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Post by Humph on Nov 4, 2021 9:37:57 GMT
I guess most of us at some time or another have questioned our path in life. Quite an interesting article here. All very well of course if you’re not relied on by others to provide. www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59132672 |
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Post by EspadaIII on Nov 4, 2021 14:06:48 GMT
I would have loved to be a classic car restorer but that was never going to happen.
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Post by Humph on Nov 4, 2021 15:03:26 GMT
I’d quite like a remote log cabin in Canada and a pet bear.
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Post by bpg on Nov 4, 2021 15:44:37 GMT
My eldest is doing an apprenticeship here in Germany to become a landscape gardener. He's not an academic in the usual sense though he really is getting to grips with German and Latin as part of his coursework. He loves it.
4 weeks working on various projects for customers and two weeks classroom based.
He knew he didn't want to work in an office or have anything to do with IT. He did three weeks for free with a local company who have taken him on, pay him an increasing salary and pay for his college course over three years. At the end of it he'll become a supervisor, get his own team and the process will start again.
I'm just happy he's found something he enjoys.
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Post by Humph on Nov 4, 2021 16:17:37 GMT
Good for him. I think that’s great. A Dutch friend of mine ( now retired ) started in life as a gardener. Went on to teach those skills at an FE college and ended up eventually as college principal.
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Post by WDB on Nov 4, 2021 16:38:18 GMT
I think I may have mentioned MrsB1’s reaction when I tentatively mooted the idea of a downshift, perhaps once I pass 55 and can flex my pension options a little. Actually, with three years of dual student costs still to find, she was probably right. It’s hard to see my life being less Aeron and more fresh air for quite some time yet.
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Post by WDB on Nov 4, 2021 16:53:08 GMT
…getting to grips with German and Latin as part of his coursework. I came across this phrase yesterday in our German coursebook: …in dem mysteriöse Weise im Museum aufgetauchten Gemälde… which translates approximately as ‘in the having-mysteriously-appeared-in-the-museum painting’ and which looks awfully like a Latin ablative absolute. Not sure if those are important in landscape gardening. 🤓 |
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Post by bpg on Nov 4, 2021 19:22:39 GMT
Not that advanced for my lad. Biology is biology, plants have Latin names regardless of your first language. His coursework is, naturally, in German.
What is especially pleasing is to see he has really thrown himself in there and immersed himself with the group he works with even down to the pranks they occasionally play on one another.
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