Links

• I found this on the wonderful website www.lettersofnote.com I really understood the mindset of the guy that wrote this. Kudos to the chairman's reply! I barely get any response back from the letters and emails that I send out...maybe I should start writing letters like this?

• The result of goggling more nonsensical things results in the discovery of this article. It looks pretty useful, my favourite bit however is Rule 8, I really like it, though more in the way where you would say it to someone just to see the bemused look spread across their face rather than in an actual serious way. I do like the phrase "quarter-life crisis" though, at least now I have some definition to this limbo that I am stuck in!

• Also read David Nicholl's novel 'One Day'. Literary opinions aside it's quite an interesting commentary on life, time and how both pass by at an alarming rate or, as John O'Connell in The Times so eloquently puts it, "the tragic gap between youthful aspiration and the compromises that we end up tolerating." (totally found that on Wikipedia: the extent of my research skills. University had taught me much £10,000+ well spent*!)

*Is it strange that having just written that figure down it has only now seriously dawned on me how much I spent on higher education. I pity the poor sods who come after me. 

The Indian Elephant in the Room

My inability to get a job in a career that I want to be involved in has led to, lets say, a "re-imagining" of My Plan. Having assumed that 2011 would remain achievement free (a defeatist opinion, I know) I decided to plan a month long trip to India which would coincide with a trip the family was originally taking to Sri-Lanka in order to visit the extended family who live there.

This two month vacum would allow me to inevitably do what a lot of students end up doing after they finish their degrees. Go travelling. Though for me, it would be on a much smaller scale-I'm not made of money!

I've wanted to go India for a very long time and I'm really pleased that I'm finally getting to go...

...however, let's not mistake this trip for what it really is; a diversion.  

Yes, this trip requires planning and it will be an amazing experience blah, blah, blah but the reality is that it is such a FANTASTIC excuse to not apply myself and search for a job. 

The trip was also used as an excuse when I had the previously mentioned conversation with my mum about finding a job. 

Obviously, having written this out for 'all' to see I am well aware of how I use this trip to avoid job-hunting, so rather than this being a post about how gaining experiences is a great use of your time whilst job-hunting. What I am really trying to show is my ability to use this trip to fuel my laziness. It's quite shameful really.

I kind of feel like I'm the only one being like this. I don't expect that a lot of people read this blog but many people that I know have been very productive. It's great to see in people but hard to execute within yourself, at least for me. I need only make you aware of Rule 6.