Life Update
It’s been ages since I last blogged, I’d like to say its been because I have found a job and I’m too busy, but the truth of the matter is I no longer have internet access. The only way I can blog or leave comments is by using my phone, and as you can imagine dear readers, this is by far, less than desirable.
Not to be daunted by this, I have figured a way of writing a post on my lappy, transferring it through iTunes as an ebook, copying the contents in Stanza, and then pasting it all into the web browser on the iPhone. It’s a bit of a palaver, but it works. Much better than having to type out a few hundred words on my phone.
So, what is new in the life of your favourite king? I’ve been attending a few courses lately, one set up by the government because I have been out of work for over 18 months. That was a scary realisation, 18 months!!!
These courses are generally set towards illiterate and innumerate oafs, and by admission by one of the course lecturers, they normally pigeonhole everyone into one of three groups, either red, for the thickest of the thick who need a huge amount of help; amber for intermediates who could do with a good brush up, and green, those who generally just need no help, just a bit of support.
In my case she said they have had to invent a new grouping, ebony! I don’t know why I warranted such distinction, perhaps it’s because they saw the purple blood running through my veins… lol
Anyhow, because they have no infrastructure within their organisation to deal with me or my needs, they forked out £400 on a course that they thought would be of use to me. So I was duly sent on what I would call the most illuminating and revealing lecture for newly unemployed professionals run by Omega Recruitment. I wont go into too much detail, but it did certainly open my eyes. In today’s job market, someone like me needs to sell myself more, in fact the term he used was Americanise yourself, be less British and throw out the reservedness and big your talents up.
For me this is rather difficult as I have always been rather shy about selling myself, I just don’t want to sound like a bighead. But needs must so I have rewritten my CV to reflect this. I’ve also joined LinkedIn, apparently this is an excellent way to find work, networking is now the best way of finding gainful employment, in fact 80% of all jobs never get advertised, it’s all about who you know.
So I’m all for that, link me up if you’re on there :D
In other news, I’m now volunteering at the local radio station, StroudFM. It’s a very small station, but by no means a rubbish one, everything you would expect from a national radio station happens there as well. Currently I’m mainly involved in finding news stories for the drive-time shows and I’ve already had three intervews that I have conducted aired for all and sundry to listen to.
I have discovered that I hate my voice and I no longer have the capability to feel nervous. In fact the station manager is keen to get me to do a show. I’m slightly apprehensive about this as I’m not confident that I can use the mixing desk and talk at the same time, there’s a lot to remember. It looks very easy until you are sat there with a vast amount of technology in front of you, two CD’s playing at a countdown, a phone ringing with an interview and a microphone that needs you to talk into it, and above all be interesting and not stumble over your words.
Of course I will have a go at it, nothing ventured nothing gained. What could go wrong? I won’t die nor will I get pregnant, so if I do end up doing it, hopefully I’ll be able to get the show and upload it as a sound file on here for you to listen to, no doubt it will be amazingly bad and you will be able to take the piss out of me no end, but one thing for sure, it will be fun!
See, there I go again, putting myself down…. tut.
Keep living the dream readers! :D
