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Help, can't find a job!!!? I left uni in July and did a bit of amateur drama and began to look around the start of November and people have just ****** me around. My CV is good with my 2.1 english degree from a good uni and a year's experience working in a clothes shop along with lots of hobbies but I hand it around town and it is ignored.
I did mcdonalds online application taking ages to fill out the form providing experiences from my own life of how I like to get on with people and help them and will work hard and they turned me down, I can't even get a job at mcdonalds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FFS
I've approached loads of others including banks with vacancies, call centres, insurance companies they all say "dont have office experience so we can't hire you" :(
The last straw was when a care home was really interested in me and got me to jump through the hoops giving them information so they could vet me etc and then they said "sorry, no vacancies" after stringing me along.
I feel like a tiny little voice being ignored, I'm seriously depressed.
I've been the the machines at the job centre and printed out jobs but most want experience, even cleaning jobs, and most shops don't tend to advertise on there :(
I'm at my wits end and seriously depressed, I feel useless ignored and hopeless | | What you need to do is get to your nearest Dept. of Labor and sit down with a counselor and go over your resume. You'd be surprised what you can use from life experience when you have limited employment experience. Today's job market is a catch-22: people like me with over 25 years of experience they say we don't want to pay the salary she will expect so I don't hear back from those.....Shoprite? Walmart? They laugh as they throw my resume/online application in file 13 for being OVERQUALIFIED. Your best best is to contact Dept. of Labor. Some have programs that you can enter for special training in certain fields. And also consider the fields that are pretty stable. For example the Medical Field. Some are willing to pay for your training on the job. But it starts with a top notch resume and cover letter, confidence and wearing proper clothing for interviews. Hope this helps! | How can I find a job that will incorporate the skills that I currently possess? I have PR/Marketing skills in TV and Radio broadcasting. Right now I am working for a think-tank whose aim is to influence government/policy-makers when it comes to the culture of work. I enjoy/ed those jobs but in both I need a good grasp on politics which I find a bit of a struggle. Don't get me wrong, politics is very important and we should all be across it but I find it quite boring!! This tells me I'm probably in the wrong job.
My real interests lie in Arts, Drama, Music, Theatre, Dance (I've written a radio play and I did amateur dramatics when I was younger) or Charity work helping guyren or people living below the poverty line (connected to politics I know). I want a job that is more hands-on rather than in an office but I also want to keep using my PR/Marketing skills. I also enjoy travelling and arranging things like trips and events, I also like using PhooShop to design things like cards, a presentation etc.
Does this all sound schizophrenic, can anyone out there help me? | give it all up
in these times such ambitions lead to misery
work on the land
and be happy | After 2 years of desperately trying to get laid, it's going to happen!...HELP!?!?!? For the past 2 years ive desperately been trying to lose my V-card and tomorrow its going to happen! Now i am definitely not an amateur in sex 'im extremely experience in everything and anything that has to do with sexual satisfaction and have no problem pleasuring the ladies, problem is everyone says its so different! that i may be able to last masturbating and getting a hand job and ******* but nothing will prepare me for sex, so i need your help! so besides masturbating before what are some tips on lasting longer and making her experience better, honestly i don't care if i have the shittiest time ever its all about her. and she is not a virgin | | likc her all over n talk dirty while u fondle her n eventually penetrate. go slowly as teh former person said n just enjoy urself. teh 1st time rarely goes as planned besides sex is meant to b fun not a test. congrats dood i hope to reach ur stage one day lol | Sexual Intercourse question..(please answer)!? So I am 14 years old and my boyfriend is 17. Last weekend we had sex at his house. I am really to keep this question's content PG. Once we were done with the sex, I noticed that I did not "pop my cherry"? I was kind of puzzled by this. Since it was both our first times, I didn't understand I did not bleed. The only other sexual encounter I ever received a "hand job". And yes, the penis did go all the way in. I've heard that it might be because it has already been popped.I cannot think of any way that would happen. If you have an answer directly for this question, I would appreciate it.If your about to slam me and/or call me a skank or something relatively amateur..don't waste your time. Because if/when my parents find out about this..I will have PLENTY of lecturing. Thank You! | all of these other people that have commented are stupid
it may take more than one time for it to pop | Is lebron just a flat out sore loser? That excuse he gave was crap, sound's like a sore loser to me. Im an amateur boxer, ive won 10 fights n lost 2times, i hate to lose, hate it!!! But those two times i willingly shook the guys hand and said good job, why could'nt lebron just be a good sport?He's all about himself, he didnt stay on the floor with his teamates to congragulate the magic, what a sore loser...what do u guys think?? | He is flat out of the playoffs!
