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9am - Be woken up by a phone call, from a job I don't remember applying for, or from someone who found my CV online, offering me a job I don't want. Roll over and go back to sleep.
10.30am - Roll out of bed. Why get up early when I have nowhere to be? Eat breakfast in bed, drink coffee, watch TV. Maybe do some yoga, as it's the only activity I'll get all day.
12.00pm - Lunch time. Relish in the fact that I haven't had to cook in months, since I'm living with mum & dad again. Try to avoid arguing with my brother.
1.00pm - Play the piano. Get frustrated at sticking keys and how out of practice I am and how cold that room is. Get interrupted by phone notifications, with half a dozen new rejection emails.
2.00pm - Blog stuff. Spend too long trying different outfit combinations. Get frustrated editing photos because of dodgy lighting or because it's just plain boring. Try to think of new post ideas, when I've got nothing new in life to write about. Attempt to write a post but get distracted by other stuff online.
3.30pm - Drink more coffee. Run out of ways to procrastinate and start job hunting again. Call back companies that never followed up after interviews. Trawl through page after page on different job boards. Try to personalise cover letters to jobs, but end up repeating the same stuff in all of them anyway. Copy and paste CV contents into dozens of online application forms. Receive dozens of 'confirmation of application emails'. Never hear from most of those companies again.
4.30pm - Begin to question if I'll ever find a job. Question why I seem to be so unemployable. Question what my future will look like. Question if I'll ever be a proper adult. Panic.
5.00pm - Full blown, existential, quarter-life crisis. Take a nap.
6.00pm - Tea time. Update my parents on the job hunt and negotiate lifts to interviews as required. Argue with my brother.
7.00pm - Remember I never finished that blog post. Finish, publish & promote it, even though it's not the best time of day for promoting.
8.00pm - Half heartedly scroll through more job listings. Apply for anything that's a one-click CV send, because I don't want to do more forms and cover letters.
8.30pm - Give up, eat junk, and watch TV. Feel vaguely guilty for not having achieved more today.
2.00am - Go to sleep. Because I don't need to be anywhere in the morning!
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