I have been looking for
work for 2 years now and despite my voluntary work, brief part-time work, my
holiday and other various things, within those 2 years it has felt like the
biggest waste of my life. It was like some days I would feel great and positive
and other days it would be like a spiral of depression. Even though, I
graduated during the start of the recession, I don’t totally blame the lack of
jobs and the increase in competition because I know that I haven’t been trying
my hardest. When I came out of uni I didn’t know what I wanted to do and I
didn’t want ‘any’ job, I wanted a career that I could succeed in.
A year went
by and I still couldn’t decide what I wanted to do because they wanted
experience or that I had to go back to uni or that I just couldn’t find that
thing I was looking for. When it reached 2 years of unemployment, it got too
much. I had a reflection on life and I really couldn’t do this anymore. I
needed to do something. The feeling of being at home and family constantly
wanting to know what I have been doing and all factors that contributed to the
way I felt just got too much. So in May 2011, I had to make a list of
things I desperately wanted to do before the end of the year and I made a
promise to myself that I would double hard to make these work starting from
June.
It is now the end of June
and I can honestly say, I am doing a good job of working on the list. Within
this month, I have successfully passed an interview and got a job. I have
completed a 2 week training course with the NHS and even though that may end
without the prospect of a related job that I had initially hoped for, being on
that course has taught me some really vital life tools. During those 2 weeks, I
have learnt a lot about myself and working with older people. Most importantly,
those 2 weeks made me realised that I really want to do into counselling /
clinical Psychology because I would love to make a real difference in someone’s
life. That feeling of satisfaction would be an amazing reason to go to work.
So, I have decided that is what I want to do. Now, it is up to me to gain
experience and perhaps plan to complete masters. I want to become a
Charted Psychologist.