You know you have had a boring and wasted day when the highest point is the free sandwiches and orange juice that got served at lunch.
Today I was rostered to come in (on my day off I might add) to do the following course: OH&S Introduction to Safety and Procedures in Construction. Basically it is a course specifically designed for people who are starting out in a career in construction. You know: Building. Roofing. Tiling.
I learnt valuable things about the height of scaffolding and the benefits of hard hats and roof harnesses. Well it would have been valuable. Except for the fact that I am not starting a career in construction, nor do I ever INTEND to start a career in construction. The world would have to be a very dark place and job prospects exceedingly scarce for me to even consider the possibility of maybe possibly even thinking about applying for a job in an area such as construction.
For goodness sake, I complain about what I have to wear for work NOW, let alone if I had to run around in huge boots and flannelette and a yellow safety hat. Hats make me look like a prepubescant boy. And I gave up flannelette around the same time I gave up Kurt Cobain shirts and adolescant depressive tendancies.
In fact, out of the 25 people who attended this incredibly useful and relevant course today, not a single one of us worked in an industry even remotely RELATED to the construction industry.
I personally think that my employers would have been better off putting the money into something I need- like say, the "dangerous dog" training that is a legal requirement of the job I do that I have not yet done even though I spend half my time chasing pitbulls in housing commission areas. Or maybe they could have spent it on an extended holiday for themselves so I would not have to SEE them anymore.
I have to admit, however, that I did learn a couple of interesting things today:
Moe (friend and colleague) can sleep in an upright position with his eyes almost open.
The little Japanese girl that came late and sat in the darkest corner snores REALLY LOUD
The gaggle of student town planners that sat around a desk at the front and giggled over a bunch of photos that one of them apparently carries in her bag for all occasions are REALLY ANNOYING.
It is possible to be bored to tears.
Well at least lunch was ok- who can resist those plates of little sandwiches? I had an egg one, a chicken salad, a turkey and cranberry...... the high life that was. And the orange juice- how generous to offer something other than stale instant coffee and out of date milk. They spoilt us I tell you.
And at least I didnt have to spend the day pretending to be nice to work colleagues that hate me almost as much as I hate them......
Finito
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Edu-m-cation
I have been recently thinking about furthering my education. Starting a degree. Actually finishing a degree. I want pretty letters after my name, letters other than DUMASS.
Since I am absolutely useless in a classroom environment (Marissa is a distraction to other students and is currently disrupting the class. Marissa will not sit still and needs to be the center of attention) and since I am really not prepared to live my life on the meager income of a student/ part time bartender/ occasional charity collecter/ dad can you lend me $500 my car exploded, I have decided that online and correspondence degrees are really the only way to go.
So I logged myself onto openuniversity.com.au in the hopes of finding myself a degree that I could actually see myself managing to complete.
I came up with two options: Batchelor of Arts: Politics and History and Batchelor of Arts: Internet Studies. Bare in mind, unless you want a degree in Advanced Maths or Info Tech, an online Arts degree is the only option. So dont accuse me of copping out and going for the original "I dunno and I dont care" degree....
The Internet Studies one actually sounds rather interesting: it covers such subjects as "Internet Communities", "Social Impact of the Internet" and, my personal favourite, "Cyber Analytics". I like the last one purely because it sounds dirty. Try it. Say it out loud. It sounds like you just logged into Yahoo chat and have started a conversation with 'ten-inchstallion69 about the weather.
The Politics and History one sounds good too, because I have already started a degree in that once before and therefore I would know what I was getting myself into. I like history. I like politics. I know that I find these subjects interesting. And, on the upside, meet the requirements of NSW high school teachers so I could do the teaching bridging thingy or a Dip Ed or something and get a REAL JOB.
See I know in my heart and brain what I am going to chose. Politics and History MAKE SENSE. They dont change. History was the same last year as it is this year. Internet and computers change all the time. What was correct about the internet 5 years ago is not correct now. It is so easy to become obselete in this world of Cyber Analytics (love that) and 120gig hard drives. I figure that if I study anything relating to the internet, by the time I completed the degree I would have to do a degree to catch up on what had changed since I DID my degree.
