Jobbie

No unfortunately I'm not blogging to say I've got a job. I am trying my utmost to step my search up a notch. I've been far too lazy about getting one and money is running out fast. I've just received two forms for jobs at my local university. Just admin ones but reading the skills list fills me with dread and I've got the old 'I'm not qualified for this!' feeling. I'm terrible at selling myself. I've no confidence at all and I often take one look at the job description and panic. I wish I was better at it. I know I'm intelligent and hard working and capable and reliable but just saying that isn't enough. I went for a little advice sesh at the Jobcentre the other week. It was ok but I don't really feel much better off than I did before. I've got a website to look at for further details. I think it was Learndirect or something.

So I rang one agency I'd sent my cv to who told me they didn't have anything. I tried to ring another but no-one was answering the phone. I've just trawled the Jobcentre website and printed off a couple of job details and I finally got round to uploading my application for a vaguely media related job in Salford.

What else have I been up to? I went to Cardiff a couple of weeks ago for silly Dr Who fan things and we had fun with muppets. Everyone seemed impressed by them and our performance and I got very drunk and silly and created a photo story on my Facebook page of 'When Muppets Go Bad'. Thankfully I don't think I was too embarrassing. The weekend after I went to a friends wedding reception near Birmingham which was great fun and it was really good to see people I hadn't seen for a while. The hotel we stayed in was like the Crossroads Motel but still stuck in the 70s. Appalling decor and really rather dog eared and grubby but at least it wasn't crawling with creatures and everything seemed basically hygenic. Well, apart from one of the glasses in the bathroom with was encrusted with toothpaste. Ew! By all accounts the Premiertravellodgeinn that the rest of them were staying at wasn't much better.

As I mentioned in my previous post I've a tiny weeny piece in the latest issue of Countryfile magazine. Its a column called 'My Country Escape' to which I've contributed a very small part. I've now got a Myspace page, not that I use it much, and am still spending far too much time on Facebook. My thoughts on the new layout are that its probably here to stay so I might as well get used to it. And at least we have Scrabble again though it looks like I can't play against my chums from across the pond. Boo!

And Ugly Betty and The L Word are back! Woo hoo!