Lesson Learnt: not everything goes to plan!!

Lesson Learnt!! I was just about to book my accomodation and trains for Leeds-  work experience at Asda House - when I found an email off Claire Sanderson in the design team which had slipped into my Junk Folder. The email was to say something else has come up and they need to rearrange for the following weeks!!
This is obviously too good an opportunity to pass up so I have agreed but it has thrown a spanner in the works in that accomodation has now gone up £50 p/wk and the experience now eats into the time I had arranged to go to Standfast & Barracks!
So I now need to:
- find more accomodation /pay the difference.
- rearrange with Standfast (I am worried about this as they are already doing me a favour)
- get cover for my shifts in work for the new dates of the placement.
-book train tickets.

It is also abit frustrating for me as I had planned the experience to be a continuation of my year at uni.. now I feel I will relax for two weeks and then have to get my head in gear again! I had also planned gmtwo months of overtime.in work before I go travelling and this now eats into that too.. May is notoriously short of overtime in work because they try to pull wages back after the Easter surge..

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Interview Prep

Using The Muse  website I have looked at some commom interview questions to get me thinking along the right lines in preparation for my mock interview on Wednesday. I have chosen to interview for a designer role on the George Home team at Asda House in Leeds. I have made quick notes in answer to the questions to jog my memory on specific areas I want to make sure I cover. 1. Tell me a little bit about yourself.      - travel      - surface pattern      - creative cravings 2. What do you know about the company?      - own experience      - information sourced for blog post about              Asda 3. How did you hear about the position?     - my manager told me about it 4. Why do you want this job?     - loved my time at Asda - need something creative and I want to work for a company that produces for rhe people around me. 5. Why shoul...
Read more

Xmas Pop Up Shop

This week we had a session to nail down the specifics for our pop up shop and to delegate tasks. We have decided Wednesday 6th of December is the best option as the last week of term may be too chaotic, students may have already returned home and it also gives us more opportunity to sell any left over stock afterwards. We have decided that we will sell perspex xmas decorations and cake (to lure people in).. We delegated the tasks as follows: Aisha & Myself : design decorations Claire & Myslef: organising lasercut of decorations Erin: design leaflet and posters Kirsty: sort university funding Claire: source suckers and ribbon Caitlin: cakes (buying, Designing and making) Sally & Rosh: arranging the timetable of shifts Maria: organising/booking the space and music Fatima: marketing via emails - university wide By the end of the session we had worked out 5 designs and 5 colours for the decorations, cake themes (matching the decorations). We sorted out price po...
Read more