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Well this has got to be the first Rave topic i think?

Well, today i got myself a job, well actually last week when i had the interview but got the offer today.

Been a very tough time since mid september, when i had to leave my job in Hatfield to move home as the tenancy on my house run out. Not something anyone needs to be doing these days with the current economical climate, rather a step backwards than forwards! Anyway, i moved home, not something i wanted to do at all since my mum and her boyfriend are smokers and as i now know wasnt going to be a 'frustration free' time. I have been looking for a job since the beginning of August since i knew id be having to leave my job in Hatfield. I have tho been looking around Ipswich as I decided (or should that be my girlfriend ) that i was going to move there so we could be closer together.

Had a trial day with a removal firm in august which i actually enjoyed but didnt offer enough hours, had an interview with my old employer sainsburys and wasnt succesful (f*** knows why) which i think was for the best anyway. I kept applying to almost everything i could, and i really was starting to worry. Then royal mail emailed me a month after i applied asking for an interview. Quality, turned out that all you do is turn up and tell em what hours you can work and you get the job there and then, no interview. Now i had a job i could move here, so killed two birds with one stone and had a look at a few rooms to rent while i was up for the interview. That day i took a room and moved in 2 days later. Fucking sorted, out of toad hole Gillingham and into a nice smoke free house and the people im living with are so easy going its unreal!

A few days later was my graduation and got a call from Makro (the cash n carry people) for an interview, wtf? Two interviews in less than the space of a week? So went to the interview and had to be the best interview ive ever had, got a call today and ive been offered the job. Why accept that you say? Well Royal mail is only temp for two weeks, this is full time permanent.

So, ive moved house and found myself a new job in 2 weeks, i just feel fucking great today cos its been close to 3 months of hard slog and uncertainty about where i am and where ill be working and its finally slotted together.

Today is most definately a very good day

nice one rob, glad things are looking up for you!

Nice one!

I love it when a plan comes together!



I heard there's a 'Strangler' job going free in Ipswich now?

Jamz wrote:I heard there's a 'Strangler' job going free in Ipswich now?

Plenty of lorry driving jobs too, tough job apparently, change gear, change gear, check mirrors, change gear, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, check mirrors............

Id be so fecked off if I was you, got a uni degree to my name and all I’ve got to show for it is a job at Makro…

Glad everything is sorted though.

Try finding a graduate job at the moment mate.

Had my graduation last week and only a handful of people have got onto graduate training programmes, one guy i know was in it for three weeks and then got laid off. My house mate has a 2:1 and even he has only managed 1 interview in 6 months.

Its not the best situation, no, but i cant cut my nose off to spite my face, money is money (which is what matters at the moment) no matter how you earn it and you need to sustain yourself. I have been looking and they simply arent out there and i think a third class degree doesnt really go in my favour either, worse still the telecomms sector is laying people off. At a time of recession i feel quite lucky to have a job at all to be honest.

I think grads get a raw deal straight out of uni, grad schemes are difficult to get onto with hundreds/thousands applying and small companies won't take you on because they think your going to jump ship as soon as something better comes along. Personally I'm two years out of uni with a good degree (2:1 Accounting & Finance) working for myself at the moment but still havn't found the graduate career I'm looking for.

Yeah your right, ive even been trying to get into trainee jobs that arent related to my degree, notably one with three valleys water as a trainee water engineer.

I rememeber wanting an apprenticeship before i started college but i left it too late, and in hindsight that would have been a better choice too, your experienced, your qualified and your easier to employ than a 'fresh out the bag' graduate, id probably have easily earned what ive acrued in debt. All the apprenticeship guys on my course at college, not one of them was ever short of money.

But in another light, had i done all of that i would have never met my girlfriend at uni

matey. ya see, the pikey inbreds form the east can do well

you fuckin what?

Nuffink rong wiv suvverners geezer.

hehe , im originally from east anglia i know a good caravan when i see one

Im originally from Kent as it happens, only recently moved to Ipswich

RedexRobB wrote:trainee water engineer.

never knew you had to engineer water, the things you learn each day eh!

gem

Gemini wrote:

RedexRobB wrote:trainee water engineer.

never knew you had to engineer water, the things you learn each day eh!

gem

i can engineer water after a few pints

i can engineer water after a few pints

I can reverse engineer beer after lots of pints!! lol