I tour with MLG.

What's mlg?

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I play video games all day, or so everyone tells me....

Work in a Fish and Chip shop, started out just on chips with the odd occasional scoop of chips/calamari rings, now fully working my way up to works burgers and potato scallops.

One promotion after another.

Living the dream m8.

-PB

Work in a Fish and Chip shop, started out just on chips with the odd occasional scoop of chips/calamari rings, now fully working my way up to works burgers and potato scallops.

One promotion after another.

Living the dream m8.

-PB

We call those potato fritters in SA, your training is complete :lol:

Have been working as a software development lead for a Queensland organisation for the last couple of years. They rent me a desk in the SA equivalent organisation here in Adelaide and I work remotely. Has it's challenges when the entire team is in Brisbane but I meet with them regularly via Google Hangouts and have built up pretty good relationships so it's been working pretty well.

Have started doing some project management recently and feel like a graduate again. Has been good to get a different perspective on projects but I'm hoping to do some more formal training at some stage to get the big picture as my on the job training has been a bit too much "at the coalface" so far. Not sure it's really for me but I'm not sure I can code (for pay) for another 40 years so giving it a shot :)

Love the flexibility I have though, especially with a young daughter and another on the way.

I've been working as a freelance English language trainer in Germany since 2009. It's quite enjoyable and generally pays the bills. Low demand times worry me a bit but I take the work when it's there and travel when times are down. I get to meet people from many professional and cultural backgrounds and it's very rewarding when someone tells me how easier it is to phone a customer in Asia or give demonstrations at a trade fair after the training.

I don't know if I'll ever end up doing something else. Many business people I give lessons to have put me off anything in finance or insurance. I'm creative with language training but little else. I guess things will work out how they intend.

Sounds like a great job. I wish I could be good with languages since travel is one thing I want to do more of. Did you get TESOL?

good to know someone in the same brethren.

Do you work at Trinity Beach?

Yeah, I got CELTA in 2008 and used it in Australia for 18 months before heading over to Germany in order to learn a new language and enjoy everything on offer. Living here has given me that language so I might end up using it professionally one day. CELTA alone in Australia is only accepted at a few language institutions so it's tough in OZ without a degree. Many English expats over here give English training. Some are really good and others are terrible at it. I like to see myself in the middle and setting goals in my training normally sees improvement in my sessions.

Nope... This is what YOU tell everyone... Jealous. As. F*ck.

False. Ask any of my friends. I work very hard o:)

Edited by Bowden: 4/10/2014 12:33:51 PM

Can confirm Bowdens hardness

Have aspiriations to be a human supercomputer (work out 158 x 28 in sub. 10 seconds) so I can work as a trader in the finance or gaming (preferable fraud depart.) industry.

Good to hear that some university students really enjoy their part time jobs. I took my jobs during high-school and early years of university too seriously with a goal-driven approach. In my first job, I worked in a call centre for Pizza hut during Yr 11. Since then, I've been working as a mathematics tutor (over the net and in person.)

Currently compelting my Honours year in the field of sports statistics. Specifically on the 'effect of qautomatic qualification of emerging football nations on tournament value.' Although, it may sound interesting, the Honours year is a tough grind and If I could turn back time I would certainly graduate with just a combined undergraduate degree. I'll be finishing mid-year next year after channging my thesis topic from option pricing to sports statistics. Whilst I've questioned this decision after recently applying for a graduate role over in Hong Kong and being knocked back because I was graduating next yr. But after thinking about it, I have no regrets changing/'extending' my topic. It has really clarified what I want to do with my degrees and forced me to apply for graduate roles in both fields industries of gaming and finance.




Edited by helloworld1992: 4/10/2014 08:05:42 AM

I'm planning to get my CELTA either next year or the one after. Is it difficult to obtain?

Studying to be a teacher. Currently working as a transcribe and cold calling at night.

It's a pretty decent life I lead. :cool:

Hard to imagine you as a teacher :lol:

+1. I would have envisaged TSF as a hate preacher.:lol:

False. Ask any of my friends. I work very hard o:)

Edited by Bowden: 4/10/2014 12:33:51 PM

Handing out freebies to your mates is hard work ;)

Handing out freebies to your mates is hard work ;)

I think you'll have few issues as you're studying to be a teacher. My course had quite a few experienced teachers from numerous subjects. They found the style different to what they're used to. It focuses on a certain style of teaching but it's not the only one in the world of English language teaching.

Teachers are a lot like people. Some of us are just jerks.

I educate you lot every day. It's amazing how ignorant you people choose to be.

Anyone here studied chemical engineering and/or pharmaceutical science?

Currently in 3rd year, it's interesting enough.

Can you provide some examples? I'm very interested to hear.

You got me man.

I literally have no idea what's happening.

I suggest looking at a youtube channel called Elttraining. Before Celta, you receive a preparation pack so you can have some background knowledge before starting. You'll hear a lot about PPP, MPF and others in language teaching methodology.

Its not about being ignorant its about learning what NOT to learn from hapless fools. :lol:

Edited by SocaWho: 5/10/2014 02:19:07 PM

I'm surprised you even knew how to spell those words.

