[Gothos]

Advice? Get any job and roll with it. Keep a look out for better offers. You'll probably even end up making a career somewhere miles outside your field.

[Captain Beardface]

Keep applying to any opening that your qualifies for, hit up friends from uni that are employed in a similar field and have them pass your resume on... That's how I ended up gainfully employed in my field of study, but I have a technical degree.

Best of luck, I spend 4 months couch surfing and working at a shithole of an amusement park before I caught a break.

[Captain Beardface]

Oh as for what's messing with my groove last minute changes from my support team, the installlation is supposed to be released today and they come to me at noon saying they need changes made... Pisses me off but it's more OT for me.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

So I didn't pass a required class for my degree this spring.

I also flunked just about every class in the fall.

AND my GPA was not high enough to evade the academic probation ban-hammer.

I have to meet with the Dean early next week - and grovel and come up with a number of (fairly reasonable, to be honest) excuses as to why my academics imploded. To avoid expulsion.

And THEN see if he'll let me stay for another year to finish the degree (one class is only offered in spring semester).

I feel like so much ass. And I am freaking the fuck out.

[Tapper]

 tiam, on 03 June 2011 - 01:05 PM, said:

Unis over and after the robbery a while back I have finally convinced my lecturers that I have extenuating circumatnces for my last exam as all my shit was took. Unfortunately I now have very little idea what to do with my life other than apply for a teaching course for next year. This gives me a year and my attempts to find a volunterring post or internship at a museum is leading to them giving me the run around ffs. Its going to drive me mad but im tempted to just go live back at home and get a job for a year until I can do the teaching course.

Any advice from graduates who didnt really know what to do with themselves?

I don't know how old you are, but basically my life went on hold for half a year when I spent that period at my old lady's place in between graduating and finding my current job. There's nothing inherently wrong in itself with going back, but make sure you have something to occupy you and make sure everyone including yourself are aware that you're not back home to become a part of your parents life.

If you can afford it, you might want to consider travelling for an extended period. I'm not sure how many simple labour work at farms there is for students in Australia nowadays with the crisis and all, but a friend of mine spent several months there working, travelling and generally having an insanely great time - she was also much the better for spending the time abroad.

[Mott]

 adjutant stormy, on 03 June 2011 - 07:39 PM, said:

So I didn't pass a required class for my degree this spring.

I also flunked just about every class in the fall.

AND my GPA was not high enough to evade the academic probation ban-hammer.

I have to meet with the Dean early next week - and grovel and come up with a number of (fairly reasonable, to be honest) excuses as to why my academics imploded. To avoid expulsion.

And THEN see if he'll let me stay for another year to finish the degree (one class is only offered in spring semester).

I feel like so much ass. And I am freaking the fuck out.

God that really sucks, you get like the worst feeling ever like there is a lead weight in your stomach, when I had to leave uni before my first term exams in third year I had like a complete breakdown over the phone at 6.30 in the morning, I ended up scratching gouges out of my arms in pure terror and panic because I knew I was not well enough or ready to take the exam, I don't think I have ever felt like that before. Now though I've been deferred but if I don't get a doctors note clearing me health wise to go back this September then I'll have to reapply, start all over again despite making it half way through third year, everyone I went to uni with has graduated now and at the moment I am doing part time summer work and it just isn't feeling good at all. It is terrifying me but it really shouldn't be, there are other things that are important and eventually I'll get there. Sometimes at Uni I think putting so much pressure on yourself is just fucking stupid, sometimes it pays off but with me I hate the fact I thought it was so important that I pushed too far and have ended up setting my health back for years.

One of the great things is the lecturers and course organizers generally are very patient and understanding, they tend to be really good at listening to concerns and problems and taking them into account. Having someone calm to talk to about things really helps as well, it's good for getting perspective and stopping the automatic response of panic (well that seems to be mine).

Oh god, sorry for that wall of text, eh I think it must have triggered what been on my mind all week, I like to try and ignore my problems which is apparently not a great strategy.

[Adjutant Stormy~]

Well thanks for the commiseration. I'm trying to get out of dodge, and it sucks.

Anyhow, my CURRENT problem is that I need 400 more dollars to cover the balance of what I owe my landlord.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Washing blood out of my training gear!

see here!

[Silencer]

 SadCountenance EmoDropBear, on 03 June 2011 - 12:07 PM, said:

 HoosierDaddy, on 03 June 2011 - 11:52 AM, said:

 SadCountenance EmoDropBear, on 03 June 2011 - 08:51 AM, said:

My bf and I have almost broken up twice during the past two days. I feel like we've been growing apart for awhile, he says he loves me more than ever and I don't have a fucking clue what to do.

This was all brought on by me meeting a guy on a trip to Poland, who I had more in common with than anyone I've ever met...and he doesn't even read Steven Erikson!

Me and said guy are just friends, and nothing at all happened during the wekeend we spent together, but my bf forbids me more or less from being friends with him, and it really feels like the last straw...I don't know if the good stuff outweighs the bad stuff anymore.


And we haven't even lived in our new apartment for a month yet......FUCK.

Cohabitation is a big deal, Grim. Could your boyfriend, if he became an ex, deal with other guys being around? Tough stuff. I wish you the best, but I think you might have to make a clean cut. That sort of possession is tough to get rid of in a ex-boyfriend.

