Ok, litteraly...yesterday....saturday...I was out in the heat pounding the pavement, searching for employment at the mall...P.s. why is it so hot right now in September? That being said this was a last ditch effort because I have pounded the keys for YEARS (since November 2008) because that is where the applications are...they aren't in the stores, and NO you can't talk to a manager! Who do you think you are!? Yeah that's right I have taken every single possible personality survey known to man. Let me tell you a little about myself:
I am responsible
I like my life (even though currently it could be a teensy bit better)
I enjoy hard work
I enjoy fast paced work
I enjoy GRUNT work
I have a cheerful attitude
I make the best of bad situations
I am sortof detail oriented, but a lot of times am a big picture person....(find someone
besides my dad and husband who ARE and
I will give you a nickle...just one total)
I would tell a supervisor if I saw my co-workers stealing
I would tell THEIR supervisor if my supervisor was stealing
My parents would be proud of me
I can't stand it when people are whiners but I accept it as a part of life
I have lots of friends
I have excelent written and verbal skills (see blog)
I am involved in church and my community and spend time doing good
I have and execute a HIGH level of integrity and a YOU BET attitude
That is just about the core of the quesions that are ask of me on these surveys. One for Border's Books made me do some kind of crazy number flashy math hand-eye coordination thing that I know I passed, so I don't know why they don't think that I am qualified to direct patrons to books on the shelves or heck, so here is a "novel" idea (pun intended) keep me away from customers! I bet I am qualified to stock the books....4 weeks later..nope.
How about "crazy-bath-linen-store" (as described by one friend) ....I am surely qualified to sell high quality plates, sheets, and other housewares....I had a mini interview! I felt so lucky...nope. I have to start off as a part time cashier because I (even though my specialty has been in selling high quality products for the home over low priced competitors and I was the top seller in the region...MORE THAN ONCE...) am not qualified to explain to people why sheets are differing thread counts...surely I am qualified for that...I mean it pays a whopping $7.75 an hour...my education should have put me there..all the way up to sheet seller..before the interview was over I knew it.....nope. NOTE: they called, they offered me the cashier position, $7.75...I gracefully turned them down.
My iphone beeps and bleeps and while I am walking around and I am getting emails telling me "we are looking at other candidates", "we are in recipt of your resume but this position has been filled", "thank you for applying with us, we are no longer looking for candidates", "thank you for applying, your qualifications do not match up with our needs for this position".....over and over and over....HUNDREDS of times a week.
I APPLY EVERY SINGLE DAY AT LEAST 20 times, EVERY DAY....for jobs ALL OVER THE US!!!
How about a clothing store, I know a wholesale retail overstock type store? I have stocked shelves at Garden Ridge and Kids R Us. I have sold housewares and worked in clothing for years...I took that SAME survey in paper form (yep the one that says I rock when you print out the results) am I qualified to stock? I might make $7.25 an hour there....can I talk to a manager? NOPE....give them 7-10 days....says the person who HAS a job to the person who is grasping at straws.
WHO ARE YOU JANE!?
So...I am a marketing assistant, a marketing WHIZ, sales LEADER but I don't want to work on commission, I can't and won't deal with the stress. I am constatly full of new edgy ideas, I have run HUGE meetings, and collaberated with people all over the world. I VOLUNTEERED at a leadership summit for 2 days so that I could be a better stronger leader. I read books like How the Mighty Fall and the Switch and the Core, and my favorite, by Peter Senge the Fifth Discipline.
So what, I CHOSE to stay at home and be a mom, a student, and an entreprenuer. I know how to run pivot tables and do data entry, why, because I read a book and taught myself. I have my Bachelors in marketing and will have my Masters in Technology Management. I can and have edited books, made cold calls HOUSE TO HOUSE!
I have done what needed to be done to create an income for my family and now, when I have my education, when I am ready to take the world by storm and CREATE sales, CREATE phenomenal customer service, duplicate myself and train people to be awesome and learn from whomever I need to so I can create a higher level of awesome for myself AND the company I work for. I will even, SMILING and HAPPILY, go through training EVEN if I already know the material....humble myself to a posistion I can work my way up from and end up with an even GREATER story, and even with alllllllllll this....I am seemingly not able to complete the circle, make the circutry work and the light come on. I have an open schedule and the thing that trips up employers is that I don't want to work on Sunday morning because I volunteer at church............hum.
WHAT is happening in this world? I need employment I need someone who beleives in me. I even ask on LINKEDIN where I hold a professional social netowrk for a mentor....NOT EVEN THE SOUND OF CRICKETS....no takers. I promise to make it be the best employment choice ever made by whatever company will take me. I will make you proud.....nope.
Why can't anyone hear me? I know there are other people out there with worse storys, I know that other people have started up at the top and tumbled to the bottom, that sucks, I FEEL SO SORRY FOR THEM, I know that there are 6 or 8 job seekers to every open job, but....BUT....but.....I am at the bottom falling from there to where???
My sweet friends remind me daily that maybe GOD doesn't want me to have a job, maybe GOD is the one that has a greater plan, and I know that. But I can't sit here and quietly wait for life to pass me by and MAYBE some executive will find me singing praise and worship songs in my car one day and pick me up take me to his or her office and give me the greatest job ever!! I have to work at it, I have to try, I have to be out there, that is who GOD made me to be. I am not a quiter, I am not even a whiner (though this blog read in the wrong tone might sound like it) I am a hard worker, decent and good, with a family that supports me and will move all over the world to be a part of GOD's plan for our life.
I am 100% hirable, a million people would KILL to be me....*remember the sound of a printer some where in America, that is the sound of the printing of the latest results from my latest personality test, the last page prints.....* RESULTS: I ROCK!!!
*hawgtions@yahoo.com if you have a job.....I will send you a resume!*
UPDATE : BREAKING NEWS
*P.s. I did get offered a job today, part time, $8/hour, lead cashier....trying like heck to be as thankful as always...I mean it's not my plan...it's God's and I would say 99.99999999% (ok 100%...LOL) of the time, HE is exactly on time and EXACTLY right...* - I have also revcieved some phone calls and some emails from the aps I put in Saturday...but they were all VERY low paying (lower than $8/hour).
UPDATE : BREAKING NEWS
*P.s. I did get offered a job today, part time, $8/hour, lead cashier....trying like heck to be as thankful as always...I mean it's not my plan...it's God's and I would say 99.99999999% (ok 100%...LOL) of the time, HE is exactly on time and EXACTLY right...* - I have also revcieved some phone calls and some emails from the aps I put in Saturday...but they were all VERY low paying (lower than $8/hour).
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