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 ‘day off’
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
7 May
Hung like a horse
Posted by graduatecalling in Not actually employment related, Stunned, This could go horribly wrong.... Tagged: cameron, clegg, conservative, day off, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, Gordon Brown, hung like a horse, hung parliament, labour, lib dem, Not actually employment related, not actually job related, ooooh! distracting, politics, the economy. Leave a Comment
Last night, when I toddled off to bed after realising that I was so tired I couldn’t understand what people were saying on the tv, I honestly thought that any idea of a hung parliament was next to nil. After all (I considered as I brushed my teeth), the press had been going on about [...]
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 [...]
28 Mar
Work Experience
Posted by graduatecalling in A Small Plea, better luck next time, Finding a job, Stunned. Tagged: 14, bad economy, classroom assistant, day off, Diversion, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, Not actually employment related, ooooh! distracting, school, schools, the economy, volunteering, work experience. Leave a Comment
Child at School: “Miss! Miss! You look, re-ealllllly tired.” Moi: “Uh… Thanks.” *is secretly embarrassed that make up does not hide the fact that she got up earlier than usual, on her day off, and she has already had a driving lesson before turning up in the class today* Child: “I’m tired too, Miss.” Moi: [...]
21 Mar
Cack-handed
Posted by graduatecalling in Not actually employment related, WOOOOOOOOOOOO!. Tagged: being left handed, cack handed, ciotógach, day off, Diversion, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, left handed, Not actually employment related, ooooh! distracting. 1 Comment
Today is my day off, after what feels like a long week at work. That isn’t to say that work is dull, but having 5 days of work and little time to fit everything in, means that I now have one day off in which I have to cram all of my volunteering, driving lessons [...]
7 Mar
Workin’ 9-5
Posted by graduatecalling in Finding a job, Not actually employment related. Tagged: 9-5, career options, day off, Diversion, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, ooooh! distracting, shop assistant, shop work, update, working, working as a saturday girl. Leave a Comment
So, apart from the disappointment of being a failure, life has been busy. My job needed me to come in throughout the week, but thankfully I was able to fit into a trip to London before I was caught in 9-5ness a the opticians. Needless to say, I had a great time in the bright [...]
2 Mar
Drat, drat and quadruple drat!
Posted by graduatecalling in better luck next time, Not actually employment related, Stunned, This could go horribly wrong.... Tagged: career options, day off, driving, driving test, failing 3rd time, failing 4th time, failing driving test, ooooh! distracting. 3 Comments
1st: 4 majors, 13 minors. 2nd: 2 minors… and I can’t remember how many minors (for some reason, that entire test has become a mental blank to me, bar the drive home and moments of panic in the manouvers) 3rd: 1 major, 7 minors, 4th: 4 majors, 3(?) minors! The words, ‘I am so pissed [...]
15 Feb
Stupid stuff wot customers said, innit.
Posted by graduatecalling in *grumblegrumble*, A Small Plea, better luck next time, Finding a job, list. Tagged: being vulgar, career options, Checkout, christmas, Christmas job, Christmas Temp, day off, Diversion, Finding a job, finding a proper job, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, ooooh! distracting, shop assistant, shop work, unemployed, unemployment, working, working as a christmas temp, working in a shop, Working over Christmas. Leave a Comment
This is a small collection of quotes, questions and general enquiries that I heard while working over Christmas, at other jobs, and just recently. However, I will probably end up updating this as more occur to me. I submit these to the jury, only to show that the customer is not always right: *** Customer: [...]
10 Feb
The reading habits of those who have too much time on their hands…
Posted by graduatecalling in list, Not actually employment related. Tagged: A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle, book reviews, books, Cherub, Dave Eggers, day off, Diversion, Good Lord! I finally may be on to something!, graduate, having a cold, Ian Mortimer, Medieval England, Muriel Spark, ooooh! distracting, que sera sera, reviews, Robert Muchamore, Sherlock Holmes, the pride of Miss Jean Brodie, The Recruit, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, Time travel, ugh, volunteering, Watson, Zeitoun. 3 Comments
Ugh… I’m not good at feeling under the weather. It’s my first cold for a few months, and while it isn’t the worst thing I have ever experienced (indeed, I have one friend who is really rather ill), I hate how tired it makes me feel. I can breathe, but all of my senses feel [...]
2 Feb
Stumpy meets World
Posted by graduatecalling in Not actually employment related. Tagged: crochet, day off, graduate, knitting, Not actually employment related, not actually job related, ooooh! distracting. Leave a Comment
Well, someone has to be chuffed, and that person has to be me! As I have mentioned a couple of times on this blog, I am a keen knitter who recently branched out in crochet. For your enjoyment and puzzlement, I present a selection of images of stuff I have knitted. The only stuff I [...]
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