Yesterday, I adulted it up a notch. That is to say, I joined the real world of people who commute and wear professional clothes and dumbly do their make-up in the bathroom mirror at 7am. I realise that ‘adult it up a notch’ may have somewhat dubious and worrying intimations when the previous post is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘job’
The beginning of the descent
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged adulthood, commuting, first day, food, job, lunch, radio, school, work on October 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Wingin’ It
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged hurrah, job, language, personal, words on October 6, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Turns-of-phrase tickle me. I like a good turn-of-phrase. Today I was told that somebody will “take you [i.e. me] under her wing”. I immediately wondered if it was a cycloptic wing with an arm on the other side of her body or if she had two and I would just be going under one. I [...]
The truth about Directory Enquiries
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged call centre, directory enquires, job, mcjob on July 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
…my first admission is that I’ve given an overly-exciting title to a not-very-exciting post. I would like to write a post entitled “The Truth About Being A Secret Agent” but I have never actually been a secret agent, I have only been a customer service agent at a certain national directory enquiry service, so here’s [...]