Lots has happened in the last six months. I've gone from working part time in a DIY store to University, looked around for another job and eventually ended up back at the same DIY store. I went to Uni to do German and Russian, but after a few weeks I already knew I didn't want to work with languages at the end of the course, so I was only doing it to say "I have a degree" when I got a job. I carried on with it for three months until Christmas, then decided it wasn't for me and to go for Computer Science. I don't know why I wanted to do a languages course in the first place to be honest, I got a 486 when I was 9 and I've always been into programming. I couldn't pick the Computer Science course up after four months, so I had to re-apply to start in September 2007. Since there's not a lot else to do when you're not in full time education, I started looking for a job in the middle of January. After applying to every cafe and retail store I could find, I eventually got an interview and an offer from Subway.

I thought it would be great - making sandwiches and serving coffee in a laid back cafe all day, but the reality was nothing like that. Even though I didn't think so when I left, compared to Subway, my first job was pretty damn good. For an 8 hour shift in Subway, you get half an hour unpaid break compared to half an hour paid and another hour unpaid in the DIY store. The pay's better, the holidays are better and working in a sandwich shop means you can't enjoy a sub because you're eating it for dinner every day.

So I'm here six months after starting Uni, having had a bad experience at Uni due to the people I got thrown in with, four grand in debt having to wait another six months to start University again. Ah well, the money I make working the next six months should just about cover the cost of going in the first place…