He'd never deal with that...he's extremely jealous. And a clean cut, although the best option, is also the hardest option. We've been together for almost 8 years, lived together for 4, we own this apartment together and we're real close with each other's families. We just have so much invested in each other, but what if that's the only reason I'm staying?

Can we work through our problems, or are the differences just too big? Do I even want to work things out?

FUCK, this past year has been hell...some light at the end of that tunnel would've been nice

Yeah, you do seem to be having a rough patch, Grim.

I know this isn't exactly an advice thread - and hell, I'm not the most qualified person around to offer any, believe me - but I think the simplest thing to do is to ask yourself whether you're considering leaving because things are tough, or because there is something fundamentally askew in your relationship. If the former, it's obvious that you can work through it - both of you can develop, and talking alone should help push things to a resolution of one kind or another. If the latter, then you have to accept that you're sticking around because leaving is just scary, because you're ending a long-standing relationship.

Personally, I'd say that if you've made it this far, you probably already know whether the relationship is working or not. Hell, most people don't last that long for no reason, right? "Do I even want to work things out?" is just another way of saying that you're putting off doing so because the potential fallout scares you - which means you're invested in the relationship in more ways than just time.

Anyway, hope that helps, or at least gives you somewhere to start the thought process again.

[Illuyankas]

HOLY FUCK I WANT TO MURDER SOMEONE

It's an account of a lesbian girl being kidnapped from her bedroom by two burly men with the full permission of her c**t of a mother sent to a WWASPS facility in Utah and basically being tortured. I first heard about these fucking bastards when I read about Tranquility Bay and this is just much worse since it's both a lengthier eyewitness account and proof that the facilities that get revealed are being reopened under new names. These are genuinely the worst kinds of people and I want to fucking kill them. Literal murder. They need to be killed for the good of mankind. FUCK IT

[Adjutant Stormy~]

I know a guy who can get us the weapons...

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Local Borders-along with every single other one anywhere-is closing down in one month. Sigh....I'll miss you, old faithful.

[Tapper]

 Illuyankas, on 04 June 2011 - 04:49 AM, said:

HOLY FUCK I WANT TO MURDER SOMEONE

It's an account of a lesbian girl being kidnapped from her bedroom by two burly men with the full permission of her c**t of a mother sent to a WWASPS facility in Utah and basically being tortured. I first heard about these fucking bastards when I read about Tranquility Bay and this is just much worse since it's both a lengthier eyewitness account and proof that the facilities that get revealed are being reopened under new names. These are genuinely the worst kinds of people and I want to fucking kill them. Literal murder. They need to be killed for the good of mankind. FUCK IT

Is such a restraint of a person's indivduality and physical and mental freedom legal??!
Fucking hell.

[Gust Hubb]

 adjutant stormy, on 26 May 2011 - 09:47 AM, said:

 Kurt Montandon, on 26 May 2011 - 05:52 AM, said:

 Slow Ben, on 25 May 2011 - 08:13 PM, said:

You've got snow, we've got tornadoe warnings for like a week straight.

The weather just sucks right now.

There are actually tornado warnings in Northern California right now.

I want to punch the weather.


.

Wait. I live in norcal. I haven't heard squat!

You guys live in Norcal? That's where I was born!!! and summers there are better than the craptastic heat and cold fluctuations here in damn miserable Chicago. It was chilly and raining yesterday morning and now is a muggy 80+ and sunny. Sucky. I'd even prefer the 110 of Redding.

[King Lear]

There is a reason I try to avoid playing I Have Never.

[Tsundoku]

 King Lear, on 05 June 2011 - 02:11 AM, said:

There is a reason I try to avoid playing I Have Never.

... and that reason would be because you always have to drink, no matter what gets stated? Do tell ...

[Ain't_It_Just_]

I've trawled through about 10 theatre/performing arts websites and there is nothing that suits me. Either too far away, asking for more experience than I have, or no roles that suit my age/capabilities. Looks like it's going to be a theatre-less rest of the year.

[King Lear]

 Sombra, on 05 June 2011 - 02:25 AM, said:

 King Lear, on 05 June 2011 - 02:11 AM, said:

There is a reason I try to avoid playing I Have Never.

... and that reason would be because you always have to drink, no matter what gets stated? Do tell ...

I get very drunk.
Very drunk.

[Tsundoku]

 King Lear, on 05 June 2011 - 03:36 AM, said:

 Sombra, on 05 June 2011 - 02:25 AM, said:

 King Lear, on 05 June 2011 - 02:11 AM, said:

There is a reason I try to avoid playing I Have Never.

... and that reason would be because you always have to drink, no matter what gets stated? Do tell ...

I get very drunk.
Very drunk.

That's because you're a Bad Girl.

This post has been edited by Sombra: 05 June 2011 - 03:44 AM

[King Lear]

Sombra, on 05 June 2011 - 03:43 AM, said:

King Lear, on 05 June 2011 - 03:36 AM, said:

Sombra, on 05 June 2011 - 02:25 AM, said:

King Lear, on 05 June 2011 - 02:11 AM, said:

There is a reason I try to avoid playing I Have Never.

... and that reason would be because you always have to drink, no matter what gets stated? Do tell ...

I get very drunk.
Very drunk.

That's because you're a Bad Girl.

I pay for my sins at least.