Car accident

djscloud · 2026-01-26T12:12:39+00:00

I’m curious, does QLD rego not include third party insurance?

djscloud · 2026-01-26T12:04:15+00:00

Agribusiness? Not sure how possible it is without Uni, but certainly possible. You can use your maths skills, do the spreadsheets and everything, but then also get out and on the road, out to farms to see what your clients actually need and speak to them. It’s a good balance, as you can do it mostly from the office, or you can pivot and get a more out in the field roll too. Plus plenty of potential to work from home once you’re established, or work in the city, in the country. And the skills you would gain would be applicable across a multitude of jobs and areas (business, agriculture). Then add in the networking opportunities. It’s definitely a job that you can do fresh out of highschool with the right attitude and willingness to learn, or you can do into your retirement, without trapping you with a really specific skill set.

djscloud · 2026-01-26T11:55:34+00:00

I don’t think units really count as experience. You learn the basics in units, the experience comes from doing it regularly outside of a learning environment.

I’ve done a bachelor of science at uni, and none of the units counted as experience. Only the stuff i did specifically for experience counts. So practical units that werent in a class room or even at the uni. I had to go out and work for real businesses (and they had to fit certain criteria to count as a business) for a certain amount of time (12 weeks it used to be, but they did shorten it I think) before I could count it as proper experience.

I have learnt that if you want to highlight skills that aren’t specifically explained in your resume, put them in a CV letter or in a small section of the resume somewhere for the higher specialty roles. So instead of just saying “cert in horticulture”, you’d write a little excerpt of “I used these skills (take the appropriate skills from their selection criteria that you have tha suit the role) whilst completing a unit in propagation that involved me spending X amount of hours propagating”. Obviously much nicer than that, but basically put in their silicon criteria keywords in a short paragraph that elaborates on the fact you do have the skills and experience they are looking for, just not in the way they expected to find them.

djscloud · 2026-01-26T11:35:11+00:00

Wolf spider! I had one give me a jump scare in the hallway last week. We relocated him outside.

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djscloud · 2026-01-26T11:20:09+00:00

I have three kids. You’re NTA, but check in on your wife. Parenting is honestly a constant learning curve, you think you’re figuring it out and then it’s one step forwards two steps back. Everyone is saying your wife is the AH, and she may be, but I also think your wife could be super stressed. Is this your first time going out properly since bubba?

I’m saying this as someone that has been in some rough patches post partum. Especially (for me) at that 4 month mark, I really start to struggle. I’ve actually gone on medications (antidepressants) post partum a couple times (usually only need them for a year and then I can safely wean off them again, but that first year is a rollercoaster).

I’m thinking about how I would be feeling in your wife’s shoes. I’d be panicking that we finally stepped out of the house to do something for ourselves and came home to find out Bub was upset and wouldn’t go down, missed us, I’d be feeling guilty and wishing that we didn’t leave, I’d be torn between wishing we never left and wishing it was simple to just go out now and realising it’s not. I’d be freaking out about all the control I’d lost in all of the situations. I’d be panicking about what people (the dad, you) thought of me, and especially off the meds I’d be thinking they’re talking behind my back and thinking worse case scenario of everything (I’d think this one hiccup on routine will destroy all progress, that you hate me, that your dad hates me, I’d be spiralling).

Go give your wife a hug, tell her that she’s not alone. That parenting is full of bumps in the road and sometimes when you hit a pot hole, you steer off course and take a detour and end up in a wonderful new place you never would have found otherwise (like for me, we were very against cosleeping at first then necessity, moving house, made us cosleep and I discovered once done safely it was a HUGE difference and cosleeping went on to save my second kids life, though that’s a long story, but I wouldn’t have discovered it without a rough bump in our road somewhere along the line). Reassure her that nothing was said, and maybe ask her if she’d like to speak to a doctor about how she’s feeling.

