Another week has passed filled with… well, not very much at all, actually. Hollie has begun temping in earnest and has so far spent one day making a database of builders in the North East (but now knows there are plenty of bricklayers in Yarm) and another stuffing envelopes and entertaining a 9 month old. Other than that, most assignments seem to be 6 months long, which is clearly not the name of the game. Continued employment? Pah! Clearly £50 per week isn’t going to help the ‘moving out of home’ fund but at least it pays for the occasional pilgrimage to the pub.
In terms of ‘real jobs’, our findings from the last few days are that there aren’t any. This phase of Operation Get A Job may take a little while yet at this rate. This tempts us to make Rhetorical Question of the Day: ‘Where Are The Jobs?’ but we unfortunately know the answer – people with non-arty farty degrees have got them. God damn!
The Friend Cull was in serious risk of being revoked last weekend. Frighteningly, we spent not just one, but two evenings in the company of people other than ourselves. Friday was especially scary as Hollie spoke to a couple of people she didn’t know, thereby putting herself at risk of gaining a new friend! Luckily Saturday was more low key and involved watching Brokeback Mountain and eating brownies. Jake Gyllenhaal and chocolate, what more could a girl want? (Jake Gyllenhaal covered in chocolate hummmm)
Sarah’s paid work seems to be going ok, if only in an administrative-y sort of way. Disturbingly she was at work until 10.30pm the other day – she seems a bit too keen to work if you ask me. If she carries on like this someone might want her full time! What makes it worse is she had to give up doing free work to enable her to get paid!!! Ahhh whats happening the balance is all wrong. Fear not she still does some free work so the world isn’t ending just yet.
It would be wrong to let this blog slip by with out mentioning Valentines. Frankly it is overrated and passed both of us by in a fairly understated fashion. Hollie ate chocolate with her mum and Sarah went to see two films she had already seen (Annie Hall and Brief Encounter) and ate doughnuts. Who needs romantic weekend breaks and over priced meals at crap resturants!
Well that’s all for now surely there must be some brownies left to consume.
P.S. If you Google our names this website is now number two! Unfortunately number one is still a Canadian hairdresser for Hollie, but you can't win em all. Aaaand if you Google 'Tales of the Unemployed', we are no less than number 5. Fame and fortune, here we come!!
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