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5TH DEC 2008
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Three years can fly by so quickly. One minute you’re a teenager full of expectation and anticipation, then the next a twenty something graduate with thirteen grand debt staring down the barrel at the rest of your life. When I graduated from Staffordshire University in 2003, it was the first time in my life in which I had no idea what I would be doing either during or after the summer. The only certainty was that I was homeward bound to London, part of the boomerang generation, who flock back home after three years on independence. I knew only that I wanted to travel.
My only previous experience of forgiven lands has been Ireland (I could add Wales, but that’s just cheating). There I spent many a happy childhood summer trying to convince my cousins’ friends that I was not a foreign exchange student. Therefore my actual experience of travel is rather limited to say the least, but even the greatest of explorers began humbly. So, with this in mind, and Brad on board to go with me I was resolved to strike out and go for it.
The first task that I had to undertake was actually earning enough money to go. And I needed to stop my bank from sending me threatening letters about exceeding my over draft quickly. Armed with a brand spanking new C.V enhanced with a degree in Journalism, I was confident that I could get a fairly decent job. But my priority was not my career, it was my dream to travel and I did not want to get into anything that I would find difficult to leave. In the end I only applied for one job in a clothes store, which I turned down. The discount was lousy, the pay shocking and I have never really been a slave to fashion.
I heard from a friend about a job, sanitizing water coolers in offices and homes. While this didn’t appeal to me straight away, I remembered the baying bankers who wanted their money back, and I knew I had to do something to keep them from the door. So I took the job and have done it since. True it is not the most productive thing to do with a degree but it suited me fine despite the fact my friends would occasionally call me the ‘waterboy’.
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