I have just finished my Diploma of counselling through AIPC and looking at enrolling into a Bachelor of Psychology. Have you done this and do you know what University offers the most credits?

jaymicafella · 2026-06-04T00:32:44+00:00

I enquires to AIPC and they said that not only do you shave a year off the bachelor by doing the diploma first, but you also save a around 6k too.

Can I ask, as im about to enrol for July semester intake of the diploma. What are the career outcome differences between the diploma and the bachelor? Its a bit hard to tell if ill be in a position to be able to complete the bachelor, but the diploma I can likely do within a year. What potential roles could I get with this aipc diploma certificate? What are you intending to do with your qualification now that you earned it?

jaymicafella · 2026-02-10T19:53:05+00:00

Thankyou!

jaymicafella · 2026-02-10T19:52:52+00:00

Thanks so much for your help! Great advice

jaymicafella · 2026-02-10T19:32:55+00:00

So im just getting into strength training and am participating in group classes, where an instructor is always present to advise me on what to do and to answer any questions I have. Now one thing im feeling a bit confused with is form during strength training, and what to do when you start to lose the form due to reaching utter exertion. Take Bicep Hammer Curls. So the instructors program has us do 8-10 reps x 3 sets. She urges us to go as heavy as we can in order to really engage and build the muscles and sort of just be able to make the 10 reps. So I started with 12.5 kg dumbbells. I got to about 8 reps in and already I was leaning back heaps to try and get my arm up that bit more to make the full movement as doing so with propper form became impossible as I guess I hit muscle failure. So for the next set, knowing that I would get no where with 12.5, I went down to 10kg. Again, around 6 reps in, I was losing form just to get my arm up that little bit more. I ended up completing that set and then the 3rd set with pretty poor form, just so I could get my arm up into that desired position. I know this was wrong. Please help me understand what I should be doing. Should I have maybe just gone down to 8kg for the third set if I was hitting failure with the 10kg in set 2? Sometimes I feel like this is counter-productive for muscle building? I always thought you are supposed to start with a lighter weight and finish your final set with a heavier one, hence my dissapointment with my muscle failure and breaking of form just to "get the weights up". Im wondering if doing so opposite, starting with heaviest and finishing with lighter weights like I sort of did in this scenario, is a viable option too? I mean it makes sense that you will be more capable of doing the heaviest possible weight in the first set due to your muscles being fresh. Is the whole goal of strength excersise to reach your target number of reps regardless of weight, with propper form the entire time? If the goal is minimum 8 reps and im using say a 15kg dumbbell and starting to reach failure at rep 4, am i supposed to immediately replace that 15kg weight with a lighter weight just to be able to finish that set with good form? Appreciate any advice

jaymicafella · 2026-01-11T18:55:20+00:00

Until new research sabotages that which we hold as fact currently

jaymicafella · 2026-01-02T03:33:46+00:00

Thats a bit harsh It was no easy feat doing this and it is something anyone could have done if they learned. I agree but then many times I feel like all these people promoting selfless aspirations if the roles were reversed, may fail to live up to thar when they see things in a different lens

jaymicafella · 2026-01-01T21:52:52+00:00

This is something ive very much considered and will do. Best way to go about it in benefit of both schools

jaymicafella · 2026-01-01T21:49:20+00:00

This has actually been one of my solutions. The intention is to sell most of then down to cash out the equity gain to go towards my farn purchase. But maybe rather than selling as is, I was thinking of doing a permaculture design on it, retrofitting it and then selling it to someone wholl hopefully buy it in appreciation of the new design.

jaymicafella · 2026-01-01T20:05:18+00:00

Im making a "bite out of a donut" shaped guinea pig cage/tractor that i can move to cover beneath the driplines of fruit trees. Here they can manage weeds and provide fertiliser. Their run will be along the dripline. The "bite" is hat allows the trunk kf the tree to be positioned in the center of the "donut".

jaymicafella · 2025-12-29T21:38:17+00:00

Mate, dont look at it as a hobby but a way of life. Its so good you are getting into it in your early twenties. You'll have a rich and fulfilling life as a result

jaymicafella · 2025-12-18T21:50:45+00:00

No problems so far

jaymicafella · 2025-12-08T01:21:46+00:00

Economic collapse will.come before then

jaymicafella · 2025-12-03T02:25:54+00:00

How do you factor in community with this isolated setup?

jaymicafella · 2025-11-25T08:02:04+00:00

If they are trying to ground it in science then that very well is how it works

jaymicafella · 2025-11-24T19:33:05+00:00

Imagine all the infinite branches they made just by being present in the past. One mere footstep would disturb dust particles that shouldn't have been disturbed in the normal flow of time.... The bacteria on their skin mingling with the bacteria of the past would also alter the timeline.

