I have an excuse for not updating! Yeah, I’m ill again. I’ve been coughing, not unlike a car backfiring, for the past few weeks. If the amount of snot I am currently blowing out of my nose onto a tissue can be described as having a good time, then this illness has been fun. Not [...]
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3 May
*cough**cough**sneeze*
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, Academia, Finding a job, Not actually employment related. Tagged: applications, David Cameron, day off, eleection, general election, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, Gordon Brown, graduate, holidays, hospital radio, interview, job centre, jobcentre fun, left wong, looking for a job, looking for a proper job, Nick Clegg, Not actually employment related, old style left wing, on holiday, ooooh! distracting, PGCE, schools, uk general election, unemployed, unemployment. Leave a Comment
27 Mar
Having a Mare
Posted by graduatecalling in *grumblegrumble*, A Small Plea, Academia, This could go horribly wrong.... Tagged: Admissions Office, applications, career options, employment, Finding a job, getting all of the information in the world, Haiving a mare, PGCE, PGCEs, wrong.. Leave a Comment
This week, my Mum came out with this classic, naive sentence about University Bureaucracy: “It’s only an Admissions office error! It will be fine!” After my fine establishment finally confirmed my place on the course (despite the length of time it took, my CRB and everything else effortlessly breezed through and got a nice tick [...]
16 Mar
Sod that, find me a TARDIS!
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, Academia, better luck next time, Not actually employment related, This could go horribly wrong.... Tagged: and now for something completely different, The onion. Leave a Comment
Oh, the Onion, how I love thee…
26 Jan
Out of recession
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, Academia, better luck next time, Finding a job. Tagged: applications, career options, end of the recession, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, interview, job centre, jobcentre fun, playground, playtime, recess, schools, the economy, the recession, unemployed, unemployed rabbit, unemployment, working in a shop. 2 Comments
Today, the British government announced that we are now not out/almost out/out of recession now/by as much as we should be/yet. How does this make me feel? Plain. Neutral. Nothing. Nothing at all. I know that, with the announcement of the recession being over, I should be happy as things will get easier. Theoretically, I’ll [...]
24 Jan
Aw, Bless
Posted by graduatecalling in Academia, better luck next time, Finding a job, Not actually employment related. Tagged: career options, christmas, Christmas job, Christmas Temp, classroom assistant, day off, Diversion, employment, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, looking for a proper job, school, schools, unemployed, unemployment, volunteering, working as a christmas temp. 2 Comments
Today, I am happy. Having a few days of nothing to speak of meant that I was able to move on to the hellish medium level of Guitar Hero (suddenly, having to use my little finger to press the blue means that my hands are even more painful), catch up on the epic Pratchett season [...]
14 Sep
Escaping into academia…
Posted by graduatecalling in Academia, Finding a job. Tagged: Academia, bad economy, camphill, camphill community, channel 4, dispatches, education, graduate, job hunting, looking for a job, looking for a proper job, middle class and unemployed, montessori, PGCE, primary school teaching, recession, steiner, steiner education, steiner schools, teacher training. 3 Comments
… By hook or by crook. A few months ago I spoke of my idea to go to Australia, to work, have wacky adventures and add another accent to my repertoire (I have one of those voices which makes me people feel that I am copying them). Now, because I have a holiday booked and [...]
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