Job updates...and I am still alive
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Next time you go to Starbucks, look carefully at your Barista...he might have a PhD.
Two of my co-workers are such characters -- professionals with work experience and education, but working at Starbucks because they could not find a job in Canada, with the discriminating Canadian system. They were told that they lack "Canadian experience".
This makes me so sad. I keep on remembering that gentle cabbie who drove me home who told me he used to be a civil engineer in his native country. And now, driving cabs in Canada, he is not earning enough to support his family, and must put up with drunken young adults on Friday nights.
Well, I am happy to say that I will be quitting Starbucks for good at the end of next week. It has been an insane week, balancing a full time job with part time shifts. I knew that it was going to be depressing, but after doing a 8am-5pm at the office and then heading over to do a 5:30-10:30pm shift, I really wanted to beat myself up, but for the lack of energy. Not to mention that I have non-existent weekends. What was I thinking?! I don't need three jobs! What I need is a life!
Outlook for the next two weeks...no days off until June 15th, Convocation Day. That is also the week that I start taking formal Japanese language lessons! I'm so excited -- I've wanted to take lessons for a couple of years now, and it's finally happening.
Speaking of Japanese, I scanned in a new book.
more here.
On a side note...I happened to access my blog on Internet Explorer the other day and was aghast at how my borders don't show up properly. Has anyone else noticed this? I usually use Safari or Firefox as my internet browser, and I've never thought that there's a problem with my page layout...but apparently there is. Silly computers! Why can't they all agree?!
Two of my co-workers are such characters -- professionals with work experience and education, but working at Starbucks because they could not find a job in Canada, with the discriminating Canadian system. They were told that they lack "Canadian experience".
This makes me so sad. I keep on remembering that gentle cabbie who drove me home who told me he used to be a civil engineer in his native country. And now, driving cabs in Canada, he is not earning enough to support his family, and must put up with drunken young adults on Friday nights.
Well, I am happy to say that I will be quitting Starbucks for good at the end of next week. It has been an insane week, balancing a full time job with part time shifts. I knew that it was going to be depressing, but after doing a 8am-5pm at the office and then heading over to do a 5:30-10:30pm shift, I really wanted to beat myself up, but for the lack of energy. Not to mention that I have non-existent weekends. What was I thinking?! I don't need three jobs! What I need is a life!
Outlook for the next two weeks...no days off until June 15th, Convocation Day. That is also the week that I start taking formal Japanese language lessons! I'm so excited -- I've wanted to take lessons for a couple of years now, and it's finally happening.
Speaking of Japanese, I scanned in a new book.
more here.
On a side note...I happened to access my blog on Internet Explorer the other day and was aghast at how my borders don't show up properly. Has anyone else noticed this? I usually use Safari or Firefox as my internet browser, and I've never thought that there's a problem with my page layout...but apparently there is. Silly computers! Why can't they all agree?!
posted by elisabetha at 7:06 PM
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It must be a lot of fun to be a landscape architect. Did you go to Guelph for landscape architecture? In high school my dream was to become an architect. I used two years to prepare for my portfolio and I applied Waterloo's architecture program. But I did not get accepted, even with a mid 90s average. Maybe it's because of the interview... Eventually I went to UT's engineering science program.. Regret? Yes! But I have to keep going. Life goes on.
The lack of "Canadian experience" argument just infuriates me. How can anybody get work experience if nobody is willing to give them a chance.
I was horrified the first year that my husband taught English as a Second Language during summer school: One of his student was a doctor in Nigeria, but he was unable to get his qualifications recognised here. As a result, he was getting his high school degree in order to get into a technical program that would result in a job in a hospital. During the evenings, he was working as a taxi driver, as well as working at Swiss Chalet during the weekends. Sadly, this is just one of many newcomers experience. And yet, he kept smiling.
I try not to look at my blog in other web browsers. It is depressing when you spend all that time setting up everything carefully. I'm using netscape.
Where are you taking Japanese language lessons? I used to speak a bit when I worked in tourism for Niagara Falls. I am happy that my new job is next door to the Japanese Cultural Centre.
I hate that crap about people not have Canadian experience. I think it's just an excuse most of the time!!!
Where did you buy this book from? NICE BOOK!!!
IE6 has a few bugs in it that causes properly designed sites for Firefox/Safari to look weird. It does look fine in IE7 so nothing to worry about.
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