Life After Uni

Oh HELLO THERE Sophie's blog. Haven't seen you in a while!

Once again, embarrassingly, I've abandoned my blog. It spends more time abandoned than actually being written on!
good news, I've graduated! woo woo! somehow,  the gods of degrees granted me a 2.1 which I personally couldn't have been happier about considering that was my goal when I started uni. I knew full well I was never going to be a 1st kind of gal, I loved Netflix and getting drunk too much.

So how is life now you may be wondering? (or not) but I'm going to tell you/future Sophie anyway.
Well I'm now living back home. Its so odd because me and my brother both moved out and we are both now living back home, although we rarely see each other. As much as I love my home and my family, I am soooooo ready to move out and do my own thing. It's hard when you've spent three years doing things your own way to then have to go home and be told what to do 24/7 again.

Turns out finding a graduate job was not all that easy. I mean I was prepared for the fact that I would probably leave uni and end up in a retail/hospitality job, but no one else was. My family all expected me to come out and get some fancy job when in reality that didn't happen. I think they're finally accepting that now, but I do still have to deal with the whole 'so hows the job hunt going?' questions at any family visit. The job hunt that stopped months ago because it's far too infuriating? yeah. I got sick and tired of reading 'four years experience in SEO' 'Two years prior experience in a similar role' 'Six billion years experience in blah blah blah'. It's just not fun.
I have in fact got a new job in a restaurant, the one place I said I could never work because I would be terrible at it! Turns out I'm not so bad. I work at Le Bistrot Pierre, a cute little french cuisine restaurant that recently opened. The best part about it was being sent to Torquay all inclusive for two weeks to 'train'. It was like a mini holiday working right on the sea front with the best people, I didn't want to leave! I work behind the bar which is rather fun, and I feel like I can now shock people with my extensive wine knowledge/cocktail making skills. Although I trained on bar and have been behind the bar for the first few months, I've dabbled in waitressing and am now going to train up properly in that too, so I can do both. The few times I've been left with the responsibilities of tables I haven't messed up entirely (I did forget to send one tables food, and got another tables sides wrong, but they were all really understanding!) and the fact that they still want to train me up properly shows I cant be that terrible at it!

So yeah! that's what I spend most of my time doing nowadays! One of my best friends is getting married and asked me to be bridesmaid! which I cannot wait for. It also involves a hen do in Magaluf which will be interesting/the best fun! My other best friend also got engaged! everyone is getting married and having kids and buying houses and I'm in the corner still single ASF.

The goal at the moment is to save enough money to move into a flat with Rhiannon my ultimate bestie. This could be the worst or the best idea, we are like an old married couple already!