Australia Thread v3: Let us back into GD ya cunts - General

[QUOTE=devotchkade;32822901]I'll cross my fingers for you :) Let us know. Are you trying to get a job for summer whilst uni's out?[/QUOTE] Yes and no. If I get the Dick Smith job I'd probably only be able to keep it until uni starts again (because of the hours and distance) - however if I could negotiate times with them after uni starts I'd be more than happy. If I get the Coles job I'll be able to continue working after uni starts. It's open until midnight, they're trying to hire people to work late hours (which is good for me, because odds are uni will finish prior to 5 or 6PM), and it's within walking distance - hell, I can cycle there in maybe... 2 or 3 minutes. If there weren't any big roads and traffic lights I could probably get there in a minute and a half. [editline]17th October 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Contag;32823118]Lie on your resume.[/QUOTE] I... exaggerated the truth slightly. I've played paint ball once, so I simply put it down as a sport because it's competitive, but requires team work on your own side. In the Dick Smith application form it asked what safety meant to me. I said that, being someone who works around and with dangerous chemicals and lab equipment at uni, that safety is first nature to me, and is of the utmost importance - a blatant lie - my friends and I have probably almost killed each other pranking each other in labs at uni, but hey... what they don't know can't hurt them.

Say you used to work at Strathfield prior to the start of 2009, and make up a referee or any other company that has failed

[QUOTE=Contag;32823412]Say you used to work at Strathfield prior to the start of 2009, and make up a referee or any other company that has failed[/QUOTE] I figured I could say I had a paper round back in Scotland when I was like 13. You can do work like that at that age, and if they ask for a reference I'll just be like, "it was 5 years ago, and I was only 13 at the time. I didn't really think to keep that kind of information around." That, or give them the phone number of a friend back in the UK and have him bullshit for me :v: "I remember that Scott kid. Good lad. Delivered papers for us. Nothing major but, hey, work is work. Keeps kids at that age out of trouble."

everyone embellishes their resume a bit how else do you expect to stand out amongst all the other liars start applying for everywhere, otherwise you're in for a wait

[QUOTE=bye;32824021]everyone embellishes their resume a bit how else do you expect to stand out amongst all the other liars start applying for everywhere, otherwise you're in for a wait[/QUOTE] I feel like I didn't lie on my resume for my current job though. I didn't add one of my 'jobs' as I don't truly count 4 hours work as having a job.

Its too late to figure out how to study for these exams, I hope I can pull through.

Wow, Facepunch isn't blocked at TAFE.

[QUOTE=sltungle;32822276]Fucking hell. It's impossible to get a job without experience, but the only way you can get experience is to have had a job... which you can't get due to a lack of experience. It feels to me like nowadays you need to know somebody 'on the inside' in order to get you a job.[/QUOTE] My school forced students in Year 10 to do work experience, although that's good I don't think that the career path I intend to go on needs work experience at the human services department of a federal department.

[QUOTE=Super_Poo;32824469]Wow, Facepunch isn't blocked at TAFE.[/QUOTE] Uh is anything blocked at TAFE?

[QUOTE=Antdawg;32824635]My school forced students in Year 10 to do work experience, although that's good I don't think that the career path I intend to go on needs work experience at the human services department of a federal department.[/QUOTE]I think every school in NSW is required to do that. Me and some friends did ours at Kmart. We had to open up boxes of cloths and put them on racks. We managed to do 3 days worth of shipments in one day and they were really happy with us until my friend found an opened foam ball gun thing and shot someone with it. Was a fun week. Also as part of IT I had to do 2 weeks of work placement. First time I went to the tech support at Ultimo TAFE and then I went to an average IT support and solutions office for my second week.

Sltungle did work experience. At Coles where he wants to apply for one of his many jobs he wants. And I had to do work experience at a proper business. Not somewhere like Coles or Kmart or anything like that. So I did mine at Burbank Homes in the marketing department. All I did was mess around with photoshop all day.

I did work experience in the shitty Astronomy department of Monash. My god. An entire working week. 7-8 hours a day. Talking to awkward people. UUUUUUUGGGHHH

I did mine at an animal shelter, but the school later told me that it wasn't 'proper' work experience, and tried to make me scrub lockers for a week at the end of the year when holidays began. Fuck that shit.

I did mine at a newspaper. 8 hours of following journalists around and just browsing the net. They'd let me go several hours early when there was nothing to do.

I did work experience at an insolvency firm. It is incredibly disheartening for a 16 year old to present when you get told you are bankrupt i hear

[QUOTE=Faren;32825409]I did work experience in the shitty Astronomy department of Monash. My god. An entire working week. 7-8 hours a day. Talking to awkward people. UUUUUUUGGGHHH[/QUOTE] surely you have an appreciation for astronomy now though

I absolutely love astronomy. Just saying that work experience there was one of the main reasons I don't want to be an astrophysicist anymore. Most of the people were dead boring and all they did was sit around a crappy uni building designed in the 70s (as in it looks stupid and there is pine wood everywhere) using outdated software to run calculations. I learned some interesting stuff, I just know I wouldn't want to do that. So it was actually quite helpful.

