today i'm going to talk about my struggles in terms of finding my very first part-time job in uk
so now it's been like about four years that i am in the uk i've done my one year of placement with
procter and gamble then i'm basically finishing off my master's degree i'm graduating
on 22nd of june so everything is going really well right now but i still remember the time
that when i came here in september of 2018 and i really struggled to get my very first
part-time job so i thought just to discuss with you that what were my challenges what were the
struggles involved so i came here in september of 2018 and to be precise 9th of september and my
university started i think 10th or 11th of september but i had my induction week which they
call it over here so so the very first struggle the very first challenge was in terms of studies
i had no clue what is the education system like in uk during that time i didn't used to watch
all of this video now nowadays there you've got this all resources i'm sharing my own experience
but back in 2018 there weren't much of the youtube videos and to be honest in a military school which
is just like you don't have that much access to the internet so i had no clue what is education
system like in uk so i still remember asking my professor that okay well you have you have
shown me this lecture slides where are the books like i'm used to the books in india i like i like
studying through the books so without my books i want to like study for the exams through my books
and it was like here you don't have to worry much about the books it's just the online lectures
and this and this is only content which will be examined so you don't need to actually do extra
reading you don't have to go to do extra reading in the books and stuff but if you want to do some
further reading then he said like you can read the books but all the stuff is in this online lectures
so my very first month like all the rest of the 20 days in september was just busy just getting
know that how does the lectures and timetable of the university works and i was really busy during
that time so my lecture starts from nine o'clock finished at 12 then from 12 to 5 i had my lab so
i'm doing chemistry based course so it was really hectic should you what i'm trying to say over here
is that some of you might be thinking that you can straight away get a part-time job maybe few of you
got get it but these are the struggles which i personally faced you know i was this is called
settlement phase so it took me about 20 days to get settled now after that i realized okay now
i've got a lot of free time available so once i finish my university after five o'clock i don't
have anything to do my weekends are free so and and the other thing which kind of was in my brain
was that like i'm coming over here i don't want to do my five tick five years of degree and and just
come with the thing like i've got distinction in my degree i want to do something else i want to be
financially independent when i'm coming in this uh uk like for example if you want to buy your iphone
i don't have to ask that iphone for my parents i should be having that much ability that i can own
this by my own self right so so like having that kind of a mindset then i asked my one of the job
one of my friend like he's a scottish friend and he used to work in an event management company
and i asked him that okay while you're working like how did you got this job and he told me
about this website called indeed he said that just go on indeed.com and just write down what
kind of position you're looking for and you'll be able to see where this position is available
so i i wrote it off customer assistant so i was very excited to do custom assistant i thought
it's the most easiest job so why not let's do it i'm like a happy person i'll be i'll be like
having a good interaction with the customers you know i'll be developing my communication
skills on the same time so i started looking for this job and i got a interview at jd sports
so jd sports has got all these brands of adidas it's kind of a sports company basically sports vr
company and i got the interview it lasted only five minutes and he and the next day i got the
email that i have been successful and basically in the interview he didn't ask me any question he
just asked me what is your availability and that's all and he sent me that and this is the bad thing
about these big companies they like really confuse you with the documentation thing he tell me that
you'll be getting one of the letter and you have to send us back so i shall remember that i got
that letter and i send it back to straight away to their head office and and after that i didn't
got any call from them i waited about 10 15 days and i was just like where is the call then i went
to the went to the went to the store where i had the interview then he sent me the email which you
got you should have bring to our store and from mumbai store we had to send it to our headquarters
i was just like oh my god like you should have been more clear in the interview stage to let me
know about this that i have to come to the store and basically by that time the vacancy had gone
they had someone else coming in and i couldn't go that job essentially so the documentation process
was really confusing at the very first front then secondly i applied for another job and i got an
interview with marx and spencer so i knew that in india so manchester is a big company let's
try over here and it was really surprising that whenever i go for an interview i got selected
even at markson spencer i got selected but the very interesting thing over there is
that when i got selected then i told them i'm an international student and i've got a restriction
to work only 20 hours in a week and during that time they say like he had offer letter he had my
offer letter written my name rashford sync on it then after that he said no like this position is
for someone who can work more than 20 hours and basically that job offer was also again rejected
and and then and like i like this is what happened with me like i applied for jd sports i applied for
marks and spencer both of them somehow like i was essentially kind of rejected isn't it i i still i
cracked my interviews like most of the time but it's just like unfortunate that i just couldn't
eventually land up to that position and start earning some of the money for myself then after
that i was just like you know this online process is so much hectic there's going to online this
is hectic for me i just went to some local shop over here and he was like a punjabi guy he would
turban like me and he he kind of related with me then i said like you know i'm from india and i'm
just looking for a part-time job like can he help me out with it and he sent me why not okay and on
the same day he said i was wearing a black t-shirt i was wearing i think a gene like this one and he
said nobody just like just now you're starting so i went at half past four and i was working at five
o'clock in that shop and from that time onwards i'm still working in that particular part-time job
so it's been more than three years and one thing i want to point out over here is that whenever
someone gives you a job treat it as a job it's not it's not a money-making machine it's not like
uh you're just gonna stand over there and someone will be giving you money you have to do your hard
work and i want to point out a very important point that my wage during that time 2018 was about
seven pounds okay that is uh i think it was little bit more than my national minimum wage i think
this was one pound more than national minimum page but after that i knew that if i work hard over
here like they will automatically increase my wage then i i start just started working in the shop it
took me two three months like it took me about 15 days to actually learn the things and after
that the owner like he wasn't the owner the saddar guy he wasn't the owner the owner was a irani guy
and that iranian guy was very good because i was only i think we were two or three people who was
working in the store and in the summer in the next summer of 2019 i used to work there a lot and he
was very surprised that how can one person do this much work i was working more than 40 hours because
in the holidays we are allowed to work more than 40 hours and he was just like very surprised to
see me that because i used to open the shop and i used to close the shop so i was working
like 10 hours more than like 11 hours like this kind of like too much hours i was working during
that summer time and he was just really kind of impressed by my work like how can this guy work
this much and from that time like he kind of respects me a lot and my wage was increased my
like i got holiday pay i get everything basically you know like as a proper job and and my wages
actually i would say more than the jd sport more than the marxist spencer who are currently working
over there so it's just like my dedication my honesty my hard work for the job which which
like eventually helped me to increase my weight and all those things which i just talked now
so this was my experience that how i got my very first part-time job and i said i'm still working
in that part-time job like so i came here directly to second year worked two years before then third
year was my placement i went to newcastle for one year i came back for my masters i am still
again working over there and it's been amazing and i'm like graduating now right so it's been a
great great opportunity for me personally to have been working in this kind of a place i hope this
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