Welcome to my very first post university post and an update to what I have been doing these past few weeks since I finished my exams. I can't believe I was already bored less than 24 hours after my last exam and I guess it took quite a while for me to realise that it was finally over and I was now a free spirit. I have done my share of partying and my equal share of drinking and I now feel it is time to take the back seat and map the way forward. My results are not yet out, which is most annoying as any plan that I make hinges on how good a degree I am going to get, that said it does not mean that I have not started thinking of the next step.
I have been making a number of applications and sometimes I get really positive responses only to be held up by the visa and results issues. It has to be after the 18th of July before I can apply for my post study visa so that I satisfy the home office requirement for maintenance funds. The plan is to make as many applications till then and have interviews lined up so that I am good to go when the visa comes out. That is as far as it goes I guess applications wise, there is not much I can do without the residence visa.
Part time work wise I have just been going to my two jobs in the evenings and the one over the weeks. I have also made my first step towards being a DJ by purchasing a Numark Total Controller and I have been teaching myself how to work it together with the Traktor 3 software. I can say I am getting quite into it and its only a matter of time before I look for my very first gig, will try to tag along with one of my friends when he does his gigs. I have always had a passion for music, been a collector for as long as I can remember and I am sure my brothers influenced me a lot as far as loving music is concerned. I have also started reading on SCADA and PLC's as well as teaching myself Citect SCADA software in preparation for my future career as a control systems engineer, funny to some people I know but I know exactly where I want to be and I am on my way there.
My part time jobs have been keeping me a bit occupied but I have recently discovered something about me, I love sleeping, maybe it is because I do not have something else worthwhile to do (not perfectly true though because I can count on both hands the number of self improvement projects I can undertake) but that understatement will suffice for now. Due to the nature of my part time jobs( the first one is as a roadie for a mobile disco company and the second a very flexible evening cleaning job) I tend to keep very late nights and do not get to turn in until around 3am or even later. The past couple of days I have been honing my IT skills by trying to get my desktop computer working again as I have just realised I need XP service pack 2 for me to be able to run the Simatic S7 software. It has now taken me the better part of 2 days just to reinstall the operating system and now the SP and I am still not where I want to be, and that is running the Siemens programming software. That is the very reason why I am still up and typing the latest post to my blog now at 00:46 while the SP2 installs.
My best friend went down to England to visit his girlfriend and we have been in constant touch since I dropped him off at the airport on Saturday morning. I was speaking to him just this evening because there is stuff he needed me to sort out for him, some documents he needs down there. I also had a chat with his girlfriend who is not the least impressed by my mate's antics and his attitude towards his ex, whom he speaks to quite a lot so much as to incense the missus. I talked to him and tried to make him understand how it must make her feel that he gives the ex so much attention, I do not want them to break up coz they are good for each other, I just have to make him realise that she is a good girl and deserves to be treated better. Well I am a classic example of how an ex can lead to the breakdown of your relationship. I hate whoever invented text messaging with a passion coz of some stupid texts I ended up losing someone I truly loved and I won't even lie that I have moved past her.
Anyway I think I have enough material to post this one, oh I am soon to start another blog which will touch on my time as a recent graduate, the job search and which will hopefully continue until my early days and months as a newly employed graduate. As is tradition I have to sign out with a few words of wisdom, "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved'- the pig was 'committed'. Adios.
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