And ANOTHER Job!

It’s been over a month since I last posted on this blog. I’m honestly not very good at doing this, really now, am I?

The last post I made was a somewhat hopeful one discussing a job that was starting a few days after working for a professional fundraising organisation. It was certainly an interesting experience and I learnt a lot about it. Mainly that I do not like doing telephone fundraising and that I cannot do it anyway, and that my work ethic is apparently pretty good.

I lasted a week in that job.

Cue a month of being unemployed. When you’re working towards the goal of saving enough money to get yourself to Japan, a month where the opportunities are dry is the worst thing possible. That, and there’s the fact that Christmas is coming up and you struggle to pay board, let alone get anyone anything. I honestly feel pretty dreadful about it, I’d go as far as to say that until this week I’ve been flitting into fits of depression and the urge to give up was on the horizon.

The day that was brought me up is the day that is perhaps the worst day of my year. Last Thursday was the fourth anniversary of the day my dad died. I never forget, but then again it’s the day before my dad’s birthday, which is a week after my birthday so there is no way I CAN forget.  I try my best to shut myself in on that day, I’m quite open but at the same time I’m also quite private with the things that are closest to my heart and my father was pretty much my role model throughout childhood. I’ve always had to do SOMETHING around that time too, whether it was helping a professor give a lecture by singing Blackbird by The Beatles or giving a presentation about my research project’s progress (or lack thereof), I was busy.  I’ve pushed myself forward and I’ve gone ahead and lived my dreams of going to Japan, and now I am going to go again.

I’d like to think that he’d be pretty damned proud of me; after all I finally got my degree!

The good news is that I have another temporary job that will last me until the end of January. It pays national minimum wage and is situated in Nottingham, but the actual work seems to be pretty good and involving Microsoft Excel and Google searches. How awesome is that? (Please note, I thought laser spectroscopy was awesome at one point…who am I kidding it’s still fascinating chemistry!) I found out that I can type at 81 words per minute when copy typing, and the assumption is that generally people type faster when they are audio typing, but I’m not sure I completely buy that to be honest. I can also type at double the average keystrokes when doing alphanumeric data entry, which I am pretty pleased about to be honest.