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How can you thumbs down my answer? Is there someone out there that is trying to tell me that the Cav's were not eliminated by the Orlando Magic in six games?
I guess I am missing something. | How do I paint my nails properly? How do I paint my nails properly? No matter how hard I try I always seem to do it really blobby or get it everywhere but my nails, particularly when I try to paint my right hand with my left hand.
Any tips for getting a somewhat polished look that is better than my so amateur jobs that I end up removing the polish immediately after I've put it on, because it looks so ghastly. | i believe that painting your nails is a form of relaxtion, and for girls this is a perfect time to unwind from the craze of it all.
you just have to relax, and be at ease, so that when you do paint them you're less likely to make mistakes. gentle long strokes, starting with the centre, then at each end. (3-4 strokes in total) this moves the majority of nail polish in the centre to the edges. i recommend that you dip the brush only once at each nail, this helps to stop the streaks appearing.
also when you do the hand that is difficult to apply, get a friend or sis to do that for you, or else apply the same concept as above, slow and steady...relax! :D
there are times when you have that perfectly painted nail & you accidentally smudge it. use your tounge and lighty try to cover it when the nail polish it still soft..not too wet, but movable!
you also get those mistakes on the sides of your fingers close to the nail. use a cue-tip/earbuds and dip it in nail polish remover and just clean those up!
i also recommend...don't apply nail polish just before bed, you'll hav pillow/cotton marks on your nails in the morning. it takes a while for it to really dry..use water with ice cubes to make it faster.
and another tip (sorry if this is too long) on the first coat, make it thin, the first coat does not have to be perfect. it just creates a colour base. the 2nd coat should be enough. i usually apply the 3rd coat on the next day, when its really dry. applying wet on wet will only wreck the hard work you've done.
ohh for black nails, it looks good better on shorter nails, than longer ones. you should be able to see some skin/ a bit of your finger at the end of your nail. :D | Is this a good beginning to my story? Would you read it? Does it seem amateur? I've been thinking about and writing this novel for two years, and I've already gone through two drafts of the first few chapters. In short, it's about an inherently obediant high school valedictorian who longs to be spontaneous and who goes on a whirlwind trip thoruh Europe with a young man who perfectly fits who she wants to be. But then she must settle back into the life that she has to have because of her personality: college student, wife, mother, unextraordinary, while attempting to maintain nothing more than a friendship with the man of her dreams. Anyway, I've started re-writing and this is what I've come up with:
If the end justifies the means, I will never understand why people go to such lengths for family. If you ask me, families are more trouble than they're worth, and I'm sure Machiavelli would have agreed with me. All expectation, imagination, and pretention. A group of people who continually hurt each other, while still dutifully sending birthday cards and putting up with each other's company. Like estranged friends or divorced couples forced into the same room, who truly have nothing in common but continue with the niceties for tradition's sake, or for the sake of the guyren. But guyren grow up quickly and are more observant than they are given credit for. It does not take long for them to understand that family is nothing more than a charade, no more real than Santa Claus, and they begin to play along like the best of them. A viscious cycle of broken hearts and poker faces through the generations of nostalgic people who hope that if they act well enough, the facade will become real. Far more trouble than it's worth in this short life, yet every fictional character's problem, from Jane Eyre to Harry Potter, seems to be their lack of a family, and their ultimate quest is either to find one or make one. It makes me wonder if this is more wishful thinking on the part of the authors, or if some families are really that desirable.
