Get the drinks in, you big slut

So we’re seeing some great journalism at the moment, aren’t we? If the gay community aren’t defending their ’sleazy’ lifestyle in light of this widely read national column, then we have this smunt poncing around staring death in the face and egging on his readership to ‘froth at the mouth’ and wet themselves. But hey, [...]

Ever Mind the Rule of Three…

So, I’ve managed to clock up a respectable 6 weeks since my last blog post. Tremendous. I recall making a similar statement when I started my previous job all those moons ago, but the fact remains that unless you have one of those new-fangled multi-meeja jobs that everyone keeps going on about, you’re just not [...]

Hi ho, Hi ho…

A couple of weeks ago, I’d almost resigned myself to the idea of being unemployed forever. Despite the cringingly chipper emails that would ping into my inbox from recruitment companies advising me to ‘Keep on, keeping on’ and to ‘Hang in there’, I couldn’t ignore the fact that unemployment in the journalism industry remains a [...]

Signing On

Dun dun duuuuuuun. It’s happened. I’ve signed on for Job Seeker’s Allowance. I am officially on the dole.
Despite all the propaganda depicting smiling, presentable women looking over the shoulders of smart-looking young adults as they fill in simple paperwork while sitting at ergonomically designed beech effect desks, I at best anticipated my first encounter with [...]

Is Everybody Having a Goooood Time?

Scream if you wanna go faster! Throw your hands in the air like you just don’t care! And so on.
Apparently unemployment isn’t all doom and gloom after all. In fact, it’s so not doom and gloom that this report by the LA Times (admittedly a little old now) has branded unemployment ‘FUNemployment’. Yeah!
Says the article, [...]

Ink Yer Shoulder…? Pt 2

Props to everyone who voted for my new career direction. I have to be honest though, I get the impression that a lot of the voters were kindly old ladies who stumbled upon my blog after mashing the keys wildly in an attempt to dial up AOL, hence career suggestions like ‘Find a man and [...]

Ink yer Shoulder, Gov’ner?

I can’t really say what masochistic impulse inspired me to do this, but just now I sat down and figured out how many days I’ve been without gainful employment. The answer is 46. That’s just over six weeks, which, when you’re a kid and on your summer holidays, seems like a lifetime. And when you’re [...]

All Hail Jonathan Ross

Perennial buffoon, Jonathan Ross, will have to pre-record his Radio 2 shows, The Guardian reported today.
Under the ‘tough compliance rules’ issued by the Beeb last October, Woss’s inconsiderate tongue is proving to be a something of a hazard to the happy clappy PC facade Aunty is so keen to portray, and as such his shows [...]

You’re Application Has Been Unsucessful

So, I’m still in the market for a job. Even though some places are reporting signs of a break in the clouds, jobs for my lowly level remain few and far between, and spending hour upon hour trawling internet job ads and crafting covering letters – only for them to be skim-read and disregarded – [...]

A Bleak Future For J-Students?

When my fellow Maglabbers and I finished our magazine diplomas at Cardiff University last year, we were under no illusions; getting our fledgling feet in the proverbial door was going to be a tough gig. The onus was on work experience, making contacts, pitching articles effectively. Nonetheless, with faith that our £5.5k investment would see [...]