Is tea-making a transferable skill?
January 30, 2006 Rebecca Gower It’s a terribly stressful experience being in the third year, especially if you’re an English student. Almost everyone I know has exams, or a dissertation (or, in some unlucky cases, both); while I don’t actually have either. Well, I have a solitary exam at the beginning of next term (which I prefer not to think about), but otherwise, it’s all about the assessed essays. Perhaps I ought to be grateful, but I’m not, as I seem to have to spend half my time defending my degree, and that’s stressful enough in itself. The feeling amongst many of my friends seems to be that English students just can’t understand what work is. Added to that, the whole career issue is currently rearing its ugly head. The festive season was utter hell: everyone– each of my relatives in turn and people I didn’t even recognise– wanted to know what I plan to do with the rest of my life. My stock reply was “Oh, I don’t know, but I’m sure I’ll think of something eventually”, said as che
