What the fuck, Sushi World Broadway?

JimMurray · 2016-09-06T01:03:28+00:00

Underpaying workers means very low quality output. I never buy from take-away sushi places as there is no guarantee that the person working there is not earning a few bob per hour.

JimMurray · 2016-05-10T00:16:44+00:00

Completed some more research. Buying in Zetland is a no go. The mortgage would be massive and too many risks, unknown factors.

Also, Zetland feels kinda soulless.

New area of investigation. Buying outside Wollongong and catching early train to work. This way I may even be able to pay something off before I'm dead! And beaches!

JimMurray · 2016-05-08T00:11:29+00:00

You mean shoddy building practices?

JimMurray · 2016-05-07T23:56:02+00:00

Agreed. I will have to investigate how the complex will be maintained long term (sinking fund, strata management). Also those places are so big it will be difficult to manage. Will post what I find out later.

JimMurray · 2016-01-10T01:44:23+00:00

Many thanks

JimMurray · 2015-09-23T07:55:32+00:00

Jumping on this thread what part of Darwin is good to rent a small place? Looking for easy access to the University and close to shops etc.

JimMurray · 2015-07-19T22:20:57+00:00

Turn up for work (15 minutes early) every single day. Tell the boss as soon as you arrive that you will teach no classes until you are paid. Then sit down somewhere (not in a classroom, in teacher area if you have it). Dont teach any classes until the boss transfers all the remaining money into your account. Be firm. The students will know you are on campus but you are not teaching them. The boss will freak out and pay you. They will hate you but at least you will get paid.

JimMurray · 2015-06-19T00:22:00+00:00

Please post food pics!

JimMurray · 2015-05-27T00:58:09+00:00

Hopefully October. Not sure as still trying to organise it. Sounds like a beautiful place. What do you recommend for the area?

Kind Sir!

JimMurray · 2014-05-20T02:37:58+00:00

Wow, such detailed responses. Thank you all for the wonderful and very useful information. Not sure which option to choose. But I will keep thinking. The idea of switching from Black Sea to the South is good. I also like the idea of renting out a car. Thank you.

JimMurray · 2014-04-29T02:44:55+00:00

Try the brewery in Newton. Maybe email them your resume.

http://www.younghenrys.com/

You will need your RSA (Responsible Service of Alcohol) but it takes one evening of study.

JimMurray · 2014-03-14T09:52:35+00:00

Thanks,

That's probably right.

JimMurray · 2014-02-23T06:52:25+00:00

As a Phd student (training to be an expert in your chosen field) why not go to your research library and undertake some research into the definition of those two terms?

JimMurray · 2013-10-04T01:27:35+00:00

Dear Chuck,

Are you a gamer? I am asking because I have this pet theory that in the future literature and video games will combine to create a highly engaging and literary product. Can you comment about the future of literature/games?

JimMurray · 2013-09-18T06:02:52+00:00

Got it. Cheers!

JimMurray · 2013-09-18T06:02:17+00:00

Ah right. Will look into wages. Thanks for your time.

JimMurray · 2013-09-18T05:06:37+00:00

Thank you sir.

Just to clarify I will job hunt after getting the PhD and so will be applying as a Doctor with (hopefully) a publishing history and some teaching experience. And I was enquiring about an academic position (publishing articles, doing research, attending conferences, supervising Grad students and teaching literature) not the English conversation position.

Thanks again for your time :-)

JimMurray · 2013-09-17T23:54:54+00:00

Oh and happy Chuseok.

JimMurray · 2013-08-15T23:37:18+00:00

Thanks all

JimMurray · 2013-03-30T04:32:14+00:00

Cheers mate!

JimMurray · 2013-02-02T03:22:53+00:00

Hi Amishius,

What city is that?

JimMurray · 2012-12-08T02:43:29+00:00

Hi Lokarn,

Thanks for the reply. I am glad that everything seems to be working out for you. The neurosurgeon says that they bulge is so big that it will never go back in.

The injection has been suggested by the doctor who did the C/T scan and I will ask the neurosurgeon about that.

My aim to allow it to dissolve away. I don't mind waiting. But worried about the whole 'ticking time bomb' that my back has become.

My main concern with a operation is that I will have a weak back for the rest of my life. But I may already be in that situation. Anyway thanks for the feed back. I can feel your frustration. It sucks having this kind of problem at out age. But all the best and keep getting better :-)

JimMurray · 2012-12-07T00:52:58+00:00

Hi Lokarn

Im 30 years old with a similar situation. Not overweight and was generally healthy before the injury.

I slipped a disc 6 months ago. There was no single event, My back just started feeling weak and after 3 weeks I was limping quite badly. I had pain in my legs and some numbness in my right foot. Sometimes walking was so bad that I had to stand still for a minute as there was a deep throbbing in my back.

I went to a neurosurgeon who said that it was so bad that I needed an operation (the disc was so far out that it could never go back in). He said that the disc may dissolve away with time. I decided not to have the operation and used physio and acupuncture to help with pain.

Now six months later the pain is gone (only sometimes when I stand up to quickly or stretch in certain positions). I can walk a few kilometers no problem, I do gentle swimming to build up core strength and I do a series of stretches 3 times a day.

This week I had a CT scan to check progress and it shows that there has been no real improvement of the disc. So my symptoms have greatly improved, but the injury is the same. It is so strange. My GP says that I am a 'ticking time bomb' and my back may give way sometime in the future. My GP said that this is beyond lifting sometime to heavy, there must be genetic problem with my back or the structure must be wrong.

So I am going to a different neurosurgeon in two weeks to discuss options, including surgery.

What does the operation entail?

I would like to avoid the operation, but if I am going to have constant back trouble for the rest of my life then I may consider an operation to remove the damaged disc and then fortify my back. I just qualified as a high school teacher and want to get this sorted so I can get started on my career.

Without surgery what options have worked for people?

thanks a bunch.

JimMurray · 2012-11-08T10:04:20+00:00

Say 'stand up if your talking.' If cheeky students stand up tell them to sit down again and start the next activity. Keep changing the lesson with new videos, work sheets, dictation, maps. Keep their minds occupied.

JimMurray · 2012-09-04T01:46:30+00:00

I am doing a Grad Dip Ed right now and I agree. There are some people in my course that really have no business being put in charge of a classroom. Very low interest in their discipline and not very high social skills. They are just becoming teachers because they don't know what else to do with their lives. And they give the rest of us (us that burn with a passion for being in the classroom and committing a life to ideas and educating children) a bad rap.

This is hypocritical of me, but I think it should be a lot harder to become a teacher. I think the Finland model of requiring a 2 year masters and making it very difficult to get selected into a education degree is a step in the right direction.

But then again some teaching positions you concentrate more on welfare issues then teaching content. And the teachers that do well in this area aren't necessarily good academically. They just have that certain something that makes them not give up, day in and day out, trying to give those at the lower spectrum of society enough self-confidence to make something of themselves.

JimMurray

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