An extraordinary day

Hello!

"I know you just can't stand it
If things don't go your way...
But we've got no control over what happens anyway
If it's gonna be a rainy day
There's nothing we can do to make it change
We can pray for sunny weather
But that won't stop the rain..."♫♩♪ -James Morrison's -Please don't stop the rain

If we leave out the love affair part the song is also about I'm feeling pretty much exactly the lyrics of this track once again. I had quite an extraordinary day. I was in a job interview! In a real job interview for once (not in some cursed video interview or via over the phone). It's not a secret I'm officially unemployed. I'm studying and doing some job gigs via agency working but since it's not full time studying and I don't have any actual job, my official status is unemployed.

I started attending these language and psychology courses that I'm doing for it started seeming I'm not about to get a job in business for I applied almost half a year without getting anywhere after my graduation into a business degree. Now it's been about a year since my graduation and I've sent over 50-job applications to different jobs in business without any luck n I've gotten into a job interview of any kind just a few times.

In Finland we currently based on statistics have about 332 000 unemployed people and less than 100 000 situations vacant, of which on most jobs there are so little working hours offered that one couldn't make a living with the income the job would earn you. 

In reality there are plenty of more unemployed people than 332 000 since hundreds of people are forced to go to work for free for months to a "training" and to show their skills to the employers after being unemployed for a certain period of time. During those training periods their status is statistically not unemployed. That's so even they neither don't actually earn anything with their working, no matter how well they perform, nor actually get employed after this training period in the most of the cases. The companies will easily get a new slave to work for free who will excel in the job in hopes of actually getting hired...

Even I finally for once in a blue moon achieved a seat at the table face to face with the recruiter and everything went well it's a long long shot that I'll actually get hired. It was a group interview and there were 2-others with me in the room who were just as competent for the job and we were told that there will be also another group interview of 3-people. We were also told that the company might hire into this open permanent job of over 20hrs/week someone who's already working inside the company, if someone of them is willing to take that position (which is very likely). If that happens there would be an open position of 20 hours/week for some months.

So practically that 20hrs/week job would be then what I'm actually competing for against those 5-others, chosen to the interview, all competent for the job and picked up from among hundreds of job applications the companies offering a job always receive when there's an open position into any paying job. I have a little under 17% chance to be chosen to that job of 20hrs/week for couple of months :D Hurray! xD
After doing the math the glimpse of hope for a decent job was gone and I once again was forced to think that I'm again back to square one. Send another ten applications and wish to get even a reply of some kind.

I can't help it, but momentarily feel slightly hopeless about my own life situation for I'd really just want to have a job and finally start earning some money after the years of being a student and unemployed. It's been now almost 3-years since I left the job in the kitchen that I never wanted even to begin with, but had to take. Still I don't regret I left the career in kitchen, because I just know I want to be a business woman. Maybe somehow, someday I will actually be one.

"You see live is a crazy thing There'll be good time and there'll be bad times
And everything in between
And I don't know which way it's gonna go
...
If it's gonna be a rainy day
There's nothing we can do to make it change
We can pray for sunny weather
But that won't stop the rain..."♬♪♩

I like to listen to this song of Morrison's every now and then, when I'm feeling the worst moments of frustration. Sometimes things just don't work out the way we hope for and that's even if we give our everything to achieve our goals and dreams. 

What's comforting me though is that even we can't stop the rain...the beautiful rainbows can appear only after the rain and at some point the clouds always disappear. 

Besides, how could we be able to appreciate the blue sky and sunshine without feeling and knowing the storm and rain?

That's all I've got to say this time. Thank you for reading! 

In the next post of mine I'll be sharing some delicious recipes!

~Good night to U, or what ever time it's for U~

♡-Tiina-♡