The problem with "getting a job" in the generic sense for me is the way im currently conditioned, I'm not a company man AT ALL, I'm self motivated and driven by self interest, you give me a great job now on £50k a year I can guarantee you in 6 months times i'll be hatching ways to do it myself and earn £80k, in order to keep me in line really you have to give me something that a) really excites me, b) I feel I am learning from c) is developing me personally, professionally etc a job that is just to pay bills, nice and safe/secure is just not something I'm prepared to do and I've come this far I can't see myself changing anytime soon.
That being said...
... strong wills and determined attitudes are all very nice but doesn't alter the fact that the bills DO STILL NEED TO BE PAID!!!!
Obviously I've enquired about restaurant sites in London to re-open my concept down there, it's way too early though, me and my friend Tom (who does all the brand-work for the FL, and every other project i ever did) have been setting out for about a month now to build a new restaurant brand based on the concept I used at the FL, the FL branding is great but was done on a budget with a not much time to really think things through (it looks great though!) this time we're going to have a whole year (maybe more) to plan and think about it, so thats a long term plan that is going to sit on the back burner for a while...
I have a real issue with "jobs" and corporate stuff, I hate the way it all works, it massive impersonal nature of it all, I think it's usually just full to the brim with inefficiency, I think that often flair and creativity is stifled in place of regiment and conformity. I'll give you a good example...
CV's - CV's are a joke, they don;t tell you anything about anything, they are posters from the past, you learn pretty much nothing about a person from their CV, what is the way anyone applies for any job? They send their CV to some recruitment women who knows fucking nothing about the job and she sifts through and decides who's right or wrong. Being able to write a good CV is the skill here, nothing to do with the job.
Everyone comes to work uses words like "para-dime" and "global incentives" such utter bullshit drives me insane. These clowns on the apprentice all love doing it because they have read some book with the words in it. I've worked for corporate restaurant businesses who say things like "our internal marketing division has identified the units major KPI's" which basically means a group of guys who have >20 hours experience between them working in a restaurant have gone through the numbers and seen what's selling, if the unit has a decent manager he could have told them in an hour minus the fancy spreadsheet.
So needless to say put me in an environment like this, and i'm just going to end up killing someone. So applying for jobs through these recruitment agencies is not for me... so I went for s different approach.
I found 3 companies i would actually really like to work for, asked about them, researched them etc and then I just got hold of the MD's number and rang them and said:
"I'm David, I've been successful in the restaurant and gambling/hospitality business for a while now up in the North, moving to London at the end of the year and looking for work, researched your company and like X Y Z about it and would love to come work with you, really feel I could learn a lot and bring something exciting to the table as well"
One asked me to send my CV to his secretary, so I'm over that guy, the other two sounded really positive and asked a bit more about my background etc and I have meetings with both of them in London, I am excited for both, forging my own way in the world
FUCK THE SYSTEM...FUCK IT!
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