Big news. The deep sinkhole around the Telstra pit next door is finally getting fixed - three years after the plastic board was bolted to the ground. Nice bloke doing the fixing said that Telstra has QUADRUPLED the number of contractors hired to fix problems, and increased the managers that allocate/organise fixes from 7 to 26!!! Apparently if you SnapSendSolve a problem it'll be done within a week - faster if someone has tripped or fallen. I will be very interested to see if this outbreak of efficiency lasts.
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Got this unusual but instantly recognisable album Peter Gunn by Mancini. 1959 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcHwTDzPECk&list=PLkAUJkbhd-RjTVT4CRg02EpwcVcW_gPgH
side 2 has some excellent finger snapping and also piano solos by a young John T Williams ( who went on to write Jaws and Star Wars etc )
I'm debating whether or not I should take a gap year before starting the teaching course.
This is on the basis that I find a casual job with full time hours. I really wanted to do teaching but everyone around me is saying I shouldn't do it because of behaviour management, taking work home, and that I'm too much of a stresshead. I also have unmanaged ADHD, constantly submitting things late. When I'm a "bad student", I feel like I'll be a bad teacher.
I think I'll try the teaching course and then apply for OT if it doesn't fit.
Always regretted not taking a gap year. If you can manage it, do it. You may discover your life's passion who knows....
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Could you work as a teacher’s aide for a while to sus out what it’s like to work at a school? (Although you might need a cert to do that - not sure)
This is something I'm looking into!
Teaching is really something you have to love to do.
You’ll often feel unappreciated and have to put in a lot of hours for meetings and after work meetings.
There’s also communications with parents as well and they aren’t always a nice thing to deal with.
Depending on where you work you may have to deal with dual curriculums and you’ll have even less time to teach.
Then there’s the dreaded report writing.
I think pay may have gotten better and it’s certainly an area where jobs are in demands at the moment.
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I went to Coles deli today and because I don't go by weight I usually just say "a big handful of that thanks mate". He was a dude with giant hands and I came out with 434gms of chorizo salami. It's really good chorizo though. No complaints.
As a person with big hands, I have the opposite issue... Just a bit more thanks
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Oh sick discovered a camper my car can actually tow! Got a turbo diesel with nearly 2 tonnes of towing capacity, but if I stand on the towball thats almost too much weight for it. Not exactly the best design in the world.
Ask for a test drive to the local weigh bridge before committing....just to make sure
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This pollen, be evil.
I'm trying not to pop a hayfever tablet every day because they still work for me. Today is a struggle.
ah crap is that what it is? my eyes are killing me!
It's awful.
Suffering here too :(
Indeed. I was a (minor) victim of Pollenpocalypse in Melbourne. I was still having breathing issues a month later. I miss some things about Melbourne, but the pollen and associated breathing issues are not among them.
Working on clearing the shed this arvo, and a factory or something industrial nearby has a siren that sounds very much like our doorbell. Every time it goes off I’m like, doorbell?!
(Our doorbell doesn’t sound like a siren; their siren sounds like an electronic doorbell)