Hello there,
buddies!
As per usual I
am suffering with writer’s block…typical for a Sunday – it never seems to
happen any time else. I dislike Sundays…maybe I should have been writing about
the fact I hate Sundays? Hmm…
Anyways,
crazy person ramble over (sssh) I thought that today I could just ramble on
about big decisions I have going on in my messy brain for after I finish
university.
Yes, I know I
still have two years left, but this is the sort of time when I feel like I need
to figure out where I going in life, what I want to achieve, and where I want
to be. So naturally, my blogger brain took control and thought that talking to
actual people would be a bad idea, and telling you guys is a much more logical
mechanism… I am not actually sure whether me typing away to myself is going to
solve any of the problems and help me come to any conclusions faster, but we
shall see.
I have had
these thoughts going round in my head for a couple of months now, so they are
considerably clearer than what they were. But basically I have no fucking clue
where I am going in my life. I am probably going to get frustrated and not end
up publishing this for a while so bear with me.
I know that
the last couple of weeks have been slow and not my normal type of posts, so I
do apologise for that, but I am hoping to get an all-round feel for my blog,
and see how well certain things go down with you guys. I don’t want to give out
the image that I am just a person who complains all the time, because I am not,
so adding extra posts in like these ones seemed like a good idea. At the moment
I am just trialling them to see what the success rate is going to be like, and
so far so good! You guys also managed to get me to the front page of Google
search results for my post regarding Ask.fm the other day, so thank you so much; that meant the world to me!
I am also
going to give a little shout out right now to one of my lovelies who I have
been speaking to on Twitter recently! This lovely is Sunny Williams
(@notthatsunny) who replied to a Tweet I put out about Harry Potter last night!
She is so cute and brand new to Twitter so get following! I also got a reply
from Matthew Lewis (the gorgeous man who plays Neville Longbottom in the Harry
Potter films) on Twitter last night, so I went fangirl mad.
I have gone completely
off topic now….
Ah yes, life
decisions.
In September
I am going to be starting my second year at uni, as you probably know by now
considering I bang on about it allllll the time, and I have been mulling things
over about where I want to go after I finish. Literally everything from what
job I want to do, to whether I want to take a year out after uni. Then I
started thinking about things for the next two years, too. Gah, my mind is
boggling.
So I am going
to attempt to logically talk them through on here in the hope that they make
some sense to you, and in the end to me too, and hopefully you guys can help me
out a bit?
Just a
warning, these are going to be so here there and everywhere and in absolutely
no order at all. I am going to try to be chronological here so that I am not
jumping from what I want to do next week, to 2015, then back to this year. That
could get confusing…I have written a list and I hope to try to follow it, but
you guys know what I am like…
The first
thing on my mind is about getting a job for this year and next year when I am
in Plymouth. I mean I seriously need the money, like badly. There are so many
places I could apply, but most of them are shops and my 4 years’ worth of experience
is all in hospitality, so I am fucked there. If someone could pay me to write I
would literally be in heaven. I don’t even care what I would be writing about,
as long as I get paid. Gah, I sound desperate…Long story short, someone give me
a job down in Plymouth. I will be spending the 11th handing out CVs
to every single place with an open door. Prepare your shit, Plym.
Then I am
trying to decide whether I am going to do the same thing that I did last year
and not go back to Swindon until Christmas then come back to Plymouth for new
year, or go home in my reading week for my birthday. To be honest, I would much
rather stay in Plymouth, especially because I think I have International
Relations lectures that week…and I can be in Plymouth for longer with my
friends. Hmm, decisions. I am hoping some of my friends would be up for being
back in Plymouth for new year too, so that I am not alone. That would be so sad
– getting drunk on my own… +James Martin new year in Plym-Plym?
Ok, now
seriously thinking ahead like two years, I am starting to wonder what the fuck
I want to do with my degree like job-wise. When I first joined university I was
dead set on joining the police as a full police officer. I have done quite a
bit of work with the police over the last year and I have to admit, I am a
teeny bit put off from joining it! Which sounds reaaaaally bad, it is nothing
to do with the job itself but I think that it isn’t overly suited for me. I don’t
know – I am not going to completely rule it out, but it isn’t my first choice
anymore. I then thought that I could get the good bit of being in the police by
joining as a PCSO so I am not a full officer…still not entirely sure how I feel
about doing that, but you know. I have always been interested in youth justice
and whatnot, and I have good connections with the Youth Offending Service down
in Plymouth and also down here and I would love
to work in that area of the criminal justice system, so hopefully they are
going to be looking to employ new people in 2015 so that I can go straight in
to a job (that will never happen). I am also looking at pursuing this writing
this, but writing about my field of study…damn you, blog, making me reconsider
everything.
Now we come
to the conundrum that is literally on my mind a lot – where I want to live
after I graduate. Now I know I am not going to be able to afford to pick and
choose, but everything I am about to say is me thinking in an ideal world. None
of it will probably happen because I will be skint. I am, and have been for a
while, considering a massive move over to Australia. I have been doing research
and there are quite a few job opportunities for me over there, and I have
friends and family there who would be able to keep me on my feet for a bit. Gah
the temptation. The only thing really holding me back is money to be honest.
Then me being more logical and thinking realistically, I am looking at either
staying in Plymouth or moving over to somewhere like London. But we shall see
where I end up – I will go wherever I can get a job really.
Then I have
the whole “do I want to take a year out after uni to go travelling” situation.
I was looking at taking a gap year before university, but chose not to as I
knew I wouldn’t go to uni after. So now I am thinking of taking some time after
uni to get some experiences under my belt by travelling and working abroad for
a year or two. Only problem here is that it is crazy expensive to take time out
when you don’t have money behind you. I am lucky enough to have finally got
myself a job here, so I could easily save the money over the next year, so I
will make the decision at the end of university I think. It will depend on job
prospects I think. What do you guys think? Should I take time out?
In slight
relation to this, I have come to the sudden realisation that I can now afford a
major holiday when I graduate – which will be awesome. I was looking at going to Disney World in Florida with my
friends, but then we looked at travelling Europe and whatnot. But after seeing
the events of Comic Con and Vidcon in San Diego and LA, I think we might he
heading over there instead. Would be awesome to actually get to meet the
YouTubers I watch and get to go to
Comic Con – so many things could be ticked off my Bucket List because of that.
I have so
many more decisions that I want to tell you about, but this post is nearing
2000 words already so I should probably stop.
If you have
any advice you wanna chuck my way that would be awesome!
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