Life Gaps

If people work for free, does this take away a paid persons job. The answer is simple - yes.  Coming close to a year in a job and I am informed that I am to mentor a new intern. Although, still a freelancer myself, now I have the added bonus of guaranteed hours every week. The business gets nearly 20 interns every year on a revolving basis in the summers. They turn up squeaky eager and leave squeaky depressed unless they are one of the so called ‘lucky’ ones who get put on the freelance panel. My new intern Sarah got her internship through one of the staff she knew through a friend of a relative. On first impression she is super nice and bubbly with a lot of the normal eagerness one would expect. From the start, my priority is to train her and give her as much knowledge as possible. This is very time consuming but feel it necessary and important. We soon become great friends and my aim is to at least get her on the freelance panel like me. A few months later, however, cutb...

Looking for a job can be hard work and nothing says it more than the picture below.  The day after my first college internship ended, I am fired up like Usain Bolt on speed. I’m more motivated than ever to really give it a go making more than five versions of my CV adopting each cover letter for each job applied for.  However, one of the biggest problems is that there are simply no graduate jobs advertised to even go for.  Entry employment forms for larger global companies take an age to fill in and normally require tasks or essays to be completed. Such time consuming applications feel as if they have been fired up into space into a non-existent Internet cloud. As the days pass, feeling half in the shade of doubt, the motivation levels begin to drop like a petrol gauge in a car. The hardest part of unemployment after college is actually coming to terms with it. With no hint of a job, finally it is decided that there is no choice but to except registration...