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Has anyone else had experience with big losses/ career impacted and how did you improve your lot?

• Why can't I get any work despite always trying and livelihood losses? I think a part of me tried to hard and never should have studied. I was attacked when studying first degrees...I was offering nursing degree place which I didnt want, and did 2 years when I was attacked, failing the next semester and then mislead to withdraw.It should have been my choice and I would only have needed to go part time or defer. I was able to rely on aged care work but I really hated it but it was always there. In the mean time they 'cleaned up the industry' by making everyone get a Cert IV in Aged Care, designed to put unskilled people out of the industry in Australia. I worked very hard spending a year doing short courses volunteer work and paid work to get into a degree again as I wasn't able to get back into a nursing degree, it was very dishonest of that course, and when I approached them they couldn't comment, but that livelihood was flushed down the toilet. I went to a TAFE (like a community college here) for a year to then qualify for a HR degree. I applied and got in the following year. AFTER THIS even though I got in I had not business background so I found it quiet tough. Like most students I failed I think economics purely as I had no background in it, but thats fine, I was on a role by 2nd year and looking forwards to finishing. FOR ME this is the last thing I was doing, as I was attacked brutally by 2 international students who then fled but also went on to well paid careers Even though they are wanted, they cost me in terms of rehab where the 5 years it took me to recover I lost any chance of working in HR. THEN all of a sudden I started getting contract roles that gave me experience but I found myself very exhausted. This was the kind of opportunity that was a foot int the door. This lasted around 2 years. In the meantime I tried doing a small resume writing business. It was very very hard to reinvent myself from 2 livelihoods. Then the down turn hit and it all dried up. I have instead been doing call centre work...I found it very insincere...some pretend to hire to let you go 2 weeks later, I just had one that did 2 days ...they pretend they can't fit you in with payroll then let you go. In my case I got sick and then they fired me.?? I also think a family where dad retried at 4 and mum never worked that even though my sisters inc twin had killer careers, maybe I was better off having just worked but had an assumption you start a degree then get a role of some kind. When HR 'ran out' I spent a year in an 'apprenticeship' attempting to certify my nursing studies. It ended up the nurses were b##ches who never ticked off my skills and I never got the piece of paper that would have been a 'rubber stamp' to working in aged care again...and all this skills shortage rubbish . I now found I have 'joined' the 'call centre' world ie very unstable and disposable staff...so I can face a 6 month gap for work. Despite one degree that should have been 'rubber stamped' and a HR degree that was obsoleted by a viscious attack a politician here covered up, I AM STUCK with no occupation. I am not sure if it means I have used up all my chances in Melbourne as for me its a ghost town...the years I was traumatised was 5, but its now 10 years since I graduated, I have spent the better part from start of one degree chasing work. I did become isolated so its like I have a place to stay but no memories or livelihood. The massive disruption to my life means that call centre has finished me off..as even though its work its so short term it makes me look unstable or uncommitted..but i found that sooner or later they find out I am qualified and get rid of me. I am 37 now...I am a pretty girl but I PASS for 10 years younger. I am acutely aware I am wasting my life, I have probably applied for EVERY call centre role, my HR was re-obsoleted when the down turn hit. What should I do? I always go to an interview, I think being attacked pushed out time frames in my life but left me out of a livelihood. I have heard its sometimes better to leave the scene of the crime I find the same thing keeps repeating. Is call centre work known to be unstable or is it just that my losses are to hard for someone to see when they look at a resume? I have had more roles then the average person..as I am so desperate to work, its either taken advantage of or used against me eg disposable. Am I wasting my time? As I just turned 37 I would rather be in a relationship or seeing the world, has anyone else had experience with big losses and career impacted and how did you improve your lot?\

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