...the big wide world of work...

First job...

Straight after college I got a job at a local builders’ merchants, working as an admin assistant. I really enjoyed the job actually and learnt loads about the big wide world of work. It was a challenge and I loved the people I was working with. They were nearly all a lot older than me which I liked coz I was well looked after.

About 8 months into the job, I got a really nasty 2 month long throat infection that had me bed-ridden and in a lot of pain. It absolutely took it out of me as well, and I couldn’t do much at all so there was a LOT of time to just lie there and do some thinking.

Again, I became quite depressed and lots of ‘questions of life’ cropped up. I started writing down my thoughts and trying to answer the questions I had. Money was an issue that came up a lot, along with gods, poverty, suffering, meaning of life, selfishness and all other things morel. I wrote 19 pages on the computer about all my thoughts actually, and it’s fascinating to read back now that I’m a Christian.

When I was well enough to walk to the local library, I started reading books on healthy eating and educational books about different countries. I turned completely anal about what I was eating and became a total health freak, counting calories and dividing up my food quantities into protein, carbohydrate, fibre, fruit, fat etc… it went crazy and my mum hated me for it! I just had a bit of a revelation while I was ill, as to what I was doing to my body, eating junk, drinking to the stage of vomiting most weekends and smoking skunk in bongs (I wouldn’t be surprised if this wasn’t the reason behind my throat infection in the first place!).

It was at this time I decided I needed to change my life. I couldn’t do all this changing in front of everyone though, I needed to get away, do my changing and then come back as this new purposeful and mature person… yeah right! Anyway, soon after my decision to change I booked flights to take myself off travelling.