Do you like your occupation?

[Northern Lights]

I agree completely with Ormir's first sentence However... the school I'm in really annoys me. Can I vent a bit? Oh I will anyway:
1) I'm a language student. Before, the language programme was designed so that you would start with your required two new languages during the first year (upper secondary school or gymnasium: it lasts 3 years). But when we started they changed the system, so that we would be beginning with the new languages during the second year. The languages are also divided into steps. When we're done, we'll have taken steps 1 and 2. However, to be able to continue with these languages at university level, we need at least step 3. Which we would have been able to take if we had only been allowed to begin with all of it during year 1... So basically, we're studying a lot of languages for nothing. And they didn't tell us this until year 2.
2) The school has absolutely no money whatsoever to do anything for their students. Or so they say. But now we're suddenly required to go and see a play based on a book by a local author, just because our principal is apparently a big fan of this author. The cost per student will be approximately 100 kr (about 11 euro), and there are a few hundred of us... This is not an important play, nor a play that will teach us anything important. It's a local author who writes in dialect.
Same thing really when we read about the enlightenment and the romantic (?) period; we read about the authors, we were told the titles of a few classics, but we didn't read them. However, we're required to read local authors. Why, oh why? Let people read what they want, forcing them to read stuff written in dialect about people in an inbred village will hardly promote reading.
Ok, I'm done. I'll go now.

 

[hyena]

@fire: i'll be patiently waiting, but i have my suspicions.

@nl: sounds pretty awful. which is also an oxymoron.

 

[Naku ist krig]

I also like being a student. I havent decided a course for my life but lately I have got interested in socialwork or mental illness.. future is still open, i hope. If it aint, that is just too bad

 

[MagSec4]

Hey RealHazard, maybe you could come here and help a friend of mine who's being a retard today.

 

[Delirious]

CoT: there must be some catch concerning the economy, or? they can´t possibly expect you to live at 1/6 of a normal salary.

 

[hyena]

@delirious: the whole thing is relying on the assumption that trainees are young people who live with their parents or obtain money from them.

@fire: when i'm done with my exam i will. right now i'm just... bubu.

 

[Tebus]

My job is pretty decent. I'm an actuary at a health insurance company (Aetna). It's very casual there, as I can listen to Howard Stern (radio show host) in the mornings and music for the rest of the day. So I enjoy my cube life. Every so often it gets a little boring, but thats mostly my own fault for not looking for things to do. But I still have 6 more actuarial exams to take, which the company luckily provides 140 hours of study time for for each exam. It's getting to be study time for these next 3.5 months, so I should be pretty busy.

 

[MagSec4]

My job is pretty decent. I'm an actuary at a health insurance company (Aetna). It's very casual there, as I can listen to Howard Stern (radio show host) in the mornings and music for the rest of the day. So I enjoy my cube life. Every so often it gets a little boring, but thats mostly my own fault for not looking for things to do. But I still have 6 more actuarial exams to take, which the company luckily provides 140 hours of study time for for each exam. It's getting to be study time for these next 3.5 months, so I should be pretty busy.

Sounds like a pretty good deal Tebs.
What do you plan to do when you're graduated?


As for me.. right now, ..ehh!
I hope to start having some good luck for a change once I graduate.
I'm almost done, so I'm happy with that.
I think in a couple of years I'll be well on my way to be pretty happy with who I am, what I do, and what I'll begin to be able to do.

 

[Child of Time]

NL: I recognize those strange ideas about what a school can and can not afford. The last year on upper secondary our school couldn't afford letting us pupils copy or print anything that wasn't essential for our school work. But, the school could afford to contribute with 60 000 SEK (almost 6000 €) to a two week study trip to Nicaragua I and 21 other pupils had been working for the latest year. I'm not complaining since that sum did that we could go so that not all our work was in vain, but it's still really strange.

