Today has been Monday, incase you were wondering, and it’s been awful. First of all, I slept in a little this morning, only to be woken up by my mobile phone ringing. I ignored it as I didn’t recognise the number.
Then when I came round, I found I had no energy, and aching limbs. For goodness sake, I’ve only just got over the worst cold in the world, and now I feel achy and lethargic and constantly tired.
So, I toiled with the idea of ringing work and declaring myself sick, for all of 5 minutes, then remembered that my colleague Michaela has recently been given a written warning for time off sick, and has lost out on her bonus and is not allowed to transfer or apply for other jobs. Scrap that, I’d rather go in on my death bed than have to miss out on my bonus or any opportunity to transfer my butt out of there!
So, I went into work, after forcing myself to bath the kids, wash up the dishes and tidy a bit, and arrived to find that there were 3 of us in our section, meaning one of us has to go off somewhere else, as it only has to be dual control, and there are only 2 serving windows.
I ended up on Menswear for half an hour, half an hour I can handle, but this was the longest half an hour I’ve ever had to endure, and I was bored and kept thinking “so this is what I’ve been reduced to? Shop-work”.
Lately, I am all over the place in terms of what I want to do. I have no direction, yet I have brains. I don’t have relevant qualifications, due to being forced into quitting University, and I just don’t seem to be able to get anywhere.
From time to time, I scour the internet in the hope that some amazing job in a publishers proofreading, or editing, or just simply reading for a living, with 8 weeks holiday and a salary of 30k a year will jump out and scream “YOU CAN DO ME!” but this never happens.
A few days ago, I found a job online with a company called Meltwater News, and the title is Trainee International Manager. Sounds good, but I am always wary of these Trainee Manager positions after I went for a Trainee Sales and Marketing Manager position after quitting Uni, and ended up traipsing around Sale centre with some poor student guy, carrying extremely large sports bags brimming with goods and selling them business to business. I lasted a couple of hours, and would have stuck it out for the whole day had my shoes not been killing me.
However, this Meltwater one sounds genuine, their website looks professional, and they have offices worldwide. It does state that the training will involve a high volume of sales, which I am not 100% sure about, as I am not naturally a pushy person. I am not sure what the salary would be, or if it will be some kind of OTE salary, which may put me off a bit.
I did apply though, and they called me this morning and left me a voicemail….. the number I did not recognise as I awoke. That was them. And now I am too scared to ring them back incase I end up traipsing around Sale with some poor student guy and two huge big sports bags brimming with goods. I’ll have to ensure I wear flat shoes to the interview if I’m invited for one.
