My job searching came to a delightfully convenient and confidence boosting end around two months ago when, after three interviews, I was offered a Graduate position at a local media company.
When I
say local, I mean really quite local; three miles away, to be exact. The
company is a market leader in the manufacturing and engineering sector, with a
broad portfolio of print and online publications. I’m pleased to say that I am
writing, researching, and interviewing – so I’m kind of a journalist to-be.
Life at this small (but lucrative) company is a world away from my previous exploits as a lowly contractor, in amongst a sea of over a thousand others. After exactly one calendar month in my graduate role, I’m pleased to say that I am enjoying it immensely. The location is perfect, the work is interesting and challenging in equal amounts, and the people are extremely proficient in their particular trades.
The dynamics of the business are a refreshing change, and highlight to me the vast benefits of working at a small-scale business. The City and London generally are certainly not without their perks, and I didn’t not enjoy my time working “up town”, but I must admit that it is worlds apart from where I am now.
The beauty of the position I have gained, as well as the type of business that I am working for, is that the sense of hierarchy is all but eradicated, and that there is far greater room to have “one to one” tutelage and management.
Not only that, but the broad range of skills that I will be able to pick up along the way will be far more refined and tailored towards my own professional aspirations. Creative license in writing, for example, is already being given room to breathe. The publications that I have been thrown into (mainly due to my perhaps over-eagerness) are based around UK manufacturing management and engineering careers.
The latter of these is probably more in-line with my current skill and experience set. It also lends itself to researching and writing fresh and “sexy” content, mainly revolving around super cool robots, giant buildings and anything that can enthuse the next generation of engineers.
Although my own academic background (Law) is almost completely removed from engineering and journalism, both my love for writing and enthusiasm for making the world a better and more prosperous place (cringe) have geared me towards attempting to become a credible weaver and editor of fresh ideas and content.
My spare time is still heavily consumed (though at a reduced rate since gaining employment) by reading, writing and promoting my creative efforts on the World Wide Web. Hopefully this can continue, as I am lucky enough to have found something that I can concentrate on for more than 26 minutes.
I’d like to think that I’ve made fairly productive use of what could have been a three month period of chronic water-treading and time wasting. I definitely think that it has assisted me in finding my new job, and has also confirmed to me that I want to keep working hard in this particular medium.
P.S. My boring knee is still boring
Life at this small (but lucrative) company is a world away from my previous exploits as a lowly contractor, in amongst a sea of over a thousand others. After exactly one calendar month in my graduate role, I’m pleased to say that I am enjoying it immensely. The location is perfect, the work is interesting and challenging in equal amounts, and the people are extremely proficient in their particular trades.
The dynamics of the business are a refreshing change, and highlight to me the vast benefits of working at a small-scale business. The City and London generally are certainly not without their perks, and I didn’t not enjoy my time working “up town”, but I must admit that it is worlds apart from where I am now.
The beauty of the position I have gained, as well as the type of business that I am working for, is that the sense of hierarchy is all but eradicated, and that there is far greater room to have “one to one” tutelage and management.
Not only that, but the broad range of skills that I will be able to pick up along the way will be far more refined and tailored towards my own professional aspirations. Creative license in writing, for example, is already being given room to breathe. The publications that I have been thrown into (mainly due to my perhaps over-eagerness) are based around UK manufacturing management and engineering careers.
The latter of these is probably more in-line with my current skill and experience set. It also lends itself to researching and writing fresh and “sexy” content, mainly revolving around super cool robots, giant buildings and anything that can enthuse the next generation of engineers.
Although my own academic background (Law) is almost completely removed from engineering and journalism, both my love for writing and enthusiasm for making the world a better and more prosperous place (cringe) have geared me towards attempting to become a credible weaver and editor of fresh ideas and content.
My spare time is still heavily consumed (though at a reduced rate since gaining employment) by reading, writing and promoting my creative efforts on the World Wide Web. Hopefully this can continue, as I am lucky enough to have found something that I can concentrate on for more than 26 minutes.
I’d like to think that I’ve made fairly productive use of what could have been a three month period of chronic water-treading and time wasting. I definitely think that it has assisted me in finding my new job, and has also confirmed to me that I want to keep working hard in this particular medium.
P.S. My boring knee is still boring
