Job

It's almost two months since I left my job in Manchester and moved to Preston.
It's beginning to get miserable now without a job. I reckon on average I apply for five jobs and speak to two agencies every day and still nothing.

I have applied for jobs in retail, at the hospital, as an air traffic controller, as a mystery shopper, at the university, at Blackpool Zoo, in call centres, for the police, as a fucking Betterware catalogue distributor, at sports centres and at a garden centre. I'm not fussy you know - as long as it pays and I can get there in under two hours on public transport then I'll go for it. I've looked at temporary & permanent and both full & part time - nothing.

I was watching a spot of television this morning whilst checking my emails for job opportunities and there was a phone in section that I tried to get though to. They were suggesting that people are being snobbish about what kind of job they take and that people thought certain types of work beneath them - this frustrated me somewhat. I am finding that employers are unwilling to look outside their own industry for employees and I am being ignored or refused even an interview because I haven't done exactly that job before. Does this mean that because I took a shop job five years ago as a temporary measure and ended up sticking to retail that I must now work in retail for the next thirty five years of my life? I hope not.

Granted - I don't have a degree but really at the age of thirty three with all the work experience that I have can it really be true that I am that unemployable? I am intelligent, hard working & honest and am willing to start at the bottom - again - in order to work my way through a new career.
Anyhoo - I suppose I'll just have to hope that retail doesn't dry up completely and that I'll find something there eventually....