Right, the Interview...

Well, I had my interview yesterday and now I'm just waiting for a response.

The office itself seemed rather nice- it is in a sprawling old country house right next to a canal and there are only about five or six people working for the company.

The problem is that it is a little fraught to get to- either two bus journeys or a train journey followed by a bus. Coupled with the fact that I'd only rarely visited Rugeley this meant I got lost. First I left the wrong exit at the station, meaning I was going completely the wrong way to the bus stop, then I waited on the wrong side of the road. Then of course I nearly went past my stop and when I did finally get there I had to walk up a rather long trackway to actually get to the office.

The work itself entails drawing large scale detailed drawings of facade panels and the like from architects' concept drawings. In effect, working out how to make the architects facade design reality. It is work I can do and the office uses computer programmes I'm rather good at.

So, do I want the job or not? Well, yes, in that it is related to what I've been studying. But at the same time it is a bit out of the way and I can't shrug off the feeling that if I'm offered it and accept that it means that my ambition to become an architect is, to all intents and purposes, dead. It isn't, of course, but that's just the feeling I get. Probably because it means I can't do my year out.

But if I am offered it- at least I'm doing something design and architecture-related, rather than just working in a shop somewhere.

And the good times continue to roll...

Since I passed last week I've been looking pretty much non-stop for employment, because savings and the goodwill of the family won't last forever.

So I've sent over twenty letters off to architects, applied for an architectural technologist position in my home town and another only a few miles away.

And in that time I've had ten or so rejections and, this morning, an invitation to attend an interview. Another job or two I'm waiting for employment agencies to get back in touch.

So hopefully my career is back in the ascendent...

And now for something completely different...

Looking back over the past few weeks of posts here, it occurs to me that I am guilty somewhat of the heinous crime of whinging.

But now I have something to cheer myself up with because I've finally passed the Third Year of my Architecture degree and gradute in January! Quite an achievement I am sure you will agree.

So for once, shock horror, I'm in a good mood.

Boredom is killing me.

I don't really think I need to expand upon that more than I already have in the title.

I hate being bored, I hate being stuck in the house and I hate having absolutely nothing to do. Which unfortunately is what I now am stuck doing until at least September 9th.

The reason, you see, is because of the University making me wait that long to get my results. Until then I'm pretty much in limbo- I can't get a full time job because I don't have my degree and don't really entertain the notion of having to resign after a week if I've failed again and have to resit the year.

So instead I end up just moping around and writing random effluence like this...