Oscar Wilde once said.... 'The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one'
Ever since i left school at 16 i wanted to work, my teachers and parents all told me i 'needed' to go to university and get a degree if i wanted to make anything of my life. It just didn't feel right. I wanted to work. I wanted to climb up the career ladder all by myself and prove the stupid career adviser wrong.
And just to detour slightly how ironic is that job, you choose a career where you tell kids what they should be doing with their future career but how would they know - they just go with idealistic views??!!
Anyway back to the point.
I had some shit jobs. Working in a chip shop and looking a plastic bottles for 8 hours a day to name just two. However i made money, found out what things i was good at and not so good at and plodded on. At 23 years old i became the youngest Radio Sales Manager in the UK. I had a successful team under me, made a good bit of cash so i could afford life's little luxuries and was pretty damn pleased with myself. I loved my job, i can't understand people who don't want to work and hate their job. Just fucking go and do something else! So on Friday when my fantastic work mates threw me a lovely party, drank lots of Pinot Grigio and bought me a hat with corks on it, i felt a bit angry! I am unemployed for the first time in 10 years! Was i going backwards or forwards by giving up everything? Ahhhhh!!
That island down under better be worth it!!
Sy
2 comments:
Being unemployed temporarily would give you some time to settle things in the island down under.
Wish u luck!!
You have your whole life to work...you seem pretty ambitious...I'm sure you'll make it work! Your hostel is across fro my office building so if you fancy lunch..lemme know. I work in the big brick building with the words TAFE NSW on george street. Welcome to Sydney!
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