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So retail not for me

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Last few weeks I have had adventures in trying to get a job in a very nice shop... in order not to offend and perhaps general witchines (with a B) I shall not say what shop it is. But if you are friends on Facebook you know.  So these guys had a notice outside their shop about the "recruitment" event. Well I thought you don't know unless you try.      Well it was something I definitely haven't done before and something very different.  There was a massgive amount of people, think must have been about 80-100 of us turned up. And I was the minority, everyone seemed to be young and fresh, and born in 90s or even 00s. Strange feeling of not belonging came over me, like I am old and uncool. Husband texted saying that I am actually vintage....  I was almost the last person to get a one to one interview that lasted like 5minutes and been offered the trial shift.  This got me very excited. I didn't think about it much. But when I got there and was let loose on...

Job hunting. Stepping away from hospitality

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As you know I have been looking for a job... I had few phone interviews and few in person. One of them actually went really well but the shifts patterns isn't fitting in with child care. And is what the trouble is. Child care is also expensive and I pretty much will be working for nursery but that's ok. Edgar will have more of social life with other kids and it would be nice for me to get out of the house and actually speak to grown ups. Even if I am totally shitting myself about how Egg will cope, how I would cope. I am most definitely not doing it for money I am doing it for sanity. Also I have only worked in hospitality industry and not many people seem to get that hotel reception is like super extensive admin experience and managing... like of everything. Every employers but the employment agencies. Well they are either in for the money or actually know their stuff... I actually spoke to one of my mates who is a manager in a busy coffee shop saying how wo...