Work Work Work

Evening all, its been nearly a month since I last wrote a piece for this blog, and to be fair few things have happened since then. I am now in full time employment again, this time in retail at a clothes shop in Bath. I won’t reveal which one as if in later posts I feel the need to slag them off, I’ll risk ending up like the girl who ended up getting fired from her job after ridiculing her boss on Facebook!

Work has actually been quite tiring, I’m no stranger to working long hours but being on your feet for ten hours a day with only one break for lunch does take a lot out of you. One of the things I have enjoyed about the job is effectively being a personal shopper for female customers who haven’t got a clue what to buys their boyfriends for Christmas. I think I’ve also become highly skilled in folding jeans, shirts and jumpers to a high standard.

The money isn’t great, not many retail jobs are, and to be fair as I’m spending about an hour’s wages just getting into work every day I can’t see the job being a great money spinner. I’ve been thinking about the whole “work” concept a lot these last couple of weeks. I’ve been saying for a long time that if I had any money saved up I would just do what lots of graduates do and “bugger off” somewhere, maybe to Australia, or South America or maybe fulfil one of my lifelong ambitions which is to go and rent an apartment in New York City for a few months.

I always used to be quite positive about working, and thought that anybody who actively CHOSE not to work was a bit of a bum, but at the moment I really would rather be doing something else rather than working all hours for a very low wage. I can hear the Daily Mail readers out there muttering “bloody idle bugger” and “f***ing students” under their breath, well, frankly, fuck em! I have come to a temporary conclusion that life is just too short to spend working.

Getting back into radio I suppose is a long term goal, but with not a lot of that kind of work about, especially in the west country, it may have to wait until sometime next year. On the plus side I had a couple of friends down from London to stay last weekend, we went and watched Bristol Rovers smash Swindon 3-0 in the afternoon, then went for a meal in Bath in the evening, followed by a night out with some of my new work colleagues. All in all this weekend has been a more laid back affair, I went out running on Saturday morning, then watched football in the afternoon and spent the evening at a friend’s house watching a Bill Hicks DVD and drinking Jack Daniels.

Christmas is just around the corner so I’m planning to buy presents on Wednesday, which is my day off this week. Oh, and Rage Against The Machine are now No.1, which is awesome, I wonder if they’ll let us play it in the shop tomorrow??????