Rantings of an outgoing persian

Setting out new year resolutions

Sahar Mirhadi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:30:57 +0000

i have been thinking about setting my new years resolutions. I think I have got it down to a concise.

Pass driving test- goal is by february
Join a gym – I have an induction tomorrow
Be promoted in my job – I currently am a sales executive and want to be an Account Manager
Do stand up comedy – I have started writing material and want to be doing open mic nights
Save money – minimum £150-200 a month
Attend at least 1 festival
Be happy within the relationship realm- this is either single or with someone
Take advice and criticism

If there are any new ones, then I shall update the list.

A Hundred Days to Make me A better person

Sahar Mirhadi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:24:20 +0000

I have joining a project where you have to commit yourself to do one thing for 100 days to you a better person.

www.hundreddays.net

GO JOIN!

Birthday

Sahar Mirhadi — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:28:46 +0000

Yes I am now the grand age of 21+1 = 22. Don’t feel any different.

Plans for the week:

Deadmau5 at the Roundhouse
Party at Reflex
An audience with Stephen Fry

Fresh Networks Approach to Social Media and Customer Service

Sahar Mirhadi — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:54:42 +0000

I stumbled across my twitter and think it is really valuable
http://bit.ly/ivnPk

Should students have to pay more?

Sahar Mirhadi — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:27:04 +0000

As an ex-student, I do not think so.
Having recently seen an article on the BBC, there have been calls from the CBI, claiming the ‘ inevitable’ rises will occur.

Now I easily survived and my peers have come out with over 20k worth of debt. Does the government wish to encourage a culture of debt amongst british society. By all means think of ways ot cut down the ever growing deficit, but dont burden students who wish to learn further.

There have been calls on having ‘free degrees’ where by students do not have to pay anything for their degrees for people who want to commute from home. This is all well and good, but you lose out on one thing, the student experience and immersing yourself in the changes that you will go through as a student.

University is about having a fantastic time, learning about your subject, people and ultimately yourself. I wish all new students a great fresher’s week and encourage government to think of a new alternative than taxing people who just wish to learn.

My experiences with Job Agencies

Sahar Mirhadi — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:07:49 +0000

My advice: Go with the specialist ones and use the high street ones online portal of jobs.

I would advise signing up to them as they do help you and do find things that you want to do.
Some of them, you will never hear from them and some will stick to you.

I do get the impression that some of them want to help you, but cant. Some, though just make false promises that they cannot keep. But that is life.

The job hunting experience

Sahar Mirhadi — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:57:55 +0000

I have learnt that persistence and spreading your net is the most important thing. When I became unemployed in july and moved back home; I had to look for a new job and went for lots and lots of interviews.

Well I did what most people do: look at the news and the bleak stats was initially quite daunting. But I was not going to let that stop me.

So I sent CV’s, lots of them and nothing was happening. Then I tweaked it and kept sending. I signed up to agencies, which I had a mix experience with (I’ll write about that in a bit).
I decided to then change my tactic and mix them all and take every opportunity going, online face2face and the phone.

I felt at times I was repeating myself and saying the same things to the same questions and yes it annoyed me. My only solace was, I knew I will get a job.

And it paid off.

it’s been a while

Sahar Mirhadi — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 09:55:41 +0000

since I could hold my head up high. No, I am not going to quite a staind lyric at the blogosphere. That would just be painful. But it has been far too long.

Well the main piece of news is that I have graduated now and have now joined the rising army that is unemployment. Now I am not really sure how to look at it. I see things on the news about people never getting into work and just relying on handout, but also then people who actively use the services provided to get themselves back to work.

Now I am definitely in the latter category. I am using all tools to my disposal and so should everyone else.

Project Mashup Night

Sahar Mirhadi — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:22:14 +0000

Since May Bank Holiday Monday, I have been pondering the idea of why there are no real mashup nights in London. as there is a night for nearly every type of genre. This stemmed from chatting to a couple of people at university, who got me into mashup. I wanted to listen to it where it was accessible and everyone could appreciate it in london. I found only three nights in the near vicinity. So I have now embarked on a journey if you will. I want to set up a night in london, where I can bring mashup lovers together to appreciate good music and have a good night.

Now the big questions

Who?

Where?

When?

Money Costs?

These are all works in progress but I have been consulting producers in the UK and the prestigious bootie label in San Francisco to see if they are up for it (with great progress) so that gets me excited!

Watch this space.

living in london

Sahar Mirhadi — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:16:50 +0000

Well I have been living in London for nearly two weeks and let me tell you, it has been amazing. Its always buzzing and yes there are annoyances but such is life. I also have a new job which I passed for, so start making money soon. Also I am close to everything you would ever need!

So just a quick update on what is happening. Interests are at the moment related to Project Mashup night and the iranian election election results