Del: hyena is right as usual. Youths younger than 20 doesn't get unemployment benefit fund (a-kassa). They're expected to sponge on their parents until their 20th birthday unless they get a real job or start to study. It's resonable in a way, me for example, hasn't moved from home yet and will go to uni this autumn, but I wonder how it's supposed to work if someone for example already lives alone and perhaps doesn't get along with his/hers parents very well.

 

[Delirious]

CoT (and hyena): I supposed it was something like that, but I thought that you could get some kind of (or something equivalent to) "studiebidrag" or they maybe provided you with an apartment or something... I´m well aware of the a-kassa rule after a couple of post-studying pre-work months and being 20 yrs old (now)... I think it´s plain stupidity to assume that you should live with and by your parents.

don´t really get it, though. isn´t the whole point with being a trainee that you´ll actually work there after the trainee period is done? doesn´t seem to fit with the "going to uni"-part.

 

[Sunjammer]

I love doing what I'm educated for and that is where I belong. These other jobs I've had are just sidetracks...

 

[Hiljainen]

@fireangel: i graduated from high school last year, cause this school is only 4 years long (the others are 5 years) and now i'm doing an additional year at this school, that is shorter and it's only 15 hours per week, that should teach the students all the things this school lacked in the past 4 years and so give me the chance to go to "every university i want" at least in theory. we don't really learn that much anyway, but at least on paper it's written that "we did 5 years".
still i'd have to choose what i want to do in uni (quickly) between the things that i can actually do, and i really have no idea [/whining]

 

[Northern Lights]

@CoT: At least your school got their priorities straight a trip to Nicaragua is much more important that printing and copying My school would never ever do a thing like that, my class spent 4 days in Stockholm in october, we got about 22 euro/person from the school, then we paid using money we had raised selling biscuits and stuff, and we still had to pay most of it ourselves. ah well, we had fun.

 

[hyena]

three people have quoted me as saying something sensible in the past few days. i'm surprised, to say the least.

@the schooltrip enthusiasts: in italy we don't get any contribution from the school when we go on a trip.

 

[Child of Time]

don´t really get it, though. isn´t the whole point with being a trainee that you´ll actually work there after the trainee period is done? doesn´t seem to fit with the "going to uni"-part.

It differs. A friend of mine who's also a trainee but in an other branch has good chances of getting a permanent job. For me the trainee period aims at giving me a better idea of what I want to do later on.

 

[Tebus]

Sounds like a pretty good deal Tebs.
What do you plan to do when you're graduated?

I actually graduated in May 2003. These exams are something I have to go through in work.

 

[MagSec4]

Tebus:
Ah, my apologies bro.. you had already said this (the exams for work)
So then, is this company in your long-term future scope? or just a 'for now' thing?
hang me for my imbecility if you've also answered this for me already

 

[Argyle]

Studies are going as expected... I'm finally actually studying something interesting, and I am probably going to get to be a journalist from this place, but the school is too general. We get a little bit of everything, from writing, to web design, to video shooting. So to be even a mediocre newspaper or music journalist from this place - not likely. And honestly it pisses me off.

What comes to having a job, I spotted an opening for a storeclerk at an, umh, let's say adult orientated store in a magazine yesterday. I'll apply for that today.
Just can't say no to porn...

 

[hyena]

@argyle: you have to tell us all what working in a porn store is like. the people you see etc., it sounds like something that could be extra fun. plus, the permanent erection you are going to get from having all that "stuff" surrounding you is going to drive you mad in 5 days. he. he.

@fireangel: so, can we be let in on the secret now? hurry, cos i'm going into study reclusion again pretty soon, in case i passed on to the oral part of the exam.

 

[Argyle]

@hyena: Dunno, if I'm going to get it yet... I have to go to school, so they'll maybe want someone who can work more days a week.
But it's not that big of a deal, I have an ex-girlfriend that works at a pornstore. She said, that the porn gets a bit dull after a few weeks. After all they encourage you to watch the flicks, so you know what your selling
Oh yeah, and I get half-priced products from her already
The stories about the people... Well yeah... Mostly they concern drunks and people who want to get their hands on the more "interesting" stuff. I'll tell you all, if I get experiences of my own.