The KantryMan

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Travelling Around

Diary of an unemployed I I

The adventure of job searching

Ok I’m here in front of the internet. There are zillions of job sites. So let’s see, what can I do? What matches my accumulated knowledge and my working experience? Ok those only allow people until 35, those others give offer you a salary that is lower than your unemployment benefit. So I have filtered all these. Still have a couple of options. I apply to this group, let’s say 10 job offers. From 3 I never even I hear anything. A couple sends you the standard reply. I have to laugh at the sentence “after reading your application carefully” while being a Mrs. They addressed me as a Mr. Other are a little more creative, they mention stuff like you don’t fit the profile, your profile doesn’t match our company’s.

Once in a while you manage to get invited to an interview. So I prepare myself the best I can. I check which neat clothe to wear, essay my businesslike body languages, the almost perfect handshake, the smile on time, how to sit correctly on the chair.

Sometimes only by the first 10 seconds of look of the person taking the interview will tell you that they don’t want you. At the same time only by looking at the gray old walls of some institutions you already feel depressed.

Diary of an unemployed I

There are many ways to get there

So there I stood with a letter saying that my contract would not be renewed. Yeah it could have been possible but someone had decided that I didn’t fit in the team. Yes I didn’t fit in the useless chit chat about what am I going to make for dinner or with which washing powder I get my sheets whiter or who’s going to bed with who.

I just wanted to do my work. But it seems that hard working and a certain amount of efficiency is not welcome by bureaucrats that are sitting there for an average of 10 to 15 years doing the same job.

So I didn’t fit in. So I began my journey to the world of what they first call “to be in between two jobs”, then to be a job seeker. After 6 months then you qualify for a real unemployed.