Last Wednesday, a taxi driver known as ‘Birdy’ calmly took his rifle with him in his car, and went on a rampage around the North West of England. In total, he killed 13 people in and around Whitehaven, a large town in Cumbria. While it is no longer the first item on the news, the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘applications’
8 Jun
Not something you read everyday.
Posted by graduatecalling in Uncategorized. Tagged: applications, career options, day off, Derrick Bird, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, Honorary Northener, internships, interview, jobcentre fun, looking for a job, looking for a proper job, looking for jobs, Not actually employment related, PGCE, Whitehaven. Leave a Comment
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
17 Mar
An unexpected hi-5
Posted by graduatecalling in Not actually employment related, Stunned, WOOOOOOOOOOOO!. Tagged: applications, career options, Diversion, Downing Street, employment, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, Gordon Brown, graduate, hospital radio, looking for a job, looking for a proper job, ooooh! distracting, volunteering, working. Leave a Comment
How did I celebrate St Patrick’s Day? I worked and had a driving lesson. That counts, right? I have not been in my new job long enough to describe a typical Monday, or even a typical day just yet, but I am getting there. In truth, having days of the week where I know what [...]
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 [...]
10 Nov
Waiting for Scampi
Posted by graduatecalling in Finding a job, Not actually employment related. Tagged: applications, christmas, Christmas Temp, Diversion, employment, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Radio 2, scampi, Working over Christmas. Leave a Comment
Waiting for Scampi is like waiting for Godot, but with more breadcrumbs. I have quite a few things to wait for at the moment. For one thing, I’m now an applicant for teacher training, as I sent in my form a few weeks ago. This means I am now waiting for them to respond, and [...]
29 Oct
So you know…
Posted by graduatecalling in Finding a job, Stunned. Tagged: applications, career options, Checkout, christmas, Christmas Temp, Civil Service, employment, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, holidays, looking for jobs, ooooh! distracting. Leave a Comment
I am actually over the jetlag now. I am now working overtime at the Christmas job, and honest to God I have not had the time to sit down and just type. I’m taking the fact that I have no spare time and struggle to not fall asleep on the bus as a good thing, [...]
2 Oct
New Maths
Posted by graduatecalling in better luck next time, Finding a job. Tagged: applications, being vulgar, career options, driving test, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, Graduate Talent Pool, internships, interview, job centre, jobcentre fun, looking for jobs, ooooh! distracting, the economy, unemployed, unemployment, volunteering. Leave a Comment
This is a calculation I have had swimming round my head for the past month or so, that I feel I want to share with you all. Since about May, I have not counted how many jobs I have applied for. However, rough calculations based on at least 2-3 applications completed every week, alongside the [...]
14 Jul
“We don’t need no education” “Actually you would benefit from some form of schooling, judging by your use of double negatives…”
Posted by graduatecalling in Finding a job. Tagged: applications, career options, driving, employment, Finding a job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, schools, volunteering, youtube. 2 Comments
After a day where my brain decided “Hey, what if you decided to now progress backwards to the point where you forget when to change gear?” during my driving lesson, I went along to the school where I have helped out all this (school) year. For a job I am applying for, I preferably need [...]
30 May
Congratulations and Felicitations, interviews, applications and hardcore literary action… Among other things
Posted by graduatecalling in Uncategorized. Tagged: applications, books, britain's got talent, career options, congratulations, Cranford, discworld, Elizabeth Gaskell, graduate, interview, LGBT, My Lady Ludlow, North and South, ooooh! distracting, Paxman, pork scratchings, Prachett, sexuality, unemployment. 1 Comment
To explain what on earth I am going on about, I shall go through every point of this entry as the title suggests. 1. A Big Congratulations (grammatically, I shouldn’t have capitalised them, but it’s a big deal what I am talking about) to Localfreak for winning a scriptwriting competition. If you are interested in [...]
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