I am going to go look for a summer job this afternoon. I have a big stack of CVs and a lot of enthusiasm. I have also put a shirt on to mark the occasion
I have mixed feelings about this because:
1. I really really really need a job and my friends keep teasing me that I'm too lazy and shit to ever get one, but they have absolute faith that I can if I try.
2. I'd kinda like to try really hard and NOT get one just to prove to them that i *am* unemployable (my mum told me I am *cry*)
3. I don't wanna work evenings 'cause that'll be lame, but I'll take anything I get I think.
So, does anyone have any tips?
Also, would anyone in the Leeds area like to offer me a job?
Also
I am 18 years old, and have never had a job before.
It sucks
I'm struggling to find owt
but you already have one
morning paper round?
that could net you as much as £15/week
all the newsagents in Ilkley
have turned into chain coffee shops and trendy childrens clothes shops. literally ALL of them. i doubt there is a paper round left in Ilkley....
there are 400+ agencies in Manchester.
email them all a CV, odds are at least one will get back to you.
i am in Leeds/Ilkley for the summer
though I imagine there are some in Leeds too...
if you live in ilkley
doesnt this mean you are super rich and never need to worry about ever having a job?
nope
My dad is just a lecturer at a shit university, we live in a big crumbling terraced house which costs a fortune to maintain and he'll soon have to pay out a massive divorce settlement to my mum!
AWESOME!
bummer
that sorta stuff is a pain. same thing happened with my dad when he fucked off he left over a hundred grands worth of debt, so the bailiff company put the house on the market and rush sold it at about half its worth and we were left with essentially no money and no house
Good times
Met?
yeah.
http://tinyurl.com/5v4azw
It's a good place to start. Means you can look for a job without having to put yourself through the invonvenience of getting dressed.
Also try the direct.gov website. Just search for 'all jobs in Leeds', then use the 'refine your search' thing to narrow it down by hours, location, contract etc. You can also search just for certain jobs, for instance 'all office admin work in Leeds' etc etc
http://tinyurl.com/6z4foy
I think I love you!
unless you suffer from
a severe case chronic anal leakage, and like to pass the time by kicking small children in the balls, you're employable, somewhere
Good luck with the hunt
What skillz/
qualifications do you have to offer?
I have 3 A grade a levels and I've just finished the first year of my BA in English
I can type pretty quickly
I'm smart and enthusiastic and friendly and good at dealing with people and charming
I'm mega organised
I'm very articulate
But I don't have any experience to back any of this up!
Are you gonna offer me a job?
Well you sound
employable to me! What sort of thing would you WANT to do e.g. office, retail, outdoors, people based etc. etc?
I will take anything
Ideal jobs:
working in an old man pub during the day talking to miserable old men and reading
working in a nice clothes shop or something
mind numbing office work
Basically, I don't wanna work evenings if I can at all help it, but I'm so desperate I'll take anything I'm given!
these 'ideal jobs' sound pretty terrible to me
get a job in a supermarket. then you can eat as much free food as you want, steal as many magazines you want and generally piss around with people your age.
When your local paper comes out
get it the morning it comes out and have a look at the adverts in there. If you see stuff you like apply a.s.a.p.
Don't trust agencies because they'll promise you work but you'll get fuck all (and even if you do it's normally far too inconsistent to bother with)
Pounding the pavements can be a good way...looking in shop windows for vacancies etc. Supermarkets normally have a board with vacancies on - have a look about.
Good luck!
fanx!
Haha even your mum thinks you're unemployable?
Oh Tristan...
yeah
it's the first time she's ever said that I'm rubbish at anything :(
get a job at the lido
then you can watch girls in swimming costumes all summer while you sleep in a high chair
Yeah!
OLD WOMEN! Swimming! At six in the morning! In an unheated outdoor pool! I'd be able to see old women nipples through their swimming costumes
*cry*
Also, I hate swimming.
I'm so contrary. Sorry :(
might be a silly question
but have you asked your friends who have jobs if they can speak to their employers? that seems the easiest way to get your first job - it's how i got mine.
no! but I shall try that too!
Supermarkets employ people with no
experience, and pay relatively well.
Strawberry picking
One for me, one for the basket, one for me, one for the basket. You'll have more beer money because you can eat your work every day!
yeah its ok
bugs were icky thou.
silly talk!
bugs and mud are great for building up your immume system.
'kin hell WHERE did that pop up come from?
yeah but
they make me itchy
where can you still do this picking?
sounds like a larf
at the magical land of
the farmer, you may get lucky and he has a daughter that isnt a cow.
On most farms in most counties
througout England. Just find your local farm/go in and ask/see if there's a "staff wanted" sign.
I did it a fair bit as a kid (in Kent) and loved it.
we don't got no strawberries up north
just sheep
sheep picking it is then?
- you could do your own brokeback mountain.
gosh!
the sheep don't need looking after. they got kenning.
Why don't you get a bar/waiter job?
There are loads of bars in Ilkley.
Otherwise, my mum works at an estate agents in the town centre and she got that through an agency in Leeds, so it might be worth a try anyway.
Telemarketing dude
Do well, move up the ladder and after a while move into account management, then after perhaps into new business. 6 to 7 years time you'll be earning 40k + and driving a company car.
Job done.
Go to Hays, off Park Row
behind Sports Cafe. They got me a job in like 2 days, and the other kid who used to work here but got fired came from there too. And he was shit, so they can't have very high standards, not that I'm implying anything, it's just nice to know. Happy hunting.