Your typical unemployed day

dave1983 said:
the problem i encountered that 100 other people are going for the same job, so unless your a really good candidate and meet there expectations you have no chance.
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No, you DO have a chance. I have interviewed a lot of people. I interviewed someone last week. A pompous boring ***hole with a shiny CV lasts 10, maybe 15min. A confident, eager and bright candidate with an average - above average CV will most likely get a call back. I want to see from candidates that I will make the right decision employing them. Whether it's shooting the **** about last week's football in the staff room, pitching clients, hanging out at the bar during company nights out, etc. Come in and charm me, and your CV will most likely remain unopened and offer of employment issued to you.
 
regulus said:
Having been employed without a break since I was 11, your routines sounds like ... heaven. Pure heaven.
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I'm in the same boat, I've worked since I was 12 in one capacity or another. No break so far.

But I think it sounds mighty boring some of these things, watch tv or surf the net all day. No way I could do it for very long.

I'm wondering what it's gonna be like at uni, I've got enough in the bank to have 6 months without even part time work, but i'm wondering if i'll want to.
 
What I do get fed up with is the limbo state you end up in when you're waiting to hear if you have a job offer or not.

I'm currently in the middle of trying to get my uni to take me on as a PhD student. I can't really go for any jobs in my area as I'd be leaving them after a month or so if I get accepted by uni.
 
I have a job, but when I didn't, this was my day.

Wake up at 1pm.
Eat Lunch.
Don't look for jobs.
Play computer games.
Eat Dinner.
Play computer games.
Eat Midnight snack/feast.
Play computer games.
Sleep at 4am.
 
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Since UNI has finished :

Get up at 12/1pm
Go on PC, jump on vent
Go talk to brother
Check websites
Check job websites/apply for It network type jobs
Check emails for job rejections
Play games/chat til late then sleep.

Repeat, boring as hell, i need a job.
 
Get myself up to date with the latest versions of .net and get some me time with android and iphone development.

There are a few ideas I want to get running too which could eventually make me some money (eventually).

And when I felt like I needed a break I'd head off to the hills to tick off some more peaks.

I wouldn't be bored, if I was sat watching Jeremy Kyle eating frosties I'd be very dissapointed.

Oh and applying for jobs, I guess, once the money ran out :)
 
11am- Get up and showered / ready for the day

12- Lunch

12.20-1- Browse the internet

1-2 watch TV/ Browse internet at same time :D

14.00-15.00 Read a book (The Hobbit atm) or watch a TV show (Arrested development atm)

15.00-18.00 Play guitar/ watch TV / Browse forums

18.00 Dinner

After that I just browse the net like I am now...

quite frightening actually but then again I've just finished a 3 year uni course.
 
7:30AM get up
8:00AM Breakfast
8:30AM get on bike, go for 70-100 miles, group ride so stops and faffing around
5:00PM get back
5:15PM shower
6:00PM food
6:30PM onwards, nothing but falling asleep or playing some BFBC2.
 
I am currently unemployed. My day consists of:

7:30am - Wake up
7:40am - Out of bed, having breakfast
7:50am - Shower
8:05am - Browse the internet
8:37am - Go to 6th form
3:20pm - Return home from 6th form
???
6:00pm - Tea
7:00pm - Watch TV or browse the internet more
10:30pm - Shower
11:00pm - Get into bed and watch something for a couple of hours on my iPod until I fall asleep

I have such an exciting life.
 
June-Oct last year...

12 ish - Get up
Browse web and eat breakfast
2pm - Star Trek on Dave (3 hours worth)
have laptop on lap browsing for jobs and flicking to OcUK
5:30 - Family come home
Move upstairs and repeat what I was doing on Laptop
Have dinner
Jobs/OcUK
11pm - Wind down job searching and start watching a film or two
3-4am - Bed

Jan/Feb-May...

12ish - Get up
Browse web and eat
browse web
glance at job pages
Borwse web
5:30 - Family come home
Browse web and eat
film/web
3-4am - Bed...

That's what long term unemployment does to you folks... Motivation goes byebye...:(

(I don't count the 3 months of working in between times as proper employment). Also proper jobs are hard to find in my town so no point handing out CV's (although I did for a part time job and got nothing in return...)

AcidHell2 said:
Thing is how do you apply online? Most on-line agencies just want numbers for the books. Proper applications on-line gets great responses.

Handing out cvs also has to be targeted and invested interest and asking questions.
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They can't reject you when you upload a CV online. I tried to hand my CV to recruitment companies (Reed etc.) and had a few of them not even take my CV... I even offered to leave it with them and they declined... Apparently because I had no office experience...

I've also sent dozens of emails out (tailored to the company) speculatively and received nothing back... Conversely when applying for actual jobs I got 4 interviews and one job (which was a christmas temp job, the rest were proper jobs)...
 
kgi said:
You need to understand that searching for a job is a job in itself. That also means that you should treat it as an 8h a day activity. Looking at jobs for a couple of hours a day and sending an application or two is not going to get you anywhere soon.

You really need to rump up your efforts to match your expectations.
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This.

The only problem is after a few months of searching with no reply you lose most of your motivation to do anything. This is when you need someone to be a right ******* and force you to keep going. You're not going to do as much as you were but at least you are going to keep trying.
 
Raymond Lin said:
If I have a day off with no plans I would get bored not soon after I had breakfast!

I would also feel like i wasted a day, I would at least go into town to do some shopping at minimum, even if just for the walk.
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One problem...

Money... :p

You have loads of spare time when you have no job, problem is you also have no money to do anything with that spare time.

McDaniel said:
I guess it depends if you need money or not - personally if I lost my job, I would work anywhere practically to make sure I had money coming in whilst looking for other work - it might also cure some of the boredom people in this thread mention!
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That's all very well but those hours you work on minimum wage doing something not remotely useful for your career... Would they be better spent job hunting?

You need to prioritise. Spend more time in a dead end job and less time job hunting means you'll probably be out of a proper job for longer.
 
Sp00n said:
Also, why don't you unemployed people do some voluntary work?
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Because any meaningful amount means you lose your JSA claim...

Also unless the volunteering is completely free and close to home you will need to pay fuel/clothing etc from money you don't have.
 
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