Lives of Work and Days of Wonder

Having finished university sometime in May, I am yet to find suitable employment.

I still work one day a week in a garden centre, a job I've held now since I was in the sixth form. At work on Sunday, I was the longest serving employee out of everyone there. Since I stared there, I have seen employees come and go, and during that time I've graduated from university with a 2:1 degree in American Studies and Imaginative Writing, but the fact that, at the end of it all, I'm still doing the same job I was before I even entered university makes me feel like I have gone no where in three long years.

I did once quit my job, during my third year at university. During that time I lived away from home and struggled for money. I eventually moved back home and once more went back to work there.

During the week I've been looking for work, but as I said at the top, I am yet to find any. This is probably through lack of effort in looking on my part, and I am finding it difficult to pluck up the energy to put some serious effort in. Every Sunday evening, after work at the garden centre, the desire to find work during the week (and perhaps continue working at the garden centre on Sundays) is most definitely there, but the energy is not. By Monday morning, the desire for work during the week is usually weakening (no pun intended) by the minute.

My situation is perhaps somewhat different to most other students because I am not looking for work which is potentially going to entertain me for the rest of my life. I need work for about twelve months to get me to King's College, London, so I can do a Master's. At the moment, that feels a million miles away, but it really isn't.

Hopefully well-paying employment is not far away either, but it really is up to me to pull my finger out a bit more than I am doing at the moment.

Yours, wherever you may be,
Daniel C. Wright