It's been a while, hasn't it? I try and avoid cluttering up my blog with mundane shit, because it doesn't really seem fair to me to waste either my time writing it or your time reading it. Lately things have been going okay. I'm still a sales negotiator at my dad's estate agency, but this was always a short-term solution after quitting Dep Manager at the bookies in June. It's not fair to anyone to bail me out like this forever.
So, after a long period of inaction, I've pulled my finger out and moved into top gear RE job hunting. This is made more than slightly difficult by the fact that... well, there's a recession on, and hardly anyone is hiring for new positions. On top of that, at the big corporates, they're more likely to fill vacancies internally first and then move on to externals such as the agencies like Reed, Adecco, etc. - and to make things even worse, these people are extremely likely to be qualified or near qualified to fill the vacant role in the first place. Mind you, I'm no stranger to competition for jobs. I've applied for a job at Sony in central London as a junior marketing manager, and they told me 1100 people had gone for it. Whew. I'm still not exactly sure how you're supposed to mark yourself out from 1099 other people... maybe if I casually strolled in butt naked, that might be a good start! The important thing is to remain optimistic and keep your head up, because job hunting is probably the most soul destroying thing a lot of us will do in our lifetimes.
I always wonder if this is how my life is supposed to pan out. We're all in control of our own separate destinies, (another great reason why I'm so dubious as to the existence of a god or gods - if we were all meant to follow a chosen path, why give us brains and the power to think for ourselves?) and this time around something has got to happen. It's just got to. That guy in Titanic said 'real men make their own luck' - but you still kind of have to be in the right place at the right time for it to happen. I've kept my end of the bargain so far. 11 years of high school and university combined, 2 degrees to show for it, 6th best in my year of nearly 100.
So what?
Where's the glittering career? Nonexistent.
Where's the nice girlfriend? Nonexistent.
Where's the first step on the property ladder? You're joking, right? I'm still living with my dad and stepmum.
Where's the nice car? Does my 13 year old VW Polo count?
It would not be stretching the truth to say that, financially, emotionally and mentally I'm probably right now in the bottom 10% of my high school class. A lot of other guys I still keep in touch with have at least one of these four tenets of happiness. Most have two or three, admittedly few will have all four. Fewer still like me have none. This has got to change and soon. I am nobody's chump - you're going to see a very different Jamie the rest of this year.
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