If only all Mondays were like this...

[KennyR]

Well done on getting that job, Cyberus :pint:

[KennyR]

I'm still considering it, but it seems unlikely. I wouldn't know how to survive for very long on my own like that, and I'd need to find somewhere to live until my first wage packets come in - not easy on jobseeker's. I've no experience of travelling either.

So, if I get offered a job earning more than 16k in England, I'd think about it some more. Last job I applied for here yesterday was for 12k. It was the first one I've seen in months.

[KennyR]

Cyberus wrote:
Have you considered doing a masters/phd? When I did my Masters in London, I was paid 11.5k by the EPSRC for a year, beats working (its surprisingly easy to spend money hand over fist in London, but I lived comfortably on that, and invested the excess before I could spend it on beer)

I've considered it, but I'm getting too old and in debt now to live on loans. And getting the phd would only make things harder, I think. I'd be 30 by the time it was finished. Who'd employ a 30 year old who's never had a job? And I'd have to look even further afield for a job that I wasn't overqualified for.

12k will do me for now. Once I have some experience, I can get better and better wages. Maybe then I can try to get that PhD.

But I don't think I'll get that 12k job anyway. I just noticed after I sent my CV that the "professionals" who wrote it up missed out the degree - the most important part of the whole thing! :pissed: Oh well, just another three months to wait until the next time a vacancy opens in Scotland.