My first job seekers group session.

On Thursday I had my firstvjob seekers  group session at the job centre.

I was sent to a group session because I'm between the ages of 18 and 25, youth unemployment is a fairly big problem in the UK and it's sad because when you reach 16 you get given the monumental task of deciding what you want to do with yourself, then when you finally finish school/college/university your dream job isn't that easy to get into.

I'm also one of those people who is struggling to find non-dream-job work, I blame my inability to overcome my awkwardness and get through an interview successfully.

I'm now on the Princes Trust Program, which I highly recommend doing, before I started the course I was spending all my time on the
internet scrolling through tumblr or whatever.

I was doing nothing productive all day, every day and it was getting me down.
There is only so much tumblr you can see/read in one day without seeing/reading something you've already read/seen.

I went to the job centre and I was shown to a room I didn't even know exsited which was filled with another 10+ 18 to 25 year olds, everyone looked so awkward and miserable.

In away the group session was like some kind of bittersweet reminder, it reminds you how miserable and broke you are but it also reminds you that you aren't alone, which I guess is nice to remember.

We where then sent up stairs and sent to another room I've never  been in, I knew this room exsited because I had to go and talk to a woman upstairs before but I had never been inside this new room.

It was a lot bigger than I thought it would be, I think the job centre must have a smaller down stairs and a bigger up stairs because walking through that door was like walking through the door to the tardis.

We we're given a lecture by a woman about employment tips, honestly pretty much everything she covered I was told at college.

She told us about how employers sometimes check you out on Facebook so make sure they can't find anything incriminating.

She also told us to get a "professional email", you know those stupid email addresses you create when you where 12, yeah don't use that email address when you apply for jobs. (Or for anything you want to be taken seriously.)

I knew all this but then again if it weren't for college I would probably still be using that stupid email address I made when I was 12.

Thinking about things I already knew I should be doing when applying for work made me wonder if any of this advice was news to anyone.

There isn't anything wrong with not having heard this advice of course because if I wasn't for my college tutor I wouldn't have had the common sense to work it out myself.

I then wondered why everyone has here, did some these people go to college and/or sixth form.
Maybe some of these people went to uni and now they can't get work.

Or maybe some of them had a full time job they enjoyed doing but then they were made redundant or something.

I would love to find out everyone's stories.(Simply because I'm a really nosy person.) Maybe I will get to know these people, that could be nice.

I would love to know what kind of jobs they are looking for.(Again because I'm nosy.)

I would love to work in journalism or as a researcher in television or film, I just love finding things out, coming up with ideas and working out solutions.
I also enjoy films, tv, music and writing blogs, I would love to be able to make a living out of the things I love.

I'm going to keep trying to achieve my dreams but what I do in the mean time is anyone's guess, fingers crossed right?

I think I'm going to be visiting the job centre for a little while longer.