My first blog post.

So, welcome to my blog.

As this is my first post I feel obliged to make it a good one, so I shall try my best.

Potentially this could become an online diary for myself, which no one else ever actually reads, but if thats is the case, so be it, I'm fairly confident that ranting and venting to a webpage can, in some cases, be better than ranting to other people.



So, what to have in a blog? That is the question...according to a speedy Google search, "A blog is a website containing a diary or journal on a particular subject. " So, that brings me to the first question, what should be my "particular subject"?



I don't really have one subject I feel that I specialise in, or that I know enough about to write an entire blog on... my newest employeer, Morrisons, believe that my speciality is making sandwiches, fair play to them I guess... two and a half years working in a Subway store would sugest such talents...



So maybe, as a continuation on this post, I will write about my career history... well "career" may be a bit of an exageration.

I guess, my first job, was a paper round... I did this alongside school, and now I know, after earning minimum wage for a good couple of years, how truly ripped off I actually was by my employer.
The pay was based on a basic rate for the round, plus additional amounts of money for whichever leaflets you gave out with the papers, however you did not have a choice in this, some weeks you would have 5 sets of leaflets, and sometimes you would have 2, some were heavy, some were single pieces of paper... but trust me, though leaflets were hell to deal with, each paper was opened, leaflets inserted, paper closed and then paper folded, and with 257 papers to do... this took a fair while even before we had set out on the actual "round"!
I learnt to hate doors with dogs, mailboxes that snap at your fingers and black ice on driveways... However, any job, however rubbish.. has to have some perks. My paper round bought me the walks at chirstmas time with the lovely lights, and, the discount vouchers that accidently fell out of the papers into my huge luminescent yellow KM bag.



My next job was at the newly opened Subway store in Dover, I started in April 2007 and was there until mid December 2009, so a good two an a half years at the place, I worked there alongside studying for both my GCSE's and A Levels, the money was so great at first, £180! Thats more than I had ever had in my bank account! My first couple of pay packs went on GHD's (which I decided to buy during the middle of a GCSE Media Studies exam!) and an Nintendo Wii... generally now my wages seem to disappear to nights out...I absolutley love all my friends I made at Subway, and ended up hating a couple... but they were subject of many bitchy discussions which made for entertaining evening discussions.

Subway, definatley had it's ups and downs, and In the end I just wanted something new, a new challenge, and of course, more hours and money would have come in handy. This, is where Boots comes in. I applied for a christmas temp job at a Boots store in Folkestone, and if I'm honest, I really really loved it there, I was put on the photo counter, as this was upstairs, where the christmas stock was kept, photography and christmas... two things I really enjoy.



Before I started at Boots, I had also applied for a job at Morrisons, well orignially I applied for a supervisor position and had an interview for that way back in May time, but unfortunatly, though definatly understandably, I didn't a supervisor position, and to cut a long story short, I am now training in Morrisons on the Fresh To Go department as a sales assistant! Better money than Subway, 39 hours a week. Though, admitedly, though don't tell my boss... I prefere the work I did at Boots!



So, anyway. I feel like I have rambled a bit now, I hope, if you are reading the bottom of this blog it means you didn't fall asleep half way through! Maybe from now on, I will make my posts a little shorter and more magically worded.