ABOUT ME

Well first of all i want to thank you for taking time to find out who i am, and what im planing to do….

My name is George, im 18 soon to be 19 in February 2012, and i live in Manchester England, which is not the most exciting place to say the least. I quit college only a few months after starting, so i could get a job. This was my first big regret in life, because working in a full time job was even more tedious than college.

I was studying ICT software, which was exactly the opposite to what i wanted and expected, so straight away i started off on the wrong foot. The ICT course i had taken ended up leading towards everything todo with games designing, and when i realised this i did what i do best and changed paths, because i wasn’t in the slightest interested in designing games. Sometimes i like to play on my PlayStation 3 but only on occasion so, ye, games designing was definatly not my goal in life.

So i left college and found a job straight away luckily. I found work floor-laying for a sole trader who i am now good friends with but unfortunately still work for. Its unfortunate because even tho my boss is cool, really laid back and because its just me and him with his white van, we have a good crack together, BUT i cant help but think this is me stuck in a dead end job soon to be struggling with a house, bills, and work just like most people.

I did however leave my boss and my comfortable job for 2 months supply work in France, Grenoble working for the famous HP computer company, where my mums fiancée works (he is English but works in France, yes it can be awkward for them, but they manage) and he asked me would i like to fill in for someone who had an accident, so i took the opportunity, and flew out 3 days after (feeling very guilty towards my boss for dropping him so quickly and unexpected even tho i know he needed me). When i got there i went straight to work the same day meeting the whole team, who started teaching me the ropes. They were extremely friendly, welcoming and cool people.

During the 2 months working in France, i feel i have made friends for life (yes in only 2 months), at first when i was travelling there i was nervous wondering what to expect…. not knowing a word of French except bonjour, i thought i wasn’t going to last long and i wouldn’t like being away from home for what would be the longest time ever. But i wasn’t. I loved every minute of it, meeting loads of friendly people, socialising in the local Irish bar, touring around Grenoble (beautiful but expensive place), i travelled to Italy for a day because it was only 2 hours drive and had the best food ive tasted. I made good friends with a guy called ‘Michaël Le Roux’ and its possible you may have crossed paths with this dude, because he loves to travel, backpacking all over in 2009 and just returning from a couple of months visit to Vietnam. After listening and seeing pictures of his trips, i was amazed that something like that was so quite easily possible. So after them 2 months away and meeting Mikey (Michaël Le Roux) i have always imagined doing something different to the normal rat race lifestyle. But as always good things have to come to an end, and i went home expecting no job to go to, and to be honest feeling pretty depressed knowing i was going back to reality, which is why since going to France ive wanted to do something else and at the time i didn’t know what. Until recently where i have realised i need to travel the world. But now im back working with my old boss in the same job and getting more and more desperate to make a change.

So now i have decided to start making the plans and preparation to get a working holiday visa in Australia for a year, where i will save save save money to go travelling across SE Asia and where ever my nose takes me, until i run out of money, and then i hope to get another working holiday visa in new Zealand.

To be continued …..