Hi again!
I would like to apologize in advance for the
possible negative sarcasm in this blog entry.
There are way too many reasons to be extremely excited/upset
and I would just literally go crazy while trying to describe at least some of
them. But this time I would like to talk about how the honesty is the luxury I almost
can’t afford in too many ways. But I will just focus on a few examples this
time.
So, from my short several random interviews’ experience, I came
to some new conclusions that basically you are more than likely to fall to the
category of the unlucky ones if you meet one or more of these criteria:
· Your nearest tube stop isn’t the same as the
nearest tube stop to the place you are applying to (your explanations that you
are about to move more central do not help)
· No one knows where your uni you graduated from
is and they don’t understand why it isn’t called after the city but after the
region
· You succeed as well as some mr X but because you
were not recommended unlike that mr X you are more than unlikely to get a job
· When you must have at least a part-time job to
survive so that you can afford being an almost unpaid intern – you will be
thought of being too picky and it is way too inconvenient for them not to have
your availability 24/7 for these few pennies per week ( a shame I can’t be
alive on water and use the free flying carpet instead of a very ‘cheap’ tube
and stuff like that)
· Your name, surname, nationality, the geography
of your life etc. all sound way too exotic and for some strange reasons you are
asked if your family lives in London (I should start lying on this one as well)
· And some more similar ridiculous things I can’t
remember now and that make me both cry and laugh at the same time
(please don’t forget that it is only my personal opinion and
there are some nice exceptions I came across as well but about all this next
time)
But, my conclusion this time would be – it’s not impossible
to find a job in a week. I think I did find at least one already. But
eventually I had to use an old good method called ‘connections’ myself to find
are place that is actually looking for people. Because at the moment I simply
can’t afford to carry on being honest and keep commuting to every single
interview every single day for any random job I applied which would hopefully help
me to survive. To be honest, this is not how I expected to end up – but as we
all know – time is money – and once I have (hopefully) found a job to keep me
going financially then I am able to focus on some more arty stuff again.
And, on the bright side…
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| Last time me and Noru met was on the plane 2,5 years ago! |
It has been an amazing weekend – despite having learnt some
life lessons you just read above I finally met my two lovely friends Laura and Norgaile there in London which
was like fresh air as only when I met them I realized how easy
sometimes it is to forget the most important things and people in our life
while being focused only on a few tasks as for example, how to get a bloody job.
I will tell you more about my amazing friends some next time as well, will think of an interesting way!
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| Banksy's 'In Tesco We Trust' I came across today (near Angel tube) |
And one of the nice surprises today was… accidently
stumbling upon Banksy’s work near Angel tube! Isn’t it just a little ironical
how his graffiti is now all covered under the glass so no one can spoil it and
it kind of becomes similar to these gallery exhibits we keep seeing hidden
under the glass? I am still unsure what should I think about this phenomenon as
putting the graffiti under the glass kind of goes against all what graffiti
stands for, don’t you think so?
Nevertheless, I thought that both, Banksy and my little job
hunting discoveries are kind of similar in a way that if you want to get
somewhere you sometimes have to find your own way to go around the certain
rules, I guess.
| this is how it looked when it was ehm.. clean... |
Unexpectedly honest with you this time,
Gabriele
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