It's been long
It's been long ago since I last time posted anything here.
I have been pretty busy recently, which means that I am under a very massive and demanding workload often working 10-12 hours a day.
Work issues
I work part time for the computer center as a coordinator, organizing all the computer education from alpha to omega for the students in the uni, and I do another part time work for the Summer University unit also within our uni where they utilize me as a webmistress and lately also as the admin of the e-learning project. The latter one gives me an incredible amount of work, more than I can actually do there in part time.
I was also informally offered a position at the IT unit of the university first as a project assistant and later on as a project manager - but lately I started receiving so many tasks to complete at the computer center, at the summer uni and also in the IT unit's projects that although I am good at multitasking, still, I am not able to manage all of them anymore. It is time to turn some of these down.
Since the summer uni girls also wanted to take me over to full time from September, I decided to accept that, but only if they stand guarantee for that I get at least that salary that I got until now.
So it seems that I am finally leaving the Computer Center where I have been working in the past 9 years (too much time). And also saying "no, thanks" to the IT unit.
The reason for why I rejected the project assistant position is also something additional that happened to me in the past one week.
Getting a degree
I was browsing the website of the Buddhist College where I was accepted to last year but was not able to start my studies, 'cos the classes of the course that I wanted to attend was scheduled for the weekdays which made the whole thing impossible for me to make. My employer did not let me attend the classes (obviously). Now I saw that from this year the same course (Comparative Religious History and Philosophy) is offered as an evening course and also that the application deadline was extended until the end of the month. They wrote on the webpage that the classes are being held on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, so I asked the Summer Uni if they could live with my absence on Fridays - and they agreed.
So I wrote a letter to the College asking if I was eligible to apply again (because I did not enroll to the college last year after my acceptance).
They called me on my mobile(!) saying that I do not have to apply again as I have been on "passive student status" since then, which means that I can start my studies in September if I want to and I do not have to take the entry exam again. Wooohoo!!
So I FINALLY FINALLLY go to college in September!! I cannot believe! After such a long time I am finally able to study further! I needed it so much!
Cs. also applied so now we have to keep our fingers crossed for him and have a good trust in that he can pass the entry exam successfully.
I would not be able to study if I went to the IT unit as a project assistant or manager, so although they offered almost twice as much money as I get now, I finally decided to reject that offer. Now education is the most important for me, and everything else can come only after that. I have no chance to get into foreign higher education institutions just yet because their tuition and other fees are not adjusted to a Hungarian citizen's purse. My only chance to get a first degree is being accepted at a uni/college here in Hungary and after then I can apply for scholarships for MA or PhD at some foreign uni.
This is my last chance I feel - I am getting older, it is more hard to study as time goes by, and who knows - if I ever happen to grow up and my restless mind calms down (not that it shows such a tendency now) and decide to have family and children (holy cow), I won't be able to study I know. At least not while living in Hungary. Here you either work or study. If you study, you cannot work, and you are - almost literally speaking - starving, together with your children. So I have to study before the cog-wheel catches me, too.
Theatre
I also mentioned in the previous entries that the theatre that I am a member of wanted me to play again in a tale. We finally had four rehearsals and then we did three performances each of which was a big success. I also got some extra money for that work and that was at the best possible time because I suddenly got short on money before the end of this month (my salary is paid monthly).
I am however a bit concerned about what I should say if they want to do the same performances on a somewhat regular basis. I always have to take days off in order to be able to make it those days on the stage, but I do not want to "waste" all my holidays on this. Also it requires a lot of energy and time to prepare for each rehearsal and performance, which is very difficult to afford beside a full time job plus regular overtimes plus training (plus studying from September). So probably soon I will have to put a full stop at the end of this theatre story as well. It is a pitty but I cannot sit on too many horses with one ass.
I have been pretty busy recently, which means that I am under a very massive and demanding workload often working 10-12 hours a day.
Work issues
I work part time for the computer center as a coordinator, organizing all the computer education from alpha to omega for the students in the uni, and I do another part time work for the Summer University unit also within our uni where they utilize me as a webmistress and lately also as the admin of the e-learning project. The latter one gives me an incredible amount of work, more than I can actually do there in part time.
I was also informally offered a position at the IT unit of the university first as a project assistant and later on as a project manager - but lately I started receiving so many tasks to complete at the computer center, at the summer uni and also in the IT unit's projects that although I am good at multitasking, still, I am not able to manage all of them anymore. It is time to turn some of these down.
Since the summer uni girls also wanted to take me over to full time from September, I decided to accept that, but only if they stand guarantee for that I get at least that salary that I got until now.
So it seems that I am finally leaving the Computer Center where I have been working in the past 9 years (too much time). And also saying "no, thanks" to the IT unit.
The reason for why I rejected the project assistant position is also something additional that happened to me in the past one week.
Getting a degree
I was browsing the website of the Buddhist College where I was accepted to last year but was not able to start my studies, 'cos the classes of the course that I wanted to attend was scheduled for the weekdays which made the whole thing impossible for me to make. My employer did not let me attend the classes (obviously). Now I saw that from this year the same course (Comparative Religious History and Philosophy) is offered as an evening course and also that the application deadline was extended until the end of the month. They wrote on the webpage that the classes are being held on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, so I asked the Summer Uni if they could live with my absence on Fridays - and they agreed.
So I wrote a letter to the College asking if I was eligible to apply again (because I did not enroll to the college last year after my acceptance).
They called me on my mobile(!) saying that I do not have to apply again as I have been on "passive student status" since then, which means that I can start my studies in September if I want to and I do not have to take the entry exam again. Wooohoo!!
So I FINALLY FINALLLY go to college in September!! I cannot believe! After such a long time I am finally able to study further! I needed it so much!
Cs. also applied so now we have to keep our fingers crossed for him and have a good trust in that he can pass the entry exam successfully.
I would not be able to study if I went to the IT unit as a project assistant or manager, so although they offered almost twice as much money as I get now, I finally decided to reject that offer. Now education is the most important for me, and everything else can come only after that. I have no chance to get into foreign higher education institutions just yet because their tuition and other fees are not adjusted to a Hungarian citizen's purse. My only chance to get a first degree is being accepted at a uni/college here in Hungary and after then I can apply for scholarships for MA or PhD at some foreign uni.
This is my last chance I feel - I am getting older, it is more hard to study as time goes by, and who knows - if I ever happen to grow up and my restless mind calms down (not that it shows such a tendency now) and decide to have family and children (holy cow), I won't be able to study I know. At least not while living in Hungary. Here you either work or study. If you study, you cannot work, and you are - almost literally speaking - starving, together with your children. So I have to study before the cog-wheel catches me, too.
Theatre
I also mentioned in the previous entries that the theatre that I am a member of wanted me to play again in a tale. We finally had four rehearsals and then we did three performances each of which was a big success. I also got some extra money for that work and that was at the best possible time because I suddenly got short on money before the end of this month (my salary is paid monthly).
I am however a bit concerned about what I should say if they want to do the same performances on a somewhat regular basis. I always have to take days off in order to be able to make it those days on the stage, but I do not want to "waste" all my holidays on this. Also it requires a lot of energy and time to prepare for each rehearsal and performance, which is very difficult to afford beside a full time job plus regular overtimes plus training (plus studying from September). So probably soon I will have to put a full stop at the end of this theatre story as well. It is a pitty but I cannot sit on too many horses with one ass.
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