What Made You Feel Good Today

[Bizkets is Drunk?]

I valve bounced the sh*t out of mine monday morning and now the surging and stalling has stopped. Valve bounce for the win!!!!

Or it will blow up on this weekends cruise ill have to wait and see.

[Mrs Jeturbo]

Did an exam this morning ... If I pass and do well enough I am hoping to get a letter of offer for my degree.

I've contemplated what I want to do for a living for almost ten years and studied things and done stuff but I keep coming back to this one thing.... Hopefully I get accepted coz I think I did well which mmfg .... And this is the first time I actually care if I get accepted and could set me up for the rest of my life ...!

Crossing my fingers atm

I hate waiting

[Never had any say Panda]

Good luck.

What degree you going for?

[Mrs Jeturbo]

Too long to write the name since I've hd a few wines lol

But basically a double degree in building and construction + the remaining units to do project management for construction

Large scale construction specifically

Either commercial or industrial

Pooing my knickers lol

Edited 20/05/15 10:21 AM by Princess Whinginator

[Never had any say Panda]

Like a bachelor's degree?

Just Googled it. Wow. Didn't even know that existed.

Actually looking at the careers listed on the website. Explains a bunch of people I have worked with over the years. Always wondered what degrees those people might have.

Don't be a quantity surveyor fluff.

Just don't.

[Ralph Wiggum]

I thought you wanted to be a paramedic and then a forensic psychologist?

[stubbietubbie]

Pooing my knickers lol

You really have to stop eating them.

[Mrs Jeturbo]

Nah I don't wanna be that panda

I wanna be a builder/ site foreman early on, then progress to project management stuff

Ralph

I have always enjoyed forensic paychology,,, and have a passion, unfortunately the world is a karnt and I don't financially have 8 years to study psychology then psychiatry and specialise in it ....

And I got accepted into pramedics course, but as u of all people may understand, I can't be away from my baby because I am on night or arvo shift... And I certainly don't wanna loose my years with me family for any career

Is all about balance

I got a step up through my work at this

And having a look I actually applied for the same course 2 years ago just before I fell pregnant with hudo but never did it due to circumstance and I didn't meet the requirements anyway....

I'm just about to finish a 2 year full time course in 6 months just so I can qualify for this, not its not what j ever saw myself doing, but when I Match it with my life it makes sense, all the things I've ever been curious about, the schedule, the requirements of a person, the job opportunities, the remuneration both small scale and large, it all just fits.

Career has been something I've struggled with since before I left high school

Family pressured me into doing something amazing because of my grades, at the time my coaches told me to focus on basketball and my career in that, and I myself never even knew what I wanted... And tbh I still entirely don't, but all u can do is be passionate about something and give it all, if it works out then that's great, if it doesn't, then u move on and make the best of it, but I don't wanna spend the rest of my life being in a job I hate, high paying or not, there's a lot to be said about happiness at work, tradesman and worksite suicide rates will confirm that, and if it means I qualify for thirty jobs over my 50 years of working life then so be it, but I'll be laughing at the asshole at his desk whinging about his job flat out and hating his own life.

[Never had any say Panda]

Personally without starting a building trade I think you are going about it the wrong way.

Starting as a junior project manager in a cadet/student position would seem the logical first step for me. Gives you the chance to shadow someone and start networking with all the different fields early (that networking will be more important than however hard you work in your career).

Builder/site foreman is too small and without a trade, or years under your belt. Of course this depends on the size of the site...... you need to always remember that a good project manager doesn't just oversee construction. We are on the books within a week after the money people get a tingle in their pants.

I don't want to be a bastard and say this.. but a degree doesn't mean jack sh*t. 90% of the jobs you are talking about is attitude, 8% is bullsh*t and 2% is knowledge.

Not saying you can't throw down with the blokes but it's not about throwing down all the time. I always remember one bloke I worked under who said that what we did was like acting. We played the role that best suited the situation to ensure the play had the outcome we wanted.

[Mrs Jeturbo]

Panda that's exactly what I'm doing

You have to understand that on most commercial jobs in Adelaide the builder is the Pm and the pM is the builder ....

I don't want your job panda in that repect, not even close .... I don't wanna be a desk jokey pm .... On big jobs , you guys are the brains, but I can't do that kind of work full time ...Not in the slightest.... I wanna be a pm but in the role frame of the pms I know in Adelaide .... Who are more builders then pms, hence Id rather start as a builder first

I am actually starting with shadowing my project manager at kennards, he has thirteen projects on atm and I am working with him and I want to do exactly what he does essentially ... As such he has advised that in the small Adelaide market this is the way to proceed while I am working with him.

Due to the fact jet has worked on the biggest construction Jobs in Adelaide and also is best mates with the vice president of the biggest independent commercial building company here and he has advised the same pathways along with work place experience which I am getting ... I am comfy in my decision

Edited 20/05/15 11:24 AM by Princess Whinginator