killing time
February 6, 2006
puella
For fuck’s sake.
Postgraduate education costs a lot of money. How anyone could possibly do it without a job (or without spongeing entirely on parents or loan companies) is totally beyond me. But the whole course seems to be designed to prevent anyone (or, more specifically, me) from having a job.
I have to squeeze in two working days a week to earn enough money to live on. I manage to do this by working wierd hours into the evenings and the weekend.
However, the wondrous new timetable that takes me from now until June has me sat around for three hours between lectures, three days a week. That’s nine full hours. That’s one working day, wasted, blogging from the newsroom because there is nothing else to do.
If I head out into the city I will spend money, there isn’t enough time to make it home and back, and all my work is up to date so there’s nothing doing there.
Does my head in.
End of rant.
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Pete01 | February 6, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Keep your chin up Pu, and think of the sense of achievment when you don the cap and gown as Queen of The Journos.
(And I think you just swayed me away from doing my masters next year! I can’t handle more skintness!)
x
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Jack | February 6, 2006 at 8:37 pm
That’s a shame…. post-grad work should be a bit more fun and a bit less grief than you seem to be having. So no interest in a doctorate then…?
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puella | February 6, 2006 at 10:25 pm
Jack – It is sometimes fun, honestly. The work itself is exactly as I wanted it to be, it’s just the way they spread it out that makes life so difficult. The whole timetable could squash into two and a half days meaning I could still work sociable hours and earn more money. But then, the world doesn’t revolve around me, unfortunately, so I have to make do
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