Shite shite and more shite
Mate, I just want to wish you luck. Look, the thing is that all this crap will pass. I left uni in 2001 and worked loads of different jobs, some good, some fucking awful, but basically had no idea what I wanted to do, just drifting along and assuming some day things would work out.

I eventually copped on to the fact that I wanted to do graphics - I'd always kind of known it, but not being exactly brilliant at art had never actually thought I could do it. So, jacked in the career, went back to uni, studied for another degree, did well, graduated, thought "well, what with my new degree and previous experience, I'm bound to get a good job, right?" Wrong. I graduated into the cocking recession. No work for months and months. Countless applications - literally hundreds and all I got was rejection after rejection - in fact mostly people couldn't even be arsed to write me a rejection letter.

Eventually I got an internship at a charity, worked for free for a month, and now, even though they're skint, they've worked something out so that I can stay on, on an ad hoc, freelance basis, when there's work, they'll pay me to do it, when there isn't, I'll sit at home and play on b3ta!

Point is, the reason they did this was not that I'm an amazing designer (I'm really really NOT!) but because I showed that I loved what I do, work hard at it, want to help them out and try to be useful around the place. From your post above I think you'd be the same. You sound like a dedicated person who loves their subject and would be an asset to any company. YOU WILL MAKE IT.

I know it's really shit at the moment, and believe me, six weeks ago I was fucking despairing of getting anything, but life turns on the little things, and if you can show to a law firm the passion you write with, I think they'll try to give you that placement.

Haven't posted in ages, but wanted to write this to keep your chin up.

Good luck then, hope things start looking up for you.



Length - 3 months on the fucking dole. No apologies!

Love

The Dr Funkenstein
(Dr Funkenstein - back in the civilised world, Sat 4 Apr 2009, 1:48, Reply)