Despite reckoning that this blog would become high in activity with me posting prolifically, you may be wondering precisely why it has in fact been desolate. Instead of assuming that I was forever departing from college I am still working there.
Why?
Well to my utter disbelief I was asked to fill in in a temporary position for the admissions secretary. This was a role I was eager about, before I thought about it... The person who was supposedly in charge of me has decided to take off the next two weeks, leaving me and the rest of the staff puzzling over what exactly I should be doing. So I'm left doing back breaking activities, working 11 hours a week. Just 11 hours. At a rate that doesn't match the job I'm taking over. Not only that but they expect me to be around college anyway to answer to the beck and call of people who happen to wonder through the door. Great stuff. It's like I've walked into some melodramatic time warp and found myself in the same place as I was in 2010. Not exactly moving on in leaps and bounds, and not exactly on track to meet my target of £10,000. In fact my funds are quite dire, and pay hasn't even touched my bank account. I've not had a lick, a drop, or splash of cash enter my bank since I got some tax back. So now I'm sitting under the £100 mark and desperately seeking new ways to make money.
I'm guessing you're sat there thinking, why are you complaining you've got a job. But for the last 3 years I have got myself involved in all sorts of jobs to make ends meet. Some I have literally hit the jackpot. The majority alas have been back breaking ones, and this is the one. It's hard going. I love giving tours but not when I'm on my 5th one and not had a taste of food since 7pm the night before. Or trying to get a laugh or reception from a crowd of tired and unamused parents and equally bored kids. But I love it. I honestly do. Not lately though. And the office work itself is moving file from a -> b, it's so immensely boring that in actual fact I just end up staring and doing it mechanically, going through 10-20 files before I notice I should have changed this or ticked it off here.
I figured this week, maybe it's because I'm reading Alan Sugar, that work is for money. No matter how decent the person is no-one really works for nothing. And this is what I've been doing for the last 3 years.
So I have a renewed vigour to find something, anything, that pays. And today I've launched a full scale attack on all things I can think of to get a job forgetting the seemingly unhelpful graduate bureaus. If you want something you got to go out and get it. And I'm going to start by trying to get out of my college.
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