YES I FINALLY GOT A JOB!!!!!! *cries tears of joy*
Late one night I had a argument with a good friend of mine over something entirely trivial, and it really annoyed me that I had to take that kinda shit from a friend, but we both didn't want to keep fighting so we both went offline early. But I was so troubled that I couldn't sleep at all. So at 4am I got out of bed, turned on my computer and fired off a dozen resumes and cover letters to jobs on Seek. I'd been complaining to myself for a while about not having a job, and even manually handing out resumes had yielded no results. At 5am I finally thought myself a job well done and went back to bed. And that afternoon I got a call from one of the advertisers who asked me in for a interview.
What I said: "Yes thank you very much for contacting me." What I thought: "OMGOMGOMGYESYESYESYES someone wants me!!!!"
Completely psyched for the interview (wasn't really that nervous) I pulled out the white shirt and black vest I had bought a month previously for exactly this purpose. Until I tried it on and realised that the shirt couldn't be tucked into my pants. I was typing desperately to a girl from highschool about the proper way of wearing a vest and shirt, how pathetic..... But although I was told that it would be better to tuck it in the shirt just would not comply so I left it out hoping no one would think "wow this girl does not know how to dress herself."
The interview was pretty early in the morning so I had to set a few alarms to make sure I woke up on time. And the interview was more like an induction anyway... *knock knock* oh hi, I'm so-and-so, welcome to the company, here fill in some forms, carry a few plates, watch a boring video, here have a name tag. And btw can you work tomorrow night? HELL YES I CAN XD
It's a hospitality recruitment agency, so for functions or big events they'll send little worker bees like us out as waiters/bartenders/servers and whatnot. The pay is very good, $18+/hour, but the hours per week are very inconsistent, and I have to find their clients' venues to work and get back home, usually at 1am. My first shift was in the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre where some auction dinner was going on. Funny how after 7 hours of working I can't exactly say what the function was about. Some rugby league thing I think. But it was really complete hell == First thing I had to do after they talked to us was hold a full tray of drinks for half an hour for pre-dinner drinks. Gaaawwwddd it felt like my arms were going to snap off. I usually hold trays in my left hand but I had to keep swapping to my right hand cos my left hand was cramping up so badly it wouldn't stop shaking. While walking around I accidentally dropped a glass of champagne off my tray and it shattered on the floor. I could tell my face was going completely red and I looked extremely flustered cos a few colleagues were like "Just calm down it's ok, it happens." Although I didn't really make any friends on that night the people from my agency were really quite friendly.
After that me and another girl were in charge of pouring drinks and stuff for a couple of tables, and my hands were still cramping so badly I spilt two glasses of wine (white fortunately) as I was pouring. Wasn't until later in the night when I could feel them again I could pour wine/water without taking their glass off the table. The rest of that night wasn't so bad. The food looked really spectacular, and I really wanted to steal the plates of dessert that hadn't been touched but sadly they all had to go in the bin *cries*
All in all it was quite a fun night, was a test of endurance the whole way through. By the end of it my arms were aching terribly and I could hardly lift my left arm above waist height. At home and the next day I had to take Panadol so I could get to sleep. Catering for functions is really tough work, and the good thing about my agency is they will text me about an upcoming job and you can choose to accept or refuse it by text, but I guess my phone bill is going to skyrocket. I would be tempted to refuse jobs that don't suit me, or accept jobs I know will be easier but I really need the money. Going to be moving out of home soon so I'll have to be paying my own rent and food and all the bills. Moving out with two friends, hopefully by the end of this month or just asap, as soon as we find a suitable place. With assignments rushing up I really need to pick up my act on studies, haven't really been doing a lot since semester started unfortunately.
This is going to be a long post but I guess I might as well write about uni as well. My two Business units this semester are Advertising Copywriting and Media Planning. Copywriting is kind of like designing the pitch/comcept/text/visual of an ad, really good fun. Requires a lot of creative thinking. The first assignment product for this is Darrell Lea's fruit-flavoured liquorice. I haven't had liquorice for years and years so I was pretty excited at this. But I bought a bag and tried it out and it was disappointing in almost every aspect except the packaging. The 'liquorice pieces' weren't in long, fun, twisted strips as I thought it would be, and the flavouring was really quite bland, and tasted just like normal candy. The chunks of liquorice were too long to eat all at once but I couldn't take a bite out of one and put it back in the bag I was sharing, and I got stuck to my teeth a lot. But anyway I guess this is where creativity steps in to make it seem like a good product for people to buy. Media Planning is how advertising spots/places are bought on different types of media, and how the type of media will suit what types of advertising. The assignment for this is pretty research heavy and I should really start on that.
My Creative Industries units are, well, less bullshit than it was last sem at least. One is all about how people speak, communicate effectly and conduct interviews. It's fairly interesting, and for the assign. I have to conduct an interview of my own, still haven't decided on my topic yet though, or who to interview *worry* The other unit is all about making connections, with the assign. about creating an event which connects with the community, location, sponsors, blahblahblah. Yea you get the point. There's two Facebook groups that were made for the sole purpose of flaming the previous unit, and apparently most of the past students has joined that network. Haha I found that pretty hilarious since I really thought the previous unit was utter utter bullshit and time/money-wasting. This is an obvious sign that something is wrong with that unit and should be altered to make it more relevant to students. This semester is pretty assignment-heavy, so I should really start working *worries some more*
Eh that's enough of a spam post, here's a nice song to finish it off:
