pibbleb said:
This is only a bit of a moan about not getting a job and I just wanted to get it off my chest.
having worked in an office for 9 years as a training supervisor and spending 8 years wishing I had a job outside I finally applied for a job with a local authority which would have been ideal.
Basically it was to work with a Park Ranger part of the week, but also provide office support and apply some system development experience.
I had an interview 3 weeks ago which seemed to go really well, at last I could smell the fresh air and freedom. Anyway I was told I would hear in a few days.
Well three weeks on I finally got the rejection letter, reading between the lines they'd obviously job offered someone else and were waiting to cut me loose once they had received the references or the other bod had signed the contract.
I'm well gutted and really dreading another day at the office. Anyway tomorrows another day. Cheers for the space to rant. Hope it makes sense.
P
Hi mate,
I was working as an artist drawing cartoon movies for several years, after that I spent 6 years as computer animation director. Getting enough with the industry I moved with my wife up to the north of sweden. I dont have an regular education and as none needs a artist in a mining comunity, I was unemployed for quite a while. That in itself was a challange for the mind, first being well payed, holding a position with authority and now nothing, standing naked in the wind.
If you are unemployed for a while you get a job from the goverment, and so I am working in a nature protection program building playgrounds for trout and salmons. We are 10 hours everyday in the woods far away from any town or city working in the rivers, streams and woods. I have no education but learn a hell of a lot every day about fish, rivers, river crossing, river speed etc.
Why do I tell you all that stuff about myself. There is always a door if you dare to go. The first days I was a bit deppressed as I got the feeling being a looser who is doing heavy work in a working camp in siberia. We are moving big stones together rebuilding the rivers as they where 100 years ago. Everything is done by hands no maschines. It sits mainly in the mind. I often wonder when people tell that they want to live a bushcraft life but they never dare to step out. If you dont have a family why dont you simply quit, take your money move to a place where they are open that you help them and live with them. Maybe they dont pay you but you get food. The trouble will not be that you could live a bushcraft life the trouble is your mind.
I met a guy two weeks ago who is living with very very little money, he was living in the woods for one year, eating roadkills, sometimes he was dumpster diving, he is not using trains but hitchhiking etc etc. As he wanted that forest life so badly, not working for someone he paid the prise and got it. I could not do it but he did.
If you dont get a open door in your country, through a paid system, school etc etc open your mind for other solutions. There is for sure a way but the question is if you are willing to pay the price.
good luck
Abbe