The final day
2008-May-22 |
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Today marked a kind of weird day for me. It was my last day of College, for the actual teaching. I still have exams, but no more lessons at the College, ever. For everyone else, it's different. Most have came straight up from school. I hadn't.
I remember, as if it only happened yesterday, sitting in my office at The Q Group, with my office door open. With my music playing. Fixing an incredibly old PC that blatantly couldn't handle Windows XP, but trying anyway. A couple of months after Bob left, and Sal and Jezza started working from home.
I remember the draw of sweets still existing, coming back from McDonalds, with Matt, stopping to have a chat with good ole Tim, who looked suspiciously like Santa, chatting about the new White Stripes album and our opinions on it, after he greeted me every day the same way...
Tim - Morning Jamie!
Me - Morning!! How are you today?!?!?!
Tim - Ooo tolerable.
Always tolerable.
I wrote a blog on another site I used to use, around 2005ish, about how I wanted out. I didn't want to know I could only ever do one dead end job my entire life. I got sent to College in 2004, on an I.T course. It bored the shit out of me. Sal and Jezza (my two line managers) must have read it. Sal rang up my office and told me I shouldn't worry about being too old to go back to college, I should just up and do it. This made me think.
I then had an odd day, when the Chairman of the company, attempted to intimidate me into taking his side, in his extortion of Sal and Jez, which I refused to do.
Trawling through my old blogs, THIS is the one that made me realise I should quit and go back to college, after three and a half years at The Q Group.
That was over two years ago. To me, this is incredible. It seems like yesterday. I've actually woken up a couple of times, and my first thought being 'I need to get up and ready for work'. That's how routine it got.
At that stage in my life, I didn't know Oli , Matt, Amy, Lizzie, Anna, Joe, little Jed and all the other people i've met at college over the past year and a half, and yet feel like i've known most of my life. It's an incredibly strange thought knowing that the time at College is over. It will be duely missed.
EDIT:
In searching through my old website folder, that i've kept, for nostalgia purposes. I came across one of my very first blogs, on my 18th Birthday, hidden away on my database of blogs. Here it is.....
"Today being my 18th birthday and i have the day off i thought id write a special birthday report, Today i have already legally bought a dvd rated 18 , sopranos series 3 . Also report from yesterday , i found out the 3 girls from a college who came in to help with leafletting last friday made in just 2 hrs of work.... £45 . A HELL of a lot less then what i made . And then yesterday we asked if we could borrow one of the girls downstairs for an hr or so to help out we were told yes she could help . then about 10 mins before we started , her boss type person , who seems to be boss of the table the type who makes you drop everything to come and help her out told us she was needed for other work So i went investigating this other work which turned out to be .....sharpening pencils and sorting through stationary , so most of the day only 2 of us were doing the 2000 leaflet holders and about 8000 leaflets left . Which really got us down and its made me feel like shit and thinkin it was pointless me being there n doing that. I can guarentee when the next lot come in in about 2 weeks ill be made to do them . Anyway im just about to go out for the rest of my birthday. Then im ringing coral later. Then shower then bed."
Oh the shame.
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