EquinoxDancer

It is a place that this forum keeps all of their more controversial topics. A place that members can debate and stuff... it is good fun if you are into that kind of stuff (like I am).

oh right! How do I find it? Haha. 

Oh never mind! Just read that you need to have a certain amount of posts to see it hah, ah well 

It looks like you are still in a muffin rank. I believe you get to look at the debate pit at 40 posts and can pirticipate(as in actively post) at 100.

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Yeah, the lack of experience thing can get irritating.

What my sister did (she's at uni) was get lower paid jobs at places that can't really afford to say "You lack experience" because they don't have a stream of applicants like Greggs or Tesco, and then go for the bigger places. She started by getting a job at some perfume shop that I (being a very guyish bisexual guy) had never heard of. Then she got a job at a cafe I didn't know existed (apparently there was a cafe inside a church), and now she works at Tesco.

Often when they say "You lack experience" they're referring to lack of experience in a relevant field. So you may have work experience at a bio-chemist lab or something (I don't know what you do), but Tesco doesn't care about that, they want to know if you're any good at dealing with idiotic customers and putting up with the "customer is always right" bs even though most of the time the customer is a moron.

On a side note; what degree are you doing?

I'm doing a contemporary Arts degree with a focus on Dance...don't judge meeee lol. 

I think right now I just want a job to feel like I can do it, you know? The fact everywhere keeps saying no without even interviewing me is upsetting...especially considering I have so much experience. I worked in a locally owned store for a year, a bar for a summer, I did a hairdressing diploma before deciding to move on to pursue my passion for the Arts and also worked in a salon for over a year. I've had tons of experience within the Arts and Performing Arts sector now, working as a stage hand at shows as well as running my own classes and such. And on top of that I run two societies and manage a variety of social media accounts for my University. 

Just feeling helpless lol. 

I feel like all I do is pursue my dreams whilst simultaneously gaining a vast amount of experiences and opportunities, but still...my brother who only just finished college doing a bricklaying diploma and has never worked a day in his life landed a job at the snap of his fingers. 

Sorry for ranting hehe, just need to vent I suppose. 

To be fair, because about 15 years ago loads of people stopped learning how to do stuff like bricklaying, plumbing, and farriery/blacksmithing, the UK has an insanely high demand for those kinds of jobs. Your brother, it seems, may have accidentally 'struck gold' (or he new exactly what he was doing).

Also, you are rather well experienced, and it does seem that some kind of opportunity may present itself to you, you just might need some metaphorical binoculars to spot it. My (unqualified) suggestion would be to simultaneously keep bothering Tesco while researching places to apply your qualifications (because, believe it or not, the UK still needs that, without art we'd be even more depressed in this country).