此時此地此刻... 活在當下 Live for the moment: 求職者的心聲

從得知自己'可以'開始在英國做工, 到今天已有一個半月了。對於一個已有三年沒有全職工作的人來說, 要重投工作真的不容易! 至少心態上來說, 三年前的我和現在的我是有很大分別 - 現在我只想盡快找到一份工, 賺點錢去支持自己基本生活所需; 加上也許年紀開始大(我這樣說必被長輩'打'我! :P), 我追求生活質素多於要賺很多錢 - 至少工作以外, 我仍然可以做自己喜歡的事情。

應該從何開始? 上網看了些職位空缺(主要是社區和大學工作), 總覺得自己沒有足夠條件勝任; 當我找到自己認為可以勝任的工作, 遞上求職申請表, 幸運地獲得面試機會後, 又沒有獲得聘用。如果計算之前十二月中面試的那份Sheffield大學工, 我已進行過三次面試了; 結果都是失敗。我想, 失敗的其中一個原因是自己在面試時太過緊張, 說話詞不達意。:( 正如很多人說, 求職是一個可以蠶食人意志和自信心的過程。我想, 現時的我就是缺乏了自信心...

另一個我在找工時面對的問題是, 不知自己想做什麼工作。之前讀了兩年多的會計? hmm... 還是我'老本行' - 學術研究? 但我的專業只限在廣東話和英文, 而且我畢業後所做的工作和讀書時的無關... 翻譯? 我不知從何入手...

要自己給自己打打氣...!!

It's been one and half a months since I got to know that I am eligible for working here. It's not easy for a person who hasn't worked full time for three years to go back to working. At least in terms of thinking, I have become much more different than when it was three years ago. Nowadays all I want is to find a job to support my basic living; also perhaps because I'm getting older (those who are older than me may want to beat me up for saying this! haha! :P), I would pay more attention to the qualify of my life than earning a lot of money; I want to be able to do whatever I want to do, besides working.

Where should I start? I have had a look at some of the vacancies online (mainly community and university jobs) but I don't think I'm capable of doing those jobs. When I did find what I thought I could handle, I submitted application forms and if lucky, got a job interview, I still can't get the job. Including the job that I applied for last December, I have already done three job interviews. None of them was successful. I think, one of the reasons for my failure was I was too nervous during the interview, so much so that I couldn't express myself clearly. Like many people said, job seeking is a process that can defeat one's will and self-confidence. I think I'm lack of self confidence now..

Another difficulty that I'm facing when looking for jobs is, I don't know what kind of jobs I want to do. Accounting, which I have studied for the past two years? Hmm... Or my expertise - academic research? But my expertise is only limited to Cantonese and English; also the jobs that I have done after graduation have nothing to do with what I studied. Translation/interpreting? I don't know where to start...

I need to add oil to myself!!