Thread "Rant or Vent here" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 7, 2008

Black_Kitty, a few years ago when I was still in high school, one of the teachers asked me if I wanted to get into teaching as a career. I said no. She told me that this was a very wise decision.

Thank you for inadvertently backing up her claim.

Haha~ :)

I think that's the general sentiment, even among other non-high school teachers. I told my friend a few years back that I'm going into high school education and I remember her shuddering. She then said that all she has to do is think back to how she was as a high school student and that's enough to convince her not to teach high school. (She now teaches elementary and personally, I think that's harder than high school. But to each their own I suppose.)

I actually like teaching high school despite my rant. I wanted a challenge, a chance to teach art/English, and a chance to go more indepth into the material. High school allows me to do that. It just eats up a lot of my time (for example I spent all day yestesrday creating a PowerPoint on balance in photography. It was gobbled up in class in half an hour) and sometimes things happen that make absolutely no sense.

Posted at 9:04AM, Apr. 7, 2008

Teaching can be great. Just have to watch out for those Third graders who watch too much CSI.

Posted at 2:04PM, Apr. 7, 2008

I had just taken a dish out of the stove, set the lid to the side, took off my oven mits, scooped out the food, and then went to grab the lid again, sans oven mitts, only to burn my finger. -_- It took me less than 30 seconds to completely forget that the thing was hot.

Posted at 9:04PM, Apr. 7, 2008

Slept with some seedy jerk, shoulda realized something was up when he looked so guilty and didn't call back- hopefully getting into the std clinic this week. -_- Pray it's not hiv or something… then all my 'u haz aids' jokes would implode on the irony. I doubt it's serious though.

Posted at 10:04PM, Apr. 7, 2008

irony is a funny word….but idont think i'm coming down with a case of irony….

in fact, right now i dont know what in my life could happen to cause a case of the ironies..but i dont want to tempt fate in finding out….

Posted at 6:04AM, Apr. 8, 2008

Slept with some seedy jerk, shoulda realized something was up when he looked so guilty and didn't call back- hopefully getting into the std clinic this week. -_- Pray it's not hiv or something… then all my 'u haz aids' jokes would implode on the irony. I doubt it's serious though.

Maybe he just has a girlfriend or something? I hope you'll be OK.

Posted at 12:04PM, Apr. 8, 2008

Maybe he just has a girlfriend or something? I hope you'll be OK.

No he didn't, I just got this really bad feeling while doing it(I'm not gonna go into since it's Nasty). Thanks^^

Posted at 2:04PM, Apr. 8, 2008

Skullbie, I honestly hope that you're not infected by something so serious as HIV or AIDS. D:

I'm hoping its something less serious and probably treatable.

Posted at 8:04PM, Apr. 8, 2008

The Monster Show, by David J Skal, is the worst book ever written. His ideas are good in theory, but he never discusses them in the book. He just keeps going on and on about Tod Browning and how great he is. He actually spends several paragraphs talking about how much Tod Browning's uncle liked baseball. I AM NOT FUCKING KIDDING.

There's a chapter called 'Tod Browning's America' given this title, I thought he'd discuss Browning's career and his influences on and from the country. But no, he just tells us about how Browning was born and grew up in minuscule, obsessive detail.

"The Monster Show uncovers the surprising links between horror entertainment and the great social crises of our time"

That's written on the blurb on the back of the book (the rest of the blurb takes up the entire back of the book, which is too fucking long for a snippet of information). Nowhere in the book does Skal even mention this, he just goes on, and on, and on, about Tod Browning.

Posted at 12:04AM, Apr. 9, 2008

I'm hoping its something less serious and probably treatable.

Prolly better to hope she has nothing at all :)

…Mebe a case of thrush? ^^
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I bought a pack of four neenish tarts at the supermarket the other day. But the sweet cream filling is REALLY shallow, hardly any there, and the chocolate half of the icing is only a thin coating on the top of the white icing that covers the whole thing. And the icing is really sloppily applied around the edges!

Next time I'll buy them from a bakery instead like usual. It's more expensive but worth it!

Posted at 12:04AM, Apr. 9, 2008

I would like it to go on record that eating a fry up and then drinking two pints of milk is very bad idea. See, I'm not going to be buying dinner with my food card thingy tonight, so I had some extra money.

I'm going to throw up.

Posted at 2:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

It just occurred to me (no seriously) that even if the schools accept me, there's no way I'll be able to pay for tuition beyond a year, so I'll probably just have to drop out again next summer. Geez.
A little rectangle of paper is NOT worth 64,000+ dollars. It just isn't. No matter how many fond memories and special skills come with it. If one of those skills isn't the ability to crap bricks of gold, it's just not fair trade.

Why can't I just trade for my education? Like, you teach me for a year, and you can have my bike, my gamecube, and your weight in used sketchbooks. Teach me for four years and I'll give you my car and my cat.

Posted at 2:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

I disagree. I think the long term benefits of that piece of paper makes it a very worthwhile thing to get. Of course this depends on what you want to do in the future and what career you want to pursue. However I went into debt to get my two pieces of paper and I don't regret one cent of it. I may not be able to crap bricks of gold but I am able to get a job that pays quite comfortably.

Then again, I only paid 37k for my education. So my tuition wasn't as heavy.

Posted at 3:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

I know a college education is worth it. I've already been in and out college once, and I have joined and left the work force and I am aware how valuable a degree is.

But I'm just frustrated by the weight of the financial burden and I'm a little scared of not being able to stick to the whole college thing this time, so I'm going to shift the blame onto tuition. <_< … >_>

It's still too expensive though. Universities are in the business of providing education, but they also are a BUSINESS, and as a consumer and a student I feel that I have the right to complain that services a lot of colleges provide are NOT equal to their cost.