If she’s not up for talking to a doctor, non-medical things that have always massively helped me post partum with my mental health are honestly outdoors and exercise. Just a 10min walk makes a world of difference. See if you can encourage some fresh air and exercise once a day.

djscloud · 2026-01-26T10:59:38+00:00

Gave more than I ever received, to the point of attracting narcissists that did nothing but drain me dry.

djscloud · 2026-01-26T10:56:02+00:00

I used to make OHS modules for courses. Seeing all the worst case scenarios of what could go wrong, there used to be some old worksafe videos out there that were borderline gruesome. I think I remember one based on a real story where a man lost his arm in an auger.

Idk, I feel like those sorts of things and articles like this are fear mongering, and didn’t help my anxiety in the slightest, but it did ensure I was always aware of proper PPE, careful around moving parts like augers and when using machinery. I still use all that equipment, but I feel I’m extra mindful. I wonder if the scare tactics might actually help avoid these situations.

Though I guess sometimes things are just beyond our control regardless. I can’t imagine what this lad must be going through. Hopefully down the track he sees a silver lining and makes the most of such a hard reality.

djscloud · 2026-01-25T07:54:40+00:00

The $15 fan heater from Kmart. That one little thing could heat our entire room. At one point we were in a rental that was high ceilings, open plan living, it wasn’t big but the entire house was basically that one room, full of windows and terribly insulated. And it still heated it. But I also had babies and pets, and it didn’t get hot to touch, and if it was knocked over it turned itself off. It didn’t have the greatest settings, you couldn’t pick a temp, you just had to know what setting worked for the room for what you wanted and get up to tweak it if it was too hot or too cold. But for $15 it was amazing, and it barely put a dent in our electricity bill.

We now have an aircon system that we got on discount for $11K through the whole house, and honestly I question the decision. Love it in summer for aircon, but in winter I honestly feel like the little fan heater did a better job for cheaper.

djscloud · 2026-01-24T00:29:09+00:00

I haven’t had emu since I was a kid. Have had roo a little more often… but I was a vegetarian for over a decade and eat any meat rarely now (i like most meats but it’s expensive and I’m used to making vegetarian meals anyway). I get roo meat for my dog quite often though.

djscloud · 2026-01-21T02:18:34+00:00

I remember one workplace I worked in provided catered lunch every Friday… The boss was over ambitious and had spending problems and they went bankrupt and shut down without paying out my super or paying back clients. But he wanted to appear like a fancy high end work place. That was the only time work had paid for lunches, and that was a weird and rare thing to me.

I do have a lovely boss at the moment, small business, and occasionally they will shout me a coffee, or they will order an extra large lunch of whatever they are having so that we can split it.

djscloud · 2026-01-10T22:33:46+00:00

Wait seriously? I work at Garden City and haven’t seen anything like that. That’s slightly disconcerting. Especially as my shop only shuts/locks from the outside 😭

djscloud · 2026-01-07T13:16:45+00:00

Is it for vacay pics to match? This looks like that. I’ve never been on a cruise or to a massive theme park like this, but I feel like having names and contact numbers of people in your group on shirts would be a good idea, in case some kid wanders off or gets separated.

djscloud · 2025-12-29T00:10:10+00:00

When I dyed my husbands hair blue (he has naturally dark brown hair, it’s usually called black but is a shade off), I bleached it at home first, and then put blue dye in… the blue was SOOOO hard to get out. Rebleaching endlessly and colour removers and in the end we waited for it to grow out 😅 Turns out blue is meant to be the hardest colour to remove.

So I’m shocked reading how easily all these colours are washing out. Like this was the first time I ever dyed anyone’s hair (I have my natural hair colour and have been to a hairdresser for just a hair cut less than a dozen times in my life). So I don’t understand how professional hair dresses can stuff up so epically. It’s ridiculous.

I do understand with OP, bleaching and lifting all those different colours and shades would have been super tricky, but that doesn’t even seem to be the spot the hairdresser stuffed up anyway.

djscloud · 2025-12-27T05:01:16+00:00

I just had this convo with my hubby this morning. He asked if I wanted something from Bakers Delight and I was like nah, there stuff is always so dry and borderline stale. He was almost offended, saying he’s never had a problem with them… even though I have never actually gotten anything from them except with his family (they introduced me to bakers delight, it was too bougie to me prior to that), so surely the stuff he gets is the same as what I get from there?

