I'm living in college accommodation for ten days whilst I 'sort out my life', that is, try and work out what an earth I should do next having studied a German degree for four years and failed spectacularly to get a job despite having applied for over fifty this year. I guess it's a tall order, but I can also look forward to a holiday in Chemnitz and Brussels as well as working in Oxford as a Residential Advisor for Japanese students again.After that I'm doing the Hertford Telethon for two weeks, putting off the world a little longer and possibly making contacts with the alumni I call up. Come October though I will need a real job.
I've never lived on Banbury Road, scorning it as too far away from the centre of Oxford. I never bought my friend's logic in trying to get me to live there: she reckoned having a garden would be great. I though living next a river somewhere more central with a catered dining hall was infinitely preferable. I could come downstairs in my slippers at 5.30, watch Neighbours with my friends, get my dinner and maybe watch the Simpsons too.
But having a garden is actually pretty cool. I just played croquet for the first time in over 7 years. And then badminton. It's strange how you realise there are more and more great things about a place just when you have to leave.
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So, finished education, 15 years at school in Sussex and Birmingham, 4 years doing Literature and Linguistics at Oxford with a year abroad in East Germany, now to the life of the graduate, three years in...
Surprisingly, I've been hit by the recession. I've had about 200 job rejections, and that's only those that bothered to reply...
I was an unpaid intern for a year and it was actually a lot of fun. I worked in three law firms, two barrister's chambers, my local MP's constituency office and another MP's office in Parliament. Those were exciting times with the election.
I spent my second graduate year in gainful employment as a Parliamentary Researcher, it was amazing getting a wage for 9 months, getting to grips with Coalition government, being an Intern Rep to enrich the other Parliamentary Intern's experience with careers talks, lunches and drinks and occasionally bumping into celebrities such as Jude Law at events in Parliament.
For the last 10 months I've been training to be an adviser at my local Citizens Advice Bureau, quite a change, but one I made as although Parliament is glamorous, it is harder to see outcomes of your work than it is on a local level, helping individual people face to face. I'm hoping to become a good adviser, so that I might get a paid job sometime soon. I'll have to be patient though. In the meantime, I'm keeping up the private tuition to make some money.
I love living in London, I still feel like a bit of a tourist, and the city never ceases to surprise me with its infinite places of beauty and exciting venues. More importantly, the quality of theatre far surpasses that of Oxford and with the National Theatre Entry Pass and The Night Less Ordinary Scheme, it can be possible to sample some of London's theatrical delights for a mere £5-10
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