I suppose the shells of my family look happy enough: two parents with steady jobs who have been married to each other for twenty years, their one almost-grown up daughter who gets straight A's, a pale green house in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Virginia, a family pew at the church we've been attending since I was born, a row of family portraits on the wall showing the three of us in sweaters, our faces and bodies bearing the weight of additional years from frame to frame. Although these seemed to be the prerequisties for a perfectly happy domestic environment, I found my family life incredibly hollow, like a brightly colored plastic egg that a guy eagerly picks up on an Easter egg hunt and opens, expecting a coin or jelly bean, only to find it completely and distrubingly empty.
Families are always made out to be such strong entities, but truly they are quite fragile, like a spider web, easily torn apart by a careless swipe of the hand. The part that my parents could never quite understand is how easily the web of precarious connections could be repaired with the thin, fleeting, strong fiber of natural love. They don't understand that an apology or an affectionate look can completely re-weave the family. If the structure itself is inherently weak, the builders are only made stronger in their determination to keep it intact. Neither of my parents were willing to take on that labor of love, that constant balancing that goes along with being a family, and so we remained a trio of strangers living under the same roof, each attempting to create our own support systems within ourselves, and never truly succeeding. As any student of biology will tell you, a group of organisms living in the same ecosystem can either cooperate or destroy each other. There is no way for living things to have absolutely no relationship with each other, given their proximity. No matter how hard my parents tried to remain distant, we constantly affected each other, and because they were unwilling to support me, I always knew that our only option was destruction. | | no it does not seem amateur, it sounded great!!! u r really good at writing and if this was at barnes and nobles i would buy it in a heart beat. it sounds like a good storyline | I'm going to be a part of the film editing team and I am an amateur, help!? Okay, so I am a college freshman. When I heard about our school's film making team, I decided to join the team's editing crew. I am just getting a bit nervous 'cause when I was interviewed by the club's adviser, I found out that the film editors' job is one of the hardest, since most of the movie's outcome lies on their hands. I don't have much experience in editing films, I just edit some clips and stuff but films? No. I guess I only have a month left for learning and I think that's kind of a short period to be good at video editing because its scope is so broad. Our adviser told me that the head editor will teach me stuff and help me become better but I don't want to be a freeloader in the team, I want to help a lot, I don't want to cause troubles or delays regarding the production and whatsoever. I am also willing to give my 100% effort for this. Could you please help me? What tips can you give? I am using Sony Vegas Pro 9 for editing. | | I'm afraid I can't help on the techie side but remember the whole point of going to college is to learn so ask questions, find out more and research! | Confused about jobs/music/life. Psychologists welcome.? (Sorry if any of this sounds pretentious. I know there are people that have much much worse problems than I will ever have to face)
I'm a Senior in High School and have a 4.6 GPA (Out of 5.0) and 2100 on my SAT (out of 2400). I've been thinking about where I want to go to college for and I'm conflicted. I feel like I would rather work at a job that I like than something that pays crazy money (Like the chinese proverb "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.").
I play piano, guitar, sing and I write songs. I think I had a naive idea in my mind a while ago that if I could make it in music, I could be rich and do something I love at the same time. Therefore, I've put a bunch of time into learning music and getting good at songwriting.
But the thing is, when I look around me, I see 2 types of musicians. On one hand there are musicians that have put in much more time than me, are more dedicated and are much better and the other hand there are a lot of amateur people who are convinced they are going to make it in music but are oblivious to the fact that they suck. I don't want to be a starving artist who ends up poor and bitter constantly saying, "that song should have been on the radio they ripped me off." I know people who have spent their entire lives getting good at music and then are bitter when they are old that they didn't make it. So since there are only so few artists that make tons of money in the world (some with little to no talent) and millions of posers and disappointed virtuosos, I realize that my chances of making it in music are almost 0. Especially since the music industry is completely going down the tubes.
