JOB HUNTING IN 2026

I don't know if I'll post this but I thought I'd share my thoughts on job hunting in 2026.

Where to start? well job hunting in 2026 is poop! I've had jobs in the past which were unfortunately all temporary roles and my last paid job was 2024 which was a 2 week paid work experience thing. I've been trying to get a paid job for a LONG time now and it's been very frustrating, disheartening, tedious and I have no clue what to do anymore. Trying to find a job is a viscous circle because you need experience but can't get any experience so how the hell are we meant to find a job? all these companies who advertise this are stupid! I can work I just need a chance that's all I want a chance to get a paid job. I wish I could come off UC even though I need money but I hate being on it, it's been too long now.

I've taken a break from my weekly job club and my other employment help because it's all too much and overwhelming now I really have had enough. I know I am not alone in this so if you're reading this and can relate then I know what you're going through. We're in 2026 and the UK unemployment rate is so high it's ridiculous! it shouldn't be this way at all but it is and it isn't fair to people like me and you who want to work! if you're from somewhere else what's the unemployment rate where you are? 

I have been going to the place of doom aka the jobcentre for so long now it's disheartening because I wish I'd never signed on even though I need money it's caused nothing but problem after problem. They never helped me, I was always picked on and it was just awful. I've had a lot of work coaches some nicer than others but really I'd rather see no one and not have to go at all.

I am keeping busy with various things but sometimes even they get tedious but at least I am doing something and still trying my absolute best! even if there's times I want to give up because I feel like I'm not getting anywhere. I didn't think it would be this difficult to get a job but it is and in all honestly I don't think it'll get better which isn't what anyone wants to hear but here we are.

                                                      I think that's it for this post.

                                                      Thank you for reading.

 

2025 ROUND UP

Today's post is a little 2025 round up.

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WHAT I'VE LEARNT WHILE JOB HUNTING

Today's post is 10 things I've job hunting over the years yes it's been a LONG time!

1.You won't always get replies from employers.

2.Job interviews are difficult and they ask pointless questions.

3.You get used to rejections.

4.You will get sick of hearing something will come along soon.

5.No one listens!

6.You will see the same jobs advertised even after you've applied millions of times.

7.When jobs say you need experience but you can't get any because no one will employ you.

8. Everyone has different ways of doing CVS.

9. You get fed up with hearing other people get jobs so easily.

10. You very rarely get any feedback from interviews so you have no way of knowing how to improve.

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CHARITY SHOP HAUL

It's been a while since I've posted a charity shop haul so I thought I'd share a few recent finds. It's always worth looking in charity shops you never know what you might find.

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FOCUS ON THE GOOD

It's sometimes hard to focus on the good when I feel like a failure because I can't get a job which I know isn't my fault. So I decided to write this post to focus on the good things.

I recently found Priscilla Block on YouTube (a singer)

Wearing colourful outfits always lifts my mood and I feel good

Going in the charity shops for bargains

Making scrapbooks

Re watching my favourite tv series- there's too many to list!

Reading true crime and space books

Wearing makeup

Organising my space/decluttering

Going out with my family

Solo shopping/lunch

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JOB HUNTING IN 2025

It's been a while since I've written a blog post so I thought I'd write one about job hunting in 2025 and how things are going. I don't really read blogs anymore so I don't expect this to get many views even if it gets a couple that will be okay. One thing I'll say is it's 2025 and I can't even get a job, you'd think things would've changed by now but no.

My last paid job was 2024 which was only 4 weeks and there was no job after it which was very annoying! but now that shop has closed and is becoming another supermarket but I still didn't get a job there either. Job hunting is hard, disheartening, frustrating and tedious I apply for what I can, which is most of the time the same jobs/companies because they still advertise even after I've applied so I go round in circles. I do sometimes apply for other jobs but I know I won't be considered because I have no experience but I don't know what else to apply for. Some people have pointed out that I probably haven't got a job because I haven't had a permanent one which isn't even my fault when all I've had are either Xmas jobs or one that was only 4 weeks. That's such a stupid reason not to employ me.

I don't understand why I haven't got a job, I have all the skills, I'm capable and I want to work! I have a learning disability which shouldn't be a issue but sometimes it feels like it is. I've tried so hard over the years if I hadn't of had the job in 2024 my last paid job was 2017! yes that long ago it's ridiculous. I  really do try my best so there's not much else I can do other than keep plodding on and hope something comes along soon.

At times it gets me down but I try to be positive and keep busy with things such as my volunteering and my other group I attend. I don't know what more I can do? it's 2025 and I can't even a job which is ridiculous! I don't get how people can just get a job just like that. When I was on jobseekers I always got picked on for everything, they didn't help me, they don't help people with disabilities and I had awful work coaches it was horrible and I hate that I STILL have to go to the jobcentre or as I call it the place of doom. I first went when I left school or college one of them and I am still going there now and I absolutely hate it.

People keep saying something will come along and that gets annoying! (sorry if you're one of them!) I get what you mean but after a while it gets tedious. The job market right now is pants! it's changed so much over the years most retail places are closed or are closing or they have self checkouts so don't need as many people. I've been on many courses which at the time it was something to do! and I did learn more skills and knowledge but they haven't got me job. Over the years with the previous help I've had they never really knew what to do or suggest so the appointments were always the same.

Anyway that's all for now

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MY TOP TRUE CRIME DOCUMEMTRIES ON NETFLIX

I last posted one of these in 2019 and I thought I'd make a new one since there's so much more true crime on Netflix now. I can't put them all here but I will put the ones that are most interesting. I can't narrow it down to just 10!

Conversations with a killer: The Jeffery Dahmer tapes

Dahmer monster: The Jeffery Dahmer story

Exposed the ghost train fire

Crime scene: The vanishing at the hotel Cecil

American murder: Gabby Petito

Jailbreak love on the run

Sins of our mother

Worst roomate ever

American murder the family next door

American nightmare

Worst ex ever

What Jennifer did

Crime scene: The Times Square killer

I am a killer

Catching killers

Bad surgeon love under the knife

The most hated man on the internet

Confessions with a killer: The son of Sam tapes

Murder on the internet

Amy Bradley is missing

Cold case the Tylenol murders

Fred and Rose west a British horror story

A deadly American marriage

Poisonous Liaisons

Conversations with a killer the John Wayne Gacy tapes

The Ripper

Waco American Apocalypse

Missing dead or alive

Unsolved mysteries

Crime scene The Texas killing fields

Homicide Los Angeles

Memories of a murderer the Nilsen tapes

Confession tapes

Killer Sally

I just killed my dad

Unknown number the high school catfish 

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