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Friday, January 8th, 2010A little bit of danger
Friday, January 8th, 2010I’m in two minds about this. Either way could go horribly wrong, but I hoping I can find a way to make it work.
My first option is to keep job hunting and maybe, juuust maybe end up finding something full time, and filling hours with a couple of part time numbers. Then I can throw money at various things and try to get back afloat. This plan has thus far failed in every possible sense.
The second option is to work 12-15 hours doing, well, whatever. Stay on Jobseekers allowance. Get my flatmate [and effective landlord] to write me a letter stating I have to move out, and use that as leverage to get a council flat much much faster than would otherwise be remotely possible. Claim housing etc benefits, and THEN work on getting more + better employment.
the job market right now is sick. There’s nothing I can find that remotely matches both my skill set and what I’m willing to do. I absolutely will not go back into care work. I’d rather be homeless. Literally. Nothing else I’m currently qualified for will earn enough to stay in this flat, because the CSA will strip my earnings to £165 irrelevant of how hard I work.
So yeah, option two is looking more and more appealing *and practical* by the hour.
Meeting at Telford
Friday, January 8th, 2010I went to the Open Day this morning to talk about the Engineering options available, and got to sit down with a very nice Civil engineer who specialised in land surveys. We had a good chat about what I wanted to do and what I had applied for.
To my amusement he stated that my application for the Access to Engineering course would be laughed at and ignored. There’s no point in doing that at all. So, the HND Civil Engineering: he accepted me on the spot. If I want it come September I am guaranteed a place on the course. No worries there then.
We discussed further what I actually want to do [see yesterdays post] and He’s pretty certain I’d get on the Edinburgh Uni course without too many problems. I’m old, I have a bucketful of Highers and I’ve lived a bit. I also know rather a lot more about modern renewable and ecological technology that he did, which is quite nice.
So now I have to get battered in to Edin Uni and find out what it will take to get on the Renewables course. And do it. There’s a pretty good chance it may be rather a lot easier than I have any right to expect. I’ll let you know how that goes.
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C[o/u]rses!
Thursday, January 7th, 2010I went to Telford College yesterday and applied for the HND Civil Engineering course. Mostly because it’s all they had that looked remotely interesting. I then made my way home asking myself ‘Is that really what I want to do, or did I just apply because it’s there?’
I applied because it’s there. That’s it. Not that I have any *objections* to Civil Engineering at all, nope I do not. I would very happily be a civil engineer. It’s a bloody good and very important job. But
New beginnings + STUFF
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010After weeks of messing around with various themes and settings, I spent several hours last night hunting down and installing some nice things on the site. I finally got it looking pretty much perfect. This isn’t how I thought it would look, but it’s a lot better than I was even hoping for. I think this will stay as is for a good long while.
AVATAR
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010No, it’s not a review of the film. I missed most of the film due to an acute bout of motion sickness, from which I am still suffering. This is a comment on the ramifications of Avatar on a curious bunch of possibly mildly mentally unstable fans.
There are now help-groups set up for viewers who are suffering from depression because the world of Avatar, Pandora, is not real. These people are so desperate to escape this miserable world and go somewhere decent that they need to speak to like-minded individuals and share their collective disappointment with this filthy planet we call Home.
I have a suggestion.
Speak to all your Pandora-obsessed friends, sell everything you have and book a one-way ticket to South America. Hire your collective selves a really, really good guide and head into the Amazon Rainforest. There, spend the next decade keeping it in existence. The Amazon is as close to Pandora as is possible on Earth, and it is being killed at a terrifying rate. The Amazon needs your help. Seriously. This is not cynicism it is actual, practical advice. If moping around feeling bad isn’t doing it for you this will.
GO save the Amazon.
Your childrens children will appreciate it. Also, James Cameron will have done the world a pretty huge favour.
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