The thing is music has become my life. I do nothing but come home from school and work on music stuff and it has even impacted my social life. But I feel like my perceptions of what a musician does has changed. What I didn't realize is it is a ton of hard work and at the end of it all, your success is based partly on luck.
I have good grades and I feel like whatever job or college I go to, I will set my mind to my major and excel at it but I feel like my whole life I will just be regretting and thinking of what could have been with music. And what makes me depressed about that is I see people all the time who scrounge for recognition in the music industry but never make it and end up having piss poor jobs and dying bitter. Or I see people who work at jobs they hate and the only thing that keeps them going is a naive notion that someday, they will make it and their music will pay for their escape from their horrible life. I don't want to be like that.
I thought of doing music production and have learned how to do Pro Tools and mix and EQ and mic etc but then I realized that a lot of music studios are going bankrupt because no one buys music anymore and because people can just record near-studio quality music in their homes for under $10,000 now with the advent of Logic and Pro Tools LE. This is also an extremely competitive field and it's in an industry that is shrinking rapidly.
I guess what I'm trying to say is I have spent so much time with music with naive hopes about the future and now I have to choose what job I'm going to do for the rest of my life and I'm scared that I'm going to hate my job and be filled with regrets for the rest of my life. I can't see myself doing anything but music because I absolutely love it but realize the impracticality of that idea and the millions of people with the same wide-eyed optimism.
But just the thought of being a consultant to a box company or sitting on a board voting on new budget cuts or sitting in a cubicle all day working on newsletters makes me cringe. I'm thankful that I have good grades because at least I can get a job where I won't have to worry about paying my bills and stuff but I feel like there has to be something more to life. I don't know, I realize I'm ranting but can someone please give me some advice or alternatively, explain to me the meaning of life? (As I brace myself for comments of "ungrateful" and "you need to suck it up and work") | Ok. Here goes. I read your tome and I hear MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC...I appreciate your sensitivity to the small likelihood that you will ever make a gainful living at music making, and yet I still hear MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC.
So, is it possible for you to do both? What might that look like? Could you study something that makes your heart sing? Could you make music that makes you think? Can the two blend in some way in your life? Can it be a Both "I work" AND "I play music?" This is the challenge I toss out to you.
Follow the Chinese proverb, by the way, it's an excellent one.
Finally, consider the story of my uncle. After 10 years in a corporate job, his post traumatic stress disorder from WWII finally caught up with him. In a moment of what his parents called insanity and I called courage, he quit his job, moved to where he always wanted to live, worked in the evenings in a jazz quartet and docked boats by day, while doing a small version of his former corporate job part-time to pay the rent. He just died after 40 years of a life well-lived.
There is something more to life, it's called Loving Life. My wish for you is that you discover this fully. Live your passion. Follow your dream.
Good luck. | Photographer doing a wedding for free, what all should I offer? I am am amateur photographer and am shooting my first wedding this summer.
I am doing it for free (besides the cost of printing) to build up my portfolio.
Should I offer to do bridal photos or engagement pics for her as well?
It would be good for my portfolio, but on the other hand, I do have a day job, lol. I don't know if I want to put that much effort into it.
What do you think?
(Bridal photos are pre-pics of the bride in her gown, usually taken a couple of months before the wedding. It is common in the southeastern U.S. and is sometimes on display at the reception).
And if anyone has any other tips, that would be great. | you could do the wedding for free like you want, but then offer a small price for engagement and bridal photos, that way you arent doing all the work for nothing plus having a day job, if i were that serious about the photography i would be looking for anything and everything to build the portfolio,you want to get out there and get your name in the business
Hope i helped
God Bless |
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