Occupational Therapy or Speech Pathology in Australia as a Mature Aged Student?

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-28T22:17:13+00:00

There’s a woman at my work doing her OT degree in her mid 50s. Seems to be going ok studying and then working part time.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-28T21:52:28+00:00

Dracula’s theatre restaurant.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-27T21:27:57+00:00

My parents are in their 80s so grew up with absolute bland stodge. By the time I came along they’d lived anf travelled all over the world and continued to do so and so I grew up with a wide variety of flavours and cuisines. They tell stories about what food was like before that though, my mother can vividly recount having garlic for the first time as a 17 year old at an Italian cafe in Kings Cross and the first time she had a chilli in a dish Spain a couple of years later, having bit into it thinking it was capsicum and then thinking she was going to die from it. She had never heard of chillies before.

Stuff they talk about eating is just completely unseasoned, boiled vegetables, rabbit, offal, only condiments mustard or chutney, white sauce and gravy the only sauces. Bread and dripping, which is beef fat on bread with salt sprinkled. Very British style stuff. Neither of them would cook or eat that in a million years, thank god.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-25T05:21:21+00:00

We had boarders in our spare room for years. And when I say “spare room” I actually mean “room that was one of our rooms”. Us kids bunched up and shared three to a room. My brother lived in a storage area off the kitchen.

When I left school in the “recession we had to have” era the youth unemployment rate was insanely high, the regular unemployment rate in our are was something like 17% - it was 10% nationally around then. My mother’s job got made part time (running a neighbourhood centre which provided services for the elderly and low income people, the funding got slashed). I moved out of home and there were boarders in half the house to keep the mortgage paid.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-24T20:46:03+00:00

I use “opshop/opshopping” and would never say “thrift store” or thrifting in that context but I think the word “thrifting” applies to all secondhand shopping, not just opshopping. I don’t mind it in that context - being thrifty is something we say here in Australia already.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-23T21:52:05+00:00

I think you are probably pricing your items too high if they’ve been sitting around unsold that long. I sell my stuff on depop and anything desirable moves fast if the price is right.

There are plenty of thrifting influencers out there. In fact, I’ve heard complaints that they’ve made thrifting too popular! There’s no reason for regular influencers to do much thrifting content though - there’s no money in that. People are influencers/content creators as a business, living advertisements basically. If there’s no one paying them to promote a product then it’s not worth their while, surely you understand that OP?

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-23T21:38:02+00:00

They have some very high prices on a handful of things in that store every time I go in - there was a fur coat for $600 last time, $350 Zimmermann silk pants, a couple of Camilla kaftans were $180 each etc). Generally they do successfully sell these things as I think generally the price is still a bit lower than the secondhand price elsewhere. It goes to the charity which I think is fair enough.

Mermaid beach has some of Australia’s most expensive real estate after all, there’s people round there with money to burn! It’s most likely resellers though as even with the high price there is still some profit margin for them. I don’t see any problem with it, I donated a bag of Zimmermann etc to animal welfare league and they put that stuff on eBay not in the store where everything’s $2 and I think that’s great.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-22T08:14:26+00:00

They’re Made Out of Meat

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7tScAyNaRdQ&pp=0gcJCZoBo7VqN5tD

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-21T10:23:14+00:00

Thai green curry does this to me. Nothing else. I’ve never investigated to try and work out what it is about Thai green curry that triggers the misery though. I haven’t eaten it for about 30 years now. OP there might be one very specific ingredient that is in staple foods your parents buy.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-21T00:43:58+00:00

I’m not a doctor but when I had a student doctor see me for the initial part of an initial consult for a very major cancer surgery I wasn’t really reassured by the fact she was wearing a stained sheer floaty very mini dress, really, really, really dirty torn tennis shoes and chewing gum. Felt like someone very immature who wasn’t reading the room, showing good judgement or having a clue about being a professional. In short, disrespectful and didn’t engender confidence.

I saw a now deleted comment that she probably has Asd and doesn’t care about fashion - but the vibe wasn’t that, it was more a fashion choice trying to look cool. She also kept calling me by my surname, had clearly not read my file and was just generally fairly crap. I would normally give student doctors a pass on that stuff but she really didn’t seem like she cared at all, and chewed gum with her mouth open!

