$10 for canned pumpkin!! Same store, all the specialties! Only place you can get this though so I bought it!! Pumpkin choc chip cookies for Halloween :-)
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Ouchie
$10 for canned pumpkin!! Same store, all the specialties! Only place you can get this though so I bought it!! Pumpkin choc chip cookies for Halloween :-)
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
The heat is on!!
It's probs a million degrees in darwin these days. This is no joke. The air is so thick it almost hurts to breathe it in. Ok that's exaggerating but the humidity is about 85% and it's around 100 degrees in the afternoons. Love the tropics!! Love even more when my dumb ass ford fiesta shits itself on the side of the highway on sat and jason and I had to push it home in this ridic weather! The silver bullet is out of commission! Tomorrow it gets towed to be fixed. Ugh, always something with cars around here!
Today I am complaining about student loans and how paying them is like throwing my money away! I have a pretty decent job here and I actually apply stuff I learned in grad school to my work. However, the degree didn't help me to get the job and it prolly won't do much for me in the future either as long as I am in Australia. See, you don't need a degree to work in the public service in aus. In fact, for most positions, they aren't even allowed to require a 4 year degree in the job description. Even for management positions!! You don't even need a planning degree to be a town planner! It's crazy to me, but it's the way it is... And I am the only sucker at my work paying off student loans while everyone else is buying cars that don't break down!
It's not just the public service though, you can have great career without needing an advanced degree (and all the debt that comes with it) in aus. Even law school only costs about $20k here! Basically the crappy jobs that us Americans take when we're fresh out of college go to peeps fresh out of high school here. Then they just work their way up. You can easily be making serious money by the time you're 30 without a cent of student debt. Of course, then you missed out on college life, but at least you have money! Many Aussies will put large amounts of money towards travelling as you get about 2 months a year off here between vacation days and the many public holidays. Ugh, if I had only known...
Today I am complaining about student loans and how paying them is like throwing my money away! I have a pretty decent job here and I actually apply stuff I learned in grad school to my work. However, the degree didn't help me to get the job and it prolly won't do much for me in the future either as long as I am in Australia. See, you don't need a degree to work in the public service in aus. In fact, for most positions, they aren't even allowed to require a 4 year degree in the job description. Even for management positions!! You don't even need a planning degree to be a town planner! It's crazy to me, but it's the way it is... And I am the only sucker at my work paying off student loans while everyone else is buying cars that don't break down!
It's not just the public service though, you can have great career without needing an advanced degree (and all the debt that comes with it) in aus. Even law school only costs about $20k here! Basically the crappy jobs that us Americans take when we're fresh out of college go to peeps fresh out of high school here. Then they just work their way up. You can easily be making serious money by the time you're 30 without a cent of student debt. Of course, then you missed out on college life, but at least you have money! Many Aussies will put large amounts of money towards travelling as you get about 2 months a year off here between vacation days and the many public holidays. Ugh, if I had only known...
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