Unemployed

If you're at college, then surely you're not unemployed? I mean I'm at Uni... I don't have a job... and I only have classes 3 days a week. As I spend a great deal of time doing precisely "balls all" it could be argued that I am unemployed. But no! I am a student. such a glorious word.

what is the best way to go about looking for a job?

well im constantly getting put down for it! My mum said she was going to start going out on her bike again for exersise and I said jokingly 'like last year' as she never went and then everyone started saying about how I do what I want to when I like to. Its as though they are jelous but then they wouldn't want to be me so..

I did get one a few months ago but on my first day I thought I was having a heart attack so didn't go and lost the job

My dad sometimes has a go at me about getting a part-time job, but as I don't live at home it's not much of a problem. And he doesn't go on about it, because he knows I'll just get pissed off (nothing in this world annoys me like being told what to do, in any form). I also know what you mean about the "jealousy" thing - for example a friend of mine who dropped out of Uni last summer and now works full time is constantly going on about how easy I have it as a student, and how I'm a lazy git for not working every spare hour I have, and he moans constantly about never getting any time off - but then insists he'd never want to be a student again. To be honest I know for a fact he wishes he could still be a lazy student and have every weekend off, he's even practically admitted it with a few drinks in him. Basically what I say is - you're going to spend your whole LIFE working once you finish being a student, so there's no shame in avoiding it and as long as you can... so long as you have a place to live and the means to feed yourself and a bit left over for having a damn good time.

Was there some medical explanation for that? Or... perhaps you had a panic attack?

True, I feel better now thanks, though my family always mention that at my age they were working in factories etc (making it sound as bad as possible) yet they think its only fair that I work like they did.. why do they want me to have it as bad as them? They can't lol so it must be jelousy. I do still live at my parents though.

and toy solider, my parents go on about me having a job all the time too, and i dont 'get' it either. I have a job in my uni holidays, and dont particularly need the money during term time..so i fail to see why i need to be working every single day of a year (what they seem to want me to do!)

It's an odd mentality that some people seem to have, that paid work = self worth. It's like the strange respect that comes along with phrases like "he worked hard every day of his life" in referrence to old / dead people. My general response is "he's still pretty much dead though, isn't he?". A non-vocal response obviously.

if you want a job just hand out your cv lie a bit there and there every one does it now days