I've had a bit of a shit one recently.
Had an assessment centre at a FTSE 20 firm last Thursday and they said I'd hear back from them Monday/Tuesday at the latest and now it's Friday with no word. Messaged one of the guys in the HR and he never got back to me.
I was supposed to do an exam for a finance qualification yesterday but I cancelled it a couple of weeks ago because there was just no way that I could juggle studying for it while finishing off my MSc and doing grad scheme/assessment centres. Doing that makes me feel like a bit of a loser even though I know that's unfair on myself, it was just too much of a mouthful. £500 down the drain to the CISI ahhhh. On top of that, I just heard from my uni that I won't be graduating from my MSc until Feb 2018. I was originally supposed to finish in 2016 and graduate Feb 2017 but got sick which meant I had to defer a module till early this year and pushed my dissertation deadline back from Sept 2016 to Oct 2016. Spoke to the Uni when I got an e-mail saying that I wouldn't be graduating this July because they hadn't even looked at my dissertation yet because they can't until the exam board has ratified the mark for the module I deferred. Of course the exam board takes place after graduation which means they can't start looking at my dissertation until later this year so by the time I get the mark for my dissertation my uni will have had it for well over a year (they anticipate my marks will be available around December 2017). Of course my parents have already booked accommodation and flights.
On top of that I've now got to go out and try and find a decent job with this whole weird MSc thing going on keeping me in the lurch while at the same time just trying to find out what industry I'd actually be well suited for and generally trying to find my place in the world. I struggle to talk to anyone about it in real life because people always just tell me how smart and talented and outgoing I am, which is a great vote of confidence from everyone but I just don't feel that way at all.
Not to mention I had a fight with my parents today about their 30th anniversary celebrations which me and my girlfriend are flying over for but will have to cut short by a day because my girlfriend needs to fly back to the US to attend one of her best friends' dress-fittings for the wedding.
Yeah September 2016 up until now has been a bit shit. The best part of the last 10 months has been moving in with my wonderful girlfriend and getting a puppy together; walking her in the park really brightens my day and helps relax me.