It was a sunny but windy day of 2014 when Marta submitted her dissertation after a year of sleep depravation and thousands of hours of sitting down reading, summarizing, analyzing, writing, editing, reading and rewriting. Now that I rethink it I don't actually remember how weather was. Most likely rainy (sleep depravation times, remember).
The day after the DD-day (Dissertation Deadline) I came back to the place I had been working as an intern, now as a full-time worker. For a person who's been living on internship salaries and zero-hour contracts, having a full-time position felt like a dream. Contract, holidays, salary over the minumum wage, travel expenses... the whole lot: the paradise of the postgraduate.
It's been a year of hard work at Web Shop Direct: Getting used to the company, learning about the tools I use in my everyday, but also learning about the products and the sector. I not only need to choose the best plugin for my blog about tights or knowing how to analyse on Google Analytics the traffic coming to this blog, but also sharing interesting and useful content. So, yes, I've been learning about hosiery and, on the meantime, I've become a little bit of a Fashion victim. Ask me about Fashion trends or celebrities, I rule it.
Grades came and I happily got a Distinction (Yay). Then Alex Fenton asked me to join the Little Chip Awards on the Placement/Aprenticeship category and (surprise suprise) I happened to win it. Yes, it's an award for being an intern, but I have always been a good intern (References can be provided on request).
More recently our amazing website for pretty amazing bikinis and swimsuits has gone responsive and, luckily, UK Tights has also moved to a responsive design. Furthermore, a new online store for Fine lingerie sets and lovely nightwearis coming live very soon. As you can see I can't help myself: I like keeping myself busy and I couldn't ask for a better job (or a greater job place).
I'm going to use my own recipe and creating a calendar of contents with posts for every month. Does this sound good to you? In the meantime, why don't you tell me (and whoever reads this) what did you do on your first year after uni?
