Hi guys,

I am almost done my first year of university. Having not taken a year off between high school and university, I am completely sick of school. Instead, I am going to be taking this coming year off. From Sept 2 – Oct 21 I will be traveling throughout Europe with one of my friends. The plan is to apply for the youth mobility scheme and then after my Europe trip to move directly to London. After working there until May or June I plan on moving back to Canada.

Currently I have 2 years of retail experience, (one year working for the Source by Circuit City (like radio shack), and currently working at Future Shop (Best Buy Canada) in commission sales selling computers). I will have also completed one year of business in University. After looking through some jobs online, it seems my best would be to get a telesales job. Many of them seem to pay around 16-18k £ per year.

I plan on renting a room in central London, and realize rent would be around 400£ per month. Is this a sustainable income for 5 months? I would not be purchasing very many goods (clothing, electronics etc), but would like to go out the odd night clubbing or to the pub.

Being a personable person with sales experience, I am not too worried about performing during job interviews, but would I be able to score interviews in the first place with the way the economy is? There seems to be a decent amount of postings on gumtree.

Thanks for your input, Braden