We're getting a new Hobby Lobby soon. I would like a job. Not a career...just something I can do during the day and make enough money to help pay for stash enhancement and such. I picked up an application yesterday. And now, I feel really stupid because I have no idea how to fill this out.
Employment history...four blank sections. For four jobs.
Um. I haven't had a paying job since I was pregnant with Alex...17.5 years ago. I worked for Amana Refrigeration. I don't have an address, the branch I worked at is no longer there. I don't remember my supervisor's last name and it probably doesn't it matter because she hasn't worked there in 15 years (when they closed the branch). A few years before that, I was very briefly a waitress in a restaurant/pie shop that is also no longer there. I worked at a Best Products when I got married the first time (1981). I don't think they're around anymore either. There is no area on this form to explain why (not that they necessarily need to know I have been raising seven children) I have no paying work history. There's no where on it to mention my two years of volunteering with Head Start. No place for charity work.
There's a space to list professional registrations/licenses. Does my driver's license count?
There's another for special qualifications/skills. Hmmm. I knit and crochet and I've taught people to knit and crochet. I'm excellent with computers. Well, with posting on message boards, stalking knitter's blogs and playing online games. Oh, and searching out patterns, yarn and needles.
At least I can type now. Back when I applied for that job at Amana, I was supposed to take a typing test. I couldn't really type beyond hunt and peck. Fortunately for me, the testing typewriter was broken. My interviewer was so impressed when I fixed the typewriter, she neglected to have me take the test before offering me the job.
Back to the Hobby Lobby application...
A space for "Job-related activities (memberships) that may prove beneficial to your work." Um. Knit and crochet? Member of message boards and email lists where we discuss knitting and crocheting?
*rofl*
*sob*
I don't wanna apply for jobs...I WANT MY MOMMY!!
*whimper*
An adult bookstore is hiring all shifts. How much business...and creepy people...could they get between the hours of 9-5? You think they'd let me knit?
5 comments:
Put any voluntary work into the "work" sections, that's what I did when applying for jobs after being unemloyed for a number of years. It worked eventually.
Also put the "work" that you've done raising kids (homemaker or domestic manager or something) and list what you have had to do; childcare, budgeting, nutrition etc. They must be asking for the skills and abilities you've used not JUST the job titles. Even I know that being a full time mum is more than a full time job and requires many different skills.
Have faith in what you do and you'll transmit it to potential employers.
Good luck!
Hobby Lobby is one of the better places, I would think, for listing being a stay-at-home mom and volunteering. They are an overtly Christian company (if a corporate entity can be), so they should cut you some slack (since you're doing what they promote).
Just fill it all out and go for it! The worst they can say is no, but I doubt they would. They will need actual crafters if they want this store to be a success, and you're super great on that. :-D
Good luck on the job hunt -- I know it can be very stressful...
This is your International Scarf Exchange III pal... I hope you have received my e-mails and know that your scarf is well under-way!
Darned if you do, darned if you don't is what I say. You're either a SAHM until your kids leave/are older and you'll find a harder time getting back into/into the work force. But then you have the working moms, who don't get to see baby's first steps because they've got to work. Sigh. I wish there was a happy medium.
But! DO include your knitting/crocheting experience! My mom (a SAHM of 6) when we were old enough to take care of ourselves (she hadn't worked in nearly 17 years either) got herself a job at a fabric-chain store based on her quilting experience.
Good luck!
That's about what my work history looks like too, only make it 5 1/2 years instead of 17. I'm so dreading looking for a job.
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