Back in an age beyond the mists of time, in a place where space and words have no meaning (2009), some people with clipboards asked a group of children what they wanted to be when they grew up (admittedly, it was bit more complex than that). So what did they find? To the shock of absolutely no-one at all, it turns out that most kids these days want to be…a celebrity. Continue reading
It might not surprise you to hear this, but on the days when I’m not out writing stunning list articles and apparently easy-to-plagiarise pieces about clothes buying, I have a day job. It’s hard exactly to define what my job title is exactly, but if I had to lie guess, it would go something along the lines of ‘Front-of-House and Aesthetics Maintenance Associate’. Where you ask? I don’t want to name names because you’ll get all jealous and stuff, but it’s a popular hospitality company. Perks? Sure, tons of them; erm….oh goddamnit.
Fine, I work in fast food. But you know what? My job could be a hell of a lot worse by the looks of it. At least, at my workplace… Continue reading
One year. That’s how long I’ve been out of the education system. And by god, have I missed it. Sure life as an archaeology student was hard- pulling all-nighters to finish insanely difficult essay questions on subjects like trade and exchange; counting, measuring and identifying endless numbers of animal bones; camping for five weeks in the middle of nowhere and being force fed copious amounts of onion quiche by a bunch of gun-toting militant vegetarianists- however, taking all these occurrences out, it was utterly brilliant.
