Top 6 Irks

As I was told I'm a bona fide Londoner today - I think they were just being nice but I took it - I know have some irks about London. There are always issues about any city. Whether it is the simple things like weather, transportation, jobs, or access - you can always see the bad. I think it's in our human nature to find the flaws and be critical. It's far harder to take the positives and try and ignore the faults. I love London - the arts, culture, free museums, possibilities, loads of American tv, Guy Fawkes day, proximity to the Europe mainland, true multiculturalism and the list goes on. However I have about 6 irks about London.
1. People who stand on the left side of the elevator.
2. People after walking all the way up the left side stop at the very top of the elevator causing a tube traffic jam.
3. Motorcyclists who believe they are above stopping at zebra crossing (pedestrian right-of-ways)
4. My inability to break into the job market. At least internal communications
5. No cheap internet cafes in the city
6. people who don't give themselves enough time and the aggressively push their way onto the tube and shove you aside. I've been the perpetrator and the victim.

However other good things - below Liam and I at the British Museum

Dissection

Two days of being told what makes a great blog and how to develop interactivity, I realize I've fallen short. I realize that my blog is dull at times - and at the end of the day I know I'm not going to make every post fantastic. However, I will try to add a little something more to my posts. I'm not really sure where to start, but glad I have infinite time to do something. I'm hopefully taking an advanced writing and editing course in three weeks (pending jobs of course). That might help with my blantant problem of missing words The brain moves far faster than my fingers. It's interesting that I'm trying to get a comms career with these significant writing glitches. I think I edit corporate and media material carefully - in comparison to this rambling of thoughts onto paper. However, I think the fact I sometimes struggle with writing gives me an edge, I know what to look for in others' mistakes!

Communicating Seminars

I've been lucky to join into an IABC seminar with Steve Crescenzo. The seminar lasts over two days and the first day was fabulous. He had great tools to integrate social media tools into internal communications. Involving the small crowd, he used multiple case studies to show to break the 'layer of fat' between a CEO and lower level employees. He was a dynamic speaker, but thankfully didn't ask anyone to go into small group exercises to have interactivity. I'm sad that I can't go the whole day tomorrow (job interviews again). It got me so excited about internal comms, and slightly sad that I had nowhere to apply it.

Interviews but not much else

I still love London. I'll keep stating this in front of every post I complete over the next week. I've gone on a ridiculous series of interviews over the past three weeks and applied to three or five times the number. It grates on the nerves when you don't get feedback or you really wonder what makes you so unemployable that you don't get the second interview or even the first callback. I think this process is similar to an audition, but frustratingly spaced out. I still have some more interviews over the next week and one that sounds very interesting next Wednesday. Waiting is getting frustrating though.