Six years ago Stalin was named the most evil man in the 20th century over Hitler, because while Hitler killed more people, Stalin killed almost as many and they were his OWN kind. He is considered more evil because he was mad enbough to attempt genocide on his OWN RACE. Six years ago he was the most evil man of the 20th century, and he still is today. I take comfort in this, not the fact that Stalin was evil, but the fact that you cant change history.
Same with politics. You can change an Act. You can pass a law. You can claim the recession we had to have and you can call Mrs Carr a mail-order bride, but you cant change the political building blocks and ideology that this country works on. I could tell you ten years ago that our political system is based on the British model, and I can still tell you that now.
So I guess my mind is made up. Politics History? I think it is the way to go. But I mourn the loss of Cyber Analytics...... Hey baby wanna cyber? ASL?.......
However, dear readers, I feel I need input on this situation. Which do you think I should choose? What do you think I am suited to? Which do you think I actuallly have a hope of completing? Does the world really need another Arts major teaching Hippy subjects like Politics and History? Or would it benefit from more cyber nerds..........
ANSWER ME!!!!!
Since I am absolutely useless in a classroom environment (Marissa is a distraction to other students and is currently disrupting the class. Marissa will not sit still and needs to be the center of attention) and since I am really not prepared to live my life on the meager income of a student/ part time bartender/ occasional charity collecter/ dad can you lend me $500 my car exploded, I have decided that online and correspondence degrees are really the only way to go.
So I logged myself onto openuniversity.com.au in the hopes of finding myself a degree that I could actually see myself managing to complete.
I came up with two options: Batchelor of Arts: Politics and History and Batchelor of Arts: Internet Studies. Bare in mind, unless you want a degree in Advanced Maths or Info Tech, an online Arts degree is the only option. So dont accuse me of copping out and going for the original "I dunno and I dont care" degree....
The Internet Studies one actually sounds rather interesting: it covers such subjects as "Internet Communities", "Social Impact of the Internet" and, my personal favourite, "Cyber Analytics". I like the last one purely because it sounds dirty. Try it. Say it out loud. It sounds like you just logged into Yahoo chat and have started a conversation with 'ten-inchstallion69 about the weather.
The Politics and History one sounds good too, because I have already started a degree in that once before and therefore I would know what I was getting myself into. I like history. I like politics. I know that I find these subjects interesting. And, on the upside, meet the requirements of NSW high school teachers so I could do the teaching bridging thingy or a Dip Ed or something and get a REAL JOB.
See I know in my heart and brain what I am going to chose. Politics and History MAKE SENSE. They dont change. History was the same last year as it is this year. Internet and computers change all the time. What was correct about the internet 5 years ago is not correct now. It is so easy to become obselete in this world of Cyber Analytics (love that) and 120gig hard drives. I figure that if I study anything relating to the internet, by the time I completed the degree I would have to do a degree to catch up on what had changed since I DID my degree.
Six years ago Stalin was named the most evil man in the 20th century over Hitler, because while Hitler killed more people, Stalin killed almost as many and they were his OWN kind. He is considered more evil because he was mad enbough to attempt genocide on his OWN RACE. Six years ago he was the most evil man of the 20th century, and he still is today. I take comfort in this, not the fact that Stalin was evil, but the fact that you cant change history.
Same with politics. You can change an Act. You can pass a law. You can claim the recession we had to have and you can call Mrs Carr a mail-order bride, but you cant change the political building blocks and ideology that this country works on. I could tell you ten years ago that our political system is based on the British model, and I can still tell you that now.
So I guess my mind is made up. Politics History? I think it is the way to go. But I mourn the loss of Cyber Analytics...... Hey baby wanna cyber? ASL?.......
However, dear readers, I feel I need input on this situation. Which do you think I should choose? What do you think I am suited to? Which do you think I actuallly have a hope of completing? Does the world really need another Arts major teaching Hippy subjects like Politics and History? Or would it benefit from more cyber nerds..........
ANSWER ME!!!!!
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