Driven to MadnessCaptain Placid asks: What annoying things do significant others, workmates and other people in general do that drive you up the wall? Do you want to kill your other half over their obsessive fridge magnet collection? Driven to distraction over your manager's continued use of Comic Sans (The Font of Champions)? Tell us.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11)
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Fucking job applicationsSome years ago, the web design company I worked for went bust and I was out of a job. I managed to get a few freelance jobs, but then after a while they dried up. But now, I don't appear to have any experience. Being freelance for a couple of years doesn't count it seems. I apply for jobs, and very rarely get a response. I have an occasional interview, but nothing comes of it.
I've gave up applying for web design jobs and just applied for any IT jobs. I then broadened that to any office jobs, then just any job. I went on to Totaljobs and just carpet-bombed the site, applying for everything.
I heard nothing. I'm beginning to think someone is intercepting my applications so they don't go through. I know I can do the jobs I apply for, hell, a monkey can do them, but because I have an ever expanding stretch of no experience, it's going against me. I even went on peopleperhour and bid for a shit load of freelance jobs on there. Nothing, because I don't have any recent experience.
I've got grovelling obsequiousness down to fine art, but it's clearly not working, so the next interview I get, I'm going to be blunt. You can always tell when the interviewer have made up their mind bout you when they try to play the job down as being more difficult than it clearly is.
Driven to madness? I'm going fucking spare, stir crazy even.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 14:52,
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SupportJust keep throwing the shit against the wall and eventually you will get some seeping through the other side. That will then turn into a festering drip stain, subsequently turning into a potentially harmful bacterial no-go zone, which metaphorically will turn into a job.
Seriously though - getting annoyed about it is the worst thing, if you've got financial support from others spend the time making shit hot websites and start building a fucking awesome portfolio that you can send to the picky cunts. Apologies if you are doing this already.
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Do open source stuffbroadens your skillset and gives you real things you can point at.
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 9 Oct 2012, 16:58,
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