Work woes

I've got the unemployment blues.

Well, sort of. I'm a bit despondent about it all, having only had one interview since I started applying for work at the beginning of this year. I'm putting in applications for all sorts of stuff, but I'm not getting a whole lot in return. I'm thinking outside the box - I don't NEED that internship right now... but what I do need is maybe a foot in the door, so positions such as research assistant in mental health, yep, I'm there.

But I hear nothing back, and the interview that I attended well over a week ago bore no fruit. I can't help but lament the higher number of jobs being advertised in Sydney - 25 versus 8 on Psychxchange, a whopping 122 versus 12 on seek.com.au. *sigh* And of course they all want experience, or to have completed masters. I'm wondering if choosing the internship option has been a mistake. I'm only going through what most new graduates go through, I suppose. I'm not as despondent as this sounds, but some days it's just... difficult.

So... it's chin up and I'm thinking that in lieu of looking for temp work, which I hate, I'm just going to have to step up my little cottage industry wool-dyeing projects. I've dyed 3kg of wool in the past 2 days, and I've listed the first little batch on my sales site, http://monnsqueak.typepad.com/colour_revolution/ - so you can go over and have a squizzy. Keep your eye on it, I'll have a whole lot more up tomorrow. Keepin' busy!

Comments

[Taphophile]

Hmm, population of Sydney 4,254,900. Population of Canberra 325,200 or Canberra has 7.64% of Sydney's population. Psychxchange advertises 32% the number of jobs in Canberra to Sydney and Seek is advertising about 10%. Statistically you're better of in Canberra. I will admit that I saw more people in Sydney with mental health issues, though. ;)

[Adele]

*Hugs*