Looking for Work is a Full Time Job!

I'm currently swotting up in preparation for another interview tomorrow. Please keep your fingers and toes crossed for me.

It's dawned on me, since taking on this part-time temping role, just how much time (and money!) is taken up by applying for jobs! First you have to trawl the job sites and local newspapers trying to track down the elusive job of your dreams (which reminds me it's job night in our local paper tonight). Then you have to generally check their website for more details, and certainly to find out if it's the kind of company you want to work for.

Then there's the time and expense of printing out and mailing off your CV, or completing a long-winded application form by hand. My poor printer is crying out for ink, and besides I thought the future was going to be a paperless office? Well, that was evidently a load of bullc*ap wasn't it?

When you run out of opportunities garnered from the newspaper it's time to start hitting the agencies, which means more nicely printed CV's, getting your suit dry cleaned (again) and a combination of shoe leather and petrol as you hike from door to door. It wouldn't be so bad if agencies were actually useful, but I can guarantee that if you visit 10, there'll be 3 you never hear from again, despite how keen they are to take you on board. Must be more people in favour of an office full of paper I guess? Maybe it's so that when a prospective employee visits them enquiring about using their services, they can fling the filing cabinet open and go 'just look at the amount of CV's we have - we must be good'.

Then there's constant phone calls as you can guarantee that any potential job offer, or annoying agency person ringing 'just to see if you've every considered relocating to the Outer Hebrides' will call you when you're on the loo or driving. Hence, your phone bill shoots up returning their calls.

Then for the elusive job interview, well, you'll obviously need to get the suit dry cleaned again after you've been hiking around all of those agencies in it. Then there's travelling expenses to get there. As you don't want to turn up like a pack horse, there's no chance of cramming food into your streamlined briefcase so you tend to end up buying lunch.

Then there's the feedback phone calls, and potentially the whole process starts again!

If I don't find something soon, I'm going to have to find a job, just to pay for me to look for another one!