Okay so, it's a new year, 12 days after the new year on the 12th year of the new millenium and while that has no relavence at all anyway, I'm still going to mention it because I can't think of a better intro.
A lot will be changing this year for me. This year, my yearly resolutions are:
Find a job (last year failed)
Learn some language basics/greetings/general conversation (Japanese, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese)
Draw everyday
Finish my HND (2nd year of a Bachelor's equivalent)
Well, last year was bewildering when it came to finding a job, it really was. I travelled around my city in search for a job, dropping off CVs where ever I could and this year, I've had to go to the extreme; benefits. I didn't want to go on benefits, I really did not; however, it is needed in this time of year. I'm not going on state benefits or something stupid, but rather a job allowance benefit where it means I'll be put on a list and gain help in finding a job. Why am I doing this? Because I found out that a normal job in my area (ranging from shop clerks to even simply janitors or cleaners) has a waiting list of roughly 40-70 people each.
It's awful. Britain is in such an awful state for joblessness among students, I know that, but for an average of 40-70 people waiting for a job in each profession available in the fastest growing city in Western Europe is complete crap. They announced that while 600'000 immigrants came into the UK and found jobs while there's 450'000 young people like me jobless, there must be a connection. REALLY CAMERON? Really? Really, how the HELL could you not see a connection. Young people like the low paid jobs too, you know. I'm not blaming immigrants, but why the hell would you let that many people immigrate into a country on the verge of collapse because jobs and businesses are being lost?
Just hang on, let me pack my bags and move off to Poland or Latvia for a job, because moving to another country is certainly feeling like a good idea if these people managed to get a job easily where people are leaving to come to Britain. I'm highly educated and hard working, I could totally do it...oh wait, no money, only £8.50 to my name...problem there.
I envy immigrants sometimes, they're such nice people and get nice jobs and just...why Britain, why are you letting your own population down by declaring a recession just so you can use all your money of missiles to blow up innocent people in other countries for your selfish needs. I feel like a little mouse in a cage with all the freedom and opportunity outside steel bars my teeth can't chew through, I'm sure there's many other youths feeling the same way.
'Blame the Government, never the people' I guess. British people are always such good complainers.
Oh well, to move on. There's a reason I want to learn the basics of these languages and then hopefully move on to advancing them. I've always loved the Japanese and Chinese way of writing, it's so expressive, while the other languages are just the typical common European ones in countries that are easy for EU Passport holders to visit. I just love languages, I guess. I wanted to be a linguist when I was younger, but now I can learn these languages with information freely released on the internet as learning tools.
The drawing everyday and HND thing seems rhetorical, so why bother answering that.
Oh well, so far so good. I've already learned how to write basic Japanese and Chinese while the other languages I've always known little tidbits for. If you knew me, you'd think I had tourettes with how much I blurt out random words and sayings in different languages on a daily basis...I even use them to 'curse' because I don't like swearing (I don't know why, I just don't like speaking the words. They make me feel awkward).
Oh, also. There was plans looong ago to move to the US for a while, but the US Government screwed that up. It's impossible to go there now, but Canada and Japan have suddenly become open links with the fact that Canada has deep links with Britain and Japan are mass inviting potential workers because of their own troubles. Either sound good, although Japan is a bigger step than Canada...hmm, I do like Canada...
Fantastic start to the year, I guess. I hate the fact that I'm needing to do what 2.5 million others are forced to do in the UK, I'm sure they don't like being on the job waiting list either; although, £53 a week is a nice encouragement and a way to stay off depression, especially in the suicide capital of the north.
*sigh* Someone committed suicide before Christmas in the canal I live beside. It's so sad when it comes to that, but unfortunately, people use the canal a lot to die, so it's not even a rare sight to see the helicopter hovering over the waters with divers and a search light.
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