Make it make sense

Have you opened the link that you were sent Biscuitmuncher and accessed the course?
If not, why don’t you give it a try, you might surprise yourself that you can actually do it!

I upgraded my excel skills from Beginner to Intermediate by doing a course sent to me by a recruitment agency.

I think you're very nervous and unsure about the world outside your home. That is what I see as your main problem. You won't learn how to cope with nastiness by hiding away. And there are lots of nice people out there, it could be exciting.
Good luck!

Modern computers and computing are very intuitive, changed days from when I had to type in commands on a BBC computer from a scrap of paper beside me.

My eight year old DGD amazes me with her skills.

I had a friend like you Biscuitmuncher, she refused to engage with computers in her workplace, expecting me to do everything for her.
However, as a teacher she had to, but was only prepared to do what was absolutely necessary.
I think she was afraid of failing.

My library has been incredibly helpful in terms of computer skills and access to their equipment including a printer.

I was a manual worker before I retired with no need of computer skills. The world has moved on and I find it really useful to have learned just a little bit about the internet and my PC. I can do my banking on line, keep in touch with people and even use the library on line now! It's made my life easier Biscuitmuncher and I hope with some training it will make yours easier too. Good luck with your job hunt.

Not vile nastiness, just a statement of the facts as presented by you. You seem to be returning unwillingly to work and proud of your lack of skills.

Were I am employer considering you for a job, I would expect someone in your situation to have analysed their lack of key skills and to have perhaps signed up for a few courses to help them bridge this gap, or at least to show that they were keen to learn. You have done none of those things.

I have interviewed and employed staff in the past and enthusisam and a willingness to learn has always been a prerequisite in anyone I employed, at any level. Several I employed remained good friends well past the time we worked together.

Biscuitmuncher wishing you all the best for your computer course. It's wonderful that you are able to access a one to one course. I think you will find once you get started you will soon get the hang of it. Rather like learning to drive. It seems difficult and complicated at first, but pretty quickly everything falls into place.
Good luck with the job hunting.

I get MOnica’s point. We know from your previous thread that you didn’t want to return to the workplace, which I think you said you found a miserable existence, after many years at home, so it does rather sound as though you are making yourself unsuitable for many jobs by saying that you have absolutely no computer skills because that simply isn’t the case. You do have computer skills, as your posting here for years shows. You probably send and receive emails and shop online too. If you are doing that on a phone rather than a laptop or iPad your skills are not diminished. However, as Gramaretto says many jobs require no computer skills at all, though they are likely to be lower paid and perhaps more likely to fit your ‘miserable’ description. I do feel that your heart isn’t in this job search, and the people at the job centre will pick up on that too. Are you aiming to tell your husband that you tried, but couldn’t find a job?

I lack confidence with computer skills .
I'm about to get some assistance from my local computer shop .
Take heart - you are far better at it than you think you are .
The library is helpful .Courses are available.
There are a few jobs for which you don't need great computer skills , but they often involve hard physical work like gardening , cleaning or caring .
Good luck 🍀 .

I suppose its nice to stay at home and feel secure but unless you are a billionaire, thats not how it works. I know somebody who steadfastly refuses to have anything to do with technology,its making her life very difficult indeed.

I hope the course you go on is helpful it might lead to a job you will enjoy. Sometimes a little independence can help with confidence best wishes to you.

Germanshepherdsmum I think posting on fb and gransnet doesn't make me computer literate, anyways the lady has found me a one to one course to go on

Thanks M0nica for those helpful words, it's meeting people like you that's putting me off working. Why on earth would I want to leave my home and meet vile nastiness

There are jobs which need minimal computer skills; washing dishes, mowing lawns etc. These will be low paid but are still important jobs.

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A smart phone is a computer. OK, it's not a lap- or desktop, but it's still a computer and can do a lot. Hope you can manage, Biscuitmuncher and good luck with the job hunt.

Sorry Biscuit, you just have to crack on and do it. Many people were resistant but they battled on.

So why not join the rest of the world and do a course to bring you up to speed Biscutmuncher
I helped my 87 year old friend to learn how to use an ipad and she can take and pass on photos, do all her emails, watch tv on it, and even use video messenger when her sons are overseas and want to show her their holiday views she sometimes gets in a fix but can follow my instructions over the phone and we usually get her out of it I think she’s great
Libraries do short courses and as someone else said there are usually free computers to use in libraries and often career centres
To be honest although I was only mid 50 s I completely taught myself most things by trial and error and writing down bullet points and using google
You use something to get on here and can post messages so presumable you use a phone and aren’t completely without knowledge

Age UK do some computer skills, I think.
If you use a smart phone you have some computer skills.

You must have some computer skills because you’ve been posting on GN for years!

BlueBell this is what I've come to realise

Marydoll I've not been given much choice in it

Unfortunately I don’t think any job will be available if you have zero computer skills

Biscuitmuncher, did you tell the advisor that you had no access to a computer and needed advice on how to get started?

I remember the previous thread you started about never having worked, while the children were growing up and how reluctant you were to going back to work, despite your husband's insistence.

Have you changed your mind?

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Well you’re online now!

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Are you near a library with computers you can use if you don't have a smart phone?