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Aug. 4th, 2010 07:16 amHad a bunch of places to go yesterday.
Unfortunately, Mom was unable to go to the bank yesterday. (I should also mention that she told me beforehand that $40 is too much for Mrs. Schwartz to pay me for mowing her lawn. She told me to decline payment if I ever mow for her again.)
Missed an opportunity to get some driving practice in, but I did bring volume 1 of Japanese in Mangaland with me.
First thing we had to do was get my watch battery repaired. Mom knew of two jewelers near Dr. Perret's office. The first one was already out of business. The second one was open, but the person who was about to fix my watch up was afraid of damaging something inside it. He told me that someone with more experience would be in the next day from 12 to 9. (It also turns out that Mom got the wrong kind of battery for my watch.)
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My whole session with Dr. Perret this month was taken up by why I had to continue going to Dowling after having finished Suffolk.
It's no secret that those who spend more time going to college get further ahead than those who don't go for as long (if at all). For half the past week, though, I've been wangsting over the fact that Dad was able to start his own cabinet-building business despite never having gone to college, and on top of that, when I did go to Dowling, I had to take a minimum of four classes each semester (a policy set up by insurance companies so that you never have time to do stuff that requires a certain amount of focus when you want to be doing so).
The way I saw it, if Dad was able to set up shop without ever spending a minute in college, then all I should need to get into a translation company would be a fluent knowledge of the Japanese language. Right? So, even though a bachelor's degree will only be an advantage, was it really necessary to spend the additional two and a half years at Dowling?
Mom had told me the day before that in Dad's case, he wasn't able to start his own business until I was born. Until then, the stuff he had been doing was quite miserable, stuff I would probably never last a week at. When I brought this up with Dr. Perret, he said that people who run dubbing companies are looking for credentials, proof that you can do the job well enough for them.
As for the four-class policy... Well, this is the same reason why most jobs require one work eight hours a day, five days a week. Furthermore, Dr. Perret told me that he literally didn't have time for hobbies when he went to graduate school. For five years, he had to dedicate 13-14 hours a day to his schoolwork.
This all shows that I made the right decision by just ending my college career after Dowling, and also reinforces my decision never to have kids (which is a full-time job in and of itself).
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Upon coming home, Mom went to a thrift store called Savers to buy Marie a lamp. This happened to be in the same parking lot as GameStop, and I already had my Nintendo DS and a few of my Pokemon games on me. Just to get things over with, I decided to use that opportunity to trade the Shaymin I downloaded onto Pearl over to Diamond for a Stunky, and then trade everything I had on Diamond onto SoulSilver.
( Read more... )
After I met Mom back in the car, she suggested that I apply for a position at GameStop. I told her that Melissa suggested the same thing when me and Megan met her at DDI. However, when she asked if I could talk about the games that they sell, I told her that that might be a problem. I've never played anything on any current consoles, except for five games on the Nintendo DS (not counting different versions of the same Pokemon games).
(But then again, not that many people ever play a ton of games on any given console, so yeah.)
Unfortunately, Mom was unable to go to the bank yesterday. (I should also mention that she told me beforehand that $40 is too much for Mrs. Schwartz to pay me for mowing her lawn. She told me to decline payment if I ever mow for her again.)
Missed an opportunity to get some driving practice in, but I did bring volume 1 of Japanese in Mangaland with me.
First thing we had to do was get my watch battery repaired. Mom knew of two jewelers near Dr. Perret's office. The first one was already out of business. The second one was open, but the person who was about to fix my watch up was afraid of damaging something inside it. He told me that someone with more experience would be in the next day from 12 to 9. (It also turns out that Mom got the wrong kind of battery for my watch.)
-----
My whole session with Dr. Perret this month was taken up by why I had to continue going to Dowling after having finished Suffolk.
It's no secret that those who spend more time going to college get further ahead than those who don't go for as long (if at all). For half the past week, though, I've been wangsting over the fact that Dad was able to start his own cabinet-building business despite never having gone to college, and on top of that, when I did go to Dowling, I had to take a minimum of four classes each semester (a policy set up by insurance companies so that you never have time to do stuff that requires a certain amount of focus when you want to be doing so).
The way I saw it, if Dad was able to set up shop without ever spending a minute in college, then all I should need to get into a translation company would be a fluent knowledge of the Japanese language. Right? So, even though a bachelor's degree will only be an advantage, was it really necessary to spend the additional two and a half years at Dowling?
Mom had told me the day before that in Dad's case, he wasn't able to start his own business until I was born. Until then, the stuff he had been doing was quite miserable, stuff I would probably never last a week at. When I brought this up with Dr. Perret, he said that people who run dubbing companies are looking for credentials, proof that you can do the job well enough for them.
As for the four-class policy... Well, this is the same reason why most jobs require one work eight hours a day, five days a week. Furthermore, Dr. Perret told me that he literally didn't have time for hobbies when he went to graduate school. For five years, he had to dedicate 13-14 hours a day to his schoolwork.
This all shows that I made the right decision by just ending my college career after Dowling, and also reinforces my decision never to have kids (which is a full-time job in and of itself).
-----
Upon coming home, Mom went to a thrift store called Savers to buy Marie a lamp. This happened to be in the same parking lot as GameStop, and I already had my Nintendo DS and a few of my Pokemon games on me. Just to get things over with, I decided to use that opportunity to trade the Shaymin I downloaded onto Pearl over to Diamond for a Stunky, and then trade everything I had on Diamond onto SoulSilver.
( Read more... )
After I met Mom back in the car, she suggested that I apply for a position at GameStop. I told her that Melissa suggested the same thing when me and Megan met her at DDI. However, when she asked if I could talk about the games that they sell, I told her that that might be a problem. I've never played anything on any current consoles, except for five games on the Nintendo DS (not counting different versions of the same Pokemon games).
(But then again, not that many people ever play a ton of games on any given console, so yeah.)