I’ve decided that with my degree (hopefully, fingers crossed!) in Marketing I should probably understand and usefully use all the elements of social media available to me. So here I am, in my lunch break, shivering, writing my very first blog entry. I thought blogs were just an extension of a Facebook status update but I think this is …..
To tell you a little about me… I’m Laura, about to turn 21 in a week (boohoo!), I’ve finished third year of university at Strathclyde in Glasgow and at the moment I’m working for a global food company based in my hometown.
(I wrote these blogs a while ago but just never got around to posting them so they are a slightly out-of-date.)
I have a love of baking but at the moment my enthusiasm is wearing thin. On a whim, and following a string of quite successful batches of cupcakes, I decided it would be a good idea to enter the Turriff Show industrial section. Scanning the entry form, I circled nine classes including lemon curd, fruit jam, tablet and, my area of expertise, cupcakes. Ashamedly, I also entered classes in the craft section, planning to submit an oil on canvas painting my ex-boyfriend had done of my dog.
However, this ambitious entry has caused a bit of fuss in my kitchen. Fighting for worktop space with my Mum, being in the middle of melting the butter and sugar before realising I used the last of the lemons to make a homemade drain unblocker and forgetting to line the baking tray so that we end up with four spoons scraping small morsels of the baked-on mixture off the bottom of the tin.
But some of the results have proved better than others, meaning I get brownie points (or should that be bakewell tart points?) from my colleagues at my new job.
In July I started working at Baxters Food Group in the Retail Events Department in Fochabers. After an interview to work in the marketing department in Glasgow I was offered a position at the Highland Village headquarters instead. So far I’ve been involved with planning the various events that are coming up such as a Wild West Day, a cycling event and a wedding fayre that’s being held on the site. I am enjoying it, I get on well with the people I work with but I never thought part of my work experience would involve me frantically phoning people hunting for a bucking bronco!
At first I was disappointed not to stay in Glasgow and live the city working girl life of cocktails and eating out during the week with theatre trips and shopping at the weekend. Instead, I’m living at home with Eastenders during the week with family games of cards and homemade wine spritzers at the weekend and the permanent fixture of my tragic single bed with flowery-patterned duvet covers… enticing.
Don’t let this put you off coming back to read my blog, I’m sure something interesting will happen in the next few days, maybe I’ll get a part-time job as a magician’s assistant…? Or break the world record for eating jelly through a straw…?
