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A topic near and dear to my heart.
So last July, I started filling out applications everywhere. Kroger, Wal-mart, Target, the list goes on and on. This past July, I finally got an interview. Woo-hoo! Right? No. I bombed. I didn't get the job. No problem. I'll continue applying for jobs. Somewhere along the line I filled out an application at Jack-in-the-Box and got a call to come in for an interview maybe two weeks ago. Woo-hoo? Nope. I didn't get it because somebody with "fast food experience" was preferable. A week ago, I filled out an application at a place that provides tech support for computers. Ok, so here's a question for you. Would you rather hire a computer science major who knows about computers but has no "telemarketing" experience or someone who doesn't know jackshit about computers but sold Avon over the phone for 2 years? Right. You hire the idiot bimbo who sold make-up to frumpy housewives.
Now here's the thing. I'm not lazy. I'm willing to work. I will do the dirtiest, most disgusting thing you can come up with. All you have to do is pay me. Unfortunately, on most job applications, there's no "Are you willing to clean our vomit and shit encrusted toilets" box to check.
My major stumbling block it seems is lack of work experience. I'm not sure what's appropriate to put on an application. When I was a senior in high school and in 8th grade, I worked in the school library. Appropriate? I don't know and to tell the truth I don't give a damn. I worked, thus it's work experience. Then we get to the other work I did. For a period of a month and a half, I worked for a now out of business computer shop helping wire a school building for network, telephone, and intercom capability. Is this appropriate to put down as work experience? I don't know. I was never officially hired. It was one of those, "Hey! You wanna make some extra money?" deals. Well of course I did. I was 14 and had a number of plans for my $100 (Yes, I realize I was horribly exploited) If an employer were to call the number I put down, they'd get either a message saying the number is out of service or "Comic Connection. Ivan speaking. May I help you?"
I'm starting to think I just don't look employable. I go in, ask for an application, and I get some strange looks, like, " You want to work here? You're kidding right?". I guess I'm not respectable-looking. Am I expected to shave my beard off and dress in a suit just to fill out an application so that these people will take me seriously?
Of course, there's the whole college thing. I go to school from around 8 until 2. I can't exactly work a full-time 9 to 5 job and that's what most people are hiring. I need a job that will allow me to work from somewhere like 2 to 11 or so. Which means fast food, retail, or something of the sort with shifts. Unfortunately, we get into the whole, "lack of experience with cash registers". Look, you use computers, I've grown up around computers, I can build computers in my sleep, I think I can figure out which buttons to press to make the little cash drawer pop out.
I have the abilities, skills, and can work the hours you need worked. Who the fuck cares that I don't have any of your "real work experience". I will be more reliable than those other assholes you hired before me. I won't call in sick unless I'm puking my guts up and bleeding from my eyes, and if you need someone to work overtime, give me a call. I won't bitch about it. |
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