[Courses] RE: Courses Digest, Vol 40, Issue 10

Fri Apr 6 12:11:03 UTC 2007

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>Today's Topics:
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>    1. dreams (K. Clair)
>    2. Re: dreams (Anne Sorsa)
>    3. Re: [Spineful Living, lesson 1: Dreams] (Jacinta Richardson)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 10:10:48 -0500
>From: "K. Clair" <kclair at gmail.com>
>Subject: [Courses] dreams
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>This is very late I guess :)
>
>My biggest dream is to get out of IT.  My life took an unexpected turn
>about 8 years ago when I graduated with a philosophy degree and one of
>my friends who had started a web hosting company asked if I wanted a
>job doing tech support.  At the time I knew how to use a shell (back
>in the day when all we had for email was elm!) and how to write some
>html but that was it. 8 years later I find myself the sysadmin, but
>all along I've known that this is not the kind of work I want to be
>doing.  Sure it's been fun, but it is certainly not "my bliss"
>(thanks, Joseph Campbell).
>
>That said, even though I don't want to be doing IT professionally, I
>*do* want to continue to work on various activist-IT projects, which
>are mostly women-oriented yay.  It would be utterly fantastic if this
>manifested some small income, in the way of grants, so that it could
>be something that I don't have to fund, seeing as how I won't have any
>money to fund anything after I leave IT. :)  So I guess this means
>learning something about grant writing, which has been a goal of mine
>for years but I've never quite found the time to do it.
>
>To make a living I want to teach yoga.  Ideally, I would be able to
>teach and charge people less money than what I consider to be the
>outrageous rates that people (including me) are paying now for yoga.
>The reality of this may be a bit trickier since it is apparently
>difficult to make a living teaching while charging the current
>outrageous rates.  But anyway, the dream is to make yoga more
>accessible to more populations, economically and culturally speaking.
>I would LOVE to teach affordable classes that are super friendly to
>the lgbt community.  Perhaps this could be related to the grant
>writing.
>
>In order to carry out the dream to teach yoga, I will need to fulfill
>my second biggest dream, which is to become more articulate and less
>constantly doubting everything I'm about to say.  Also I'd like to be
>able to keep a thought in my head when speaking to a group.
>
>Oh, and I want to get over my relationship phobias :).
>
>Thanks for having this course, it's a great idea!
>Kristina
>
>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 09:31:36 +0300
>From: "Anne Sorsa" <amk.sorsa at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Courses] dreams
>To: courses at linuxchix.org
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>Hello Kristina!
>
>I really hope that you can accomplish all your dreams :) As I told earlier
>in this list my dreams are be directed in IT.
>
>Few days ago my aims to achieve my dreams got a bit harder. Because at the
>present I work only 2 -3 days in a week I got letter in my local employment
>agency and they told me that they want me to get full time job at the
>"local" slaughterhouse. "Local" means that I have to drive 200 km at the
>day. Oh! I'm so HAPPY!! And I don't need to tell you what kind of work I
>have to do there. All this fuss because I have look for a job 6 months. 
>Then
>I finally found that part time job, it was not good enough for them in the
>agency.
>
>It makes me wonder, why some bureaucratic idiot has a right to torment me
>and makes my life difficult.
>
>Well, I won't take it...I will fight back! This just makes me so angry!
>
>Anne
>--
>*****************************************************
>Life doesn't move as fast as we think.
>The world is better if we don't know everything.
>*****************************************************
>
>
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>
>Message: 3
>Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:29:48 +1000
>From: Jacinta Richardson <jarich at perltraining.com.au>
>Subject: Re: [Courses] [Spineful Living, lesson 1: Dreams]
>To: courses at linuxchix.org
>Message-ID: <461604FC.5050103 at perltraining.com.au>
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>Hi all,
>
>I've been avoiding this one because I didn't know what to write.  Recently 
>I've
>felt in absolute awe at how cool my life is, and so it kind of feels wrong 
>to be
>wishing for more.  But there are things I still want, some big, some small:
>
>	* I want to redo my house.  Renovate the kitchen, re-tile, pull down the
>	  wall paper in the lounge room, have a nice garden...
>
>		None of this is hard, and I have the free time and money
>		to achieve it but I haven't found the motivation to get started.
>
>	* I want to lose about 30 kgs and increase my fitness.
>
>		I'm actively working on this, and although it's slow, I'm
>		getting somewhere....
>
>	* I want to achieve my Stress and Rescue, and Deep diver qualifications
>	  for SCUBA.
>
>		I expect to have at least one of these done by October.
>
>	* I want to increase my reputation in the FOSS community as a coder
>	  which means actually joining some projects.
>
>		I've made a small start here and expect to keep on.
>
>	* I want to learn how to make candy like chocolate, licorice etc
>
>	* I want to travel overseas, preferably to a conference, but also just
>	  just to travel.
>
>In the much longer distance future I'd like to have a greater involvement 
>in
>
>	* reducing or removing this gender bias from IT
>
>	* increasing Australia's sustainability from a food and water
>	  perspective
>
>All the best,
>
>	J
>
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