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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeysie" data-source="post: 4049316" data-attributes="member: 51817">Oh, yeah. Everything you just said sounds a lot like the sort of things I've gone through, even if the details are different.I never went to college myself, so I've been even more screwed. I spent the first several years of my work experience as a cashier in retail, not because I'm remotely suited for the work, but because it's the only work that would hire people with little to no really good experience. And it sounds like you haven't even been able to find that. :/I finally broke into office work and now have a few years of it under my belt, but it's all been part time work until recently, which doesn't pay well, plus I kept getting laid off. I finally landed a full time office assistant job at my most recent job, but in January I found myself laid off again. Sigh.I totally understand about the resumes and temp agencies, too, since I've had similar problems. The few places I apply to that respond always claim I don't have the right skills/experience, even though I know I've done almost everything there is to do in an office, including all the things they listed in their ad. Meanwhile, there are a lot of office jobs that require a college degree for some dumb reason (I'm sorry, but I know there is nothing about being an office assistant that requires a college degree!), or they require QuickBooks which equally leaves me out. I find myself wishing I had the money to go get an accounting degree (but then, if I had that kind of money, I wouldn't need a new job!)As for the temp agencies, I always score 100% on their little test thingys, and they always claim to be impressed with my skills and years in office stuff, yet they never have anything for me except the occasional really short term assignment or grunt job. (I once spent a week doing nothing but feeding a giant stack of papers into a shredder for a company. Yeah, it paid fine for what I did and I needed the money, but come on. I have all this experience with Word, Excel, filing, proofreading, answering phones, playing IT geek, etc., and the best they can give me is Human Paper Feed? Sigh.)So yeah, I definitely feel where you're coming from... it's just ridiculous... especially considering the number of morons out there who *do* manage to land jobs. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /> I wish I had some answers... I don't even have a year to look. My unemployment runs out in 6 months, so if I don't either find something or get lucky and have business pick up again enough at my recent job for them to hire me back, I'm toast.And the only reason I got that recent job to begin with is because I'm best friends with a guy who works there already. I guess that's what it boils down to... it seriously is all in who you know. Unfortunately my one ticket there has already been used up.</blockquote>

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