A blog, at last!
I've been so busy recently that I don't know what to write about. My driving tests, moving home, moving in with my boyfriend, or starting my new job... or even figuring out how to fold a bike. However I have just read about graduate jobs in the paper and it struck a nerve.
For the past month, I've been working in my new job at a press company. I'm currently working as a gig critic... which is not as cool as it sounds. I basically write something like this for each band that is playing a gig:
Brighton-based four-piece promote tracks from their latest album, New Morning.
Nottingham-based metal merchants plug their latest audio offering.
The three time Mobo Award winner kicks off her tour and takes her latest album, Decent, with her.
It ends up in a few national papers, and that's it. That's all I do, all day long. It's easy but deadly dull, but I must say I got so excited when I picked up a national paper and saw the listings that I had written in there. I enjoyed the first few hours of work that morning.
It feels good knowing that I have got a job that is in the media, but I know of a lot of graduates who are really struggling at the moment. The problem is, is that a lot of companies expect you to have at least two-years experience... and be a graduate. It's something that I think is grossly unfair and I believe that it discriminates against those who are young, and been educated. It's rather shit that after you have worked hard at university and got a good degree, that it's impossible to get a decent job in that area. It's just not possible anymore to gain that job after uni, unless you managed to miraculously fit in two-years experience in the field and complete a three-year degree. I think delusional is the word.
I feel lucky to have a media job, but on a piss poor wage of £11,000 per year I can't help but feel a little aggravated. It was reported recently, that the lowest graduate wage around is around £12,500 a year. In some ways I guess you have to put up with being exploited by media companies... they are never going to change. They will continue to make hard workers, work hard and long hours for nothing (I know someone who is on an internship in London and is getting paid nothing). They know that when we want something, we will do anything to earn it. Its a way of proving your worth..If you do the time you will reap the rewards, eventually. But it shouldn't be like that, yes work hard but no we shouldn't get exploited for our efforts. Any graduates out there, looking for a job, but struggling then the best of luck to you.
For the past month, I've been working in my new job at a press company. I'm currently working as a gig critic... which is not as cool as it sounds. I basically write something like this for each band that is playing a gig:
Brighton-based four-piece promote tracks from their latest album, New Morning.
Nottingham-based metal merchants plug their latest audio offering.
The three time Mobo Award winner kicks off her tour and takes her latest album, Decent, with her.
It ends up in a few national papers, and that's it. That's all I do, all day long. It's easy but deadly dull, but I must say I got so excited when I picked up a national paper and saw the listings that I had written in there. I enjoyed the first few hours of work that morning.
It feels good knowing that I have got a job that is in the media, but I know of a lot of graduates who are really struggling at the moment. The problem is, is that a lot of companies expect you to have at least two-years experience... and be a graduate. It's something that I think is grossly unfair and I believe that it discriminates against those who are young, and been educated. It's rather shit that after you have worked hard at university and got a good degree, that it's impossible to get a decent job in that area. It's just not possible anymore to gain that job after uni, unless you managed to miraculously fit in two-years experience in the field and complete a three-year degree. I think delusional is the word.
I feel lucky to have a media job, but on a piss poor wage of £11,000 per year I can't help but feel a little aggravated. It was reported recently, that the lowest graduate wage around is around £12,500 a year. In some ways I guess you have to put up with being exploited by media companies... they are never going to change. They will continue to make hard workers, work hard and long hours for nothing (I know someone who is on an internship in London and is getting paid nothing). They know that when we want something, we will do anything to earn it. Its a way of proving your worth..If you do the time you will reap the rewards, eventually. But it shouldn't be like that, yes work hard but no we shouldn't get exploited for our efforts. Any graduates out there, looking for a job, but struggling then the best of luck to you.
posted by Emma at 12:22 am
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