I have been trying to find a new job for ages. And like so many people my age it is frustrating and a soul-destroying process. I never get any response from the many emails I send off with my CV and application forms, that sometimes I have spent a good hour or two hours working on.

Yesterday, however I did have some luck as I went to an interview with Diesel UK at their Bluewater store in Kent.

The role is just for a shop assistant, which involves working behind the tills, tidying the shop floor and general customer service. The interview went well and I got a good vibe from it, but you can never tell fully.

So I am keeping my fingers crossed as I need to get away from my call centre job and I am hoping if I get this new job I might get a very attractive discount card!

I've just seen a funny piece in the news about Ryanair having a newspaper advert banned by the Advertising Standards Agency.

But the advert (below) was banned not because it featured a bikini-clad girl sipping a cocktail, as one might have expected, but because it was misleading.

The ad promoted flights to a place in the sun, but many of the advertised destinations have recently had temperature between zero and 14C, with only three hours of sunshine a day.

If they're in the mood for banning some adverts, can they start by getting rid of those painfully annoying TV ads telling me to compare electricity prices online, the awfully acted supermarket acts featuring Z-list celebrities, and any adverts with animals in them - we don't really need dancing monkeys in adverts any more!

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New management after a turbulent few years for Rowan Dartington.

The nationwide private client stockbroker and wealth management business was recently acquired by a consortium of private investors led by chief executive Graham Coxell, former Capita managing director of wealth and distribution services. The firm, which has its headquarters in Bristol and offices in London, Hereford, Chichester, Weston-super-Mare and Loughton, Essex, currently has £1 billion of client assets under management.

Mr Coxell said of the acquisition's completion: "Rowan Dartington has considerable growth and expansion potential. To harness this, we will put providing consistent investment returns, expertise and customer service at the heart of everything we do. In the year ahead, our focus areas are on investing heavily in technology and employing new wealth managers and stockbrokers in specific locations.

“It’s an incredibly exciting time for us and hopefully the beginning of a successful adventure. We look forward to going from strength to strength."

Take a look at this picture:

This is where I will be sitting next week! Yesterday I won £2,000 because I decided to play slot machines which I had never done before.

My boyfriend reckons it was beginners luck – but whatever it was I am chuffed and so is he! A weeks holiday to Barbados all inclusive! Woo!

Picture: nataliegracie.wordpress.com

I am having a lot of server problems at work at the moment and finding that our internal network is just too full up to the rafters to work properly for our business. Mulitple times this week our computers have either crashed or simply take more than an hour to boot up. Would we perhaps benefit from Co-location. It’s difficult I think to tell how much it’s going to cost in the long run to to do the overhaul though and this is the first thing that is bothering me.
Would it be cheaper to just upgrade our internal system to something a little bigger or realistically, would that be more of a short term solution? I need answers quickly on this one really because the whole thing is just costing me more and more money everyday and really reducing work load.