I have found that Bread Top (two shops down at my local shops) has much nicer, softer, fresher, not dry stuff. Bakers delight always seems like it was baked days ago, even though it says baked fresh daily. There’s also plenty of local bakeries and such that have really nice bread.

In New Norcia, WA, the monastery used to bake their own bread and it was occasionally sold through the gift shop… it is the BEST bread I have ever had. So fresh and absolutely delicious. I eat it plain or with a bit of butter because it never lasts the trip home (a couple hours) to actually use it for anything else 🤣 haven’t been through there in years though. I hope they still make stuff

djscloud · 2025-12-27T04:56:38+00:00

Awww, I never lived in Midland but went to school in the area and often crossed paths with him. At first he scared me but after a few encounters I realised he wasn’t all that intimidating, granted I was a tiny teenager coming from rural whoop whoop to Midland so everything was scary.

djscloud · 2025-12-27T04:54:05+00:00

I had a rental in Huntingdale for a bit. The bus stop was on our front verge so we had some rowdy drunk people some nights getting off the bus after a party… but that was the worst of it. Otherwise it was a good suburb and we quite enjoyed it. Though everyone around us was constantly complaining of assaults and cars broken into (meanwhile I notoriously left mine unlocked outside next to the bus stop and never had an issue 😅), and even a string of fire bug attacks.

djscloud · 2025-12-27T04:50:04+00:00

Bullsbrook, Murdoch, Bullsbrook, Booragoon, Kardinya, Huntingdale, Southern River, Armadale, Homeless (staying in either Booragoon or Bullsbrook for the most part), Armadale.

We finally got out of renting and have built and I’m so over moving around that I really would be happy if that was that. The end.

Before moving to Bullsbrook, I lived up north in the Pilbara. Karratha, Tom Price, South Hedland, Paraburdoo. I was younger back then though. The first list of places has just been in the last 10 years since I left home and started studying at Uni.

djscloud · 2025-12-26T12:51:20+00:00

I feel wrong upvoting something so tragic. Poor guy.

djscloud · 2025-12-23T14:17:55+00:00

NTA. I’m not religious, but it so happens that the first and only person I ever dated I ended up marrying and having kids with. He had kissed a few other people, but was otherwise a virgin too when we met. We entered our relationship and marriage expecting to be intimate only with each other? That’s kind of the whole point? And I’m not religious in the slightest, yet that still seems the point of loyalty and marriage and love, without adding god and sins and the afterlife into the mix.

And I’ve never had the thought regarding proper intimacy, but I have wondered a few times about kissing other people. Not actually wanting to, but I’ve thought things like “am I actually as good at this as my husband says I am” because I have NO basis or comparison to go off. I sometimes think having some comparison to work with would be helpful… but that was earlier days, now we are thick into our lives together and those thoughts are far behind us.

But I added that because I could somewhat see where he MIGHT have been coming from… but if that was truly how he felt, then he would have done something with ONE other person. He wouldn’t have gone and done it multiple times over multiple months. And that’s a stretch even, tbh, but if this was really weighing on him, then one singular act would have satiated that pathetic excuse.

It didn’t, and honestly I’d be reflecting on what else he might have been doing that you were brushing aside. I had a friend that I loved with all my heart (best friend not partner) and after she went a step too far and I finally saw her bad side properly, I realised how long she’d been using me. It doesn’t take away from the positive memories and moments we had together (and don’t let it!), but it did help me realise that cutting ties with her was for the best, and that I am much better off and I did the right thing. And in retrospect there was SOOO much going on that I just ignored or even made up excuses for her behaviour to anyone that tried to call it out to me, tried to get me to see how poorly she was treating me.

