I need a little bit more excitement in my life, before I end up in my 30's with a long bucket list of things I never got the chance to do in my 20's.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces”

 

Yay

Yay

That is all for now.

My Gap Yah

I guess it's fair to say I'm on a kind of gap yah at the moment. Despite internships/work experience, I plan on postponing full time work in a career I aspire to pursue until next summer. I'm not 100% sure why this is, but in my head I've got a sort of mental block on this year while I get my head around a few things and get some things done that I will possibly never get the chance to do again. Made a pretty scary decision in light of this yesterday.... but not telling anyone what it is yet (I'm just that mysterious). Mainly, I'm trying to avoid the current graduate job battlefield for as long as possible. I had a look at what it was like just before I graduated and naively even sent of a few applications.. it's nasty out there! Makes me wish I had taken up a skilled subject at University rather than (more fool me) paying a ridiculous amount of money to study further something I actually enjoy. What a world we live in.

Just a thought

A task for my current job is to trawl through endless lists of Twitter weirdos to attempt to find the next bestselling authors who are apparently hiding away on the internet. Firstly, let me tell you this is not as easy as it sounds. The amount of people who claim to be a 'NY times best-seller', and have in fact written nothing more in their lives than a shopping list, is incredible. Even the ones who have written books sometimes need to be treated with care... there are some very strange people out there.

Mainly what annoys me, however, is the amount of people who claim to be an 'aspiring author', or 'dream of one day being a writer'. So do it then! Even when approached, by a publisher who has the authority to potentially publish your work, it is amazing how many of these people come up with every excuse under the sun as to why they can't actually live out these 'dreams'. What I'm saying is, if you want to tell the world that these are your dreams and aspirations, firstly... do something about it! No-one got to be a writer by simply wanting to be one. And this applies for a lot of things (it doesn't just stop at careers). Secondly, when life does happen to pop an opportunity in front of you, go for it! It is rare that things will happen to you in life without you putting yourself out there first, so if you are lucky enough to be given the chance to do something you want to do, what's holding you back?

Nice little ranty second ever blog post. But more trying to offer some food for thought. x

First blog post - how exciting

Guess it's time for me to start a blog as it seems to be all the rage these days. However I think I'll try to stay away from discussing the meaning of life and posting pictures of tattooed girls in their underwear as seems to be in vogue. Not sure yet what that leaves me... watch this space.