I have always had the philosophy that it is worth having a back up plan. Things are sometimes subject to failure, they dont go the way you planned, something unexpected occurs, someone or something lets you down or you simply misjudge the situation.
For Job hunting my plan B was to seek out agency work, temporary office experience. As has been previously explained this failed as agencies are also now playing it safe and unwilling to hire someone who hasnt made tea or photocopied a sheet of paper in an office before, even if they have an excellent understanding of how to make a cup of tea and photocopy a sheet, in fact having done so before but just not in the hallowed office.
Okay maybe I overstretched that a little.
The point is having a back up, but sometimes you dont expect to need a back up to the back up to the point where you basically have back ups reoccuring.
Last week I requested suggestions and a friend suggested looking into volunteering in an office environment. Thus meaning I can say I have made the cup of tea and photocopied a sheet. Not to mention volunteering always looks good and perhaps, just perhaps I could make a difference. Another friend then provided me with links.
Today after a standard job search warranted not one opportunity I followed those links, signed up to one of the main sites and have now applied for two seperate volunteering opportunities.
Always have a plan B, but if that fails formulate a plan C and so on. There are after all 26 letters of the alphabet.
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