Saturday, April 25, 2015

We've come a long way from where we begin.

Hi everybody!

I'm just sat here in my living room, having The Script filled up the room with their new album, No Sound without Silence - which is a good album might I add.

I'm sat here, after hours of replying to Facebook queries and personal message, which sometimes I hate doing on a weekend but its the only time I can dedicate a few undivided attention to answer them. They infuriate me sometimes and I really feel like saying what I really feel but that's not good customer service huh.

Anyways, after hours of that, I feel my brain juice flowing and I needed an outlet. So I came to my blog.

Again, Hi guys :D

The last I left you with was 2nd june 2012. That was 3 years ago! Let me recap everything that happened in the last 3 years in less than 1,000 words.

Let's get started..

Well I graduated university, I "interned" for a little while with a PR firm, mostly dealing with investment relations. It was quite an experience, I got to be in a room with very important business people and it was sometimes very intimidating. It's also a very stressful job to have, with high expectation from clients. When they want some things, it is usually within a day, thus it will be very busy.

We held most of the events in hotel which was an upside because I absolutely love hotels! But i didn't particularly enjoy the early morning calls and late midnight oil.

In the mist of that internship, I was still in university. The burden got heavy and I couldn't cope with both demanding side. Therefore I quit my internship shortly after.

I loved it though, I got to express myself with press release and made friends with a few media person and partake in a few events.

After that short period of my working life, I dove back into university and absolutely enjoyed my time with the bunch of monkey friends I had there. We made the most out of our last semester, going on road trips and adventures.

Time flew by and I was taking my last examination paper, ever!

I then flew to Perth for a few weeks, almost a month. Just enjoying life. Whilst there, I started looking for jobs, creating a resume using Sam's template and opening an account with Jobstreet.

I remember only applying for 2 jobs - Nuffnang and L'OCCITANE.

I wasn't too familiar with L'OCCITANE back then but I remembered it once when Lauren went in. - I got a call from them 3 days after and went in for my interview, and I remember waiting for an hour and a half for Sarah, my now manager to interview me.

To be frank, I didn't actually want the job at first, thinking I would be more suited at Nuffnang. But that idea shifted rather quickly after my interview with Nuffnang. I knew I wouldn't last a month after that, so I cancelled my second interview with them after L'OCCITANE gave me a call back 3 days later.

It was a rather short process of finding a job. I was lucky.

So, i started with L'OCCITANE 16th October 2013 and there I still am. I absolutely love my job but sometimes the pressure gets to me. However, all that stress outweighs the friendship I made, the bond I have with my colleagues and the more than comfortable working environment.

I can't see myself anywhere else for my first job, and I don't see myself leaving anytime soon, maybe.

So that's my 3 years roll into a blogpost. I have been super busy with work, getting use to work as my present and future, getting stuck in morning and evening jam, having a 9-6 working hour from Monday to Friday.

I am an adult now. That's hard to believe especially from where I left off  from my last post.

An introductory post will be needed for the new faces in my life. But I think that will be best for my next post. A motivational incentive for my next post. Hopefully it won't take another 3 years.

Till then, peace out.

Jeanette xx