Seeing as my job these days is looking for a job, I bet you my blog title today will be the question I will have to answer more than five times. It's one of the most difficult questions to answer because we all never really delve deep enough to find out who we are. I mean while you're doing some "soul-searching" people are taking the job that should be yours, there's the side-walk sale in Sandton which is only productive if you go the first week and, well, life goes on. This same life that we are all trying to make the most out of. This year I had to try and make the most out of being an Intern, a student, a sister, a friend, an aunt and of course a girlfriend - my favourite role. This was helluva difficult considering that each role has different demands from one person - somebody please pass me my Superman cape already - you try your utmost best to meet each demand to the best of you abilities. Even typing that seems too much, imagine living it. I know what people think "at least you didn't have to be a Mom as well. At least you have a,b and c to keep you going." At least nothing. Reason I'm saying this is because people tend to think we all have a spare life somewhere which will come out when we've exhausted the one we're living now or will come and save the day and "at least" give rest to the other. No sir! No turning back, no returning to highschool, no taking back those words, no reversing your Matric Dance and choosing a better dress, no waiting for the 75% sale to come again - it will, next season.
So no matter how trivial it seems to one person/people to juggle what I called my hectic life this year, for me it was hard (pulls out the chairs and tea-set for a pity party). So when asked the question "So, tell us about yourself?" I will feel like dying because you had to be by my side to have a front-row view of who I really am. But I will not, of course, answer my interviewer like that now will I? Instead I hope my outfit firstly, says majority of the story, my CV backs it up, God lends a hand and the rest will be history, history because who will resist such a combo - a combo equivalent to a McDonald's Quarter Pounder Deluxe when you're slap-bang in the middle of a diet and you realise its not working and you're starving!
As usual I spend 2-3 hours everyday just job-hunting and today I got an email from a friend which read " It'll be hard for you to find something right now, but I will look out for you. In the meantime, do not give up". My immediate reaction was shock and horror as I saw my bank refuse the financing of my Mini Cooper S 2007 model in Magnesium blue, as I saw myself never setting foot in Eastgate Mall again and as I saw myself wearing a head-scarf and pyjamas at 2 in the afternoon and sitting in the sun waiting for it to set. Just the thought makes me want to throw up the croissant I had for breakfast - even that will be a "once upon a time" thing!
I know I will find a job, I know I will drive my Mini, I know I will have a wardrobe "to die for darling!" and I know that this time next year I will be writing about how me, the PR Intern, plans to furniture the house I will be buying the year after that. How do I know? Well because I know everything - lol. I know because I am destined for higher places...
Let me prepare for my interviews now, and find a way of how I plan on telling people about myself.
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