Right, incase most of you didn't know, i left Boot's basically because the company is shite & i had my degree in Graphic Design. So i left to pursue my career. 10 weeks on, and i've just landed myself a part time furntiure job-18hrs a week, which is fine as i'm still plugging away at getting a job in Graphics.
As an example-last week i applied for a job in Graphics in Norwich. Within 3 days, there had been just under 250 applications for this one position, some from as far as Japan. So you can see what i'm up against. However, a junior, which is what i'd be if i got the job, would start on 17k a year, and after a year/two, i could easily move to around 23k to 25k, and after 6/7 years around 30k. So it's hard to get in, but once you're in, even round this way, you can see the wages are quite lucrative. I decided that if by summer next year i was still looking, i'd apply for the Police force with the intention of becoming a traffic cop after 2 years-like a complete career change, as in 'fuck it!'.
I've just had a phonecall from MR King in Halesworth (up the road from me). It's a well established Volvo dealer, has been for years. I've been very passionate about Volvo since i was about 12/13, and everybody who knows me (in the physical, not cyber...
) knows this. They've offered me the opportunity to re-apply for a job i turned down a year & a half ago. It's in sales with basic salary being around 12k a year, but the average salesman in that branch is earning around 6/7k a year commission. I'd get a Volvo company car, petrol/tax paid etc, and the opportunity to work my way through a well established Volvo company business (plus service & parts discount 
).I could look at this 2 ways. 1-it's a way into the company that i'm really passionate about. Work my way up, earning good money and being looked after in a family business. 2-i could use this job for a few years to work my way into Volvo and find out more about their advertising design department, which is all in house and in the UK (and what i'm qualified to do).
So i've started a poll to see what others think. It's a hard situation-going for this job, i feel, is like if i took it it's bye-bye graphics, which is also something i really passionate about. I don't know what to do!
). Also, I've found in my IT career, huge value is placed on experience. So even if it's not paid, especially as you're working part time atm, find someone who needs some graphical work done on _something_ so when it comes to it, you can show what you've done before. Ie. I was maintaining a network in student dorms for years before I found a proper job in IT. Things like that help.
But at least it was done at a Volvo garage (came from there originally too!).