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.

LOL

-PB

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 will graduate as a mechanical engineer in December. The company I work for mostly designs and installs A/C and HVAC systems but also does some work with renewable energy.

:lol: :lol:

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)

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.

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.

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:

Bloody Geotechs!

Study for 4 years so they can take the absolute worst case from their investigations, whack a Factor of Safety of at least 3 on everything they do and then, to truly make sure they can never get in the shit, add more pages of disclaimers than actual report.

Then when the poor old Structural engineer bloke rings up to try and get some advice off him is informed that "it's all in the report".

What a gig.

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

I feel sorry for your students, since the only thing they will learn from you is how to be a failure in life.:lol:

Jog on you hate preacher. :lol: :lol:

Edited by SocaWho: 6/10/2014 03:32:40 PM

Dear SocaWho, stop ruining this popular thread.

Alright...point taken.

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

Anyone in/been in the defence force?

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

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

Thought about signing up before Uni, but have decided post-Uni I'll join the reserves.

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

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

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

I am Colin

do you like being a love doctor Colin?

It's ok. I just wish I would get the recognition I deserve.

Haha....

I was about to say...you guys deserve a pay rise...:lol:

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

:lol: the Mrs has a rep within our friends group of being the person who has no issues revealing just that bit too much information - whether it be about herself, me, us, her work, or whatever. She keeps thing confidential when she has to, but she has no issue discussing with a group of friends about prolapse or other issues that make the feint-hearted want to put their food down :lol:

When she was a teenager she wanted to be an Gynacologist but she didn't think she would last through a med degree so she has pretty much always wanted to head down the career path she is on, and she loves it. She gets great results with her patients too, and they love her. She has certainly had some hilarious, freaky, gross, etc stories though :lol:

That is really sad. Its like Jehovah's witness devotees ...I think they forbid blood transfusions.