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7.4 60m is pretty fast. U gonna compete in any races later this year?

Yeah it's good that the whole uni thing worked out. It's tough for young people in Australia atm. I got no idea what I'm gonna do work wise. I can easily get jobs for labouring but the whole point of me going to uni was to get an office job, which is what I want to do (hopefully generalist HR/consulting).
I'm planning on running again as well starting around November the same time as you so it'll be good. I'm just gonna run the 60, 100 and 200. I'm way 2 lazy to try 400m or any middle distance events and long jump isn't my thing. Triple jump is pretty hard on the joints ay.

Edit- I miss the summer! I took it for granted earlier this year how easy it was to train since it was always warm and dry. Apart from my injury and rugby the reason I havn't done any running so far since April is because of the weather. It's raining almost every day and when it's not raining it's like 10 degrees. Way 2 cold. I feel sorry for European people that have to contend with snow and cold temperatures year round. At least we're lucky that we only got this shit weather for a few months.

Yeah it's really hard to get Graduate positions. I got through to the interview stage for a Graduate position at Fair Work Australia last year. Just to get through to the interview you need to compete against hundreds of other applications. On the day there was 6 people being interviewed and all of them had law degrees except for me. They were giving 3 positions throughout Australia. However, there was 6 people being interviewed in Adelaide. Than they also had another 6 being interviewed in Melbourne, Perth, Sydney and Brisbane. So it ended up being 3/30 chance of gaining a position. Needless to say I didn't get it.

I've managed to get through to the interview stage with the ABS as well for a graduate position. This time the interview is in Canberra next week so hopefully I have more chance of gaining this graduate position than the Fair Work one. I've had like 8 interviews this year for office jobs but so far I've had no job offers from them. The feedback I get back is always that 'we employed somebody with more experience'. But it's impossible to gain experience if nobody gives you a chance. In the past I've done volunteering for 6 months in an office but they just take advantage of you. I was driving 30km 1 way to volunteer and I wasn't getting paid anything. Than they didn't even use my skills or anything all day everyday they just had me doing mundane tasks like photocopying and scanning so I wasn't even gaining worthwhile experience anyway. Even with the 6 months volunteering the majority of companies all look for 2-3 years experience minimum for graduates anyway so regardless of the work experience quality it's fuked.

It's pretty disheartening. I've done hundreds of applications and haven't got shit so a lot of the time I just think university was pointless. It seems like the only jobs for young males in Australia are labouring or trades. I cringe every time I hear the Government talking about their 'education revolutions' and all that bullshit. What's the point of getting educated when there are no jobs available for you when you do graduate. Instead of dumbing down the schools and trying to get every kid to pass year 12 they should make school harder so you actually got to be smart to go to uni. But even than it doesn't matter if you fail year 12 here you can just go to TAFE or do some online pathway course and get into uni anyway. That's why you got soo many people at uni because half of them don't even deserve to be there. Of course the uni's and Government don't care though because it's in their benefit to enrol more students. The unis make more money and the Government doesn't need to worry about adding these people to the unemployment statistics.