u/loonymoony3

Hi all. I’ve been applying for part time jobs just to hold me over until I land a full time role after graduating last summer and have found myself in a situation I’m not sure how to best navigate. Last week I went in a store to enquire about an advertised job. The manager asked me if I was fully flexible with availability as that’s all they were looking for in order to have holiday cover etc and I said yes. He then also said it’s a weekend role, but I’m not sure if it’s just weekends or weekdays too. I sent my cv and have been offered an interview.
The problem is that in between sending my cv and being offered an interview I started at a different job. I didn’t mention this role on my cv or when the manager asked as I hadn’t officially started yet, maybe I should’ve but people advised me not to mention it. I’m now wondering if I should mention it in this interview as I imagine it’s likely that the topics of availability and start date will come up. I would be willing to quit the role I’ve just started in order to secure this position as it would be great experience to add to my cv for my desired future career and so to be honest, I really need this job. The notice period for my current position is only a week. How should I navigate this during my interview? If it’s best to mention the fact that I’ve already secured a job, how would I go about this? I know it seems like the obvious answer is not to mention it but if there were to be any scheduling clashes or if they ran any background checks it would just put me in a worse position, so I’m not really sure what the best option is here. I would really hate for this situation to cost me a job that is so ideal for me.

I lose hours of productive time everyday because I just can’t wake up for the life of me, waking up in the morning literally feels like waking up from sedation. I’ve tried all the different hacks. Alarm across the room isn’t close enough to actually wake me up and when they eventually do I’m just irritated and go back to bed, sunlight alarm clocks don’t help, apps that use my sleep cycle to wake me do nothing, the alarmy app doesn’t help. I literally just can’t wake up. My alarm is set for 8 and I’m always trying to sleep before 11 so lack of sleep really shouldn’t be the issue. But I feel exhausted in the mornings and usually throughout the day too. I take medication in the evening that can make you sleepy but I don’t think this is the issue as I’ve struggled with waking up for as long as I can remember. If anyone has fixed this issue in their life pls tell me your secret lol.

Hi all. I’ve been applying for part time jobs just to hold me over until I land a full time role after graduating last summer and have found myself in a situation I’m not sure how to best navigate. Last week I went in a store to enquire about an advertised job. The manager asked me if I was fully flexible with availability as that’s all they were looking for in order to have holiday cover etc and I said yes. He then also said it’s a weekend role, but I’m not sure if it’s just weekends or weekdays too. I sent my cv and have been offered an interview.
The problem is that in between sending my cv and being offered an interview I started at a different job. I didn’t mention this role on my cv or when the manager asked as I hadn’t officially started yet, maybe I should’ve but people advised me not to mention it. I’m now wondering if I should mention it in this interview. It would be great if I could keep both jobs but I would be willing to quit the role I’ve just started in order to secure this position as it would be great experience to add to my cv for my desired future career. How should I navigate this during my interview? If it’s best to mention the fact that I’ve already secured a job, how would I go about this?

Hi all. I’ve been applying for part time jobs just to hold me over until I land a full time role after graduating last summer and have found myself in a situation I’m not sure how to best navigate. Last week I went in a store to enquire about an advertised job. The manager asked me if I was fully flexible with availability as that’s all they were looking for in order to have holiday cover etc and I said yes. He then also said it’s a weekend role, but I’m not sure if it’s just weekends or weekdays too. I sent my cv and have been offered an interview.
The problem is that in between sending my cv and being offered an interview I started at a different job. I didn’t mention this role on my cv or when the manager asked as I hadn’t officially started yet, maybe I should’ve but people advised me not to mention it. I’m now wondering if I should mention it in this interview. It would be great if I could keep both jobs but I would be willing to quit the role I’ve just started in order to secure this position as it would be great experience to add to my cv for my desired future career. How should I navigate this during my interview? If it’s best to mention the fact that I’ve already secured a job, how would I go about this?

Last year I graduated with a bachelors in English lit and have struggled to find employment ever since. I decided at the very end of my degree that I want to work in publishing, but I’ve been having a rough time recently and I’m really not sure what I want or what I’m capable of anymore. I have nearly three years of combined experience in retail from both before and during uni and I’ve finally landed a new retail role since moving home from uni, which I start tomorrow. It’s only a couple evenings a week purely for the sake of earning at least some money because I’ve not been able to get any other job.

Today a series of I guess unfortunate events has left me feeling pretty lost. Firstly, I enquired in store about a bookstore role going near me, as this will give me a bit of a one up when applying for publishing roles, which I’ve had no luck with so far. The manager gave me the information about the job and the email to send my application to, but he said that it’s an exclusively weekend role. I live for spending time with my family and friends and going on day trips to see long distance friends, and as my family and friends all work 9-5s, the only time to do this is the weekend. The thought of completely sacrificing this makes me miserable. And I hate the thought of not being able to see my friends and them feeling sorry for me because I’m stuck in retail whilst they all have 9-5 regular jobs. I’m really not sure if it’s something that I’m willing to do, or whether to apply for it or not. But the fact that I don’t know if I’m willing to has me questioning if I actually really want to work in publishing or not. If this job would take me one step closer to a job in publishing, surely I should be jumping at the opportunity. Part of me worries I’ve just panicked and picked the thing that makes the most sense based on my degree, and that will allow me to move to London where I went for university and really loved.

I’m also worried that I’m just not made for ‘adult’ jobs. Maybe it’s part imposter syndrome and a lack of confidence in myself, but I just can’t picture myself successfully completing work tasks that have any sort of pressure attached to them. I currently volunteer behind the scenes at a museum. It’s a role where I’m kind of just left to fend for myself and I spend the whole time worrying that I’m making mistakes. Today it turned out that I had been making a mistake and I had to fix part of a few weeks worth of work. The person in charge told me that they should’ve explained things better, but I know that my common sense should’ve kicked in and made me question the way I was doing the task. It’s completely knocked the small amount of confidence and trust I have in myself. I just can’t picture myself successfully holding down an ‘adult’ job and doing things right.

I’ve never really been one to have a dream job. I absolutely adored my degree and if money was no object I would go back to university and do an English lit masters and maybe a phd. I honestly decided to go to uni for English lit in a moment of panic after working retail with no end goal in mind after finishing school, but it was the best decision I ever made. I just love learning and am so passionate about literature. I just love stories that have real meaning and something to say - books, film, tv, anything. I really wish there were more viable jobs where I could continue to pursue this passion. But unfortunately this isn’t viable and I can’t afford it. I thought I knew what career I wanted to go for (publishing) but now I’m not so sure. And at this point, I’m not sure if I can see myself working in an ‘adult’ job with any sort of pressure at all. I guess I’m just looking for some guidance partially to help sort my headspace out and to figure out where to go from here.

I had to make a phone call to my new manager this afternoon and I’ve had the nervous system of someone being chased by a lion for the past day leading up to it 😭 I’m 24 now and have absolutely dreaded having to make phone calls since I started booking my own appointments and working as a teenager, I thought I’d be over it by now but apparently not! They make me so anxious that I’ll even write a script of what I need to say but still inevitably end up stumbling over my words and messing it up haha. Last week I even ended up accidentally messing up my phone number by one digit to someone over the phone because I was so nervous. I’ve worked in retail for years and I thought that answering the store phone would help me get over this but I just dread those calls too. Please tell me I’m not alone in this lol.