LIFE UPDATE - PROMOTION, NEW CAR AND OTHER ADULT STUFF

One year on from finishing university, this felt like a good time for a life update as I am generally adulting way more than I was when I had just finished uni.

When I was a student I called that the "free trial" of adult life because you are technically an adult but for me, uni felt like a transition stage before the real thing. Then once I'd finished uni, I would refer to myself as a recent graduate, or say I'd "just finished uni" but it's a year on now.

Graduating uni - one year on

So in the last year since leaving university, I moved back home and started a job pretty much instantly after finishing my last assignments and dissertation. It was good to finally be earning some £££ after the student life I have to say.

My original plan after uni wasn't to move home, probably like a lot of students but I have been enjoying it and everyone is at different stages at this point in their life.

After working in my graduate job for a year, I was promoted into a more senior role which I will be starting over the next couple of months! This is something I'm so proud of because I really didn't expect this one year on from leaving university. 

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When I left university I had no clue really what I wanted to do or what I was good at, I just wanted a job but now that I have been working in marketing as a social media coordinator for a year, it's reassuring that I am good enough at my to be put forward for more responsibility at this stage.

I am going from a Social Media and Communications Coordinator to a Digital Communications Officer, basically a fancy way of saying I will be doing more technical digital marketing stuff than I have been doing up until this point.

New car who dis?

I am writing this on my new car day, which is another life update I need to share! So I had my fiesta since I was 17 and just passed my driving test, I did a blog about passing my driving test too haha that's how long I've been blogging.

Today, I said goodbye to Frankie the Fiesta and got my second car, a 2018 plate Volkswagen Polo. I had wanted a polo to be my second car but I always said I would wait until after uni when I had a job so that's what I did.

I loved my old car but she was getting on a bit and it was definitely time to get a new one, I'm so proud of my new car, and I will be showing it off until further notice.

Mo' money mo' travel

Since finishing uni last year, that's kind of been the time that the world has opened up more to travel after Covid, and conveniently the time I started a full-time job and getting paid more. 

Travel is my one priority in life and sounds cringe but I really think it was what I was put here to do. I am at my happiest when exploring new places and I am so happy to be able to do that more now since finishing uni.

My favourite blog posts to write are my travel ones, I would love to be a travel influencer that jets off every few weeks but I have to work, and I couldn't afford that but a girl can dream.

You may have seen that I went to Corfu this year with the girls, I also have Barcelona, Milan, and Germany trips in the works so stay tuned for those.

I feel like I have literally been showing off about good things that have been happening to me lately in this whole post, but adult life isn't all fun and games and I am just sharing the positive parts in this blog post.

I am planning to write about the not-so-easy bits in more advice-style blog posts, but maybe I am showing off my successes. You are your own cheerleader and with all the shit things happening in the world, why not celebrate your wins as much as possible?

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I feel very lucky to have been able to write these things and it hasn't always been an easy, plain sailing ride but when I look back at my past self at uni who had all sorts of stuff going on, it makes me so proud that she got to this point.