Thursday 23 September 2010

So far, so good

So I've started the new job and I like it.  They have a really good way of working in that you change tasks every hour.  This means you can't get bored, I loved the tills and clearing the changing room rails.  It gave me plenty of time to look around the store and decide what I wanted to spend my discount on!

Tomorrow is the last day of my other job.  There has been lots of 'office politics' stuff that has amazed me, but I am still gutted about leaving.  Just sad that this last experience has had a blip on my memories of the job as a whole.

I'm sure tomorrow will be full of hugs and tears and I'm not looking forward to it at all.  The girls and I are going on a 'leaving do' though.  We are going to see a production of Rocky Horror.  I've heard loads of good stuff about it.  I've even brought a new dress to go - although I might change my mind yet and dress up!

Uni starts on Monday with Freshers Week.  I'm not sure what is really going to happen with that.  I have got my timetable though and it tells me that I am starting with Ceramics and Glass - I can't wait to dive in there!

Tuesday 7 September 2010

A breakthrough

It's official - my job is actually going, no well it may still go part time or there may be hope yet it's going.  Which has kind of made me a little sad. I know I'm going back to Uni and i shouldn't really care, but I do.  The scheme I work for is a really worthwhile one and I would hate to think of it going down the drain - especially when it affects so many children in such a positive way.

Last Thursday I made the decision that apparently a job wasn't going to drop in my lap and I needed to go out and find one (who knew...).  So I took some CV's with me to work and on my lunch hour put on my best smile and went around the stores in my local town basically asking if anyone was taking on staff.  There were a couple of  'sure we will be taking on Christmas staff, leave your CV and we will get back to you' lines, but then I went into a clothes store and asked the assistant if they were taking on staff.  She directed me to the store manager, who said yes actually we are taking on, do you have a CV?  I handed over my ready prepared CV and explained how I was starting Uni and would really like a part time job thankyouplease.  She said 'mmmm are you available tomorrow for interview?' I jumped up and down and hugged her said yes I would be available.  We arranged a time and the butterflies started in!

You've got to understand - it has been (literally) years since I last had a job in any kind of retail sector and I have never had a job in the clothing sector - I've worked in bars, supermarkets and a stationery store, but never clothing.  There were loads of doubts flying around my head, would I fit in, would I be the oldest there (I'm not the crypt keeper or anything but still.....

I arrived the next day wondering what would befall me.  Would my outfit be trendy enough?  Would the person interviewing me be younger than me.....I was met by a nice lady who was in the same age bracket as me (relief!) who then told me I was going to play personal shopper for a celebrity, I had a mythological £100 to spend on an outfit for them for the night and off I went.  Can I just say there is a kind of freedom in shopping with money that a) isn't yours b) you have no responsibility for and c) don't have to pay back.  I whizzed around and found the perfect ensemble.  Followed the lady to the back of the store for the remainder of my interview, where the usual questions were asked, shook hands and told they would be in touch.  Cue more butter butterflies!

I was languishing on the sofa the next day, when the phone rang and it was nana calling  the store calling to offer me the job!  I was so excited!  OK it is minimum wage, I didn't cure world hunger or anything, but still in the course of 3 days I had landed myself a fab job with a (very) decent discount!

The big break through is I feel like now I can get excited about going to Uni.  My money worries are far less, I have another job to go to and I'm doing what I want to do YAY ME!  So to celebrate I went out and brought myself not 1 but 2 folders!  Will the excitement never end!

What can I say my life is like rollercoaster of discovery ;o)