That's not to say that all of the universities are unfair.

my 2 cents.

Posted at 5:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

theres always vocational school.

Posted at 5:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

I've looked at few, but most of the ones in my area are automotive mechanics…not my cup of tea.

Posted at 6:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

I can agree on the college being too expensive thing. I'm not sure if it's worth the debt load to become an illustrator, but I can't think of any other way to really learn the skills.

The school I'm transferring to this year is giving me 16,000 a year in grants and other aid, but I still have to make up at least another 15,000 myself. Provided I can swing the same grants and everything the next couple of years that still leaves me with 60,000 in school costs plus whatever other costs I need to live.

I figure that they're charging 25,000 a year for tuition alone on each student, and from knowing my dad's pay level as an associate professor who got paid 45,000 a year while he taught, I figure it takes about 3 student tuitions to pay for a full professor. And each class has anywhere between 15 and 20 student. Toss in another 7 students for maintaining the college and that still leaves you 5 to 10 student's worth of tuition that I have no clue where exactly it's going.

Posted at 6:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

Maybe he just has a girlfriend or something? I hope you'll be OK.
No he didn't, I just got this really bad feeling while doing it(I'm not gonna go into since it's Nasty). Thanks^^

Because he said he didn't?

Posted at 8:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

Jeeze. Go to another country to learn, it can be a lot cheaper, even with travel and accommodation costs. We had a lot of South East Asians and Norwegians (special arrangements), at my old Uni- In Perth Western Australia. But people come from all over the place, the US included.

Posted at 9:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

My mom's spazzing out because one of the schools is out of state, there's no telling what she would do if I left the country <<< (that's not to say I haven't been looking.)

I would LOVE to go to school someplace else! That would be so cool.

Posted at 10:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

I've looked at few, but most of the ones in my area are automotive mechanics…not my cup of tea.

But auto mechanics would make you more money though. Its a fun trade. But the downside is the grease and exposure to those fumes and chemicals. Its also quite dangerous. I saw a guy get his pants on fire while welding a muffler.

In my honest opinion though, I think it is a waste of money to go to university to be an illustrator. Sorry for sounding kinda harsh here.

You see, that was my original intent. To pursue art as something professional. But in the end, because of economic prospects and the thought of sustaining survival, I had to abandon ship. Because I wondered. What kind of job will I get with that kind of degree? And with the economy in N. America heading towards a SERVICE SECTOR ECONOMY and the whole art field being too oversaturated.

A mcjob? Then I'd be instantly trapped in DEBT. Struggling paycheck to paycheck to get that shit paid.

Thats why I invested my extra money in learning vocational trades. At least I know the basic stuff. And I'm not scared of getting laid off as well as I'm absolutely confident of finding a job within a week or 2 after I get laid off. I can work in construction or landscaping or automotive helper… I can do office jobs since thats what I'm doing now. I got a clean driving record so I can use my car (or someone else's car) to make me some money. Maybe upgrade my license a bit so I can start driving trucks. The straight trucks or the cube vans. I'm still scared of driving those tractor trailers.

This is just my thought I like to share with you. Good luck.

Posted at 10:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

In my honest opinion though, I think it is a waste of money to go to university to be an illustrator. Sorry for sounding kinda harsh here.

Whoa whoa whoa, is this part a personal reflection or did I make the impression that I was going in for illustration?

I agree with you about that either way, I was just wondering.

I mean, I'd love to go to school for art but it doesn't seem so practical. Incidentally, I am applying to an art school (pot-dream),I don't think it'll do me any good, but the other two schools aren't art schools.
I wouldn't be able to make it professionally in art, but I would have a degree, and I could spend my 3 or 4 years and thousands of dollars doing something I enjoy.

Also I found out in a really painful and expensive way that art's pretty much all I'm good at (what I learned in college part I). And selling gas and hotdogs…I'm good at that too.

P.S. I'm not a miser, and I have no real interest in being rich, but I can't spend money I don't have so that later I can earn money I don't want. I hate money.

P.P.S

Jeeze. Go to another country to learn, it can be a lot cheaper, even with travel and accommodation costs. We had a lot of South East Asians and Norwegians (special arrangements), at my old Uni- In Perth Western Australia. But people come from all over the place, the US included.

That would probably have worked out a lot better when I was in Australia 7 years ago when the exchange rate was something like 1 USD=1.7 AUD or something. -_- The US dollar has sunk a lot.

Posted at 11:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

In my honest opinion though, I think it is a waste of money to go to university to be an illustrator. Sorry for sounding kinda harsh here.

Whoa whoa whoa, is this part a personal reflection or did I make the impression that I was going in for illustration?

I agree with you about that either way, I was just wondering.

I think he was referring to me.

And while you think that kyupol, I'm going to do it anyway. I feel it's the best way for me to learn the things I need to the most. Personal feelings is all of it really. Don't get me wrong, I've worked for a logging company and on a cattle ranch, and I know I couldn't stand living my life doing those sorts of things.

I never planned on going to school for only one degree. Art is what I love doing and what I'm best at, but that doesn't mean I can't get a degree in another field as well to make sure I get a job. I might have my doubts, but there's no point in life doing something I hate. I want to informed about the field I'm going into is all.

Posted at 11:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

Ooops my bad. Props for doing what you love, Iba.

Posted at 11:04PM, Apr. 9, 2008

*psst* lba, search through the threads here:
http://conceptart.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=41

You'll learn lots for that type of work, remember to completely learn human anatomy though at some time, it's invaluble in any art work field.
Seriously.
(do it)