Job-Hunting

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Here's the scenario:

I have just finished university and have began the search for a job. I have just come back from the job centre after printing off information for about 30 different jobs.

the main prblem seems to be that every single job that I woud be even the slightest bit interested in needs either a certain period of experiance doing that particular job or previous experiance of people organising and that sort of crap.

My only job to date has been working one day a week in a shop. I have no experiance organising people (why would I?) nor have i been employed in that field before.

It all seems very catch-22; I need a job to get experiance, but I need experiance to get a job.

this is all very disheartening and I am struglnig to see how I am going to break into the job market without working some sort of menial job which would seem to make all my qualifications absolutly meaningless.

So I suppose my question is, what was your first 'proper' job and how did you get it and how did you get the necessary experiance?