careers gone by..

In each of the three (four if you count a paper route) jobs I have had some , how shall I put it... "interesting" experiences. Most of these had to do with the manager but not all of the them.

The first job I had was a paper route which I started when I was around 10 years old. It started out as one route, 2 times a week and had to be delivered before 6:00 pm. This then became three routes, three times a week. Eventually, we got rid of the first route but continued to the the other two for a while longer. The total time I had that job was 7 years. I hated it so much but couldn't get rid of it because I didn't have another job. One day, I think it was on Halloween, I was supposed to deliver the papers right after I got home from school. Instead, because I really didn't want to do them, I put those papers in a bag and hid them in the house. They were eventually discovered by my parents and I got in trouble for it.. woops!

My second job was at the fast-food restaurant, A&W. Not one of my best ideas I've had in my life. I spent a total of one and a half years there and after the first month or so it became hell on Earth for me. I was called in at least once a week, every week because someone had left or was "sick." My first manager there was a guy named Tom. He was a really good manager and an easy going guy. He left about 6 months or so after I started and was replaced by another guy whom I don't feel like naming. I was really sick one time and my mother called to tell them I couldn't work because I was too sick. Not only that, but if I did work I would have contaminated everything I touched. Anyways, my mom called and the manager said to her, "Well he better get his butt in here anyways!" To my mother!!!! I quit that job soon after and bid that place adue.

My third job was at the movie theatre "Famous Players." not much to tell there because I lafter after about 2 months to get a better job. The manager wasn't very nice either and the assistant manager liked to through her power around. :P

My fourth job was at "Falcon Scaffolding and Ladders." It was a pretty good job that paid well and had a great assortment of people. Not only that, but I worked with two of my really good friends. I worked 3:30 pm to 1:30 am, Monday to Thursday. Basically I woke up at around 12-1, got ready for work, worked, went home, slept and so on. It was basically grunt work but it wasn't too bad and I made quite a bit from it.

Hopefully my next job will be better than the ones I have had up until now. I think it will be because most of the delinquints don't have an education and can't apply for the jobs.

Thats all from me for now. Ciao

El' Capitano Morgano

Word (Ac)count 540

ZZZZZZzzzzZZZZZZ

Well mid-terms are basically done, finally! I hope did fairly well. The Materials mid-term was a pleasant surprise as it was one of the easier of the mid-terms. I think I speak for everyone when I say that it is nice to get a good night's sleep finally. I was so tired during mid-term week so I’m surprised I did well. With the approach of All Hallows Eve, I am running around like a chickenless head (I do mean headless chicken but it sounds funny if you interchange the two...anyways...) trying to get my costume ready before any party or something. So that mixed with homework virtually every night is somewhat stressful. I guess I would have been better off if I had done some on the weekend... woops (*shifty eyes). For some reason I just can't get motivated enough on the weekend to do anything lately. I usually sit on my rear and do nothing. I guess after a full week of classes and homework I just have to do something to relax. Hopefully everyone else isn't being as lazy as I am on the weekends. On the school side of my life (in class I mean) things are going pretty smoothly. Materials is still as hard as usual, physics and math are going fairly well. Same with Statics and Tech Comm. Computer Applications is really easy now that we've started into PowerPoint (hurray!) and drafting is really interesting because we are going into the 3-D stuff. I really want to get back into AutoCAD because my writing is really messy and I hate using that stupid lettering guide :P.

That’s about it from me for now I guess. I'm starting to feel a bit hungry so I better finish this and get some food inside myself before I starve.

Ciao for now,
Morgan

Word Count (Olaf) 308

mmmm turkey...

Well I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving this weekend. I for one sure did. My weekend consisted of lying around all day mostly and doing some homework as well. I did help out with cleaning the house and mowing the lawn. Well, more like I was forced to do it. I had another driving lesson on Sunday. It went pretty well I think. I didn't scare the crap out of the instructor and managed to stay on the road. Hopefully I can get my N soon so that I can finally drive on my own. As for school right now, things are going pretty well in my opinion. We wrote the Math mid-term which I for one thought it was pretty easy. Hopefully everyone else found it wasn't too bad.

Materials is over with too. WHEW! I was totally crapping my pants about that one. Turns out it wasn't too bad and I think I did fairly well on it.

Last night I went all out and finished 3 out of the 4 assignments I have to finish before I'm completely caught up. WOOOOO!!! Finally I can get back to a normal(ish) pace again.

The only real hard mid-term left is statics :O. I for one am not too confident about it. Of course you never know until you get to it I guess.

Good Luck too you all. Hopefully this is enough words.....nope.

I just remembered something else to talk about! Drafting. Didn't get much time to work on the current assignment so it looks like I'll have to go in one of these days and pound it out. Too busy studying for the materials mid-term. If anyone else needs to do the same thing maybe sometime we can all get together at lunch or something and get er' done.

Computer Applications is getting kind of interesting. We made a webpage with links and things like that in word. Thought that was kind of cool.

Well, I'm finally past the 300 word minimum so I think I'll wrap it up now. Once again good luck to everyone on the mid-terms.

ciao,
Morgan

Word Count [Dooku (hahah good ol' Star Wars)] 362

Getting back

Well after being sick for 4 days I’m back and am trying to get back into the swing of things. It's still taking quite a bit of time to get caught up but I’m slowly but surely getting there. After getting back I had close to 11 assignments to get done.

Well it's getting close to mid-terms now and I bet everyone is feeling the pressure. Luckily for us, most of the exams are spaced out enough so that we have proper time to study. Our first one, Applications of engineering principles (better known as physics) is tomorrow. It shouldn't be too hard but you never know.

Everyone seems to be getting along better each day and helping each other out. We should get some studying groups going and help each other study. Of course if that happens we'll all get distracted with each other. Or at least I'll get distracted.

My favorite class right now is drafting. Right now we're using AutoCAD. It kind of reminds me of computer animation in grade 12. I really enjoyed that class so drafting is really interesting for me. I think it will be really cool once we get into the 3-D section of it. Once we get there, if anyone needs a hand, I will probably be helpful. Actually, I think that Drafting is the only subject that I’m fully caught up in. Woooo!

I'm somewhat caught up in Technical Communications as well. I still have to do the persuasive letter but so does everyone else. So technically (hahaha that’s a bad pun there) I’m caught up in that class as well.

I don't know about everyone else but it is getting harder and harder to do new blogs each week. You have to try to put something different each week but you run out of things to say (hence why I am writing this paragraph as well as this sentence I’m writing in the brackets. You have to add words somehow!)

I've run out of things to say so I think I'll sign off now.
ciao,
Morgan

Word Count ( Von Count) 350