Minor victory thread

PatrThom

PatrThom

Finished my amateur photo retouching project for Kati,. It's a 2.5x3.5 picture of her grandmother that's been in a tiny frame/the sun/the attic for ages, just trying to clean it up/blow it up so she can send a copy to her family.

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This is the second time I've tried my hand at something like this, and even though I didn't spend days on it, I think it came out pretty good for who it's for.

--Patrick
 
Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

Back to work after a MUCH-needed week of vacation time.

The time off was great, but there was family tension between my mom and sister *eyeroll*. Happy to be back at home.

Also, went for a run for the first time in 2 months - my time was not nearly as bad as I thought it would have been. Won't be too bad getting myself back into shape and losing weight, then.
 
Gared

Gared

I am in a phenomenally good mood today. Not entirely certain why. Could be because we finally got some snow, or because there's no one else at work besides me (we finally got some snow), or because the NWS says one of their prediction models looks like we might get a "severe" snow event on Wednesday (a foot or more in the greater Seattle metroplex). Regardless, I'm gonna ride this mood for everything it's worth.
 
Officer_Charon

Officer_Charon

Rocking a coffee high before getting into work today. Suck it, pussy-ass gas station coffee! You may be free, but you get what you pay for!

Someone's getting a citation in the next 10 minutes.
 
Covar

Covar

Logged into mint to check my fiances for the day, found out my employee stock purchase plan took action and bought some stock. So now I'm a business owner. :) Kind of.
 
Dirona

Dirona

So after being told right before Christmas that my school's policy is to provide no help whatsoever to those students seeking residencies outside our standard catchment area (in contrast do doing pretty much everything for those staying within it), and spending a decent portion of my "holiday" looking over forms and other paperwork for my national governing body around what is required for residencies and internships, and generally doing more work than the so-called "co-ordinator" at the school has for the previous 4 months... I have 8-10 jobs that I can apply for, and an interview in the process of being scheduled. I've talked with the person who oversees the student activities in that region, and she sees no foreseeable issues with getting that location set up as a residency site, and generally things are going smoothly, despite the apparent utter incompetence of the employee at my school. Woo!
 
Gusto

Gusto

I took a job today. Starting training next Thursday, and three weeks after that, I'll be Kevin, your BellTV customer service representative.
 
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makare

Gusto said:
I took a job today. Starting training next Thursday, and three weeks after that, I'll be Kevin, your BellTV customer service representative.
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Big ups for customer service!

(see various rant threads for how i really feel)
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

My mom called me earlier today to let me know that my acceptance into the McNair Scholar's program made it into the local paper back home.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

Staff member
Gusto said:
C'mon guys be happy for me. :(
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I am thrilled for you! So glad you found something else. Sure, customer service can be annoying, but in another way, jobs like that are great. You, sir, get to leave work at work. Enjoy employment, and bring us lots of fun work stories! :D
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

I'm happy for you, Gusto. I know what it feels like to finally land a job after a lot of looking.

As for me, I got 8 hours of sleep. I can't believe how much better I look and feel just for getting a decent night's sleep. I should try doing it more often.
 
Adam

Adam

So, took my final Finance course final exam last weekend. Went into it feeling great, averaging about 85% on assignments. Came out of it feeling like someone had run me over.

I had studied my ass off, doing practice exams repeatedly, going through the textbook. And yet, the exam itself was NOTHING LIKE the practice exam and NOTHING LIKE any questions from the text book. I nearly emailed the professor asking if they had sent the wrong exam because it was literally such a huge difference.

Now, I went into my last finance exam feeling like utter crap, and ended up with 97%, highest mark of the year according to the prof. I went into this one feeling like I was walking on clouds. I could do all of the practice questions in my sleep, nothing could hold me back.

Until I sat down and had the will for life sucked right out of me. The invigilator could tell I was stressed and actually brought me a bottle of water. How bad was it? With 10 minutes left, I had three questions still completely blank. Knowing that you get partial marks for writing anything, I wrote down some nonsense and prayed to the exam gods. I then went home and was in a deep, deep funk for the rest of the weekend. I knew I had failed, hugely. I promised to do cartwheels at work if I got over 60% because that would be stretching it.

Just got my marks, requiring 50% to pass the exam and 50% to pass the course.

54% on the exam, 64% on the course.

OH THANK JESUS FUCK.
 
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makare

Adammon said:
So, took my final Finance course final exam last weekend. Went into it feeling great, averaging about 85% on assignments. Came out of it feeling like someone had run me over.

I had studied my ass off, doing practice exams repeatedly, going through the textbook. And yet, the exam itself was NOTHING LIKE the practice exam and NOTHING LIKE any questions from the text book. I nearly emailed the professor asking if they had sent the wrong exam because it was literally such a huge difference.

Now, I went into my last finance exam feeling like utter crap, and ended up with 97%, highest mark of the year according to the prof. I went into this one feeling like I was walking on clouds. I could do all of the practice questions in my sleep, nothing could hold me back.

Until I sat down and had the will for life sucked right out of me. The invigilator could tell I was stressed and actually brought me a bottle of water. How bad was it? With 10 minutes left, I had three questions still completely blank. Knowing that you get partial marks for writing anything, I wrote down some nonsense and prayed to the exam gods. I then went home and was in a deep, deep funk for the rest of the weekend. I knew I had failed, hugely. I promised to do cartwheels at work if I got over 60% because that would be stretching it.

Just got my marks, requiring 50% to pass the exam and 50% to pass the course.

54% on the exam, 64% on the course.

OH THANK JESUS FUCK.
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I am not at all trying to make this about me but man that is EXACTLY what law school exams are like. Except the test is the whole grade for us.

Glad you passed. Do the cartwheels... post video.
 
Adam

Adam

makare said:
I am not at all trying to make this about me but man that is EXACTLY what law school exams are like. Except the test is the whole grade for us.

Glad you passed. Do the cartwheels... post video.
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I'm doing it correspondence too so it's not like I can hit up the prof after class for some extra ideas. And they don't email you with "hey this will be on the exam". If she asks, I would tell her that the practice not-exam made the exam harder than it needed to be. And they probably should it questions from the book on the exam and not last course questions. But I digress. I passed.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Did you run the whole cycle from single-user mode? Doing the quick test, running it in the GUI, or running only one pass will not give you the whole picture.

Also, there is still the possibility that it was not your RAM (or that your RAM may just have needed to be reseated).

--Patrick
 
Adam

Adam

So, the bank I work for is trying to do some financial literacy for youths, helping them understand concepts like interest, the difference between debit cards and credit cards, etc. One of our umbrella corps has teamed up with a media company to do a Money Guru web spot. . Basically they need someone:

Well educated in the financial world
Comfortable in front of a camera
Well spoken, with a health dose of natural charm
Able to clearly explain complicated concepts in simple terms
Available for 5 months of work for 10 high visibility web media spots

It's a paid position and casting interviews started today. And I was shortlisted, hahahah. My first interview with the creative director is in 45 minutes.
 
Adam

Adam

Ok, it went really, really well. But now I need to submit a video to them before the end of Friday telling their clients a little about myself.

The full deal is

- a photoshoot and movie training in early February
- I do a weekly webvideo responding to questions submitted on a branded facebook page (10 total)
- at the end of the project, they put together a "Til Debt do us Part" kind of deal, with a big cash giveaway to one lucky winner who gets to work with me to get their finances in order.

They asked questions like "Are you comfortable with the exposure and scrunity that will come with this?" "Have you done any kind of movie work before?" "What's your social media experience?" And they were pretty impressed with my answers. This could be a great thing, or a terrible, horrible, devestating thing. We shall see!
 
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