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[sherlock2040]

Well, I've ordered my birthday present (Russian Holmes). Using PayPal wasn't as complicated as I thought it was going to be. I'm justifying the price because I deserved to spoil myself every now and then :-). Fair enough it's an unnecessary expense really, but after being screwed around by Powergen and as a result it looks like going to university

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[skylockee]

Guh! Where did you order the Russian Holmes dvds?

Oh~ And your History and English grades are amazing. :D I did well in those subjects, but I really shone in my Law classes.

[sherlock2040]

From an Online Finnish shop - http://www.ruslania.com/language-1/entity-3/context-161/details-334.html

My History & English grades may have been gone, but it was 2002 and unfortunately they don't count any more.

[skylockee]

Ahh, I see. Damn. Region 5. *shakes fist* I need a Region 1 dvd. *continues search*

Oh, that's horrible. D: I'm a little fuzzy on how grades and schooling works in the UK, so it's probably either a lot worse, or not as bad as I'm imagining. XD

[sherlock2040]

sadly region 5 PAL is all you can get.

Well the curriculum has changed so much since I did my exams four years ago that I hardly recognised the stuff my brother was learning. He did his GCSEs last year. My results are good, but it's one of those things.

[cuelight]

As long as you're willing to put in the work (which I know you are) then the Open University might be good. Even if it's just for a year. It's a recognized degree and you still get to work in the evenings. You just have meetings once a week if I remember correctly. Take a look.

Especially lately I've been thinking I've made the wrong choices academically.

Actually lately I've been getting bored with theatre. Or at least the theatre that I always seem to be doing. Hammering corks into bottles of fake wine. Wow - that really tests the skills I have in stage management.

[sherlock2040]

I decided last night I could always send in my application, jump through the hoops and then see what the finance stuff is like. If it's not workable financially then I'll explore the OU.

I seem to go through a phase around March where I'm convinced I made the wrong choice by not at least having one academic qualification, and then I remember how much I hated studying for my GCSEs and smile happily thinking about my brother and his A Levels.

Perhaps you should look at another branch of theatre. At ALRA I came to the conclusion that stage management, whilst a skilled job, tends to be full of little things (mostly being cruel to the followspots).

All the skilled areas of stage management (DSM, Production Manager) are very difficult to get a foot in because the incredible amount of snobbery amongst some of the older generation. I mean if you think about, during a technical the stage manager is a bit like a road worker they just direct the traffic whilst the programmer, sound ops, electricians do all the complicated stuff.

[spikejem]

Oh, I know how you feel. I'm also frustrated by people who think that academia is the end-all and be-all of existence. The stupidest man I ever met was a PhD; the wisest woman I ever met dropped out of high school.

By the time I completed my masters' thesis, I was so thoroughly disgusted by academia, that I gave up my field (music) for years, choosing instead to work in my current field of healthcare, where I feel, finally, that I am serving humanity.

Screw academic qualifications; I've read enough of your posts here and elsewhere to know you've got brains and wit. Follow your bliss, and be of service. It sounds like you're already trying to do that.

Sorry, I'm ranting here ... big hug, in any case.

[sherlock2040]

Thank you for your very kind comments :-)

I enjoy being an electrician and strangely I've had more intelligent conversations in the crew room at work than when I was at college. So I know what you mean about the stupidest & wisest people you've met.

*returns hugs*