.
Phoenix, I don't believe that in a city like Melbourne there wouldn't be enough jobs for you. Just give it a time and you'll find one you like.

looking glass spectacle · 06.14.2009, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by phoenix

There is no work to be found. anywhere.

in my experience, work is not hard to find. there is no pay to be found anywhere.

in all seriousness, i'm not just trying to be semantic here. being unemployed sucks donkey balls. you get depressed, you have nowhere to go during the day, and no money to go out at night and pretty soon you find yourself not leaving the house for days on end... so find somewhere to go work even if they don't pay you. volunteer like a motherfucker. you'll make some new friends, and pretty soon you'll discover that money is not the only form of payment you can recieve for work.

i've been out of work for a year and a half, and i still haven't found a "job-type job" with regular hours and a paycheck. but for the last six months i've been able to mostly quit borrowing money from the parents by working on an organic farm. i don't get a whole lot in the way of cash, and sometimes none at all. but i get paid all the food i can eat (except protien) - and the best food i've had in my life at that, weed, beer, rides to places, favors, friendship and if it came down to it (which it might soon) a roof over my head. in short, most of what i wanted the cash for in the first place and couple of things you can't buy with money... most importantly, the energy to get out of bed everyday and stay positive even though i'm dead broke.

pbradley · 06.14.2009, 03:14 AM

Unemployment can also be FUNemployment!

Having nothing to lose is to have everything to gain.

phoenix · 06.14.2009, 03:19 AM

yes, all of the above problems you've posted. :*(

yeh, Im definately thinking of starting to do some volunteer work. My biggest problem at the moment is transport, since PT where I am pretty well sucks.. and I'm a fair way out of the city. (I've not had a car since I crashed it in late 07.. )

phoenix · 06.14.2009, 03:20 AM

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Originally Posted by pbradley

Unemployment can also be FUNemployment!

Having nothing to lose is to have everything to gain.

I guess. To be honest though, my time management is a little better when I actually have something to manage. Having nothing to do, makes me do.... nothing.

pbradley · 06.14.2009, 03:28 AM

That's kind of sad.

phoenix · 06.14.2009, 03:34 AM

ha! exactly.

I had big big plans for this year.. and it's just.. gone.

_slavo_ · 06.14.2009, 03:35 AM

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Originally Posted by phoenix

I had big big plans for this year.. and it's just.. gone.

no worries, St. Helena and Tristan da Cunha nekkid photoshoots can wait.

looking glass spectacle · 06.14.2009, 03:39 AM

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Originally Posted by phoenix

yes, all of the above problems you've posted. :*(

yeh, Im definately thinking of starting to do some volunteer work. My biggest problem at the moment is transport, since PT where I am pretty well sucks.. and I'm a fair way out of the city. (I've not had a car since I crashed it in late 07.. )

you don't have to live near a city to work on a farm (in fact it helps not to)... although getting to the farm can still be a problem. i bike the 10 miles to the farm i work at if it's not raining even though i have a car, to save money on gas and because i no longer pay for insurance. if i remember correctly, the future where it's hot and dark is in australia... you should check out this website

http://www.wwoof.com.au/

if my memory serves me poorly, here is the general site

http://www.wwoof.org/

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phoenix invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: the future where it's hot and dark Posts: 5,926	There is no work to be found. anywhere. __________________ tiny and lost.
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Sonic Youth 37 invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: if there is a bright spot in the universe, the farthest point from it Posts: 9,443	Ditto'd. 8 applications and not even a "we're sorry, but we're not interested" __________________ "One: Where's the fife? and Two: Gimme the fife."
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Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	no, thanks, i don't need one now. i do appreciate the thought, though. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	I've been looking for work for almost a year now.
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pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	Leeching off my parents is how I'm surviving.
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_slavo_ invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ðîññèÿ Posts: 10,886	I'm so happy I have a job that I like, a boss that I don't loathe and which pays pretty well. Phoenix, I don't believe that in a city like Melbourne there wouldn't be enough jobs for you. Just give it a time and you'll find one you like. __________________ you're the boy that can enjoy invisibility
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pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	Unemployment can also be FUNemployment! Having nothing to lose is to have everything to gain.
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phoenix invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: the future where it's hot and dark Posts: 5,926	yes, all of the above problems you've posted. :*( yeh, Im definately thinking of starting to do some volunteer work. My biggest problem at the moment is transport, since PT where I am pretty well sucks.. and I'm a fair way out of the city. (I've not had a car since I crashed it in late 07.. ) __________________ tiny and lost.
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pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	That's kind of sad.
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phoenix invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: the future where it's hot and dark Posts: 5,926	ha! exactly. I had big big plans for this year.. and it's just.. gone. __________________ tiny and lost.
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