Scattered Strawberry Summer

And yes I'm tired whilst writing this post. I was in London today for a training session and will be going to London tomorrow to conduct interviews, thus a particularly early start. Never mind, I took Friday off so I have a long weekend to recover.

I've been very busy this week hence the  lack of posts. I started training at my new job (no,not graduate...) and I still have to go to my old job until notice period finishes, so I work pretty much every day. I'm a bit tired, sometimes I feel like I have been thrown in at the deep end  I do enjoy all the new things I've learnt, improving various skills, there is still a lot to learn but I feel more comfortable every day. Although it is not graduate job still it will be good work experience to add to my CV and it's full time, that means more money. Yay! :)

And this is how miserable it was this morning:

Is it just me, or job applications are ridiculously long? I'd rather write another dissertation than  fill in those  job applications every day. The worst part, you spend ages on it and don't even get an interview. I guess I'll have to keep  buying those lottery tickets- better odds to win that when getting a job in current economic climate.

I complained about it in one forum, and what a  response I got! every one feeling the same or hating it even more.  at least I'm not alone

"New studies have shown that graduates can expect to start working life in the post-credit-crunch marketplace bottom of the workforce, working long hours, often in jobs that aren't quite what they were expecting" 

this is not what I want to hear

so I've got plenty of books to prepare for my graduate job hunt.  I've started doing practice psychometric tests. Fun fun fun. Should perfect my CV, maybe Sunday. Anyway, I was looking for any graduate jobs in tourism/travel and there seem to be none. TUI has got some interesting schemes, especially "international management" but I'm not sure I'm cut out for that. Not sure if it is something I want to do.  I'm not sure about anything regarding my near future at the moment. Maybe, I'll just get friday-add and look for some temp job in the tourism industry, just to get relevant experience.