It's now been four weeks since I finished my Masters, and I am still unemployed. So how have I been filling my days I hear you cry? Well, first and foremost I have been applying for jobs, obviously. Frustratingly this is not a process I am particularly fond of, primarily because nowhere these days seems to accept a CV, instead insisting that you fill out an online application form. Fair enough I suppose, I assume this ensures all of their applications are uniform. However, for us poor suckers who want to apply for more than one job a day, it is soul destroying. Filling out all of your work experience and qualifications in slightly different formats is incredibly tedious, and then writing what is basically a small essay for each job on why you want the position is remarkably time consuming. I swear that this affects my chances, because I'm so bored by the second application that I end up copying and pasting a lot of information without really thinking it through. Unsurprisingly I'm yet to hear back about any interviews.
My alternative to job hunting is to either do a PhD, the idea of which I'm warming to more and more, or to do a more practical course that will supply me with all the essential practical skills needed to work in the environmental sector. This second option is less likely at the minute because most of these courses cost, and are not in Birmingham, so I need money for accommodation and such. Whose bright idea was money?!
Elsewhere, I've been re-immersing myself in the world of music, starting up both As Well Continue To Run and Couthe again, much to my delight. The former had a very successful gig in Hinckley on Friday which seemed to go down well with both the crowd and the management, as we've been invited to play three more dates at Praha in the next few months. I've also signed up for the Birmingham half marathon, a decision I'm regretting slightly having realised I only have three weeks left to train. In fact I better start warming up for tonight's run...
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Now playing: Why? - The Vowels Pt. 2
via FoxyTunes
Monday 4 October 2010
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