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[burntcopper]

argh. why am I so crap at applying for jobs? I keep hitting the job requirements section and get an attack of insecurity (all the qualifications that they never mention on the ad), even though I've been assured that you can learn this stuff in time/'experience' does not mean competent. And then there's the fact that 90% of the places I apply to are the 'fill-in the form, monkeygirl' type due to being name places (to cut out all the scarily formatted student cvs on black sparkly paper) which take me fucking forever to fill in and I keep getting distracted.

Playing with phone. getting occasionally frustrated, but it's all part of the learning process. :sigh:

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[cidercupcakes.livejournal.com]

UGH FILLING OUT FORMS, IS THERE ANYTHING TO BETTER EMPHASIZE THE FRUSTRATION OF THE JOB SEARCH? It's so time-consuming for so little payoff. :(

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

1-2 hours per form, 30 mins - 1hr for cv tweaking + letter. GAH.

[peterjevans.livejournal.com]

Take heart. The filling in of forms is a loathsome process, it’s true, but it can get results. Mr Living Proof is right here. And if a woeful specimen like me can do it, I know for a damn fact you can.

Maybe some of the sting can be taken out of it by copying and pasting the next one you fill in and making a Word doc out of it, then you can cut and paste great chunks into the following ones. Then again, I’m sure you’ve already thought of that.

Also, is that the Lady Door in today's icon? I was re-reading Neverwhere just last night! Spooky…

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

sadly, the cutting and pasting doesn't work, since so many of them are formatted completely differently - pretty much the only thing that you can cut and paste are references and your address.

Yis. is Door.

[gmh.livejournal.com]

There are very few things less fun than trying to sell yourself when you're half-convinced that nobody is interesting in buying; and every negative or inconclusive response you get just adds to the angst.

It's damn difficult sometimes. Speaking personally, I've been working in my field for 13 years now, and I still feel that I know nothing and that no-one in their right mind would want to employ me.

Rationally, I know that I'm good at picking stuff up on the hoof; and that I've ultimately settled into every job I've had and done it at least passably well; but that never seems massively reassuring when you're trying to get off your backside and motivate yourself to do the Job Application Happy Fun Dance.

If your current job is not making you happy, then it's time to move job; and the longer you delay it, the worse your mood will get and the less your self-confidence will get (because the the lurking thought that goes 'you should be looking HARDER for a job, you useless layabout!' will just add to the argh-I-know-nothing insecurities.

(And yes, I'm a fine one to talk, having been in the process of girding my loins for about 13 months now. In my case, I got to the point where carrying on as before would see me going nuts; the avoidance of which is certainly a good reason for jobhunting, but it's not one I'd particularly recommend if you can motivate yourself some other way.)

There are jobs out there that are better-paid and more interesting; and you can do them; and yes, it involves unfun jumping-through-hoops, at least to start with, but the alternative is infinitely worse.