Once again, I apologise for my absence. Please blame my degree. Soon it will be over and I will have far too much time on my hands. I will be yet another unemployment statistic. But at least my blog will be SUPER! Until very recently there was not much to tell you about anyway, when I have a little more time after uni I will start blogging on a regular basis just about day to day things but right now I am just going to have to stick with the theme of the blog; my ongoing (non existent) career.
My articles for SENine and Meridian got published. I had to re-write the Meridian one because they wanted Easter break ideas that were basically just their advertisers (nice of them to tell me BEFORE I wrote the first article, yet I must not whine) so the one I re-wrote is the one that got published. Also my lollipop man article got a little bit of an edit but the Opera Boy article wasn't changed at all which was rather nice/surprising. I will link to the posts soon.
In case you hadn't done the math it is now 4 weeks since my Press Association interview. Remember they told me I would find out within 4 weeks? Well I didn't hear anything. I had kind of accepted I didn't get a place anyway, it is so competitive and I just knew on the day that I didn't do as well on the tests as I needed to or could have. Over the last couple of weeks I accepted that and I've just started planning on where to apply next for work experience in the meantime before I apply for the next course which will start in January 2012. I will also apply for a few graduate schemes, I may as well keep my options open.
But anyway, I emailed the Press Association today just to confirm I had been REJECTED. I got an email back saying they had been very busy and would contact me as soon as possible. I decided that this was A LIE. A BARE FACED LIE.
As usual I was wrong as later today I got a call from a rather pleasant lady called Shirley who works for the course or something along those lines, I don't know my mind wandered. She apologised for not getting back to me earlier. I braced myself for the big fat NO. NO they would say. NO WE DON'T WANT YOU. JUST NO.
Instead of that over dramatic and frankly rude answer she told me I had been put on a Reserve List. This is because I didn't do as well on the tests as they would like (knew it) but I had interviewed brilliantly (who knew?) and the head of the Press Association was considering expanding the course. If they do I have a very good chance of getting a place for September. They will let me know at the end of May.
This result was actually much better then I expected. At least if I don't get in and I have to interview again I can make sure I do better on the tests. They said I interviewed brilliantly. BRILLIANTLY. That's better then good. Wow. I must come across as quite a mature and determined individual. If only they knew that I never make my bed and I can, if I want to, bite my own toe nails.
Now I must wait until the end of May. In the meantime I will continue trying to find work experience and a job and if I get on the course, yay! If not at least I know they didn't completely hate me. Maybe I'll just sleep my way to the top.
I'm joking.
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