Pumpkin's rant of the day: Trouble with Work

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Before I've even started a job, I've had problems. I chose to keep on with my journalism job because, although it's unpaid, it is the job I want to do and, hopefully, will lead to paid work in that field. I was also offered two other jobs. One, I turned down after being messed around before I'd started. I was told to ask for the person who would be training me. That person wasn't there. As it turned out, the first day of training wasn't with that person anyway. I was on the rota for a shift (which I assumed would be my training shift) so I turned up at the time on the rota. I had also been given two different times from different people. I thought the best thing to do was to go up and find out. So that's what I did. Well, I was told that I wasn't doing the shift that was on the rota but was to return later. Having been told that the training would only take an hour or so, and anything missed could be completed another time, I agreed to return later. Upon my return, I was informed that the 'one hour' training would actually be five hours. Now, had I known this sooner, I may have been able to make arrangements but as I did not know this until then, I could not stay. I had also been put on the rota for the next four weeks before I'd officially taken the job. I was not offered a contract from them either. I thought I'd give it another go and wait until the next training date. However, I was offered another job. The hours and pay were about the same but the manager seemed to have a bit more about her. I was given the information I needed, and a contract to sign. Even the email sent to me from her was more professional looking than the one from the other job, which was obviously just a template form where the changeable data had been filled in. Not that there's anything wrong with such a thing, it's efficient. It just looks messy with double brackets left all over it. Well, anyway, I thought that I may as well accept the second job offer. I emailed the signed contract on Friday. It is now Wednesday. According to the contract, my first day is today. The contract was attached to the email. The email stated that there was information about my 'on boarding' training and first day within the document. There wasn't. There were, however, seven blank pages following the 27 page contract. Upon sending the signed contract, I included the fact that I did not have all the required information about my first day, and could they resend that. Well, I have had no reply. So I enquired again. Still no reply. I was apprehensive, although looking forward to starting a new job. I thought it would be OK once I started. I'm sure it would be but, I'm sure you can understand, it is beginning to get frustrating. I'm applying for other jobs. In a perfect world, I'd have a job which fits around the children and/or work from home. That's what I'm doing as a journalist so that would be perfect if it was a paid position! While that would be the ideal, I will just be happy with something. I don't care too much what the job is but regular hours and knowing what I'm doing would be nice.