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what shall I do about work?
Hi i'm not sure what to do. I left my job a few weeks ago. It was awful and making me miserable. Now though, I'm stuck. I want to retrain as a health care assistant and have an interview next week but have applied for other jobs I just don't want because I now know which direction to take my career. My fiance keeps telling me to apply for ANYTHING as I am bored at home and we now need the money. So been applying for shop work etc and temp work. But my interview is next week and I really hope I get the job, there's a few positions going and they will train me on the job. The temp jobs are all for at least 2-3 months contracts. I don't want to take something then leave them in the lurch. If I get offered next weeks job , I'd only have been a temping a week!! What shall I do?
Public Comments
- I think... A week will go by really fast... You'll just have to manage... If you get the job... well done! Id you don't, get you ass in gear and get a temp job until you find something better? Lol. Well, That's what i would do. :)
- We need our bills paying and so there's no choice - just take anything to bring the money in.
- go on the course for care assistant, do the one which you enjoy and which has better further career options for you. why work in a shop if you dont want to progress in retail you will be wasting your time and become miserable and bored again.
- Take the temping job for now, bearing in mind that it's only a temporary fix until you can get the job you want. Think of it this way: - You may have to go through two or three interviews for the care job, so you could be in the interview cycle for a whole month - When they offer you a position, for jobs like healthcare they will be very thorough in doing reference and background checks, delaying the process more - They will expect that you will have to work notice in your current position - everyone does What I'm trying to say is, you may have an interview next week, but even if you are successful it is very unlikely that you will be starting work that week. Most temp jobs will have a one week notice period and if you're prepared to honour that then there shouldn't be a problem. Anyway, employers are used to temps coming and going as they please - most people who temp don't really want to be doing that, and will leave as soon as something better comes along. At my company, our reception position has been vacant for a month and we were supposed to have one temp to cover that month - but actually we're now on the sixth person because the others left, two of them only staying for one day each.
