A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES STARTS WITH A SINGLE STEP...

... And some times you have to stop to think what the next step is going to be!

It's been a while since my last post and not because nothing interesting has happened to me, most likely the opposite.

Next week I’ll be back in Ibiza for the season… it’s not that I was totally homesick, is just that my plans have suffered some alterations, hahahahaha

A month and a half ago I decided to give up the job why I came to London on the first place, the job which was going to give me the money and freedom for doing other things like going to the gym, volunteering, get to know more of my favourite city, travelling… of course I also came because I wanted to help the people I was going to work with and so I did for 3 months, but thanks to them and the job itself I realised I wasn’t doing any of the things I intended to when coming to London!

I found my self locked in a room anywhere in UK watching the world going pass my window. The bad weather helped me feeling better, watching snowing through the window of your cosy and warm room it’s always better… but when sunny days began the outside activities also started, not mine, but all of yours! I was still locked in watching the world though my window. Luckily someone brought me my laptop so my world opened up a lot more, but unfortunately that only made things worse! Watching the photos, comments, excursions, ect of all of you on Facebook… how much I hated it!

Anyway, I decided to look into the situation and find a different solution so I started sending many and many CV from my locked little place. But what made me take the decision of risking the only job I had to through my self into the adventure of being one more in a city like this one and start looking for a job?! Simple, the fact that I almost los few interviews because I was working with a client at the time!!! So I took my savings and with the biggest help from my family and in particular of a very good friend who offered me a room in his house… I landed in London!

I thought it would only take me a few days, but obviously I was wrong! Don’t get me wrong, I had offers and those where followed but interviews, but none worked out!

So as I was approaching my dead line and I was running out of money, I decided to take my last shot.

I probably should’ve done it lot earlier, I know many will think like that and they might be right, but we all make mistakes, don’t we?! All this time I had been focusing my search just in those jobs related with my skills, I thought that if I could not find it then it wasn’t my moment. But I was so much willing to stay in London that it wasn’t until a very close person asked me: Ana, what do you want, to be able to stay in London or get the ideal job?! That I realised that I had mistaken my purpose! What did I do?! Start looking for pubs and restaurant jobs, which I had already done but with my airport CV and not so intensively, but who is going to hire you with that kind of background?! But I don’t have waitressing experience, at all! I wouldn’t mind working in a pub, I always liked the idea but because I don’t have any experience I dismiss it. That here it is not a problem, the experience appears from no where, like it did with me and in a way that the following day I had 2 job interviews!!! But as I’ve already said, it was too late…

Anyway, 2 weeks ago I thought that if I had to go back to Ibiza I wouldn’t try this kid of adventure again, but I’ve learned so much of it and now I know how I must do it that it is very possible that I’ll be trying it again after the summer season, cause what else is there to do in Ibiza, tell me?!

Once things are over it is easier to say I could’ve done things differently, true! But I prefer making my live a little more complicated, hahahaha

My stories will continue from Ibiza, because it’s also part of the journey and who know what has the future ready for me, I only know that I will never become obsessed with it ever again, because what ever it has to be it will be!