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Well done mate - tell your bosss where to go I thought work ok'd it? :mad:

How much did you have to pay to go back? :)
 
list of things dub needs to buy

1. university scarf
2. university sweatshirt
3. university mug.


any others?
 
zenie said:
Well done mate - tell your bosss where to go I thought work ok'd it? :mad:
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they did! that's what the OP says? :confused:

zenie said:
How much did you have to pay to go back? :)
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not sure yet, i'm going to delay paying the fees by pretending Lambeth council are going to cough up. Then i'll cough up ;)
 
Orang Utan said:
Why didn't you finish it the first time if that's not a nosy question?
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i was working full time for shit money as well as doing the degree - doing a 60 hour week and going to lectures. So i'd wake up in the morning with 3 options:

1) go to work and earn some much-needed money
2) get some more sleep
3) go to a lecture.

option 3 slipped further behind. I did get a first for most of my units, but my enthusiasm and determination just collapsed. Also, being the self-hating motherfucker that I am, every first i got convinced me the course was obviously shit and not worth having ( :rolleyes: at self). Had some personal stuff too.. So I went back for the 3rd year and it just.... petered.... out...
 
i've asked work to pay for me to do a post-grad in youth and community work.

i get a day off a week if they agree - and hopefully a way out of my current role eventually - into more independance.

the thought of having to do essays again is a bit scary tbh.
 
Dubversion said:
they did! that's what the OP says? :confused:
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yer but you said

Boss has gone for it, but it's going to be a bit bloody hectic, and I'm worried that my Tuesday afternoon lecture -where I have to leave the office at 2.45 - will suffer most, because there will always be one more thing that needs doing....
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which I took to mean your boss would say 'can you just do one more thing before you go.....'

Nevermind, my bad :)

Dubversion said:
not sure yet, i'm going to delay paying the fees by pretending Lambeth council are going to cough up. Then i'll cough up ;)
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good work :cool:
 
foo said:
the thought of having to do essays again is a bit scary tbh.
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essays I enjoy. Exams i can manage.

Group work makes me want to slaughter fucking puppies. Take your transferable teamworking skills and shove them up your arse - I'm a misanthrope and I don't want to work with anyone else.
 
foo said:
i've asked work to pay for me to do a post-grad in youth and community work.

i get a day off a week if they agree - and hopefully a way out of my current role eventually - into more independance.

the thought of having to do essays again is a bit scary tbh.
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I'd fucking love to spend my days writing essays again - geek that I am I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I realised I was getting a grant to read books, talk about books and write about books

Hope it goes well Dubversion - at the very least it's the best excuse in the world to start drinking early in the day
 
zenie said:
which I took to mean your boss would say 'can you just do one more thing before you go.....'
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nah, more like "i haven't managed my projects properly and if i bugger off now, things will go tits up". :D

zenie said:
good work :cool:
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yeh, it'll take Lambeth ages to turn me down, by which point I'll have got the cash together (i think course fees are about £150 a unit).
 
Dubversion said:
Group work makes me want to slaughter fucking puppies. Take your transferable teamworking skills and shove them up your arse - I'm a misanthrope and I don't want to work with anyone else.
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That's not showing leadership skills really, is it?
 
sojourner said:
Hope it goes well Dubversion - at the very least it's the best excuse in the world to start drinking early in the day
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i wish. I'm pretty much leaving lectures and going straight to the office every time.
 
Dubversion said:
essays I enjoy. Exams i can manage.

Group work makes me want to slaughter fucking puppies. Take your transferable teamworking skills and shove them up your arse - I'm a misanthrope and I don't want to work with anyone else.
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lucky you. i suffer come essay time, and exam time. anxiety blurrs any semi-intelligent thoughts - i then panic. i also write far too much....waffle mainly. and i know i'm not a particularly good writer. i'm a better talker iyswim. i absolutely loved the seminars (and pub talk afterwards)

but that was last time, about 10 years ago, and it was philosophy (so i can be excused :D ). i'm hoping this one will be less academic, and more practical.

anyway, enough about me lol. i remember you talking about this a while ago. and i'm dead pleased for you. :) xx
 
sojourner said:
I think you must have selected your modules incorrectly then
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no, i selected my modules so i miss at little time at work as possible:

a) to lose as little pay as possible
b) because any more than the time i'm getting and they'd have (quite reasonably) refused to let me do it.
 
Dubversion said:
no, i selected my modules so i miss at little time at work as possible:

a) to lose as little pay as possible
b) because any more than the time i'm getting and they'd have (quite reasonably) refused to let me do it.
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Blimey, serious stood mode already


I didn't put a ;) in but now I think that was a glaring omission








;) :p
 
Ooo does this now mean you will ask if that's a glass of limeade and if so why is that a glass of limeade

And after a while, you'll die of thirst?
 
foo said:
i've asked work to pay for me to do a post-grad in youth and community work.

i get a day off a week if they agree - and hopefully a way out of my current role eventually - into more independance.

the thought of having to do essays again is a bit scary tbh.
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i used to love doing essays - yet now i get these essay anxiety dreams, had them for years, thinking one is due, and i wake up all anxious and that

i graduated in 1988:D
 
sojourner said:
Ooo does this now mean you will ask if that's a glass of limeade and if so why is that a glass of limeade

And after a while, you'll die of thirst?
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I'll sit in my garret, legs crossed needlessly, reading the broadsheets from the front page first.
 
i graduated in 95, i think.....

i was so proud of myself. it felt like a great acheivement at the time. still glad i did it, even though it was hell on earth at times and i wanted to give up every other week. :)
 
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