Flick wrote in post #4754685
Also , in response to trying to find a job.
Why are you finding it so hard to get a job?
- What sort of job do you want?
- What sort of job are you ACTUALLY capable of doing?
- Do you maybe need to reassess your sights?
- is it the fact you are too set in the "comfortability" of unemployment?
There are plenty of jobs out there , I think it may be a case of expanding your mind to what is actually out there that you would consider doing.
What I want is a creative roll, something where I can get my teeth stuck into new projects regularly, be that through design work, marketing or actual media production.
What I'm capable of doing is the above, though I know I'd find it difficult to demonstrate a high enough level of graphic design talent straight off.
What I'm also capable of doing is engineering work and sales/retail. Engineering genuinely nearly put me in a coffin, and I swore I'd enever go near it ever again. Sales at anything above small business level is something I actually find soul destroyingly cr@p, ditto the retail, added to which I'm actually developing issues with my feet that means I've been seeking medical attention, brought on by being on my feet all day. I see retail as something I despise but I'd be willing to do as a last resort.
The thing is I know (without sounding like an egotistical tw@t) that I've never been in a job where I haven't become completely integral very quickly, I know I can do these creative jobs, and I know they'd reap rewards from employing me, I'm just having trouble getting anyone to see that...
Flick wrote in post #4754696I am the 1st generation of my family born outside of Europe... and the only one of my family to have not been back.
So , the holiday would be for the following...
- To finally meet family.
- To see where my family / parents came from and get a better appreciation of things they've described.
- To see the world more. I would use UK as a home base and travel from there.
- Use it as a 'taster'. My other half ( bless her soul ) is constantly naggng me that NZ is too small of an oyster for her.
Right, in which case you need more than three weeks. if you're basing yourself in the UK, then make sure you're stopping somewhere that UK residents would deem 'a nice place' as the typical UK drudgery of urban suburbia will make the experience painfully underwhelming. As for Europe it depends where you wanna go, I can (as I'm sure can Pete) point you at quite a few cool things to do in Europe.
although it would be better than where I am now. 
