h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Spent a fun weekend in the country. Well mostly in the country. Mr. Emee helped a friend cut down trees. He's putting in a deer farm and needed to clear some land for the fence row for the pens. Mr. Emee has a chainsaw and loves to use it. Peanut and I drove to Stillwater to see Mr. Emee's sister for a little while on Saturday & then drove back in time for hickory smoked chicken dinner. When we got back to the house on Sunday, had a Dear Emee letter from a company I've applied to for jobs - I think nine of them in total. They're moving about 500 or so to where I live & thought it would be a good opportunity. "I wouldn't be a freemason now if you went down on your lousy, stinking knees and begged me!"

I have a feeling I didn't get an interview because of the English degree in my undergrad. I'm really going to have to suck it up and get an MBA with accounting focus or just accept that this is as far up the ladder as I'm going to get. *sigh* This really isn't what I want to do with my life though. Pity I don't know what what I *do* want to do with my life... Should hear sometime this week about the interview from last week. Enough whining. It's time for lunch.

Oooh, sorry to hear about the job.

Speaking of continuing education (aka things could be worse)...

A buddy of mine just got some extremely crappy news... He's a professional engineer (licensed by the state). He's had his PE stamp for 5 years now. Part of the requirement for it is 30 hours of continuing education each year for the first ten (dropping to 15 hrs after). He's dutifully turned in his paperwork and fees each year listing the classes his company has had him take. Apparently the state did a recent audit and he and many others found that the classes they had taken were too job specific to count as continuing education. So he'll have to make up for 4 years of this... 120 hours... that's practically a new degree. He's already got a Bachelors and Masters. It will be easier for him (because of some stipulation in the requirements) to get a second degree. That way he'll only need about 80 hours.

Ok... so he goes and registers for classes. He discovers that even though he has his degrees in hand he doesn't get credit for any classes more than 8 years old. In other words even though he has taken post graduate level calculus and analytical geometry classes he'll have to retake precalculus. He also has to retake English composition 2. He doesn't have to take the classes before those because his original SAT scores place him at that level.


Oh... and while he's doing all that classwork and working 50+ hours a week they'll be adding on another 30 hours each year until he's caught up.

OMG. That really does rank up there in the crappy news department. Some of the unis up here won't recognize any coursework more than 5 years old for undergrad when you're transferring but will take much older stuff when you're applying for post grad and have completed a degree or two. 120 hours - that's more hours than my brother had to put in for his JD - think it was 98 hours. And what are they thinking? Math & composition are two things that certainly haven't changed in the last oh... well several years at least. Can he appeal to the dean of the department? Find a different uni? What about CLEP? I don't remember what the cost is for the tests, but it's certainly cheaper than the per credit hour cost. That's how I got out of comp class & intro to literature.

He's got sympathy from the school... they're working with him every way they can (incuding one teacher who will not be checking his attendence... just his tests. He's been given the all of the class assignments and tests already).

That's good that they won't require him to actually be there at least. Still the whole situation is FUBAR. to him.

Hey.... Congrats on the job!

Try to keep a straight face when the person showing you around the place says, "We do things a bit differently around here." They always say that, but they never really do.

(I was late back to WJH and I didn't want to come back in there after Spankmunki's sadness.)

Oh I haven't gotten into WJH yet. And thanks!