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NEARLY CHRISTMAS…

…But its still all doom and gloom thanks to the credit crunch. Steel is not exactly the most sought after product at the moment and the site I am now at has just held meeting discussing ways we can cut costs without having to make anyone redundant. This is my time to shine, I’m going to come up with some amazing ideas and earn the company millions!! Or probably not, but hopefully I will be able to use what we have learnt at uni to try and suggest some money saving ideas.

Well anyways on a brighter note, one of the other placement students is having her 21st on Saturday and we have to go dressed as something our name begins with so I’m thinking a Mexican at the moment, I’ll put some pics up in my next blog, but yeah should be a good laugh. The Christmas party is coming up too, well the Christmas party at a different site is happening soon anyways but I’m going to head down with some of the students from that site. There’s going to be free bumper cars apparently, how goods that!

Back to the placement side of things and my job is going pretty well, been doing a lot of stuff on my own the last couple of weeks and starting to get to grips with everything. Been quite quiet so far with the crunch and Christmas but should start to pick up in January. Learning a lot about how to shut a company down haha but no it is quite a good thing to do placement, I’m definitely learning new things as I go along and feel that I’ll benefit from it. Oh and living with 3rd year students isn’t to bad either, they aint going out as much as 1st and 2nd year obviously so they haven’t been to yobbish just yet, maybe when dissertations are handed in and exams are over I’ll miss out on a few nights sleep but so far so good!!