Work is work - or why job application forms and CVs are bullsh!t

[The_Editor]

Good point.

Which is EXACTLY why I never bothered to buy my own truck.

Too much hassle for not much extra reward.

But then ...  Speculate to accumulate.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

@KennyR
heh, yes, but they got the jobs and you don't.

[KennyR]

Then employers have a load of pretentious asses instead of competent people. Their loss.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Yes, and others work their asses off to pay your unemployment.

[KennyR]

I don't claim unemployment money.

(At least, I don't now.)

[Speelgoedmannetje]

so you live from air (or a generous heritage)?

[KennyR]

A generous student loan.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

Look, KennyR, sometimes in our life we need to do things against our will. The laundry, cooking, vacuum cleaning...
I dunno how you have been raised..

I do not think you should make such a problem about an interview... It's easy :-)

[KennyR]

Speel, I haven't been asked to go to an interview yet! Not a single one in six months!

[Speelgoedmannetje]

If the mountain does not come to Muhammed, Muhammed has to go to the mountain.
Here in NL, ppl with a chemistry degree are very much wanted, if I know it correct.

[KennyR]

I can't speak Dutch :-P

Besides, if moving 100 miles down south to get a job in England isn't possible for me, moving to Europe would be even harder.

[mikeymike]

Take up plumbing?  

[KennyR]

Plumbing? Whatever, I'd still get the position snatched away by buzzword fiends who say they're dynamic and flexible and whatever else crap they spout on these forms. Not to mention the brazen liars who say their hobbies include parachuting, windsurfing and potholing just to look interesting.

[Speelgoedmannetje]

KennyR wrote:
I can't speak Dutch :-P

No problem. The Dutch can speak English. We're no French..

Besides, if moving 100 miles down south to get a job in England isn't possible for me, moving to Europe would be even harder.

Why? I know a lot of ppl, including some of my family who went to foreign countries for work.

[mikeymike]

KennyR wrote:
Plumbing? Whatever, I'd still get the position snatched away by buzzword fiends who say they're dynamic and flexible and whatever else crap they spout on these forms. Not to mention the brazen liars who say their hobbies include parachuting, windsurfing and potholing just to look interesting.

Does your CV outline just how defeatist you are?  Do you not think that pretty much everyone else on the planet has to go through the same system of living as you're trying to do, and that most of them are getting along just fine?

If you want to make a decent life for yourself, you have to do it.  Nobody else will.

It's not easy.  If it were, then most people would be looking for something more challenging.

[mikeymike]

And if anyone would like to read something on a more positive note:

http://www.mikeymike.org.uk/mikes/desiderata.txt