Welcome Back Neverdespairgirl

Generali

fc123 wrote: »

Lots of new posters.

There's a bloke called Hamish...his posts can be quite exhausting to read at times......he has declared Aberdeen to be a place where the streets flow with milk and honey, has been untouched by recession and house price falls.
It's been fascinating.

Quite a few new metrosexuals around too...which is nice.:D

Oh and me, I'm still here obviously. Can't keep a good man down or in my case, you can't keep a man down.

I'm still living the dream in Australia. I'm teaching economics, just qualified as a football (soccer) referee and am taking a bookkeeping course to keep myself out of trouble.

It was 43C here on Sunday in the shade in my back yard. Today it's 19C. People say the weather's changable in the UK!

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

I'm teaching economics

Is it easier to teach economics over there?

By that, I mean that here you'd need a degree and a PGCE and have to jump through X hoops etc etc.

Over there, do you just apply for a job that's advertised and be "suitable"? Or what?

I got a job once as a teacher here simply because I was "suitable". It was 1987 and supposed to be for one year, part-time, but as a single person NEEDS a full-time income to live on, I had to give up at the end of that year and take on a full-time job.... so here it used to be easier.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

Is it easier to teach economics over there?

I'm teaching in a Uni so there isn't the need for a teaching qualification. I needed (and had) an undergraduate degree in the subject I teach. I should have a post grad degree too but I am exempted on the basis that I am personally responsible for the Global Financial Crisis and anyone that can screw up on that scale must know what they're doing.

I got the job through word of mouth but I'm hoping to get more work now through proper applications.

It's a lot of fun as you get the good bits of teaching without all the carp that goes with teaching High School kids. It's very lucrative too - the going rate is $100/hour (about £55).

I don't want to do it for long as I reckon it'll get boring. It's great for now though.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

I am exempted on the basis that I am personally responsible for the Global Financial Crisis and anyone that can screw up on that scale must know what they're doing.

Brilliant

Generali wrote: »

I got the job through word of mouth but I'm hoping to get more work now through proper applications.

It's a lot of fun as you get the good bits of teaching without all the carp that goes with teaching High School kids. It's very lucrative too - the going rate is $100/hour (about £55).

I don't want to do it for long as I reckon it'll get boring. It's great for now though.

Blimey - how can you get bored of £55/hour?

To be honest, the most I was ever paid was £56/hour, back in 2001. I had to sit in a chair for about 6 hours keeping an eye on a projected image on a wall, that was updating live through the network, showing me when servers were taken offline and were back online and similar dull stuff. I did have to make one decision, when I pointed at the screen and said "No. It'll never make it. Roll it back." Then I had to order pizza for everybody.

Oh, the life of project management can be quite hectic some days!

I will say, however, that I'd spent the previous 5 months planning the whole rollout and my boss just said "You've organised and planned all of this, you might as well do one of the rollout days if you want"... so I didn't just sit on my bum without lots of prior effort

I knew to the minute everything that was supposed to happen, because I'd planned it. And I knew to the minute when I had a hardware failure that needed to be rolled back as there'd no longer be time for the data transfers.

I'm just a genius :P

Unfortunately, I just have no job right now.

Generali

Clearly I'll never get bored of £55 an hour. I will get bored of teaching the students the same old thing, getting the same old excuses for them being late, getting the same old complaints when they don't get the score they were hoping for.

I had one girl get very put out when I marked her absent when she'd been 30 minutes late for class. The reason for her lateness? Her food was too hot. The kids lose their visas if they don't show up to class.

Project management rocks as a career. My Dad did it for years. He thought he was going to be responsible for rail privatisation not happening.

FrankieBoyle

Wow that neverdespairgirl does post at funny times. Anyone would think she was posting from a different time zone - like Australia?

:rotfl:

wintersunshine

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Blimey, aren't you a charmer.

Not very good at bragging either. This board has been really missing some who brags well.

Davesnave

wintersunshine wrote: »

Not very good at bragging either. This board has been really missing some who brags well.

But it's never short of people with big chips on their shoulders.....:p

treliac

wintersunshine wrote: »

Not very good at bragging either. This board has been really missing some who brags well.

This board needs some rejuvenating and some of the warmth of your username. Let's all try our best, pleeease?

wintersunshine

treliac wrote: »

This board needs some rejuvenating and some of the warmth of your username. Let's all try our best, pleeease?

errrrr she started it.......... and she's only been back 5 minutes...... so maybe that's the sort of rejuvenating you can do without?