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"David" in shorthand. It almost feels like I paid a PR firm lots of money to rebrand me or something. UPDATE: Aaaand I'm wrong. The dashes should probably be on the OTHER side. I think I might just take the "it's a personal language" defence...<\/p><\/div>\n

I am now on my way to becoming a profeshnul riter and I have just finished my first day on my NCTJ <\/a>(which is a series of letters I never seem to be able to get in the right order the first time) course. \u00a0I have already learnt some valuable lessons which are as follows:<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0 Despite being a swot and trying to learn a bit of Shorthand before the course, I know nothing and what I do know I now know I know wrong.<\/p>\n

2)\u00a0 In shorthand, my name looks a bit like the logo for some variation on Starfleet.<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0 When you interview someone, you need to ask for a contact number.\u00a0 I already knew that you also had to ask for their age, but asking someone over the age of about 40 for their age is an exercise in diplomacy that I wasn’t quite ready for today.<\/p>\n

4)\u00a0 Work experience in a call centre is good because it trains you for people telling you to “go away” in much less polite terms than that.<\/p>\n

5)\u00a0 I have a lot of work ahead of me.<\/p>\n

In reference to lesson number 5, I am actually remarkably excited about this.\u00a0 I’ve often said that I like having lots of work, but this isn’t entirely accurate:\u00a0 I like having lots of work that I’m going to enjoy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This work in particular is looking highly enjoyable and to be perfectly honest, this might well have been the first day in about four years that I haven’t found myself constantly checking the clock on the run up to 1pm and 5pm, traditionally being feeding time and home time respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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