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Blaming you for not trying actually - that's different. Quite a few suggestions have been made about apprenticeships (to keep on topic with the OP), which you've ignored and fallen back on your sob story.
Honestly you don't sound cut-out for the trades even if you could get an apprenticeship. The first year or so is really difficult. You don't know what's going on, you're always having to re-do things, and you pretty much never do anything right. You may or may not have a boss with a short temper to go along with all this.
It takes a lot of desire and some pretty thick skin to get through it. You're sitting here complaining that McDonalds didn't send you a thank you card for filling out an application. If something as small as that causes you to lapse into despair there's no way you'd make it in a trade.
Honestly you don't sound cut-out for the trades even if you could get an apprenticeship. The first year or so is really difficult. You don't know what's going on, you're always having to re-do things, and you pretty much never do anything right. You may or may not have a boss with a short temper to go along with all this.
It takes a lot of desire and some pretty thick skin to get through it. You're sitting here complaining that McDonalds didn't send you a thank you card for filling out an application. If something as small as that causes you to lapse into despair there's no way you'd make it in a trade.
This..
Parried, have you considered trying to be a greeter at wal-mart? Seems low stress. You clearly could not handle any actual work if you did get a job.
You guys are blaming me for something. The fact that everytime I fill out a lowly job application I hear nothing in return after submitting it. No call for an interview, not even a no thanks email. From companies that claim to be hiring, and more often then not keep posting advertisements. I'll do basically any job, any pay, can work any hours, so what is it then. It has nothing to do with attitude, how can it be when I apply and hear NOTHING. No call. NO emails. I've been signed up with Mass Jobs Quest since 2010 and Snagajob since 2010. I have a resume and a consideration letter, even though I don't have much to put on the resume, I use it to describe my interests, and my work ethic and what I enjoy doing. I have to "work" with what I've got for now. But that's gotta count for something, right?
How can anybody in this country talk about people not wanting to work, when I come along and proclaim how eager I am to have a job, and yet the "nobody wants to work" mentality is still pushed. Makes no sense. Take the blinders off. I'm applying for the job.
But nobody answers. You think I like living like this? You think I enjoy this? I hate this. It's a nightmare. And it doesn't matter what I do, because no matter what way I go I'm held back and then told it's me that has an issue when to the clear plain eye that's simply NOT the case.
In the 5 hours you've spent crying in your milk this morning, you could have been down to the both the IBEW and the local library and be DOING something about the situation that YOU have created for yourself. At the very least, you'd end up with something to put on that weak resume.
Incidentally - it may be the Local 103. You might actually have to google it for yourself.
The only thing I use the library for is when I need to print something. I'm assuming (according to you) it's my fault companies make people apply online rather then in person too right?
It's your fault that you're thinking its such a hardship.
Awwww you have to apply online. Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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