I've heard that it's the most challenging of the mainstream engineering streams - is this true? Also do you know what the job prospects are like when you get out?

Unless he studies all of the engineering streams how the hell would he know?

One things for certain is that you need brains and half a clue to study engineering.

Going by your thread history including, but not limited to, 9-11 troofer theories, holocaust denying, racist / bigoted posts I'd say you probably think an engineer is a train driver who wears a striped hat.

I think you'd struggle.

Really mate :lol:

I go to one of the best high schools in the state and am on track for a 96 ATAR. So shut the fuck up about shit you know nothing about.

Stick to your social crusades.

Really mate :lol:

I go to one of the best high schools in the state and am on track for a 96 ATAR. So shut the fuck up about shit you know nothing about.

Stick to your social crusades.

Twiddle dee dee, looks at me. I've got smarts.

You are a champ. I hope mummy's money isn't going to waste with all that time you spend on here.

I've heard that it's the most challenging of the mainstream engineering streams - is this true? Also do you know what the job prospects are like when you get out?

Just because you're a teacher it doesn't mean you know more than anyone else. In fact Im willing to bet you're the type that goes on the front of picket line when there is a wage dispute for teachers. :lol:

And what on earth is wrong with teachers looking for more money? I'm not a teacher but anyone with common sense surely realised how increasingly difficult their job is becoming.

Most challenging? I'd guess at electrical or more likely mechatronics if you would count that as mainstream, but as someone else stated hard to know given I have limited exposure outside chemical engineering.

As for job prospects if you go of this they're pretty poor at the moment, I'm fairly skeptical of that though. Chemical engineering (also referred to as process engineering) can have really varied career options. Looking at fields like process design, project management, engineering consulting, chemical product design, etc. I think you'll find most engineering disciplines are really suffering at the moment with the mining slump and a significant amount of manufacturing moving overseas. Difficult to predict what it'd be like for yourself graduating in 4-5 years time.

So for example internships within my cohort vary from oil and gas (BP Castrol, Dow Aramco, etc.), manufacturing (Visy - paper, AB Mauri - yeast, Qenos - plastic), various mining operations (BHP, Rio Tinto) and consultancy (GHD, KPMG)

Try geotechnical. Engineering the ground which is always different is fun.

Electronic and mechatronics is for wanks who think they're smart but shun human interaction :lol:

Nothing wrong at all. My point was if there was any excuse to whinge TSF would be there with flying colours. Im all for teachers getting a pay rise, but TSF would probably be the type to go to a protest march to stir shit than rally for why they are there in the first place. :lol: Nothing against teachers at all.

You so fucking stupid it hurts to read anything you write. Ky

Dear SocaWho, stop ruining this popular thread.

Alright...point taken.

Do we have any people here with unusual occupations...ie Undertaker,Gynacologists?

Alright...point taken.

Do we have any people here with unusual occupations...ie Undertaker,Gynacologists?

Anyone in/been in the defence force?

Was a Customs Officer for 13 years - looked up a few bums.

Cavity search?....yep sounds about right.

I am Colin

do you like being a love doctor Colin?

I'm not a doctor, but I'll take a look.

No touching allowed - only looking. Only doctors do cavity searches in civilised countries.

Edited by biscuitman1871: 6/10/2014 07:43:27 PM

Alright...point taken.

Do we have any people here with unusual occupations...ie Undertaker,Gynacologists?

My Mrs is a physiotherapist who specializes in pelvic floor physiotherapy. She does internal exams on both men and women and fixes a heap of people on the daily. She also does the standard soft-tissue injury type physio stuff as well, but she probably devotes 3/4 of each day to pelvic floor stuff.

Must make for some interesting dinner table conversation. :lol:

My Dad has a Masters Degree in teaching and taught people with profound disabilities. Oddly enough he said people with such problems were happier, funnier, keener to learn and mostly not religious (the ones with physical disabilities) when compared to normal kids.

The worst people I've ever met were parents of one kid who had very bad ailments both mentally and physically. They were super religious freaks who thought Dave was infected by Satan, had been a bad person in a previous life and that they were being punished for whatever reason (He wasn't, he was a lovely person who just had a very short fuse). They literally kept him in the basement and treated him as a pet, thanks to the school and Dad he took up trampolining and is now allowed outside and to travel doing trampolining. Wonderful Christian parents

My Dad has a Masters Degree in teaching and taught people with profound disabilities. Oddly enough he said people with such problems were happier, funnier, keener to learn and mostly not religious (the ones with physical disabilities) when compared to normal kids.

The worst people I've ever met were parents of one kid who had very bad ailments both mentally and physically. They were super religious freaks who thought Dave was infected by Satan, had been a bad person in a previous life and that they were being punished for whatever reason (He wasn't, he was a lovely person who just had a very short fuse). They literally kept him in the basement and treated him as a pet, thanks to the school and Dad he took up trampolining and is now allowed outside and to travel doing trampolining. Wonderful Christian parents

I actually am a Project Controls Consultant which means I look after cost and schedules for projects across various industries. My wife and I are starting up a sunglass company and they are due to be launched in November. I am not sure if I am allowed to plug them though, so I wont.