Work, college, life!

Well, it's that time again when I update this old chestnut. I think this will be a smaller blog as I haven't been doing as much but still been having fun.

I would like to start with a very common theme. Work! Yes, it's back. I finished my job in the National Pandemic Flu Service on the 25th August. Unfortunately I couldn't stay on there and continue college as the hours had changed from 7am - 11pm. This would mean on a Saturday or Sunday I would need to get up and into town for 5.45am something that would be horrendous or get home at about 12.30am. I didn't want to do either of these as I wasn't sure how my college timetable would shape up and if I was working late on a Sunday and then had college at 9am the on the Monday I would surely not enjoy either work or college. So I felt it was in my best interest that I left. It just so happened that on the same day they were announcing who would be let go as we were so quiet everyday that they were reducing the number of staff. I have since learned that they have cut the numbers again so it would be likely that I wouldn't have been kept on. But on either the Tuesday or Wednesday I was offered the chance of a job for John Lewis Direct. So I phoned them on the Thursday after I left NPFS and was given a phone interview. I passed this and was scheduled for an assessment thing for the Friday. I was so glad of this because on the Wednesday I was unsuccessful with a phone interview with Sky. So I went to the assessment, which was 4 hours in town. I was with 3 other guys and we had to do things like spelling tests and stuff like that. We also had to do a lot of writing, which got very sore on the hand. So I left there not feeling too great about it but had already decided that I wasn't going to do the job if they offered it to me as I would need to start at 8am, which would be fine on a Saturday but on a Sunday it would prove impossible without my dad taking me in and I don't want to have to get him up that early to take me in. So a bit more than a week later I was called up and informed that I had passed the assessment and was offered the job (how ironic) so I had to inform them that I was unable to take the position due to the working hours and they took down my preferred hours and told me that they would inform me if any shifts that suited me came up. So that was another job that I was offered that I had to decline. This really irritated me because it showed me that I can get these jobs if I am given a chance except the Sky job of course but that was a sales role and my experience has primarily been in customer service. So it was bitter sweet but it was experience that I can now use in the future. So I am back on the hunt for a job and I'm relying on this St Enoch Working to get me something. 700 news jobs, surely I can get one of them? I must say though that I have been applying to some big name companies and they haven't gotten back to me at all, which I believe speaks volumes of their recruitment service. All the same I wouldn't turn my nose up at a job if it suited me haha. So for now I'm going to keep applying to everywhere I can and hope I get something within the next month.

Next, I have just started back at college and I have enjoyed the three weeks I have been back. We have a new building, which is in the Paisley Centre, which is better for us to go get lunch as the canteen is smaller and very warm. We haven't gotten too much into the nitty gritty of the course yet but I can tell that it will be a challenge which I welcome. However, since I have been back I was told by one of my lecturers that I have changed and another lecturer has also said I have changed. They haven't informed me of this change being good or bad but I believe that I have just come out my shell more with people. I think I am also trying to shake off this "Ronald is so innocent" idea people have of me because I am not and they are fast learning this. I would not say I'm a bad ass but I'm no angel. I hope that it isn't a bad change and people are seeing that I have a bit more versatility to me than they once thought. I think it also has a lot to do with me being told that I was still given a student performance when I was told I was into HND. I think I'm trying to be bigger and better than I was and prove that I am more than a student performer. Hopefully I can prove this by the end of the year.

So in general life is quite good. I very rarely complain about my life because I believe that there are others worse of than me. Don't get me wrong I strongly advocate people moaning about their lives if they feel they are hard done to somewhat but only to a certain extent. I believe that if people don't think about themselves then they will be walked over and taken advantage of. But I try not to complain because even though some crap things happen to me I am still alive and I am believe I am of good health. I very rarely get ill and when I do it isn't anything serious. Also, I have an excellent family and excellent friends who I am glad to have because I would be very lonely without them. However, I sometimes wonder who is a friend and who is just being nice for the sake of it. That's me just being somewhat paranoid but in the long term I don't give a shit because the people whom I know are friends I wouldn't give them up for anyone. Also, as of the 17th September I am a godfather to a little boy called Aidan. It feels weird to call him my godson but I like it. I'm not going to go mad and be overbearing about it because at the end of the day it's only a title. In other news, I have gotten the piercing bug and I have been toying with the idea of getting my eyebrow pierced. I think it would look good and I have asked some people and they agree but in terms of being an actor it may be detrimental to my progression as an actor because it's all about looks now-a-days. This really pisses me off because it is unfair to say you can't be in a film because your fat or your not attractive. Ok, I understand that casting directors having a certain look in mind but why does it always have to be a look of "perfection". I use that term loosely because I don't believe there is the perfect look, I believe it differs from person to person and that people in the acting industry should be judged on their acting ability. But I do agree that they have to have certain look because it has to be realistic. For example, if you were casting the stereotypical hot girl/guy then they you would have the stereotypical hot looking girl/guy cast in that role because that is what it asks for. Also, if your casting a family then they would have to resemble each other so that it is believable to the audience that this is a family. However, if you have a character that is vague and doesn't require a certain look to be believable then you can cast someone for their ability and not think about how they look. I don't mind too much about my looks but I hope that I look good enough to cast in a film or play because although it pisses me off the industry has they standards and I am very passionate about acting and I feel that if I want to pursue this career I will need to somewhat conform to their attitudes but only what I happy with I'm not going to go get plastic surgery because they aren't happy with something.

Anyway, that's my rant over for now haha. I'll be back in a month to write the next chapter. I have been watching videos on Youtube recently and some users are doing a vlog everyday, which generally involves them going about their day but filming it and then putting it on Youtube. Now I am not a big person on Youtube as I don't put up videos at all but I would like to do something like that for myself to document my life and see what I have been doing in my life. So essentially it is just to help me remember what I have been doing because I forget a lot of the time what I have been doing day-to-day. So when I get my iPhone 3GS (next month hopefully) then I might start filming stuff and putting it on a private account just for myself.

So until next month.

Bye bye

Ronald