h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Since I finished uni in at the beginning of June, I've kind of been in limbo. I moved back home, with everything that entails, and immediately began to look for a job so that I could afford to move out and into a house in London with some uni friends.

Having got a 2:1, I was feeling, if not confident, at least fairly hopeful that finding a job would not be too hard. This illusion was quickly dispelled when I walked into my first job agency, where they made it clear that students like me were two a penny, and that they couldn't really be bothered to try and place me. Then I went to another where they pretty much told me that my three years at uni had been a waste of time, and that I would have been better off working for those three years. Which was a bit dispiriting to say the least.

I then have spent the last 2 months either getting sent to mickey mouse job interviews by agencies where I would be getting paid next to nothing to be a jumped up version of a receptionist (when I have a degree and I am fluent in French and English and can just about get by in German ) or receiving no replies from the many jobs I applied for. Which got quite depressing, especially when you get turned down for being 'overqualified'.

Still, through the intervention of my mum, who passed my CV on to the HR Department of her company, I am now starting at a reasonable salary in a blue chip company where I will be using my French on a regular basis. So to those job agencies and everyone else who didn't see fit to employ me...

Now I've got a job all I have to do is to find a house in London at a reasonable price so I can move out, and then hopefully I can actually start living my life, rather than just killing time waiting for it to begin...

Great news

Thanks.

I start work on Monday, and hopefully now everything else will just fall into place...

*dodges things falling in to place* Look out! That nearly hit me!

Congrats...

As for uni degrees being useless, I cant really disagree... The last two jobs I've had I've been working alongside graduates.

So is the job in London? Do you live near there already?