Confessions of a Creative Writer

Laura has stopped calling me silly!

bexattack:

I was also discussing with her and Dean that since working in the hairdressers, I’ve really come to like working with people. I can see myself having a job in the service industry, not private. I want customer interaction. I don’t want to be behind scenes dealing with numbers.

This weekend I’m going to my Dad’s and I’m just going to tell him everything that interests me. Tell him about wanting to work in some form of service. Just anything I can think. I don’t even mind if I need to go to tech to get qualifications, just as long as I’m happy with what I’m doing.

My Dad even spoke to me about recruitment agencies. I really am happy that he’s taking me seriously. I was expecting to be treated like a child who is just moaning about work.  I’m actually feeling like an adult for the first time. That  I’m starting to gain a little control of my life. I was pushed into university by my school, friends and family.

So now all that’s left to do is sit this term out and really think. I do think I have made the right decision and going about it the right way with getting help. I couldn’t imagine just dropping out and announcing it to everyone.

Recruitment Agencies are a good place to start although my brother signed up with a few but didn’t end up getting a job through them though. Start as soon as you can like because most folk I knew took a few months to find anything full-time and permanent. The agencies nterview you before taking you on, but these interviews are a piece of cake apparently. Some of them will have you do IT Skill tests using stuff like Word/Excel and some of them get you to do some maths based questios, although nothing major. Banks are a good place to start as well, although don’t expect to hear back from them really quickly.

If you could pick five dead people to invite to dinner who would they be?

thewonderlandsyndrome:

booklover:

bookscakesnkisses:

suchstuff:

I would invite:

1. William Shakespeare
2. Boudicca
3. Humphrey Bogart
4. Agatha Christie
5. DH Lawrence

How about you?

1. King Henry VIII

2. William Shakespeare

3. Heath Ledger

4. Charles Dickens

5. Jane Austen

1.Edgar Allan Poe

2.John Fowles

3.Jeff Buckley

4.Leonardo Da Vinci

5.Marlon Brando

1. Kurt Cobain
2. Heath Ledger
3. Shakespeare
4. Da Vinci
5. Anne Boleyn

1. Virginia Woolf

2. Sylvia Plath

3. Elizabeth Bishop

4. Jane Austen

5. Anne Bronte 

3pm = doom.

bexattack:

I was never really fussed with going to uni at the start, but my old grammar school force that ucas down your throat.

Also my family, because I am the first.

But I really have no interest in my course. I only picked economics because it was what I’m best at. Uni economics and grammar school economics are completely different. It’s very maths heavy and that’s just not for me.

So my Dad’s ringing me at 3 and I’m going to talk about dropping out. Why waste 4 years on a degree I don’t want. It’s not like I don’t do the work. I’m passing the course, but I hate it.

I don’t want to be stuck with a degree that can only get me a job I don’t want or have a degree that cost me thousands that I have no intention if using.

I’m nervous.

My brother was in the same situation, except he didn’t drop out until the end of his 2nd year. If you’re going to do it now is definitely the time. My brother now works full-time for Fed-Ex as a traffic controller and is undoubtedly much happier. He’s getting his own place in April as well. Hope the phone-call goes okay!

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