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there have been some significant changes in my life, and now i want to push them further.
i am about to give up my master of laws research. i have applied to enter a teaching diploma. despite completing a law degree with an excellent grade point average, and prior education and experience in biotechnology and information technology, not a single law firm has showed any interest in employing me since i was admitted as a barrister and solicitor. i'm an unemployed lawyer. fuck that.
i can teach with my eyes shut. with degrees in science and law, plus postgraduate computer science and law, and fifteen years of tutoring science, law, and computing, i ought to be able to find a job in a school somewhere. and having grown up in the country, i can survive working away from the bright lights of the big city ...
i'm planning to follow up basic teacher training with specialisation in gifted education. several reasons. as an asperger syndrome adult, i can relate to many of the issues and concerns of gifted students - social isolation, 'unusual' interests, extraordinary knowledge, boredom with standard curriculum, and so on. my son is gifted. and finally, when i'm tutoring, i give my students how to learn, or how to pull problems apart and piece together solutions - i try to make them independant learners. after all, they get no lasting benefit if they can't do things for themselves, and i'm not a textbook.
i am also looking for somewhere to live. enough of living in my parents house. particularly when they get back from europe next month. somewhere closer to the city, not in a limboland suburb out of the transport loop. a manageable place near the city, for access to the teaching course, and to the life of the city. the suburbs are shite.
some bigger questions loom in the near distance, they will be addressed in good time. i've put a few things in motion, and should have a few more pieces of the puzzle coming into place over the coming weeks.
i am about to give up my master of laws research. i have applied to enter a teaching diploma. despite completing a law degree with an excellent grade point average, and prior education and experience in biotechnology and information technology, not a single law firm has showed any interest in employing me since i was admitted as a barrister and solicitor. i'm an unemployed lawyer. fuck that.
i can teach with my eyes shut. with degrees in science and law, plus postgraduate computer science and law, and fifteen years of tutoring science, law, and computing, i ought to be able to find a job in a school somewhere. and having grown up in the country, i can survive working away from the bright lights of the big city ...
i'm planning to follow up basic teacher training with specialisation in gifted education. several reasons. as an asperger syndrome adult, i can relate to many of the issues and concerns of gifted students - social isolation, 'unusual' interests, extraordinary knowledge, boredom with standard curriculum, and so on. my son is gifted. and finally, when i'm tutoring, i give my students how to learn, or how to pull problems apart and piece together solutions - i try to make them independant learners. after all, they get no lasting benefit if they can't do things for themselves, and i'm not a textbook.
i am also looking for somewhere to live. enough of living in my parents house. particularly when they get back from europe next month. somewhere closer to the city, not in a limboland suburb out of the transport loop. a manageable place near the city, for access to the teaching course, and to the life of the city. the suburbs are shite.
some bigger questions loom in the near distance, they will be addressed in good time. i've put a few things in motion, and should have a few more pieces of the puzzle coming into place over the coming weeks.
rejuvenated
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this is called following ones gut instinct
I read your journal and then check the labels in my undies to make sure they dont read 'maelorin'.
I often wonder if I'm not much in the same boat as far as Aspergers syndrome... which Mindrapist did you goto to be assessed for such things ? I've always wanted a label so I can continue being myself with too much fear or reprisal. I'm in Adelaide too. Living with my parents too. High IQ too. Highly educated, (if you count the ammount of courses I've entered into, and never finished cos the lecturers 'couldn't relate to my learning style'), too.
I dream of building a nice little cloudcastle somewhere for interesting people... the gifted pariahs out there, such as yourself and perhaps even me.
Sheeeeet... with your legal background, my marketing,PR.Advertising,Design and Art skills and Rene Rivkins money... HAH...sweet... :D
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i spend six years getting my law degree, and invested an enormous amount of time and effort into the process and the idea of myself as a lawyer. and having had some experience in practice, i know i can do the job. more than do the job. but it seems that the fates don't think it is what i should be doing.
so after six years of law school, including a year getting qualified as a lawyer, and a further three years working on a masters thesis, i've given it all away. it took a long time to get the courage up to give it up. to let go.
the letting go took about 40 seconds.
about ten times longer to apply for the graduate diploma in education.
now, i'm back to waiting. again.
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i have also been involved in biomedical research, computer system administration, client training, remedial tutoring, web design and coding, crowd control (aka bouncing :), bartending, selling books door-to-door, and a few other fine efforts.
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my fave 'weird job' is my days as a 'hot cross bun crosser', I squirted the "X" onto 100 squillion buns over a few weeks
I'd love to be involved with a school for the 'gifted', nutty, exccentric, much like yourself and moi. While I think we may be on opposite ends of the pyschological stick, you seem about as extreme as me. :) (that of course is a good thing, a complientary skill/mind set)