Sparkling Clean

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The first question you must ask yourself when looking for a job is: can I turn it into a successful blog? Sitting this morning at my local Job Centre Plus[1], I saw a job ad for "Ambulance Cleaner". 45 hours a week, minimum rate per hour. Although the Ambulance Blog genre is already well represented by Suzi Brent's Nee Naw and Tom Reynold's Blood, Sweat and Tea, I think there's still space for someone reporting from the frontline after the shifts. In this day and age of Broken Britain's Bing Drinking, someone must report on the vomit that needs to be scraped off the insides of weekend ambulances, and of the struggle to make ends meet with a pitiful salary after a long week. Someone must leave little secret love notes for ambulance drivers so they can feel happier speeding across the city.

The people at the Job Centre were lovely - they breezed me through the interview even though I hadn't brought my latest lease or payslip. Regulars studied me from the corner of their eyes. I got a handshake at the end and an interview next week with a Careers Advice company in the city. Let's see if they can get me a job mowing lawn landscape gardening.

I went to Mile End's swimming pool afterwards, which was much cleaner than the one by Bethnal Green. It's probably because hardly anyone uses it. On a negative note, three blokes thought the Fast Lane was about standing in the middle of it splashing water at each other.

I'm now working on a job application for a Park Ranger position in my borough (insert amusing blog name somehow alluding to my sexuality and that I can't drive the park's truck due to lack of license.)

[1] Why is it Plus? Do I get more value for money? More jobs in less space?