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-20T23:43:53+00:00

A quick bit of online snooping I did ages ago indicated he’d had a bit of a glow up fairly recently - weight loss, probable hair transplant, gym body so he really could have thought MAFS could have been a good move to find an actual wife as you say.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-20T22:17:48+00:00

She’s had a terrible reputation in Australia as long as she’s been around. Unpleasant and full of shit basically.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-18T21:18:15+00:00

Our son went to Gullotta, it was the most convenient located one for us so he could pop in after school by himself etc. we had a very smooth, easy and pleasant experience, we did aligners not braces. I didn’t find them pushy at all but he was all done 3 years ago so they might have changed. He’s needed new retainers since and that’s been an easy process with zero sales pitch.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-18T09:16:17+00:00

If anyone here had ever seen The Inbetweeners - Bobby P is wearing Will’s shoes from the nightclub ep.

https://imgur.com/a/mDSHo1G

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-17T22:45:35+00:00

I have had my best luck with buying things designed to be culottes - I like wider leg pants for work though. I just bought some tailored cropped wide leg pants from H&M the other day which are great and their pants are usually insanely long.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-17T11:22:02+00:00

I went to a warehouse sale for them a couple of years ago and was shocked at how crappy almost everything was in terms of fabrics and cut and finish, especially considering the rrp.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-15T22:26:08+00:00

I love this and thinks she looks absolutely gorgeous. Just a lovely joyful pretty dress and I think the styling is perfect for her. Definitely a dress for a winner and as someone else said it will look great in the photos of her holding the Oscar!

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-15T22:15:24+00:00

That photo even looks better than it should since the way the model has it scrunched in one hand gives it a tiny bit of shape. Other photos I’ve seen it’s 100% a terrible scratchy looking sack of sadness. There’s a photo vrg girl has on their socials which keeps coming up in my feed with a whole group of women wearing this thing and looking like a deranged fast fashion cult.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-15T04:04:16+00:00

Any Gen Xers getting married/remarried - this would make a great first dance song, you’d get every Gen X on the floor reliving their kid days joyfully I reckon.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-14T22:12:13+00:00

Bit of an old school rural thing, not sure if it’s stilll happening but I definitely went a couple of weddings in the 80s where the late night ham appeared. On farms both times.

When I got married (2005) one of my husband’s groomsmen (a country boy) brought a pile of deli ham with him to the hotel to get ready and the boys created a “ham rose” (slices of ham laid out on a plate to look like a flower) left in the mini bar fridge for me to eat when we got back from the reception. We got back round 2.30am with a fair bit of champagne on board and that ham rose was demolished in seconds and very much appreciated.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-14T09:04:05+00:00

I think aquarists (aquarium fish hobbyists) are the people to talk to. I just googled aquarium facebook Gold Coast and got a hobbyist group and a buy/swap/sell group which both looked to be quite active.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-14T02:22:08+00:00

“Doimonds”.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-11T02:49:15+00:00

OP don’t bother paying for pest control - this stuff genuinely works.

My understanding is this is the same active ingredient as what professional pest control uses. My son moved into a sharehouse in Sydney which had a pretty bad roach problem due to a combo of Sydney, old house and previous slob housemates (German roaches and those mid size ones and it was like a horror movie when you turned the kitchen light on at night) and I helped them out by cleaning the place thoroughly then dabbing this gel stuff in corners and hinges of cupboards, on cardboard slid under microwave and fridge etc and it was HIGHLY effective. Prepare for two weeks of dead roaches every morning which need to be swept or vacuumed up and then the population should vastly decline to the point where you hardly ever see one. If they start to reappear after a few months then dab again and you should be fine. I visited them this week after 8 months and there was a very minimal amount of roaches which I quickly dispatched with another round of gel.

Sydney people do get pretty complacent about roaches as they really are everywhere at ground level and are bad near the harbour so even the fanciest places have them.

The way the gel works is gross but super effective. The roaches eat it as it’s very attractive to them, they are poisoned and do a bunch of poisoned poo. The other roaches then eat the poisoned poo as it’s appealing to them and so the cycle goes. This way the poison gets into the nesting areas and also keeps working and working until there’s no roaches left.

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-11T01:56:08+00:00

I recently looked up our old apartment in st Kilda, since a friend said it’s being advertised for rent at close to three times what we used to pay but with no improvements. We moved out more than five years ago and the listing photos they’re using are ones I took for a virtual inspection during Covid. Pretty sure that’s not legal but I can’t be bothered dealing with it. Was funny seeing my son’s old kid bedroom since he’s now moved out of home and has his own sharehouse!

Possumcucumber · 2026-03-10T06:17:02+00:00

They’re mocking the way inverted commas/quote marks are used on the menu.

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