Ex moved out 18 months ago and we're now divorced, I've been a SAHM the last 10 years with him as breadwinner and suddenly I need to find a job. Had income support to start with but when ds2 turned 6 last summer they put me on job-seekers and been looking for work ever since.
I've been looking for a year now, at the same time as completing a part-time MSc. The degree is in occupational psychology which I wanted to go into but you have to do a traineeship for 2 years to get chartered and these opportunities have dried up with the recession, I've joined LinkedIn and contacted all professionals in this field in my area to ask for voluntary work experience but work has dried up so much that no-one has anything. I used to do admin in universities and hated it but have been applying for admin jobs of various types over the last year and was not getting any interviews. Job centre told me to take my MSc off my CV and dumb myself down a bit, did this and pretended to be a dumb housewife just wanting a little job rather than coming across so ambitious and started to get a few interviews but didn't get any offers and to be honest didn't really want those types of jobs anyway. I seem to be either over-qualified for the admin jobs or too lacking in experience for the higher level jobs and can't do graduate training schemes as virtually all I have looked at want you to be able to relocate around the UK whilst in training and I'm a single parent so that is out of the question. Is anyone else in same boat and can anyone make any suggestions?
Wishing I was the enterpreneurial type able to set up my own business but wouldn't have a clue where to start and can't get any loans credit or capital due to my unemployed status.
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Help, single parent, trying to get back into work, can't find a job!
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anonymous180613 · 18/08/2013 21:24
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