A lesson in life

Once again I enter the mysterious world of the blog. Perhaps once again I will grow tired of the media and cease to produce posts, perhaps though it will be third time lucky.
Yes, this is my third stab at bloging and, as with each previous attempt, much has changed for me in my internet absence.

This time the change has been my departure from education and subsequent enterance in to the famed 'real world'.

When you are young, the idea is installed deep within you that once you leave education and must make your own way in the world you will encounter great strife and I'm not doubting that many people do but for me this has, so far, not been the case. I was able to quickly enter a summer job almost imdeiately after my school life had finished and as my term there came to an end I was taken on as 'Seasonal Resource Collegaue' at hmv equally rapidly.

I must have done something right during my time as a christmas dogsbody because its now may and I'm still at hmv and working more hours than before.

I keep putting my consistent employment down to luck, after all the news readily and regularly informs me how hard it is to find work these days, especially for people my age, but now I think that's wrong; it can't all be luck. (It's personal trumpet blowing time now) I must be good at what I do and so far that's been a lot of things: door-knocking with the Lib Dems, frying god awful pieces of fish and now selling CDs for "the UK and Ireland’s leading entertainment brand".

If you're trying to find a moral in this post then good luck. However, I will say this; the world of work is only as treacherous as you make it. You just have to believe that you are the only employable applicant, this is different to being cocky, this is being confident. I never used to be confident and it is hard to be so without a few successes under your belt, but once you believe in yourself you can (pardon the cliche) achieve anything.

I didn't set out to write a post in the style of a jibbering management, self-help guru type, what I have written here is only how I feel.