So I really need to find a job soon

I've got the money saved, chosen a city, got a room in a house arranged, putting the finishing touches on my moving plans, now all I have to do is find a job.

So let me explain, over the last year I've worked a couple of jobs, one I loved the other I hated. The problem with both is that they weren't going anywhere and what with the graduate job market being what it is in the UK I couldn't see things picking up soon. So I got to thinking, drastic times call for drastic measures! I'm single, have some savings, I don't have any long term job prospects here, so why not just up and move to Germany? After all I speak the language and I've lived there before and loved it! 

I'd mulled it over for months, and really to many it seemed a pipe-dream, German friends telling me they'd never do something so crazy as that, well guess what it's happening! I've got everything in order except for one small detail, a job!

Yeah so I know this seems like a pretty major oversight, but don't panic just yet, at least I'm not panicking just yet. I've been sending out CVs on emails, applying to jobs online and gotten some pretty good responses, but the one downside is the fact I'm often told that they want to meet me in person so I need to be there. So that's why I'm not yet panicking. I hope they weren't just being polite and trying to use that as an excuse rather than tell me up-front that I just don't cut the mustard.

I also have another work dilemma, I mean, what should I do? Half of me thinks that I should try to find work in the office of a growing tech or engineering firm, perhaps something in customer relations or sales, and make a tonne of money. The other half thinks that I shouldn't sell my soul like that and try to find something that makes me happy and pays the bills. I'm not an overly materialistic kind of guy and I have no problem working 35 hours a week in a cafe for barely nothing. I just don't know what would make me happier. 

I also feel like working in a cafe or book-shop would be a total waste of £24,000 of student debt, surely I should be looking to contribute more to the national coffers whilst at the same time reaping the rewards of my labour, at least in a fiscal sense. I guess my biggest stumbling block is that as a kid I always thought I'd grow up to make lots of money and have a high-powered job, but now that I've grown up I'm pretty sure I'd hate it and I wonder if all the shiny gadgets and beautiful cars could make up for it. I mean, maybe? Right?

Help me out if you can blogger!

   

Wow so yesterday's blog got four views! Six today?

I got four views yesterday! YAY! I can't understand why though, but oh well that's awesome and I think I might stick to this blogging lark.

So maybe I should re-introduce myself. I'm Tom, 23, single, white, graduate, more than a little fat, fan of travel, languages, gastronomy and trying to make people laugh. It really sounds like I've got the whole package there doesn't it? I guess I do too in a tragic "if only you really knew sort of a way". Nah I'm playing I think I'm pretty cool with myself right now, sure yesterday was a blow to the system, but I think in reality I just dodged a pretty blancmange like bullet really.
I know I should be less judgemental but it's what society has programmed me to do, make snap decisions based almost entirely on external appearance. The message really being that nobody will buy a fugly assed book.

I digress, yes, so I'm moving back to Germany soon, this time to work there rather than just study, which if it all works out will be great. I can't help feel like I'm taking a huge risk just upping sticks and relocating to an entirely different country but at the same time I know I can't stay here in the UK not using my language and stewing in a dead-end job. I feel lied to really, my whole life I was told that if I tried hard in school, studied well at uni then despite the big debts at the end of it all would be a shiny well paid job with my name on. BULLSHIT. Well at least not in the UK anyway, so yeah, fuck this place!

I'm moving to Bremen and have a room lined up in a WG which should be great, one of my mates from Uni will be living with us too so I'll know someone which is amazing! I haven't really spent that much time in Bremen before, I've been for a couple of visits but that was with an ex of mine and I spent most of the time distracted by her. As for northern Germany as a whole I'm really not too sure what to expect, memory tells me it's pretty flat which is right up my street coming from Norfolk. Nobody has ever convinced me of the need for hills!

Another cool thing about Bremen is how close it is to The Netherlands and Denmark so I'm sure I'll be making some excursions for some pancakes and lego! If anyone reads this and has any tips for where to go leave a comment!

I'll be back tomorrow I'm sure so I'll sign off for now.


BYE BYE

HAHA!

I just found this blog after a looooooong time! So what's changed? I'll put it in a list.

1. Still single, it's been 3 years since I last had a date.

2. I've graduated from uni, worked 2 jobs and shall shortly be moving back to Germany!

3. It turns out that twitter business has really taken off so perhaps I shouldn't have been so hasty back in '09

So I'm pretty much writing this to make up for the fact that I got friendzoned pretty hard today. I've been chatting to / flirting with this girl for a couple of weeks now and let's get one thing straight right from the get go, she's WAY below my league but even so I pursued it out of pure desperation thinking that perhaps women are like busses, which I guess they are, it's just they don't come along in twos, it's that they're huge and unreliable. So even though I felt like I was scraping the barrel I was ready to give her a shot, turns out though this troll princess prefers ex-cons with 2 kids. 

I honestly think my love life has been cursed, I just don't know what to do! After years of being told to be more confident I finally build up my confidence, it seems to be working, then once more I'm left high and dry. 

So let's focus on the positives, she's never going to see this because who reads blogs?