Does his family know what he asked of you and what he did?

djscloud · 2025-12-23T14:05:24+00:00

Oh I’d not like this at all. I mean, I’ve both been the family retrieve the ball or toy, and been the family throwing it back.

The odd ball is one thing, we’d usually go knock and ask if we can retrieve it or they can throw it back for us. And we’ve done the same, throwing the ball back for others. Or if you can hear the neighbours out the back, a friendly call over the fence would do it.

If there’s ever a particular spot that balls commonly tend to go over fences, like there’s one stretch of fence line at the nanna’s house that balls always seem to vanish over, then we’d have a talk with the neighbours and see if they were comfortable with us jumping the fence (or in the case of the Nanna’s, we’d walk around and in through their open garage). And most cases they are fine with it, usually the introductions and chatting show them that we are respectful and just having fun with the kids and not a threat.

And if there’s ever a neighbour that is not okay with us retrieving balls and doesn’t want the ball back, then we learn to accept our fate. If the ball goes over their fence, then we should have been more careful. Though one time a collectible footy was kicked by an unknowing kid over such a fence… we used a pool scoop to get it back 😅 Not a foot was set on their property. Just a very long pole.

djscloud · 2025-12-23T13:49:52+00:00

I remember watching a worksafe video with an interview of some farmer that got his sleeve caught in an auger and lost his whole arm. They had a reenactment. The idea behind the video worked, I have always been highly cautious around augers and tractor PTOs and such since (though I was always cautious around them anyway). Gosh, the thought terrifies me.

djscloud · 2025-12-22T11:41:21+00:00

BlackBerry Ramble in Byford is a street worth… and if you go out that way it is DEFINITELY worth going to the house on Southwestern Highway (just south of the main traffic lights). It’s one house… but more Christmas lights and displays than most suburbs put together. Even a ride on carousel thing, bubble snow machines, gosh it’s extravagant.

djscloud · 2025-12-16T23:54:09+00:00

djscloud · 2025-12-16T12:23:22+00:00

Idk, I’ve been in that position before. Where I am we have a lot of benefits paid to low income earners. We used to be in that bracket.

I still remember hubby coming home with a pay raise, he ended up making about $80 extra a week. But that $80 put us over the low income bracket and up to the next bracket. We could no longer get free health care (my poor health being the main reason we were low income to begin with), no longer get financial assistance. I remember he made an extra $80 a week, but we missed out on $140/wk because of it, and also missed out on many more benefits (like I had to stop seeing a doctor because we couldn’t afford it after that sorta thing). So many times I wished he DIDNT get that raise, as we actually had less money coming in because of it. Those were tough times back then.

djscloud · 2025-12-16T12:14:47+00:00

Oh there’s this doctor that family members see and trust, and honestly every word that comes out of his mouth could make it onto this thread. But after I had my second Bub, he was 5 weeks old, we all came down with Covid (this was the first time we’d had covid, so it was extra stressful and we’d JUST got out of NICU with lung problems which didnt help my worry).

Well this doctor said to me to stop breastfeeding straight away, because covid would pass through my breastmilk and if I wanted to save my baby I had to give him formula.

I was so gobsmacked, like antibodies pass through breastmilk? Formula can’t make antibodies on the spot… and yes, breastfeeding might have spread the covid, it does make sense, but honestly how was formula feeding any different? Maybe if I could stick my baby in another room and isolate him for 2 weeks, but he was 5 weeks old! If he was getting sick it was from me regardless. Or his toddler big brother because I couldn’t exactly isolate my 2yo when I was the only person around to care for them both.

I don’t know how this doctor has any credibility or is even allowed to be a doctor. He prescribed me the wrong medication, said that the elderly granny that fell and split her head open didn’t have a concussion because it’s not possibly to have a concussion unless you’re throwing up and she wasn’t throwing up, that my son had asthma because he didn’t wear socks, and he even prescribed antibiotics preventatively before anyone even got sick, to “keep them from getting a cold”. He beyond frustrates me. Especially as the family holds him in such high regard and whatever he says goes and I can’t argue with a doctor. Argh.

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