Science marches on.

[scarfman]

I'm still looking for a job, since getting laid off last February when the plant closed. But the criteria for the search has changed.

Since I last wrote about this, qtrhorserider sat down and made me consider the possibility of going back to school full time to zonker that bachelor's. After my next birthday we'll both be past the half-century mark, and there's no sense wasting time on things we don't like doing. I was convinced.

But that led to something else that I'd been thinking about for longer than I ought've gone without resolving it, like, more than one semester. It seems to me that a computer science major oughtn't be someone who's only interested in coding when he has a class assignment. And there are pretty fundamental concepts, like interfaces, that I can only define when I've been studying for a test. So I saw my adult education program advisor and changed my major to English, focussing on British literature, with an eye to going to grad school for Arthurian studies.

So now I'm looking for a part-time job that I can keep when school starts in August (I did summer semester once. Not doing it again. Everything goes in one ear and out on the test.). Meanwhile, qtrhorserider has been laid off. She can use the time for studying for the bar - she's determined to pass this time, having missed it by three points last time - but making ends meet until September when the results of the test are announced and the candidates are sworn in may be a little tricky.

The last time I brought up this subject in this space, you may recall, in conclusion I said that I had done so largely to record that the eyelid tic I get when stressed was occurring in my lower right lid, so that the next time I got one I could look back and see whether it migrates. Today it's in the lower left lid.

Comments

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a time of upheaval and change--good change, as it seems. I wish you both the best as you head down these roads.

If your goal is in any way connected to teaching at the college/university level, make sure you get in some studies and experience in rhetoric/composition, as that area of the English Studies field appears to be the most resilient AND the one guarantee for most new faculty is that they'll be teaching freshman composition at some point.

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

...there's no sense wasting time on things we don't like doing.

Good for you, not only for realizing that, but for taking steps to deal with it. That can be scary. My hubby was laid off after many years in computer support (operating systems software, he's asleep and I have no idea what to call it, sorry). He went back to school and became a tax professional as of last year. (I was able to buy us some time by working for a year as a vet assistant, but haven't been able to go back to that due to an injury that became chronic.) We're not out of the woods financially -- I'm still trying to get my act together to be able to contribute to that -- but he's doing something he enjoys now.

I have a stress-related eyelid tic too, mainly when I see certain relatives. I can't remember which eyelid it was -- one of the uppers -- but next time I see them I'll take notes ;)

[ladyrutile.livejournal.com]

did you ever replace your New Arthurian Encyclopedia?

[scarfman]

No, I haven't yet had seventy disposable bucks on hand when I happen to think of it.

[ladyrutile.livejournal.com]

you have my email addy? send me your address, I'll send you my copy. I'm not using it for anything.

UPS tracking number

[ladyrutile.livejournal.com]

1Z944T080394215830

Re: UPS tracking number

[scarfman]

Thank you!

Re: UPS tracking number

[scarfman]

Received. Thanks again.

Re: UPS tracking number

[ladyrutile.livejournal.com]

Thank YOU - now I don't have to dust it!