Riddle Me This….

I’m searching for jobs at the moment and the vast majority of them require experience in whatever field the job is in. How do you get experience if no one will hire you because you are inexperienced?? The only jobs that seem to be entirely unconcerned with experienced staff are those which require you to “model” wearing the barest of minimums when it comes to clothing, fund raising minions who hassle people on the streets or outbound phone jockeys. I am not especially interested in pursuing any of those opportunities.

Granted, I am a trained and qualified teacher but surely some of these skills and the ones I picked up while at uni could be considered transferrable to other industries??

1) I’ve dealt with some truly shitty parents, including the one who threatened to wait for me in the car park because I dared to reprimand her child who had shoved someone else off the flying fox because she wanted a turn*. Surely this makes me, in some small way, able to bring a degree of problem solving and conflict resolution to the table. *I can say I have this skill because I was not beaten in the carpark. Problem = solved.

2) I’ve been at uni for eight years, all together. I can create the SHIT out of a range of documents.

3) I teach children, that’s team working right there. Anyone who thinks the kids do what teachers want is sadly mistaken. Any teacher knows that it’s all about working together.

4) I was a phone jockey at an insurance company for two years. I can handle phonecalls.

5) And high volume data entry.

6) And file management.

It seems like I am painfully unsuitable for almost all shit-kicking admin type jobs out there. I don’t even want something full time! I understand the job market is absolutely flooded at the moment and now employers are able to actually choose experienced and qualified staff for even the most mundane positions, but really, there is nothing out there I can do aside from teaching??

Let’s hope that when I launch my web store and start doing markets that I become wildly successful and then this whole bother with requiring an alternative source of income will just fade away. Alternatively I’ll happy write for money or simply just get paid to be awesome. Any or all of those options would just be gravy.