Landlocked Mermaid

  I have nearly been at my job for a year now and I have yet to aimlessly ramble about it in a dedicated post. How rude of me. My official job title is Digital Content Copywriter, and I work for Overclockers UK. We sell some pretty hench gaming computers, hardware, and all the shiny things do with PCs. Learning all the bits and pieces was very brain consuming, as you may have noticed with my silence earlier in the year. I simply did not have enough brain left at the end of the day! Basically, what I do is write the product descriptions for the items we sell, detailing their unique features, what makes them good, and how they work. I do this for existing products pages which need a breath of new life in them - important SEO and keyword stuff, I assure you. I also get to write a lot of the content for new products dropping, which can be pretty nerve wracking but always hella exciting. Over the last six months or so, my role has developed to include writing regular blog articles and p...

2020 was odd and 2020 was difficult. Job hunting during a global pandemic was not the ideal situation to find myself in, but hey-ho, it was the hand I was dealt. During the process I learned a lot about myself and how to be the candidate a company wants. Biggest thing I learned was that I can be hella awkward in interviews. Especially over zoom. Especially when conducted in a tiny office during a heat wave. But that is all behind me. (Provided it all does not go horribly wrong in the forseeable future!) At the end of 2020, I landed a pretty damn epic job. I am a Content Copywriter for a copmuter retailer with a heavy focus on gaming and high-end tech. That's right, I spend eight hours a day, five days a week writing about computers! It has been a steep learning curve, having very little technical knowledge at the start, but a mere six months down the line I can confidently tell you everything about keyboards. Part of why I took a step back from here was down to the sheer amount of ...