Someone didn't read the script...

I know I promised I'd post over the weekend, and I know today is Wednesday, but I'm here now, and you're there when you read this, so thats all that should matter!

Anyway, on with the post.

Now, loyal reader(s), you may be wondering why I don't do much by way of talking about the 'Legal' part of my blog header, when in fact I am a half qualified lawyer, and so therefore should be soliciting my way up the greasy pole of success (take as many euphemism's as you can there, my treat!) Well the answer is that, yes indeed, I am a half qualified lawyer, and am currently studying to turn a half into a whole in the next couple of years if all goes well, however I am still working at a crappy college doing crappy data inputting for a crappy boss for crappy wages. I have been out of the legal world since September 2004 when I left my last law firm. The job itself when I joined there was the perfect one (so I thought), they wanted me to head up a brand spanking new department in Edgbaston, dealing with re-mortgage work as I had experience in that from pervious jobs, whilst at the same time, recruiting various other members of staff, building up a client base and being office manager. Great job, great wages, great people....

.....it had to go wrong didn't it!

Now, I hadn't got enough experience to work on sale and purchase files, so they brought in a solicitor to head up that side of things, which I was very happy with as he could teach me the ropes as we went and I would end up a lovely qualified lawyer and live happily ever after....wrong! The second he got there, he hated the fact that I had been given so much responsibility so soon, and that it hadn't blown up in my face, in fact the exact opposite (not blowing my own horn, just fact!), so over the next 2 months, he demoted me from Office Manager, to Office Junior...then he brought in an Office Junior to take over from me whilst I was still there who couldn't spell, write, read, in fact catching the bus and opening both eyes at the same time needed effort!

So I walked, I decided I would make the giant leap into the big wide world and really focus on finding a better job with genuine prospects.......after a while you kinda wonder if ur ever gonna find a job, so I joined the college in various admin capacities and went for about 8 jobs since then, all of which were pretty rubbish, and I almost got murdered by a crooked solicitor in my last interview, over 6 months ago, which is a completely different story for another day!

Anyway that brings us up to this week. Up till now I have actually joined over 30 recruitment firms in the midlands region (I never knew there were so many!), all of which think I'm a dead cert to get a job, then find out they have to do a small amount of work so dump me like a ton of bricks, some of them telling me to ditch law as I'm obviously not committed enough to get a job in it (G2legal, Michael Page and Hudson, I'm talking about you!!!). Anyway I applied for about 20 jobs last week and miraculously a firm in Brindleyplace emailed me last week to say they wanted me to come in for an interview this Friday for a position in their Litigation Department. Its a massive firm and this position is a huge foot in the door for my career, so I've been building up to the interview all week, lots of nervous energy is good for the soul, and good for a big interview.

Can't wait to get there, I've done the age-old thing of imagining myself working there in the future, in a completely opposite workplace to what it will be, although plush offices and endless supplies of coffee are pretty much a certainty in a law firm! So I can't wait, the last big firm I had an interview with, I got down to the last 4 and I didn't get the job as I hadn't had enough 'big firm' experience. I don't know whether thats the same as 'big band' experience, but I took small comfort in it! Also, these things just don't happen to me either. Normally, I just apply for something, someone goes 'ooh he looks like a good candidate', then promptly throws my application in the bin. Thankfully, these guys are not like that....well not at the moment anyway, and hey, at least I get a day out in the city centre!

Not a great deal else has happened in the last week, apart from me spending more time on my myspace page (link now up), which is great as I've already found loads of people I haven't spoke to in ages, so even if you don't know me, log on to my page. I'm going to do a seperate blog on that page soon, not updated as much (no change there then), but its slowly going to be a copy of what I'm writing here, which sounds good in practice but I bet they won't let me cut'n'paste!

Thats about it from me, but before I go I'll leave you with some pictures of our trip to Evesham on Saturday. Evesham is a beautiful 8th century market town, one of the biggest in the midlands in terms of the area it covers for farmers etc, however in recent years the scurge of the chav-cheap shop has hit at its core, and when we went last year, the main shopping precinct was a dead space, all the decent shops had left and there was about 100 discount shops ripping the heart of of the once-beautiful centre, most of which you can still see if you look above the shops. Anyway we were pleasantly surprised to see some lovely little shops starting to come back into the heart of the town, replacing the tatty horrible shops, so things are looking up. The highlight of any trip to Evesham for me has to be Abbey Park at the rear of all the shops, it has a massive area where the Church used to stand, but thankfully the Bell Tower and some outbuildings remain, the Bell Tower and Gate House dating from the 1100's.

For you information-lovers (I know you're out there somewhere!), theres a whole bunch of history attached to it, so fill ur guts and click ur mouse here.

Anyway here are some piccies:

This is the Bell Tower seen from the river, which runs past the town centre (is it me or does the man on the bike look suspiciously like the chap I took the picture of outside Christies?)

Abbot Reginalds Gateway, built in 1130, although the builders charged them for a full day, mwah ha ha ha!!

Thats all you're getting from me this week. I might (note the word 'might'!) post on Saturday, but if not I'll either be too depressed or too drunk from the night before!!

TTFN