Clear white wall with two layers hanged bookshelf on the side with the brown long desk next to blue door in the room. There is a separate small area for a sink with a wardrobe beside and a giant space that is sufficient to contain two big suitcases above. There are two giant awning windows next to the working area and the single bed opposite the long desk.
Ares are divided into three sections underneath the brown topping of the desk. They were one storage cabinet on the left hand side with large foot area in the middle and a sliver metal stands holding the desk in another side.
Brown coloured metal bed frame holding a mattress. Although duvet is covering nearly the entire mattress, dressed up with beautiful cover pillows are unable to cover the entire area of mattress. This revealing the pretty bedding underneath the pillows and duvet which gives a sense of beauty in this boring single room of student accommodation.
Girl with black long hair with her white long-sleeve jumper and blue trouser, sitting silently, in front of a Ipad with its purple outer shield protecting crashes on the ground. Her groaning with ‘AHHHHHHHH’ breaks into this quiet peaceful area. Following her eye’s direction, a notice on social media appears. Description above the uploaded photos conveys a message of recruitment and this is when everything begins.
Pressure from conversation between me and my mother causing me to contract with the shop immediately. Reason for choosing this shop is nearer my current accommodation and flexibly. My heart is full of fears from the low balance of the bank account and the information from my mom about not support my life cost after my master course finished. Although my wishes on studying illustration and animation have been fulfilled, low employment rate showing the harsh perspective of unable to get a proper paid job after graduated.
It might my fasciation on difficult to get a job for supporting my life but several rejections from email have pushed me down to hell completely. Improving my portfolio is priority for getting employ but after finding income for living. These factors are forming an invisible obstacles around me while a reply from the message box saying ‘ Can you come to interview tomorrow?’ breaks into a series of obstacles with a beam of light for survive.
My fingers seem to know their job and helped me accept the offer quickly. Whole conversations are ended with an ‘OK’ and my body started to chili down from the tension. Scrolling up the conversation to check the wages and terms that we have discussed. Although it started with low wage, there is chance for my wage moves up if worked hard. Better than nothing. My brain started to generate problem for area of focus to ensure there is no accidents happen.
Questioning myself capable for this job or not. This is a shop assistant job. My working experience is related to customer service and receptionist. However, the benefit of being bilingual is the reason for me getting this job interview. There is strong confident of power begins to appear around me, from the fact that they would employ me immediately after interview.
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Wishing for capable to in this job until a proper full-time job comes in and save me in future as well as wage can gone up. Joyfulness from receiving an interview digesting the greyness of nervousness and disappointment from previous job rejections. Changing screen to watching Youtube videos and continuing my break until my stomach started to mourn.
Although curtains in front of awning windows are covering the brightness of sun, sunshine managed to squeeze in aside to bring tiny light into room. Therefore, every furniture even the sleeping woman on the bed can be seem clearly. Phone started to shake with its music and woman are moving her body, attempting to hide in the duvet from the noise until she switched it off. She reveals herself by opening the duvet side and moving her legs out to the white plastic slipper directly. As her feet appearing publicly, her body rises up as well and approaching to light switches directly.
Yawning from her mouth shows she is not awake up completely. Washing face with cold water help me wake up instantly and brain started to generate information on today’s schedules. Attending in job interview today and it happens in the shop inside. Thinking of time need to get there since being on time is important for showing respect. Zero though after interview bring me back to focus on getting changes. My body is as halfly nervous as half boiled egg in hot water. Nervous did not started to heat me up yet as hot temperature in water did not fill up my body.
Before stepping to wardrobe for clothes, though of emptying urine inside my body asking me to walks to the toilet. Holding the door handle and pulling it harshly as it is heavily. Step out my room and lucky toilet and shower is in the corridor where my room located as well. Push down the handle and door acts as a strong solid wall as it remains still position. It is locked. So, pushing the handle down of shower’s door which allowed me pushes in and using the toilet inside. Although there is full hot steam and wet floor as well as moistures sticking on the mirror at the back of the toilet, there is a toilet saves me from running into another corridors for toilet.
Pushing door for giving me enter my room again and cleaning my hand with soap in the sink since there is no sink for washing in shower. They have kind of expecting people using toilet while shower which makes me using shower as toilet as often. Drying my hands with my trousers and removing my pyramid for quicky clothes changes. Top has been changed successfully and the toothpaste and toothbrush come into my eyesight. Reminding myself my daily routine with a reminder of only brushing my teeth before bedtime while removing my bottom trousers for another change.
Finally, putting my shoes on is final act for clothes changing before leaving the room in dark. White plate on side of the long desk catches my attention and bring it out since it is my electronic room key. A quick eye scan around the room as well as checking phone and key is pocket before turning the light off. Pulling door as usual and pulling it back to close before placing the white plate until a green light flash out for locking the door.