Self Sabotage threatens my job prospects

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I recently signed onto an employment agency and got an interview with a company dealing with loans, but before this, I got a job offer which I accepted. Now, the guide was going to cancel the interview at Blemain group (the loan company) but I insisted that I go on the interview.

Flash forward to this day;

I don’t go to the interview, I get a phonecall, give some shitty excuse, and now they’ve taken my details out of their database, so I’m worrying that I won’t even get either job because I self sabotaged it.

why why why why why did I do this!!

2

Two things:
1 - If you already have an accepted job offer, why did you care about the other interview?

2 - Why the HELL did you say you’d go and not go? Sorry, that is beyond idiotic.

3

Well for #1, maybe he wants to see if the job and pay would be better then the offer he previously accepted… I don’t know about #2.

4

Bingo.

Is it true that admin jobs and clerical work are the bottom of the career ladder?

Can anyone help me in tips of pursuing a career, such as what jobs to avoid, what jobs are most likely good for promotion, and just random things people have encountered in their jobs which I should avoid.

5

Okay, and I can understand that one (don’t know why I didn’t think of that reason myself, sheesh). But what about #2?

And I wouldn’t mind those tips either, heh heh.

6

The best job tip ever ever ever is do something that you enjoy doing. Everything else pales in comparison. If you are unhappy at work, you are wasting 1/3 of your life. Another 1/3 is spent sleeping.

7

I misread that as: “they’ve taken my entrails out of their database.”

I take the job search process very, very seriously indeed. Gravely seriously. :rolleyes:

8

Depending on what aspect of the loan business that company deals with you might have well made the right decision. Now is not exactly considered a good time to be the lowest man on the totem pole if you’re talking home loans.

9

Yes.

The best tip is to realize now that no matter how smart or capabable you think you are (or actually may be), barring supreme providence or a well-funded sponsor you will have to start somewhere and pay your dues like the rest of us. Nothing will be handed to you, and no one cares what you think you are entitled to. Get used to it. You will have to do work you don’t like, you will have to work for low wages, you will have to do work that is pointless and stupid. But hopefully along the way you will pick up skills and talents and information that will help you move up. It’s not all about being smart, or knowing how to do the job. It’s that, plus knowing the right people, plus being in the right place at the right time, plus, luck.

10

I disagree. I think you should spend your life trying to effect a difference in something greater than yourself. Finding a job that is both enjoyable and meaningful is the best tip for a fulfilling life. If you’ve done nothing but made money and had fun, what have you contributed to the world?

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So what you’re saying is that you have to waste 1/3 of at least a few years of your life.

12

Hmm. Looks like we’ve seen a quote come true today.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
–Woody Allen

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'scuse me?