The off topic thread 3.0

[SM]

I finish at 4.30 (start at 8), and it's only 40 minutes door to door. Being four minutes walking distance from a station is great.

If you're home by 5.10 surely you could rest for an hour, study or whatever for 40 mins and then cook?

 

[Spanish Sahara]

Seeing Midnight Oil at Hanging Rock on Saturday! Pretty excited.

Anyone seen them before?

Yeah saw them up here in Brisbane a couple of weeks ago.

Loved it! Hanging Rock should be a pretty cool venue. Wait for the drum solo in Power and the Passion

 

[Jatz]

Oh man, imagine getting home at 5pm everyday haha.

I work 7:30 - 4:30 at work. But leave the house at 6am and get home just after 6pm. I consider those hours to be pretty lucky.

 

[Cruyff14]

Oh man, imagine getting home at 5pm everyday haha.

I work 7:30 - 4:30 at work. But leave the house at 6am and get home just after 6pm. I consider those hours to be pretty lucky.

I'm out by 6.20 and at work by 7. I'm technically meant to start at 8, but usually I try and get a few things done prior to when I'm actually meant to start.

Your hours are long, unless you get a 90 minute lunch?

 

[elhadjihenry]

I'm home by 5.10, but like I said, when I get home I want to relax. And if I'm not doing that, I'm either cooking or helping with dinner.

I love my job but I don't get home until 7:30-8pm every night, and then often have to research or answer emails after hours on weekends.

Priorities will probably change once I have kids, easy to live like this now.

 

[SM]

I'm out by 6.20 and at work by 7. I'm technically meant to start at 8, but usually I try and get a few things done prior to when I'm actually meant to start.

Your hours are long, unless you get a 90 minute lunch?

If you think that's long.. [emoji23]

Some days I'm in by 8 and out around 10pm.

 

[Spanish Sahara]

Well you blokes do sit on bigfooty all day

 

[elhadjihenry]

Well you blokes do sit on bigfooty all day

Yep if it wasn't for this bloody website I'd have my work done by lunchtime

 

[Cruyff14]

I love my job but I don't get home until 7:30-8pm every night, and then often have to research or answer emails after hours on weekends.

Priorities will probably change once I have kids, easy to live like this now.

Living to work, or working to live?

If you think that's long.. [emoji23]

Some days I'm in by 8 and out around 10pm.

Nah, wasn't saying it was.

Unless you're on big bucks, you shouldn't be working that long IMO.

Well you blokes do sit on bigfooty all day

Not me mate! I'd be fired if I did lol. I go on before work and at lunchtime and that's it.

 

[elhadjihenry]

Living to work, or working to live?

Doesn't have to be one or the other IMO. I enjoy my job and my life, and I can work hard now to gain experience and make connections that will benefit me later on when I don't want to any more.

 

[SM]

Well you blokes do sit on bigfooty all day

For me I tend to jump on for 5-10 minute stretches when I need to refresh my mind, but some days I work flat out all day and still end up leaving later.

 

[Genesis67]

Well. Gutted to lose it, and particularly the way we lost it tonight. But Houston deserved it, they had a great series. After so many years watching other teams play in the world series I've loved having my team play in one. Lots of improvement to come in this Dodgers team.

Hopefully back there next year and go one step further.

Mad Yankees fan. Know the feeling. Went to 7 in the ALCS, obviously, but always felt that Houston had us covered. Thought the Dodgers would win the WS tho.

 

[chef]

chef Loonerty you boys grabbing a Cloud nothings ticket?

Yeah i think i will be.

 

[Genesis67]

Sorry for my delayed response.

This is a fantastic post.

You're obviously not struggling financially, and despite the four kids, all in private schools, I would assume given your experience you would have no problem finding a better paying job.

Ha, we just got a mortgage this year, and the dream is to own it one day (in about 30 years haha). But what you're doing sounds very rewarding, good on you.

Thank you. I genuinely appreciate that.

The thing I've found about mature age study is this: if you stay organised, it's really not that hard to do.

I'm not a natural student nor naturally organised (only reason I don't have a PA at work is because some years ago, I broke my last one and the Board are still pissed at me about it. Told you, not a nice human being when I was younger). But I have a pattern, I stick to it and by doing so, I find it doesn't impact work, social or family time too much. You DO need support from your spouse, it's impossible without it.

I have Monday night off, and it's date night with the wifey. Tuesday and Wednesday night, I come home from work and go directly to study for 2 hours, a subject a night. Thursday, I have a casual one, only study a subject for an hour, then relax jump on the Xbox with mates. Friday night, I'll do a couple of hours after the kids are in bed. Saturday, no study, but if assignments need to be done, I'll do them after the kids are in bed. Sunday morning, hard study from 6-10am (I'm a morning person). Loose assignment work in the evening as necessary. I generally catch the lectures online, meaning they're easier to follow, and give up a few hours a week to attend tutes on work time.

It may sound like a lot, but it's really not. It's more about maximising the time you do spend studying, as opposed to just spending more time doing so.

 

[Langanis]

Anyone here go to uni? Bit stuck on the referencing side of things.

 

[Genesis67]

Oh man, imagine getting home at 5pm everyday haha.

I work 7:30 - 4:30 at work. But leave the house at 6am and get home just after 6pm. I consider those hours to be pretty lucky.

Same. Nominally, we work 8-5, but I'm generally out of the house at 6, and get home around 6. 30 mins door to door. I rarely take lunch, or work while I eat.

 

[Genesis67]

Anyone here go to uni? Bit stuck on the referencing side of things.

Me mate. What's up?

 

[Genesis67]

You're not messing around mate. At all.

One of the details that I didn't reveal above mate is that this is the second time around for both of us. I had 3 with my first wife (I was only 25 when first one was born), and she has 1 from her first marriage (she was only 17). We're a Brady Bunch, tho we don't see it that way.

 

[Latro]

Lol

 

[Spanish Sahara]

Loonerty chef bok_party

 

[Langanis]

Me mate. What's up?

How do you go by referencing through the harvard system? like the uni has showed me a couple of ways but they dont make sense to me.

 

[SM]

How do you go by referencing through the harvard system? like the uni has showed me a couple of ways but they dont make sense to me.

There should be a reference guide available online.

 

[Genesis67]

How do you go by referencing through the harvard system? like the uni has showed me a couple of ways but they dont make sense to me.

Firstly, remember that there are actually variants of Harvard. Different institutions will modify it slightly. Most universities will have their own reference guide, or refer to a faculty guide.

Secondly, use http://www.citethisforme.com/. Live it, love it, breathe it. It will make your life so much easier. Just add references as you go, and let it do the thinking for you. Make sure you watch and learn what it's doing tho. I've had a psych class where we had to be able to correctly write a reference in an exam (APA obviously, but my point stands).

 

[Langanis]

There should be a reference guide available online.

Yeah but i have a specific one i have to use which is harvard, but they want us to do it a certain way, not the way it is cited.

 

[Langanis]

Firstly, remember that there are actually variants of Harvard. Different institutions will modify it slightly. Most universities will have their own reference guide, or refer to a faculty guide.

Secondly, use http://www.citethisforme.com/. Live it, love it, breathe it. It will make your life so much easier. Just add references as you go, and let it do the thinking for you. Make sure you watch and learn what it's doing tho. I've had a psych class where we had to be able to correctly write a reference in an exam (APA obviously, but my point stands).

Cheers man, actually looks like this will help me out a lot, just download a copy of the way the harvard reference system cites and should be good.