The Waiting Room

Life is a funny thing, at this current time I feel like I'm a in a waiting room not exactly waiting for anything but for my degree to be completed. I had visions of this year being stress free but things crop up when we least expect them to, such reasons I don't feel its appropriate to divulge at this current moment or at all really. There's a lot going on at the moment for me both academically and personally but I am a fighter! Have you ever felt like your stuck in a waiting room of some sort? 

In a manner of speaking University College Birmingham could be classed as my waiting room at this current time. I'm in my fourth and final year of BA Hons Hospitality and Tourism Management degree and the intensity has been turned up a few notches to boiling point. Call me dramatic but I would love to go back to first year, no stresses and no worries about getting a 10,000 word dissertation started. Going backwards isn't what I really want to do but things get tough every once in while so I know it will all be worth it. I only have to spend two days in university due to my timetable being focused around two modules and my dissertation. I'm undertaking Operations Management and Strategic Management, both of which aren't my first choice for modules but there's no way of me changing that because they stand as core modules. The dissertation is a 10,000 word research project that I must complete by April 2014, so no pressure! 

Things have been hectic for me over the last week but I'm keeping tight lipped for once, trust I like to talk! Gone are the days where I can turn up to a lecture hungover from the previous night or even still intoxicated its time to wake and get on with things. Strategic Management has to be my ultimate foe at the moment, we have a group presentation to put together and I'm not enjoying this module at all. I know that eventually this module will be wrapped up in time for the Christmas holidays so I can switch off for two whole weeks and forget non of this business ever happened! I've already got a deadline for an assignment and my dissertation proposal  has to be in on the 23rd of October but I have stepped up to the plate to tackle all of these obstacles. So, you could say that my concentration has waned away from my full-on work load but things are looking up for me. I've only got one way to go, that way is forwards to the finish line to eventually graduate in September 2014!

Like waiting for a train I just feel that all the fun has to wait for another time. This blog was born because of my American and Canadian adventures during 2012 and early 2013 so its been a bitter pill to swallow to not get on a train and see somewhere new. I can't say that I won't be leaving Birmingham next week, even if it was just for the morning and afternoon I would love to jump on a train from Birmingham's New Street station but I'll have to wait. I suppose I've not strictly been completely truthful because all being well me and my friend Lydnsey will be hitting Liverpool for my 23rd birthday next month on the 15th of November 2013. I am really looking forward to getting away for the night to shake Birmingham away for a little while even just for a night. I would like to rewind time back to my placement year as I had structured working times and used most of my days off to visit New York City and lots of other exciting places, but after my summer of adventure I almost feel I can't say no to my university work and go to Lichfield for the afternoon to blog about it. I suppose this leads back to my situation, being in the waiting room for the next few months where I will get all the necessary things completed so I can hopefully fulfill my career dreams of being a flight attendant. I can't say that things are all bad at the moment or for the next few months because like I have said about Liverpool I have some exciting things planned! December's going to be good because I'm going to the pantomime and paying a visit to the German market in Birmingham as well. If my finances permit it I would love to visit Manchester for the weekend to get inspiration for my dissertation but I won't be to bothered if I don't because it's a somewhere on my places to see for the future. So, I know all is not bad I just need to have some patience and persevere!

Dubai is my destiny! Now if I put things into perspective and stop being such a little diva about things I don't have a problem sitting in this waiting room. I have the desire to become a flight attendant for Emirates Airline, all being that the interview and everything else going well I could be living the Dubai life! Looking at the photo captured to the left I could get used to stressing about modules and my dissertation if it means I could have the chance to live in the dazzling Middle Eastern metropolis that is Dubai! Essentially, everything will be about having my priorities in their rightful places. I want my degree more than anything but just need to get real with all of the studying, I have friends that graduated this September and have revealed that they can do anything after concurring the dreaded dissertation. I know in my heart that my Middle Eastern dream has every chance to become a reality. Whereas, Desperately Seeking Adventure is concerned I might have to scale back my blogging efforts as a vast majority of my time will be spent toiling over my university work but beggars can't be choosers!? All being well I would love to attend a future open day in Birmingham for Emirates in June of 2014 and do everything I need to be successful. I know a back up plan should be something to consider but I have everything covered! Don't actually quote me on that one! 

So, here's goes the next eight months, a period of time that will change my life undoubtedly for the better because there's no other way its going to go! Okay so I'll have to limit the amount of day trips I make out of Birmingham this next year and get over working stupid hours on my research project but I want to be standing there with my degree at graduation looking over everyone else and thinking 'Bitches I did this!' Life does through horrid things in our faces, some of these things may cause us have set backs but we have to be stronger than yesterday and just get back up and survive! I should be a motivational speaker sometimes because I talk utter rubbish! I know to achieve what I want will take lots of study that will put Desperately Seeking Adventure on the back burner until things chill out a bit, but I will endeavor to squeeze out maybe one or two extra blogs per month because I use blogging as my therapy sometimes! 

Let's get this correct now because I don't want to be waiting forever!Joseph Harrison