Jobs Discussion

I live in Italy and it's really tough, unemployment rate is very high (especially for young people). Haven't found a job (I am qualified for) in years. For every job interview, there are so many people applying, that you only need to be lucky.
I recently applied for a railway company which needed quite a few new people to instruct and hire, I went for the interview, but unfortunately they didn't take me (however, they did take some people who didn't even finish high school, so I don't know why they didn't take me). If I'm lucky, they'll call me later this year for another round.
Right now I'm applying for another railway company, but there are fewer vacant places in this one.

I really hope things change rapidly here. It's not possible to build a relationship and a life and buying a house (very normal thing in Italy, at least until ten years ago) going from 1-month job to another one.
Good luck, Lugum!

I'm studying maths, but have three side jobs to help my income: maths tutoring, maths research, and making burgers for a street food van.

I've said this to people and it's weird, but the street food van is my favourite. It's the lowest paid, but it's consistent, relaxing, and satisfying.

I feel so anxious and useless, it's hard for me even to apply to jobs online . If i had to go to an interview i'd probably shit myself lol

i miss the " I work but not very hard/not hard at all" option...
;D

Good luck with your search! And to everybody that is seeking for a job. It's hard sometimes, but don't give up!

I also don't have a driver's license, and I'm honestly afraid I'll be unable to get one. My vision has never been good, and has only gotten worse (nearsighted, and issues with binocular vision due to strabismus), and is unaided because I'm unable to afford even basic medical care. Nonetheless, for once in my life I have someone willing and able to help me practice driving and teach me so I'm working on getting licensed and hoping I'll pass. Naturally, this has made finding a job a lot harder. I have had to rely on doing many odd jobs, rather than steady employment.

I also don't have any advanced qualifications; I'm just a high school graduate. I've got a pretty shallow-but-wide skillset from dabbling in many areas, but I have no certifications of any kind. I'm largely self-taught, in my attempts to put the excess of free time as a severely underemployed/unemployed person to good use.

That sadly hasn't gone over well in the few interviews I've managed to get, however. It's horribly demoralizing to be turned down for basic retail jobs. I suppose they assume that I'm some sort of criminal or addict, to be so thoroughly bereft of traditional job history.

I honestly can't remember the last time I didn't feel depressed about my situation. It's been up and down at times, but even when I've felt the happiest I'd still consider myself depressed. I have managed to have a handful of relationships, none of which lasted very long. Being out of work and unable to be anything more than a burden has strained them all to varying degrees.

I honestly have no idea what to do, how to get out of this situation. I feel very trapped, with fewer and fewer doors remaining open every day. I have some faint hopes of finding my way into a career someday, but when I browse more advanced job listings I can't help but think things like "I will never have these qualifications" or "I don't know if I could do those things" and sink into a very low mood. It's a daily struggle to avoid feeling a deep sense of despair/hopelessness, and I often fail. I have some support in my life, for now, but I can't help but feel that the clock is ticking and that support won't last for much longer if things continue as they have. I fear that there's a real possibility I'll end up on the street when that happens.

I'm sorry to be dumping all of this on the thread, but once I started it kind of came pouring out. I wish you the very best of luck, Lugum. Your persistence gives me some hope.

I've been in the workforce for two decades now, and I consider myself lucky. I've always been able to find work relatively easily, I have good customer service and interpersonal skills and it really helps me make a good impression in interviews etc.

My wife however is fairly quiet and lacks confidence and she's been looking for work unsuccessfully for the last two years or so (re-entering the workforce now that the kids are old enough to go to after school care).

I certainly know both sides of the story and there's no magic bullet. All I can say is don't lose hope.

Thank

Lets see ... That may end up being long .
Job discussion huh .

When i was Really really young ,me and couple friends wanted to be a garbage truck personal .
One of us would drive the truck , and the other 3 would be in the back collecting the garbage .
At the end of the day , we would share whatever we found in the garbage bins ... you know Money , jewels , toys :D
Was fun times .

Then i started growing up , and i was really into IT and stuff , so i tough i will become some IT guy ... or even game developer .
That didnt really live long , since the moment letters got involved in Maths , we ware done :D
I did enjoy maths when i was young , but the letters ware a No-no .
So there we had it , another dream done .

Uh yeah i forgot , in betwen being garbage man and IT , i wanted to go pro in football ... till some guy broke both my legs in a game and ruined that dream forever for me ... Feelsbadman :|
Shit happens tho , wasnt on purpose ... cant complain .

Anyway , later on when i was bout 14-15 i tough i will just be an office worker , cause despite the fact im dumb as fuck nowadays , i used to be quite smart when i was younger ...
So i tough i will just get a nice job with decent pay and do that for a living .
Then reality hit >.>

I have 2 brothers , so we are a small household , where my mother wasnt really working , and my dad was working in a factory ... making decent cash enough to sustain us .... but Capitalism HO ... the factory went under and he became jobless ...
So i quit school when i was 16 , and got a job as Novice electrician in construction ...
Its shitty and dirty job , but the pay was good ... so at age of 16 was working my ass off to sustain a family ... not very fun couple years i had then :)

Anyway time passed , and i got to know couple of the engineers making the blueprints that we used to work on .... and i got kinda interested in that stuff , so i used my weekends to go and study under them into making that kinda stuff .

And there i am , last year i actually got a job .at the age of 27 , as a novice engineer ( i know everyone is one nowadays ) at a small firm working mostly in providing new technology into small towns ( TV / Internet / Mobile Signal ) .

So yeah , i went from the garbage man , to an engineer ... somehow .
Life is a weird RollerCoaster eh . one day you want to collect garbage , the other you are in the middle of nowhere ordering about 200 ppl what to do .

i still think the garbage man job would be more fitting for me tho :)

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Its hard.

My country (Brazil) is now under a recession that got quickly worse and coupled with a political crysis that seens to never stop giving. To make matters worse i had troubles finishing my degree thats is now on hold. Less people want to hire and any edge over the competition now counts...

Im about to say f#@ it and go looking for anything way below me.

I'm working as a freelancer to have a small income until I find out what I really want to do. The market in my country is pretty bad.

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So?! How did your interview go?

Working on construction to atm nice salary 400e what is in bosnia more then enough ok not enough but okay to live with xD and its sunday i have to go to work ^^ lifesuck!

I will pray/send good vibes tiers you lugum so that your life may indeed grow and you May find your higher purpose ;)

nice music choice, i love Peter and Kate, as she says in Cloudbusting : "I just know that something good is gonna happen, I don't know when. But just saying it could even make it happen"

Never was easy for me. Always been very frustrating and depressing. This thread is 6 months old, maybe I already answered. Sorry.

Ah, congrats, good luck.

if you act on other socialmedias like you do here no wonder