Last week I talked about my experience while on placement and balancing uni and work for my final year. This week I’m going to tell you about how I got my first “proper” job, what it entailed and some of the great things I learnt.

Wohoo! I’m a Graduate.

The end of my final year quickly approached, as I mentioned last week my time at Fantastic really improved my planning and time keeping skills so all my projects were done, my dissertation was written and I was ready to graduate. Being prepared and not having to rush around freed me up to start thinking about what’s next? Do I want to go travelling? How about running off to join the circus? I love my luxuries so travelling and slumming it in hostels for a year was not an option and my juggling skills are poor to say the least so that’s the circus out of the window!

I knew I wanted to work and push on with my career and after enjoying my placement and learning so much I knew Fantastic was where I wanted to be. I still wasn’t sure whether Fantastic wanted me, so again it was time to have a grown up conversation with the boss man. Before going in to speak with @FantasticAndy I thought about what skills I wanted to learn and what my role should be. After final year my love for web design and development was ever growing so I knew I wanted my role to be around that area. I also thought about what Fantastic actually needed and at that point I thought it would be best to talk to @FantasticAndy and get his thoughts.

It can be really intimidating talking to your boss about your career, especially just coming out of uni. There’s always the fear of “what if we have completely different ideas on what I should be doing” or even worse they don’t want me to stay. Straight away he reassured me that there was a place for me and we started to discuss what that place was. At the time web design was done by the graphic designers then passed on to the developers