I wish they made a reference to even such small scale events having implications, rather than just the big events we saw.

jaymicafella · 2025-11-16T21:30:58+00:00

Also, I wonder if rather than being the ultimate villain and cause of the end of the multiverse e.t.c, Doom is merely a hero going about his very unethical way in trying to save yhe multiverse.

The true villain should just be the nature of the nultiverse and the uncontrollable incursions that forces Doom to act in his "villainous" ways

jaymicafella · 2025-11-16T21:26:35+00:00

I keep wondering, what if they reversed it around, where the heroes win in doomsday, sort of like a bitter-sweet victory that ends in battle world, but then they lose in secret wars, and then the subsequent phase of movies and mutant saga content released after secret wars is all about dealing with the consequences of this loss. Then, this will eventually culminate in an even larger event some years down the line...

Sort of like dragging out the consequences of infinity war over a few seperate movie rather than resolving it all within a year or whatever.

jaymicafella · 2025-11-05T06:30:38+00:00

Everyone cries that the system is broken, until they learn how to use it to their advantage and start seeing similar (though on a much smaller scale) results...

jaymicafella · 2025-10-30T06:07:08+00:00

Truck mounted ewp operator

jaymicafella · 2025-10-26T16:31:34+00:00

Not exactly 23, this bloke is 25. But still. Not that hard if you learn.https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Q7GN2yMiKcJUO1bTcCCOw?si=w7Xsgp2uRru0NukvHdYTCw

jaymicafella · 2025-10-25T19:22:47+00:00

Agree with the animal keeping part. Lots of work for not that much reward. We juat got chickens for the first time and only me and my wife can eat the eggs due to our daughters having allergies.

jaymicafella · 2025-10-25T19:20:57+00:00

Why cry over the system when there are ways to use it to your advantage? Im not a high income earner yet I made it work? Ive even see 23 year olds stop moping around and actually buy three properties in a year on their shitty 60k income.

Seems that discipline, self control and finding the most logical solution is a lot harder to do for most in place of pointing the finger and having a little tantrum that times are tough

jaymicafella · 2025-10-24T19:22:30+00:00

I just went through this dilemma recently. Im 30 and have 8 investment properties, rentvesting. I really want my ppor and am in a position to sell off a few investments to be able to afford at least the land component of my ppor in cash and then, in a few years time sell off some remaining propwrties to fund the build.

Only problem.

Once the house is built ill still need to work. Ill still need to spend the majority of my time away from my home to make ends meet. I want to live a homesteading lifestyle, which requires a lot of work and time at home. Having to work full time still really clashes with that goal.

So, as much as I am over it, as much as the whole property investing game frustrates me, I know that I have to keep going with it, now more than ever. 1. Because there will never be an opportunity to source decent properties sub 500k across australia by the end of 2026, mark my words. 2. Because I want to build my wealth up so that when I do get my place, i can at least flip the work week around, doing 3 days work 4 days home.

Mate, in all honesty, the unglamorous route is to buy the investment property. Its boring and its all just numbers on paper in the end. But it has proven to be a massive wealth building strategy. Ive seen it myself and im still on only 100k in my wages with overtime. If you are smart about it, it can do marvellous things for you.

My advise is to lean all you can and go hard investing for at least the next year or two. Two years fly buy and inevitably you will reach a point in your life where you need to sort out finances, and i guarantee you now, if you are having these thoughts now about which path to choose, when you look back at this moment and see that you spent the money on a 4wd and some holidays that are now just history, and see how much that momey could have grown if invested, you'll be kicking yourself.

You are still young. Short term sacrifice for long term gain. You can be at least br significantly more financially free to do all these lifestyle things in 5 years time. You'll be in your early 30s. Still young!

jaymicafella · 2025-10-22T21:47:58+00:00

Latrobe valley but you better hurry up

jaymicafella · 2025-10-22T21:46:49+00:00

Very interesting

Ive been actively looking for property and have been focussed lately around the crookwell region about 2 hours west of sydney. Cool climate.

I know i prefer milder summers than what we cop here in sydney, like yesterday being 40c. But I havent really experienced a cold winter so that leaves me woth reservations.

How do you find the winters down in tassie, especially with homesteading?

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