Diary Entry #001

 

My summer so far 

2 weeks of my summer has passed and honestly I'm actually pretty happy with the way things have been going. I've gone out 3 times, I've had way more time to practice yoga and journal, I finally edited my playlists on Spotify, and I've been posting more!

The surge in time I've gotten has really allowed me to pour into myself, my future, and my priorities. I'm now at liberty to slow down, think, and decompress. Honestly, during school term time, I tend to get stressed over my grades due to the fear of failing my GCSE's. I also compare my self a lot unfortunately with the 'popular' girls in my year, and throughout the year I had been working on feeling more confident in my own skin to prevent other people's perceived effortless beauty affect my esteem. I do believe that I made progress but I also can't deny that I am not quite in the state of pure self - confidence yet. 

This summer I've also had a lot of time to really think about what I want to do after my GCSE's. To be honest I already knew I wanted to get into finance, I just didn't know much about the industry and the different roles. Upon further research I realised I want to get into Wealth Management. 

I also knew way before the end of year 10 that I wanted to do an apprenticeship rather than go into sixth form or college and just repeat secondary school. I just prefer the idea of actively working as I learn, with the added bonus of getting paid I was like hell yeah I'm definitely going into apprenticeship. 

I have also been looking for a job to enhance my CV and skills. I visited loads of shops in town this Tuesday and I got a lot of 'we don't hire anyone under 16/18' which was honestly a bummer. However in one charity shop they said I could volunteer I just had to apply online - and so I did.

I applied and I got a reply today saying 'I would like to invite you for a conversation about the role and your application on 6 August @ 14:00'  I really hope this goes well for me. I will update later <3

Thank you for reading <3

Davita