Been a while since I updated...
And I'm pretty awful for not spewing the (awesome) details about our latest trip to Auckland, but that's mostly just because I've been awful... blah lately.
I'm starting to get seriously down about not being able to find a better-paying or at least full-time job. I came down here to work for a year to save up money for school, after all.
Now the year is just about over and I have literally no savings whatsoever to show for it. I can barely afford to take the bus to interviews when I have them, which isn't often.
As much as I've been enjoying my life down here, I'm starting to think that moving when I did may have been something of a mistake. It's not a good market to be an immigrant looking for a job.
Most of the jobs I would apply for have literally closed applications to permanent residents or citizens only, a legal status I can't even apply for until December. And even then, they might not grant it. I got turned down by fucking KFC of all places. I got turned down for a part-time job at a clothing store for not having "retail sales experience" in the past. It seems like employers here will dig up literally any excuse to avoid giving jobs to non-citizens.
The insulting thing is that it doesn't seem to matter when I tell people that I am applying for permanent residency and I DO plan to live here for quite a long time in the future.
I don't even know what to do. I feel like a colossal failure for not having managed anything yet, and to make matters worse, the longer I stay here, the more I feel like I'm just a big imposing burden on Morghan's family, who have been more than patient.
At this point, I guess the big thing is to just keep trying. But now that it's getting to be off-season again, the amount of available jobs is dwindling. I've just about resigned myself to not being able to find anything until I'm in Dunedin. Makes me wonder why I tried so hard for so many months in the first place; all it's done is piss me off.
I'm starting to get seriously down about not being able to find a better-paying or at least full-time job. I came down here to work for a year to save up money for school, after all.
Now the year is just about over and I have literally no savings whatsoever to show for it. I can barely afford to take the bus to interviews when I have them, which isn't often.
As much as I've been enjoying my life down here, I'm starting to think that moving when I did may have been something of a mistake. It's not a good market to be an immigrant looking for a job.
Most of the jobs I would apply for have literally closed applications to permanent residents or citizens only, a legal status I can't even apply for until December. And even then, they might not grant it. I got turned down by fucking KFC of all places. I got turned down for a part-time job at a clothing store for not having "retail sales experience" in the past. It seems like employers here will dig up literally any excuse to avoid giving jobs to non-citizens.
The insulting thing is that it doesn't seem to matter when I tell people that I am applying for permanent residency and I DO plan to live here for quite a long time in the future.
I don't even know what to do. I feel like a colossal failure for not having managed anything yet, and to make matters worse, the longer I stay here, the more I feel like I'm just a big imposing burden on Morghan's family, who have been more than patient.
At this point, I guess the big thing is to just keep trying. But now that it's getting to be off-season again, the amount of available jobs is dwindling. I've just about resigned myself to not being able to find anything until I'm in Dunedin. Makes me wonder why I tried so hard for so many months in the first place; all it's done is piss me off.