>> It seems the job I've been pinning all my hopes on isn't going to 
>> materialise after all. For reasons unknown, the agency isn't going to 
>> put my CV forward. I can only assume I was too greedy and asked for 
>> too much money.
> 
> Why don't you ask them? 28K for someone with a degree and 7 years 
> experience is not too much IMO.

I shouldn't have let them fob me off without a real answer. I'm such a 
damned push-over. Trouble is, every time I have to make an actual phone 
call, I dissolve into a nervous gibbering wreck. I'm currently sitting 
here in one very wet office shirt. (Not that I can do anything about it 
now - but seriously, this doesn't look attractive.) Anybody who claims 
this stuff gets easier clearly doesn't know what they're talking about.

I'm going to phone them again tomorrow, and hopefully this time I'll 
have grown enough of a spine to make them TELL ME what's actually going on.

> If you only want to work in one particular location in the country then 
> you just have to wait until something comes up

I've already lowered my standards in the hope of increasing the number 
of available jobs. I'm shocked and dissappointed that this has had no 
effect at all.

> and then you probably 
> won't even get an interview (it's unrealistic to expect an interview for 
> every job you apply for).

Not everybody you apply to is going to interview you. But I would 
imagine the people who eventually hire you will.

> Obviously if you are willing to relocate to 
> another part of the country that opens up a massive number of new 
> opportunities, you will surely find a new job much quicker.

At the cost of selling my soul. What a bargin.

Hmm. Spend the rest of my life rotting away in this suck-arse job. Move 
to somewhere I hate. Life is so full of choices...

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