Blogs: Richard's job log: 21

Richard currently works in a Birmingham law firm, after completing a contemporary history degree. He’s thinking about a paralegal career, but also has media ambitions.

It was always going to happen, I suppose. It is 2012 and there is nothing you or I can do about it.

So seeing as how it’s a new year, it is probably time for a fresh start and a bit of a recap. When I started this blog in 2010 I was on a quest to become a real human being with a proper job and everything, and here we are in January 2012 and while I am some way down the road to becoming a proper person I still don’t have a career as such.

On the outside I probably do look like an adult - for a start off I am married. Having ‘tied the knot’ (I have never used that expression before and doubt I will again) in August last year I am in some way qualified to class myself as a grown up. Equally, I am a home owner, another signpost towards adulthood.

Yet despite these two pretty significant landmarks in my personal development, I still don’t have what you could class as a proper career. Since graduating from the University of Leicester in 2008 I have had a couple of arbitrary stopgap jobs. Unfortunately, the gaps have been much larger than originally anticipated and I have languished somewhat in these jobs. Until now that is.

Despite the economic turmoil of the modern world, I WILL make a change in 2012. My wife thinks I should write a book and, as a keen historian (as you know my BA is in Contemporary History) she thinks I should write about an imaginary love affair between Hitler and Stalin, maybe she is right. I am imagining a kind of Twilight for dictators. You never know, it could work. It would definitely put a different slant on the Nazi-Soviet pact anyway.

If it transpires that the world isn’t quite ready for a romance novel set in the world of facial hair, totalitarianism and persecution then I might need a back-up plan and an alternative career path.

With a little luck (and a lot of hard work) hopefully I will get myself in a position to make something of my writing/journalistic dreams and, provided that the world doesn’t come to an end this year, I am really looking forward to the rest of 2012. I am adamant that I am going to make something of this year. It is time for a change.

In the mean time I am thinking Adolf as the sparkly vampire (he was pale enough) and Uncle Joe as his breathy, fawning lover. It really could work.
Happy New Year.