Vancouver.
Friday, 4 August 2006 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosiedoesWhenever I'm feeling crap, I go to Craigslist and look at places to live in Vancouver.
Looks like prices have gone up a bit...
I do wonder, sometimes, how the hell I'll ever get there. Getting more experience in working with Marketing and Publicity will probably help get a visa, and the ancestry thing might swing it for me a teensy bit. I think what I really need to do is speak to someone at the Canadian Embassy and find out if there's a snowflake's hope in Hell of being given a working visa; and then find out what I'd need to do to get it.
I do still want to join the TA, but I almost feel there's more chance of me getting to Vancouver than there is of me getting fit enough, soon enough to be in the Army.
Maybe if I got some qualifications in Marketing (my company might be able to help with that, having joined the Investors in People scheme) it would make it easier to get a visa. I know that you can get in on the strength of your qualifications if you're a secretary or a Business Development Officer. I've acted as assistant PA to the director of a company (I interviewed her nannies!), a receptionist and office manager (corporate and medical), I've helped devise brochures and adverts, I've done extensive proof-reading for brochures, adverts and venue maps. I've just joined the Publicity Committee (upon request, rather than a voluntarily) for my theatre society and I've co-created a website intended to elevate the online presence of underappreciated actors - which is almost at launch stage. With a bit of practise, I could regain my grasp of conversational French, and also Italian.
I'm twenty-four in November. And I have got a fuckload of very useful experience.
Maybe the qualification is a way to go about it.
I'm just crap at studying, is the problem.
Edit: Oooh ooh ooh! They're halving the application fee to get to Canada - they're trying to make it easier for skilled workers. Sounds like they're a bit desperate. Maybe they'll have me after all...
Looks like prices have gone up a bit...
I do wonder, sometimes, how the hell I'll ever get there. Getting more experience in working with Marketing and Publicity will probably help get a visa, and the ancestry thing might swing it for me a teensy bit. I think what I really need to do is speak to someone at the Canadian Embassy and find out if there's a snowflake's hope in Hell of being given a working visa; and then find out what I'd need to do to get it.
I do still want to join the TA, but I almost feel there's more chance of me getting to Vancouver than there is of me getting fit enough, soon enough to be in the Army.
Maybe if I got some qualifications in Marketing (my company might be able to help with that, having joined the Investors in People scheme) it would make it easier to get a visa. I know that you can get in on the strength of your qualifications if you're a secretary or a Business Development Officer. I've acted as assistant PA to the director of a company (I interviewed her nannies!), a receptionist and office manager (corporate and medical), I've helped devise brochures and adverts, I've done extensive proof-reading for brochures, adverts and venue maps. I've just joined the Publicity Committee (upon request, rather than a voluntarily) for my theatre society and I've co-created a website intended to elevate the online presence of underappreciated actors - which is almost at launch stage. With a bit of practise, I could regain my grasp of conversational French, and also Italian.
I'm twenty-four in November. And I have got a fuckload of very useful experience.
Maybe the qualification is a way to go about it.
I'm just crap at studying, is the problem.
Edit: Oooh ooh ooh! They're halving the application fee to get to Canada - they're trying to make it easier for skilled workers. Sounds like they're a bit desperate. Maybe they'll have me after all...