Just the usual stuff, I guess; utter lack of hope, discontentment, loneliness. Just found out my best mate is leaving the house next year to live at home (although she is staying at uni), and she's pretty much my only lifeline in this place at the moment, so that's going to be shit. I'd like to just give uni up, but I know it's probably not worth it when I'm doing so well with my essays and stuff.
Also, Bowie's death has kind of knocked me for six. Never been even remotely this affected by a celebrity's death before.
No, though I highly doubt you have no money and no job opportunities. You could always move in with your parents, get a shit job at a call centre and save the money you make there for like, 6 months. Then embark on some adventure.
A few thousand pounds can get you a long way in certain places. You could go to Asia, Africa, South America or even Eastern Europe.
Take a TEFL course and get a job as an English teacher in ****ing Korea. Work as a bartender in Zanzibar. Become a professional polo-player in Argentina.
I finish around June next year, just in my second year now.
I meant more like, just up and moving somewhere, not knowing where you'll live or where you'll work kind of thing. But yeah, I guess you have to work for these things, although having to move back to London for any real amount of time is something that terrifies me. It's so expensive there, and jobs are somewhat scarce.
Really though I should just get this Film degree and see where that can take me, things've just been getting to me recently. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be fine in the long run, and things could be worse — just after I left Kendal, everyone I knew there got really heavily into meth and heroin. So at least I'm not doing that.
Brev, that's why I said get a job at a call centre. They're scraping the bottom of the barrel as it is and they have high turnover rates. They're used to a bunch of Walshies so you'll most likely get a job at the first interview you take. I'm sure there's literally hundreds of them in or around London.
I don't know if you'd be able to live with your parents for free and that though. Might have to alter your spending habits for the time you'll be living there. If it's not financially realistic, might as well get a job in Leeds and do the same thing. Just save up for a while.
I know an American guy who I met in a hostel in Budapest. He saved up for a year and a half, got about 10k US dollars and just traveled through Europe, East-Asia and the Middle-East for a year and a half. Changed his life. Now he's living in Berlin and that.
When you're in a rut like that, the best thing you can do is just to try out a change of scenery. No matter how it works out you'll learn a lot of valuable life-lessons and that.
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