Applying for a job

OK, so I’m 57 years old.  Not the youngest spring chicken anymore.  But what I do have is experience of life.  Over the years I’ve worked in many different walks of life.  For the last 20 years I have worked in the tourism trade.  And it is a job in the tourism trade that I am applying for now.

 

The job that I am applying for is a ‘seasonal part time’ job.  I’m not looking for a career.  I just want a job that I can do, and when my shift is over, go home and forget about it.  The job I am applying for……………  I could probably do with my eyes shut.  I have 20 years experience of dealing with irate tourists and 20 years of experience of sorting out problems relating to holiday makers problems and 20 years of experience of being nice to people even when I really feel like just slapping them!!

 

A very prominent person in town actually advised me to apply for this job.  So today off I went and had an informal chat with the manager to see what hours I’d be required to work.  To be honest the hours were longer than what I would want I’m lazy I don’t really want to work more than 4-5 hours a day, but the job sounds really interesting and I’d get to meet loads of people.

 

Sooooo…………….  I asked what I would have to do to apply…………..  And was handed an application form……………….

 

………….And here starts my RANT!!!!

 

On the application form it doesn’t ask if I’m married or single…………. But I have to put my ‘title’.

 

On the application form, it doesn’t ask my age……………. But I have to list my education from age 11.

 

Oh and then……………. I’ve got to list any ‘training’ that I’ve had……………. But there’s only three boxes for that.  I’m not actually sure what they mean by ‘training’ anyway???  Since I left school in 1977 I’ve done zillions of courses.  I think I might just leave that bit blank???  Even though I feel like just writing – ‘Not enough boxes.’

 

But the hardest part of all………….. is the 2 boxes on the back page………

 

One says………… ‘Please explain how you meet the requirements in the job description and person specification’.  And the other says………………. ‘Please give your reasons for applying for this post.’

 

Really?????????????????????????????????

 

So my answers for applying for the post will go something like this:

1.  It’s part-time
2. It’s temporary
3. It’s a 5 min walk from home
4. It pays more than the minimum wage
5. I get to chat to lots of people
    
   OK I probably won’t write that.  I will have to message my very techy nephews so they can devise me a very techy answer to that question.  This world has gone crazy.  I was asked to apply for this job, I know the manager and he knows my background.  And yet I still have to fill out a ridiculous application form which in no way describes what I have done in my life……………….  It’s soooo, soooooo annoying.
   I’m 57.  I have experience of life.  I know how to deal with irate holiday makers.  I know how to pacify people, I know a lot of things……………
   …………..What I don’t know; is how to fill out a job application form to make me look even more fabulous than I am.
    
   BUT, actually do you know what?………….. the manager of where I want to work, isn’t even 30 years old yet, and if he can’t recognise that I’d be an asset to his workforce, then he obviously doesn’t have the insight to see what amazing talents I have. Lol!!
    
   #lifeisnotallabouttechnology