There are not enough hours in the day

I have just about settled into my new job. Working with a start- up I've been thrown into the deep end and it's been a fantastic learning curve for me. I am now emerged in the world of KPI's, engagement reports and spread sheets. So many spread sheets. And I feel like I've written a billion news letters.

You can see me in action at @oneminutelondon

It's good and I'm enjoying learning on my feet. Every week I get excited writing the engagement reports seeing that it's improving every week, and that's because of me.

As it stands, I go into the office for a few hours one day a week so I'm still looking for a few other pieces of work to do. Since last Monday I've been the oldest work experience kid ever. I'm working in GoThinkBig's office. I've been doing a menagerie of activities including writing an editorial on how gaming is like finding a job. It totally is.

I'm currently finding there is not enough hours in the day any more. And going from having no job to working 9-5 ever day and having a part-time job on top of that is exhausted. Waking up while it's still dark is not at all fun. How do you deal with going from Freelance to office? and to office AND freelance?

Happy belated Christmas and heres to a prosperous new year

Apologies for the Radio silence. The last few days have been a bit of a whirlwind.

Hope everyone had a fantastic overindulgent Christmas time. I have been blessed with the best present ever. I got a job! Sort of. Ish. Internship. I applied for it last Friday. Got invited to interview on Sunday. Went to interview on Monday. Got offered it Monday night. Signed my contract on Tuesday. Started out of office work today. Monday I start in the office.

I'm going to be a Community Manager! I get to tweet, Instagram and Facebook (these are nouns now yes?) and write blogs. 

My day in Narnia at Inspiring Interns

You know the feeling when you've applied to every job ever, and no one has replied to you. Not even to stay sorry but no. Well on Monday I was feeling a lot like that. At about 11pm I had an epiphany. A light bulb moment. Why don't I have a job helping people like me. I saw a HR internship available at Inspiring Interns, I stayed up far to late writing the most heartfelt covering letter ever. At 10am the next morning I send it all off to them.

Nothing else interesting happened until 3:15pm that day. That's five hours. I waited a whole five hours for somebody to get back to me. Even net-a-porter took at least 2 days to tell me I was unsuccessful.

But this wasn't unsuccessful. I can not explain the euphoric feel when you see an email appear in your inbox when the subject line is "Successful Application". If you've ever gone a long time without a job, and have been apply for up to 4 or 5 jobs a day, you will understand the calming wave of "finally".

Unfortunately the position I applied for had already been filled, but they invited me in for a chat anyway.

If you haven't heard, inspiring interns reception room is decorated to look like Narnia. And you get to walk through a wardrobe. Strangely enough it all seemed quite normal considering I was named after Lucy for Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe. 

Inspiring Interns are a graduate recruitment company who help businesses find graduates for internships. And therefore, help graduates find internships. The stand out point for them is they use video CV's to show prospective employers. And if you don't have a camera to film on, their happy to do that at their office. 

The lovely Annie was the to help me yesterday. We had a brief chat about what kind of internship I wanted, which I have to admit was quite vague. What I did at university, what I've been doing since. Which when people ask me is quite a lot of stuff, not all cramed onto  my CV. She the gave me a few minutes to get ready to make my video CV. Which consisted of me writing a short speech over and over again in my note book. But it worked. And by the 3 time I just about managed to not say Umm or trip over my words.

Annie then gave me some internships to look at to see if I wanted to be put forward for any of them. I think my yes pile was a lot bigger than my no pile. 

So now I get to play the waiting game. I think I might develop this into an actual game so it's more fun.

If you are struggling with finding an internship I really recommend getting in contact with inspiring Interns. I think I've ended up talking to three of for different people in the office for different things but they've all very lovely and helpful.

If you want to see what internship opportunities they currently have you can check out their website.

Or if you have a question, or would like to registrar with them you can fill in a form here. 

After you have become registered with them, you have the option to join the refer a friend scheme. So if you'd like to help me out email though this address and let them know I sent you :)

30 Reasons London isn't Cornwall. Or photos from my instagram and Flickr

1. London seem to have an obsession with frozen yogurt. Our frozen yogurt shop caught on fire.

2. I haven't yet seen anyone wearing flip-flops/ bare foot walking around like it's a normal thing.

3. The hills are inferrer. After living in Cornwall for five years, and living at the top of every massive hill there was your flat surfaces unnerve me.

4. No one I've met in London has been an extra on Doc Martin.

5. I haven't seen one person use their own hessian/canvas bags when they go food shopping.

6. There is no sea. Or beaches for that matter. Where do you londoners go to paddle when you're drunk?

 

7.The Christmas lights here are move extravagant than Falmouth.

8. The world doesn't come to an end at 4pm on a Sunday things are still open here. You can still have dinner if you forgot to go shopping.

9. The public transport here is amazing. I see people getting pissed off when a tube is stopped at a station 30 seconds too long. Try waiting for a bus in Falmouth. On a Sunday they only come once ever half an hour. If you're lucky.

10. Londoners don't paint your house fun colours.

11. The cinema prices are ridiculous. As I found out for the price of two cinema tickets you could have got two pizzas and four beers to sit-in in soho.

12. The lack of Tesco around the corner disturbs me. This may just be relevant to East Finchley. I used to have a chose of two Tesco, metro and express minutes from my door. Now I have to walk like ten minutes to a Budgens.


13. Crossing the road is like playing chicken. Luckily I've only nearly died like twice. Those taxi's just don't stop.

14. Coconut water is a thing here.

15. Bubble tea is also a thing here. A thing that I don't really understand.

16. No one walks out the house for just a nice stroll. Everyone seems to be on an a-b mission.

17. "Cornish pasties" here taste weird.

18. You have so many restaurants I haven't eaten at the same one more than twice. I haven't even been to the same brand of fast-food Restaurant twice.

19. If you talk to a stranger on the tube people assume you're a drunk.

20. Above point is not exclusive to the tube.

                                                             

21. Where are all your aggressive birds? I have not been attacked once since being in London, Falmouth on the other hand it's a day-to-day fear.

22. The weather in London is quite dull. It's always quite meh. No extremes.

23. I'll be there in ten has completely left my vocabulary.

24. Everyone works in PR or says they work in PR.

25. Every time I walk around central the apprentice theme enters my head, in Falmouth it was usually drunken sailor.

26. You actually have fibrotic broadband. It's not just a lie.

27. The view from my window is slightly different.

28. There is no real cider on tap at every pub. I still haven't found and old Rosie or Thatchers Katy.

29. Some take-aways deliver until 1am. That's insane.

30. The water here tastes disgusting.