Things To Do Before You're 30 Part 3 By Sarah Tomlinson

Part1, Part2, Part3, Part4, Part5

How many people here in Hull (sorry 'ull) can describe their life as .. Get up, go to work, go home, and go to bed.. with a little food in the middle. A lot of people do this for a living; another lot of people are doing it in waiting for one thing, which will change that rota. Man, am I waiting. As a lot of you know by now, I am waiting eagerly to get an A-level in biology and chemistry so I can go to med school and do some serious good in this world.

But getting started is proving a total pain in the butt. No one wants to teach me, night courses for (what I thought weren't) obscure subjects are apparently unpopular. So I am forced to live the; Get up, go to work, go come, and go to bed lifestyle.

My dad and I both work in retail, he's a deputy manager, and I am a sales advisor. Different stores, different companies. Different views. He likes his job, too much sometimes, but he finds retail to be different every day and an overall exciting market. I have a slightly different view. Management always pushing you to serve this customer and serve that customer, and I just know that if they'd leave me to it, I'd get the sale when the customer was ready instead of pestering them when they enter our store.

I guess I see it as the same everyday. Call me a pessimist, but I think I'm getting bored of the job; I can never keep a job for over a year, ok, 18 months, but you get the picture. I look at my sisters' curriculum vitae and she looks just the same, but she's a health and safety type person so I don't blame her. Then you look at my dad, who has been with his company for years, and I mean years.

Same with my boss, and his boss. Is it management? I think it might be. You get to the point where you think; I've been here for long enough I might as well stick it out and live in the cupboard in the office. But no, not me. I want to do something different, I have that thing that not many people have anymore, and many people need to get .. Drive. I know my past few articles have been about doing what you wanna do, and things like that, but I just can't get my head around the fact that I'm a person who wants to help people, but no-one wants to let me, maybe its not what I'm here for..

So this week's, thing to do before you're 30 is... Try something really new.

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