Employment
Jul. 23rd, 2009 03:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
windemereI have concluded this week that if I got paid for it, I'd have the best job in the world. Screw the Great Barrier Reef and a massive yauht.
I moved down to London on Saturday with the help of Cas. Friends are essential when attempting to cart luggage on the underground without killing yourself. Trust me, I've tried it without. Not pretty. I absolutely love my place. It's a 2 bedroom flat that I share with a 30-something working couple who are rarely home except to sleep. They are wonderfully quiet when they leave at 8 in the morning, and I am a mouse when I go to bed at night. The building is part of a 3 part 4 story complex 200ft from The Globe right off Southwark Bridge. I have everything within a ten minute walk. That includes the best market in London, two supermarkets, museums, theatre, 4 liquor stores, 2 underground stations and of course the office.
On Monday I spent the day at a conference for Stories of the World (2012) and toured the London Transport Museum for free. Tuesday I spent in the London office reading publications (some of which I read over the winter for school) and getting a shinny new laptop. Wednesday I went to the Cambridge office for the day and job shadowed. And today and tomorrow I will sit at home on my sofa with my wifi and the kitchen 10 ft away and 'work from home'. I have 3 projects to manage this summer, all of which I have support for, but I'm project manager! The first is to make the CT Twitter account useful for marketing and to get all the staff involved. See, if I got paid, I'd be getting money to spend all day on Twitter! Got some ideas already and the start of project plan. Next week I am job shadowing in various locations and various people (some of which will be terrifying experiences of board meetings and meet & greets with people I should consider famous in this industry but who I don't know). Then I have 6 weeks of intensive project management. I'll have tons for my CV by September!
I am already organising the To Do list this summer of things I want to do. The first is a Globe play next week. I've got a ticket to Brahms at the Proms in September. This weekend I think I'll go to the Tate and maybe the Belfast. Definitely The Rose. Hopefully the weather stays shit because it will keep the tourists away. The weekend next I might try Kew Gardens if it's sunny or Greenwich. Definitely Body Worlds at O2 before Cas leaves! Plenty to stay busy.
Just got back from shopping at Borough Market, amongst the tourists. So much I want to buy! So can't afford it! Will have to stick to Sainsbury's.
It's 4 now...technically done work. Certainly did less today than yesterday, but I worked an extra hour yesterday (8-5) then I needed to. Will carry that over today to make me feel less guilty. Tomorrow, new project!
I moved down to London on Saturday with the help of Cas. Friends are essential when attempting to cart luggage on the underground without killing yourself. Trust me, I've tried it without. Not pretty. I absolutely love my place. It's a 2 bedroom flat that I share with a 30-something working couple who are rarely home except to sleep. They are wonderfully quiet when they leave at 8 in the morning, and I am a mouse when I go to bed at night. The building is part of a 3 part 4 story complex 200ft from The Globe right off Southwark Bridge. I have everything within a ten minute walk. That includes the best market in London, two supermarkets, museums, theatre, 4 liquor stores, 2 underground stations and of course the office.
On Monday I spent the day at a conference for Stories of the World (2012) and toured the London Transport Museum for free. Tuesday I spent in the London office reading publications (some of which I read over the winter for school) and getting a shinny new laptop. Wednesday I went to the Cambridge office for the day and job shadowed. And today and tomorrow I will sit at home on my sofa with my wifi and the kitchen 10 ft away and 'work from home'. I have 3 projects to manage this summer, all of which I have support for, but I'm project manager! The first is to make the CT Twitter account useful for marketing and to get all the staff involved. See, if I got paid, I'd be getting money to spend all day on Twitter! Got some ideas already and the start of project plan. Next week I am job shadowing in various locations and various people (some of which will be terrifying experiences of board meetings and meet & greets with people I should consider famous in this industry but who I don't know). Then I have 6 weeks of intensive project management. I'll have tons for my CV by September!
I am already organising the To Do list this summer of things I want to do. The first is a Globe play next week. I've got a ticket to Brahms at the Proms in September. This weekend I think I'll go to the Tate and maybe the Belfast. Definitely The Rose. Hopefully the weather stays shit because it will keep the tourists away. The weekend next I might try Kew Gardens if it's sunny or Greenwich. Definitely Body Worlds at O2 before Cas leaves! Plenty to stay busy.
Just got back from shopping at Borough Market, amongst the tourists. So much I want to buy! So can't afford it! Will have to stick to Sainsbury's.
It's 4 now...technically done work. Certainly did less today than yesterday, but I worked an extra hour yesterday (8-5) then I needed to. Will carry that over today to make me feel less guilty. Tomorrow, new project!
