Not in a cheerful mood...
May. 4th, 2006 12:39 pmVariable day so far with generally melacholy undertones.
For the past 2 1/2 years I have had a good idea of what I was doing for the next ~6 months. Now it is rapidly starting to not be the case.
Argh...
Someone got uses/employment for a used astronomer with crap publication record?
What do I want to do?
What do we want to do?
Not helped by the fact that most good paying potential mining geology jobs for Z involve 3 weeks in the field and 1 week home... How long can we survive that? Can we put up for it for a couple of years and then move onto something else or is that the future?
How do children fit into this? They are on the books for attempted turn up sometime in the next 5-10 years. Actually they are supposed to be thought about in more detail when hit 30, but since that comes knocking next year...
More argh...
Want to come back to NZ. Straight like it better than Aussie. Aussie pays better, with better working conditions, but their heath, social welfare and general governmental conditions seem worse.
So, is it time to start getting longer term employment in NZ established?
Time to move sideways?
Unfortunately, out of synch with the NZ MetService meterologist training program. They just took their intake this year, and they only offer the course work through Vic in alternate years. Is it worth filling in time until 2008, then taking 2 years to train up as a meterologist in Wellington? How rusty is my maths for that? How much does that muck up potential timetables? Am mad enough to have sent an enquiry to them just in case...
And all this stressing is also procrastinating on the actual work I should be doing. Time to sit in a patch of sunlight, eat lunch, destress, sew a little, then stack some lines and plot up excitation potentials and log(gf) values.
For the past 2 1/2 years I have had a good idea of what I was doing for the next ~6 months. Now it is rapidly starting to not be the case.
Argh...
Someone got uses/employment for a used astronomer with crap publication record?
What do I want to do?
What do we want to do?
Not helped by the fact that most good paying potential mining geology jobs for Z involve 3 weeks in the field and 1 week home... How long can we survive that? Can we put up for it for a couple of years and then move onto something else or is that the future?
How do children fit into this? They are on the books for attempted turn up sometime in the next 5-10 years. Actually they are supposed to be thought about in more detail when hit 30, but since that comes knocking next year...
More argh...
Want to come back to NZ. Straight like it better than Aussie. Aussie pays better, with better working conditions, but their heath, social welfare and general governmental conditions seem worse.
So, is it time to start getting longer term employment in NZ established?
Time to move sideways?
Unfortunately, out of synch with the NZ MetService meterologist training program. They just took their intake this year, and they only offer the course work through Vic in alternate years. Is it worth filling in time until 2008, then taking 2 years to train up as a meterologist in Wellington? How rusty is my maths for that? How much does that muck up potential timetables? Am mad enough to have sent an enquiry to them just in case...
And all this stressing is also procrastinating on the actual work I should be doing. Time to sit in a patch of sunlight, eat lunch, destress, sew a little, then stack some lines and plot up excitation potentials and log(gf) values.