Job-hunting

[hufflepoet]

I am feeling more sympathy for my father than usual. Job-hunting is a most arduous task, assuredly guaranteed to make you doubt your own aptitudes and worth. My only source of knowledge of vacancies is the Daily Prophet's job section. Well, a friend of mine forcibly escorted me to the muggle job centre, but the interview did not proceed

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[gigglylavender]

What funny names muggles have for their OWLs and NEWTs! How are you supposed to pronounce 'GNVQ'?

I don't think you should work in a shop, Wayne. You'd get ever so bored and ignore customers if you had a new poem in your head. Why don't you try admin instead, as a temporary thing, I mean? I could ask my daddy if he knows of anything.

[hufflepoet]

You pronounce each letter separately. G-N-V-Q. GNVQs aren't really like NEWTS, though. They qualify you for practical things like bricklaying or hairdressing. NEWTs are more like muggle A-Levels (Advanced Levels).

I confess I can think of few things less interesting than working in a shop, but I am growing desperate. I would be terribly grateful if you could inform me of any administration vacancies I could apply for.

[gigglylavender]

Muggles are funny! That must take ever such a long time to say all the time.
I think I would quite like shop work. Admin would be very dull - no-one to talk to half the time! It would be worse than school, because there wouldn't be nice practical lessons like Divination and CoMC - ooh! We have a silly acronym too. Although we don't normally pronounce it like that.
I'll ask daddy when he gets home.

[hufflepoet]

Ah? It is fortunate that people have different interests and temperaments.
I wouldn't call Divination a practical subject, exactly; quite excessively impractical, in fact. I think on balance our acronyms are more sensible, yes.
Thanks.

[im_a_cad]

Wayne misses Hannah, Wayne misses Hannah... You seem a bit down, mate. Why don't you come over and visit me for a bit? Suzie Bonesy is here, so it would be a bit like a Hufflepuff family reunion. And by hook or by crook, I am so banging your and Hannah's pretty little heads together...

[hufflepoet]

That would be delightful! I am a little out of spirits, I admit.

[im_a_cad]

I should say something, but then it is rather funny watching him and Hannah dance around each other. It must be a bit odd for you, not coming back to school next year. Anyone in particular you miss? Maybe if I try not being subtle for a change...

[hufflepoet]

It is odd, yes. I do not think I realised how much I like school until I left it. And not knowing what I am to do next leaves me somewhat in limbo.
I miss all of the Hufflepuffs, really. You and Susan, obviously. Hannah. Devon and Zacharias. Should I sa

[badgersonparade]

Oh dear Wayne, that must have been terribly uncomfortable.

You know, wizards should have a job centre like Muggles do. It would save a lot of effort. Has there been anything suitable in the Daily Prophet?

[hufflepoet]

It was a mite uncomfortable, yes. It was also rather unnerving to be addressed as though I was stupid for having no qualifications. I informed the lady I studied at a private school which did not follow the National Curriculum, but she was not sympathetic. Still, at least I am registered there now, so I get jobseekers allowance and am not so poor as to be a burden on my parents.

There has not been much of use in the Daily Prophet. Most of the adverts seem aimed at people who left school some time ago and have work experience. i will keep looking, though. I probably should have started looking earlier in the year, like you, but I did not want the extra distraction from NEWTs - I am easily enough distracted as it is.

[foot_hold]

Don't Muggles have something called an IQ test which is meant to somehow find out how intelligent you are? I wonder if I could somehow trick Crabbe into taking one - oh, that's mean Stephen. If you took one of those, maybe they'd realise you're actually quite bright even though you don't have any of their qualifications. Of course, anyone should be able to tell within a minute of talking to you that you're far from dumb. So perhaps that makes it worse in a way, that you're obviously intelligent yet you don't have anything from their education system. And now I'll shut up because I'm not helping.

[hufflepoet]

Yes. I've heard of that, but I don't think they use it for jobs. I would rather not have a muggle job anyway, to be honest. I do not want to live in the muggle world the way that my mother does.