June 2011 Life Update

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.