95 and 97 for my advanced CAD tests last semester, bitchin'

The visual text Boy Running similarly depicts an Indigenous boy in the middle of a Westernized yet desolate setting. The light colours upon his body are sharply juxtaposed with the dark, dry colours surrounding him, and of his own skin, to highlight his displacement as an Aboriginal Australian living in contemporary times. The white t-shirt is a clear symbol of the Western influence on the Indigenous boy and his culture, emphasizing the separation of the two cultures he has been caught between, further highlighted by the lack of any other clothing on his body. The boy is framed in the center of an inherently static and lifeless scene; the dramatically coloured sky, the vast foreground, the long, empty street vanishing on the horizon. His motion, aided by the horizontal lines around him, ruptures the stillness of the scene and forces the question, where is the boy running? Metaphorically speaking, the boy is trapped in the middle of the road and in the process of moving from side to the other, symbolically representing his detachment from the two cultures he has been caught between. This contrast is emphasized by the symbols placed at either side of the road: To the left, the remains of a tree, representative of a connection to and appreciation of the land. To the right of the road, the iconic structure of an Australian war memorial, symbolising history and the loss of many young Australians at war. Both symbols in their own way represent a loss; a reminder of what once was, suggesting that whichever side the boy stays on, he will never truly be able to foster a strong sense of self, and will only be able to hold on to the remnants of a culture which he never really experienced.

My work experience was at some graphic designer but it was so bullshit. In my week there I got to look atgraphically designing things for all of five minutes. The rest of the time was me refiling all of their paperwork and cleaning.

[QUOTE=Dark_Light;32826971]The visual text Boy Running similarly depicts an Indigenous boy in the middle of a Westernized yet desolate setting. The light colours upon his body are sharply juxtaposed with the dark, dry colours surrounding him, and of his own skin, to highlight his displacement as an Aboriginal Australian living in contemporary times. The white t-shirt is a clear symbol of the Western influence on the Indigenous boy and his culture, emphasizing the separation of the two cultures he has been caught between, further highlighted by the lack of any other clothing on his body. The boy is framed in the center of an inherently static and lifeless scene; the dramatically coloured sky, the vast foreground, the long, empty street vanishing on the horizon. His motion, aided by the horizontal lines around him, ruptures the stillness of the scene and forces the question, where is the boy running? Metaphorically speaking, the boy is trapped in the middle of the road and in the process of moving from side to the other, symbolically representing his detachment from the two cultures he has been caught between. This contrast is emphasized by the symbols placed at either side of the road: To the left, the remains of a tree, representative of a connection to and appreciation of the land. To the right of the road, the iconic structure of an Australian war memorial, symbolising history and the loss of many young Australians at war. Both symbols in their own way represent a loss; a reminder of what once was, suggesting that whichever side the boy stays on, he will never truly be able to foster a strong sense of self, and will only be able to hold on to the remnants of a culture which he never really experienced.[/QUOTE] that's a pessimistic view an alternate understanding is that he serves as the bridge between these culture, and that's not a dichotomous binary of aboriginal/australian, because aboriginal and australian are imagined categories (at least according to anderson in his imagined communities), and that the boy is bravely forging a new identity - that of the contemporary aboriginal australian, much like what most transmigration scholars say about the transmigrasi and various disaporas around the globe of course you could use that as your 'an alternate interpretation is... but that is false because...' our markers always like that, because they were getting double the interpretations for the price of one comment

[QUOTE=Dark_Light;32826971]The visual text Boy Running similarly depicts an Indigenous boy in the middle of a Westernized yet desolate setting. The light colours upon his body are sharply juxtaposed with the dark, dry colours surrounding him, and of his own skin, to highlight his displacement as an Aboriginal Australian living in contemporary times. The white t-shirt is a clear symbol of the Western influence on the Indigenous boy and his culture, emphasizing the separation of the two cultures he has been caught between, further highlighted by the lack of any other clothing on his body. The boy is framed in the center of an inherently static and lifeless scene; the dramatically coloured sky, the vast foreground, the long, empty street vanishing on the horizon. His motion, aided by the horizontal lines around him, ruptures the stillness of the scene and forces the question, where is the boy running? Metaphorically speaking, the boy is trapped in the middle of the road and in the process of moving from side to the other, symbolically representing his detachment from the two cultures he has been caught between. This contrast is emphasized by the symbols placed at either side of the road: To the left, the remains of a tree, representative of a connection to and appreciation of the land. To the right of the road, the iconic structure of an Australian war memorial, symbolising history and the loss of many young Australians at war. Both symbols in their own way represent a loss; a reminder of what once was, suggesting that whichever side the boy stays on, he will never truly be able to foster a strong sense of self, and will only be able to hold on to the remnants of a culture which he never really experienced.[/QUOTE] Aha, I do not miss this bullshit. Then again if I posted some of my essays, they would likely look similarly shitty.

[QUOTE=Mlisen14;32827127]My work experience was at some graphic designer but it was so bullshit. In my week there I got to look atgraphically designing things for all of five minutes. The rest of the time was me refiling all of their paperwork and cleaning.[/QUOTE] my work experience was living off the dole and playing xbox with my fellow dole-bludgers. dole 4 lyfe

Oh god, Media. Assignments were 20 pages of that kind of crap. I enjoyed the subject immensely, though.

[QUOTE=devotchkade;32827182]Aha, I do not miss this bullshit. Then again if I posted some of my essays, they would likely look similarly shitty.[/QUOTE] oh ho, says the one who got hers published in this year's text book as an example of what to do right

[QUOTE=Contag;32827185]my work experience was living off the dole and playing xbox with my fellow dole-bludgers. dole 4 lyfe[/QUOTE] Automerge breaker. Really?

[QUOTE=devotchkade;32827191]Automerge breaker. Really?[/QUOTE] yeah where do you think the 'dole 4 lyfe' came from?

[QUOTE=Contag;32827190]oh ho, says the one who got hers published in this year's text book as an example of what to do right[/QUOTE] Yeah, and? It was still bullshit.

why we talking on facepunch i can hear you typing INTERNET DESTROYED SOCIAL RELATIONS [editline]18th October 2011[/editline] woteva

STOP BREAKING THEM. [editline]17th October 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Contag;32827203]why we talking on facepunch i can hear you typing INTERNET DESTROYED SOCIAL RELATIONS [/QUOTE] :( [editline]17th October 2011[/editline] lol best avatar ever.