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!

   

So, anyways

Wow a blog who'd a thunk it, eh? I like everyone else it seems, use twitter. (@tomwilliams88 Just so you know) but then it struck me, why bother with micro-blogging? Sometimes bigger REALLY IS better! For example, oh I don't know, just off the top of my head, pizza, or salaries, or rainbows or beds. Mmm yes, bigger is often better. So from micro-blogging to full on blogging, that's right from now on I'm stepping it up a gear.
Right now I'm wholly aware that I'm probably not talking to anyone, just myself and my laptop. It's 03:11 right now, I can hear the rain gently patter against the window of my small, but perfectly formed "einzelapartment" here in Würzburg Germany. Life is unquestionably good. I'm single, 21, living in a foreign country meeting new people experiencing new things and quite simply having the time of my life. I'll just give you all a break to get over your jealousy before I go on.
Right well that seems sufficient. I wonder how people can become minor celebrities through things like this. Do you think they just start off in some little starbucks in L.A. bitching about the other customers over their soy milk de-caff mochafrappalattes? Hmm there isn't even a Starbucks in this city, which honestly I think is something they should put on the signs as you come into town: Herzlich Willkommen in Würzburg, Gibt's hier noch kein Starbucks. Either as a warning or as a boast, depending on your view point, although I won't be disclosing mine here.

So anyways, there isn't a Starbucks here and it certainly isn't L.A. so I think I can say with a certain degree of well, erm, certainty that this blog won't be the catalyst that sends me soaring to new and previously unimaginable levels of celebrity. Which is nice, I'm kind of comfy here in my little single bed snuggled under the covers listening to the rain hit my window, completely and blissfully annonymous.
Make of it what you will, whoever you are, but there is a lot to say for not sticking out in a crowd. Much happiness can be found sat in the corner of a busy cafe reading a paper, or pretending to read as the case may be, and just covertly taking in the comings and goings around you. Spare a thought for the poor old Chameleon though, he's famous for blending in, which surely defeats the whole purpose, right? I wouldn't want to be him, that's all I'm saying.
So what can one take from the last couple of minutes they have spent reading my blog?
1. Bigger is sometimes better
2. Blending in is good
and
3. Chameleons have it tough!