June 18, 2003
travel skills develop – all about information
opportunities avail to us in postmodern world, vast.
division of labour – make one specialised.
the market – the predominant institution of our time – jobs
Arriving in a new country you have nothing, except your skills. At the street level you are nothing. That’s where you begin. Being unemployed is quite a scary.
job hunt:
filtering out all the jobs you don’t have a chance in:
ones you don’t have prev. exp in and require it.
one you can’t get because of visa
generating/locating leads – some more promising than others, but it could always be the unpromising ones that get you a job.
like sales – it’s the market again.
the job market can determine you direction in life, unless you are outside the market – have money, study instead.
if you have no skills, you have to start at the bottom and hope to find a job with training. that’s hard.
immigrant: nothing, no contacts, only have skills. against all others applying.
feelings: insecurity, helplessness, frustration
the market, experiencing it in a pratical sense. its the market i’m up against. information important.
to get job:
contacts
specialist skills
confidence & lying:
unconfident lie to avoid retribution
confident in abilities lie about experience
dub like a euro city – old, no sky, canal
call centre – impersonal, deal with my people, pace important, “mature”
25 euro – the market & market leads
