At last!
A QOTW that isn't thoroughly tedious!

Anyway, my story is as follows...

I'd finished uni in summer 2003 and already had a part time job in the local cinema (Vue, Gunwharf Quays - woo!) so I increased the hours to full time. I'd already been there some time and the jobs were so simple that they didn't require too much higher brain function.

After using less and less brain power for about six months I realized I had to leave, so handed in my notice with nothing to go on to. A bad plan.
At the time I was living in a house with my brother and a couple of other friends. As I am a clean and tidy person I filled a lot of my time making sure the house was clean and tidy. My brother pointed out that instead of getting free films from me he could now get a clean house and all the washing up and laundry done.

I did start to do the enevitable and get up later and later, not going to bed until the early hours of the morning. Not a great change from working in the cinema actually.

After about a month I started to look for work - basic IT support stuff because I now had a degree in IT so I thought someone should snap me up. How wrong I was. No experience, see? You've not done this before professionally, sonny. WELL HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO START THEN!?!
Basic applications and letters were still going out and I had now been unemployed for four months.

I thought I should do something about signing on (living on savings so far). Had my interview with the tool in the jobcentre. Minimum pay? 14k? Oooh, I don't know if we can put you down for things paying that much. You've never earnt that much before. Yes, but I can do more than clean toilets, which is the level most people in the job centre are aiming at.

After about six months of unemployment a friend said his dad has a job working in IT. So I apply, and I get it. I now repair computer hardware for the county with a company car. I want to move onto something else, but I don't know the first thing about software and I have yet to find a hardware only support job that pays anywhere near what I'm currently on. I fix them - I don't actually know how to use them.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Fri 3 Apr 2009, 13:54, 2 replies)

Welcome to the real world
"I now had a degree in IT"

Great!

"I don't know the first thing about software"

Errrr...what?

There are so many things wrong with your post. I can't continue. It'd be like shooting fish in a barrel.
(jackhiggs no longer a v!rgin as of..., Fri 3 Apr 2009, 14:11, closed)

Ah, your reply implies you had to know much or learn much to pass
You didn't.

I failed three final exams.

They still gave me a degree.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Fri 3 Apr 2009, 14:27, closed)