Hi all,

This blog has been started to follow my pursuit on how to develop a career within this horrible economic crisis that is allow for very few people to acquire work, and hindering those who have little experience and even those who do have good qualifications.

The reality is, I moved back to the UK in 2012 with my wire in the hope of being able to provide a positive future for us due to my double degree, and my wife's trilingual skills. Unfortunately we've been here for 6 months and I'm starting to fear that the best opportunities may be the ones we left behind whilst living in Canada.

Anyway our choices have been made, and now we're here. What lies before us is a struggle that we're quickly becoming more and more aware of. Now we do have skills, and some limited experience, albeit in industries that not many people would be proud of.. however we're left to think, how do those who have none of this actually survive? I feel deeply sorry for those.

At present, my wife is working as a house keeper, cleaning hotel rooms on a part time basis, and I'm cold calling people trying to sell what I genuinely consider shit. I feel like I'm actually stealing peoples money on a legal basis, if I'm capable of tricking them into giving me their card information. This is not what I imagined when I was studying two degrees, and acquired a 2:1 on my final honours degree. I'm actually insulted by how low we've had to drop. My wife has a masters, and speaks 3 languages, yet she's cleaning toilets, so we're going to follow this progress of how we're going to better ourselves. It will be hard, but we're definitely going to try, as this is our future.

My name's going to stay anonymous to avoid any conflicts with those at work, but hopefully our progression and damned determination will end in something positive, instead of the negative depression which I feel I'm suffering from every day at the moment.

Weekend one: 16/17th of June 2012
I've applied and entered over 100 applications for new jobs. Lets see if anyone gets back to me. I tailored every single application as well.. which is incredibly time consuming.