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I are common worker
So I was supposed to go to an interview this morning for a job tutoring English, but... I couldn't bring myself to pay the $100 for a blue card + the hiring firm's fees :( That's half my hobo pay from Centrelink. I don't know, maybe I should've gone for it but they didn't say if there'd be a minimum amount of hours or where I'd have to drive to. (A friend of mine went through a different agency and ended up tutoring an hour away O.o) Thankfully as of next week I'll be picking up some more hours helping newbies to Austfailia with their English so yay!
I really wish I could find a data entry job or something, but everything's so specialised these days. Minimum wage jobs that involve little more than answering telephones have requirements like "Must have 10 years experience in *oddly specific program I've never heard of*" or "Your job is to send an e-mail. To do this, you must have experience as Bill Gates' personal shoe shiner." Even some shitty retail jobs require you to have a diploma in arranging displays. Positions once reserved for criminals, the mentally disabled and philosophy students now require you to have certificates, a decade of experience in an executive position and the ability to work 38 hours a week in a casual position, which means it'll be more like 60 hours per week.
Shit sucks, yo.
I really wish I could find a data entry job or something, but everything's so specialised these days. Minimum wage jobs that involve little more than answering telephones have requirements like "Must have 10 years experience in *oddly specific program I've never heard of*" or "Your job is to send an e-mail. To do this, you must have experience as Bill Gates' personal shoe shiner." Even some shitty retail jobs require you to have a diploma in arranging displays. Positions once reserved for criminals, the mentally disabled and philosophy students now require you to have certificates, a decade of experience in an executive position and the ability to work 38 hours a week in a casual position, which means it'll be more like 60 hours per week.
Shit sucks, yo.
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No one can be bothered train an employee for one week. Even learning apprenticeships need you to have a 'background in this field' now which is so shitty when you only get $10 an hour.
Theres a mentally disabled person hired to pick up cigarette butts at a local motel... he probably had experience.