Crisis - the check up (22)
I use to work but last year I went back to skool...Because my kids understand more about C++ than me
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Phoenix: I use to work but last year I went back to skool...Because my kids understand more about C++ than me
That they will indefinitely, they have got a head start.
C++... I started Assembler at the age of 12
C was not even officially invented.It takes you out of the equation to the claims that everyone is sinking due to recession.
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work and study 
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I work full-time for a language school, which incidentally has lost some company classes. Struggling companies looking to cut costs during the crisis often slash the training budget first.
However, my private classes have increased, People wanting to enhance their cv´s and future job prospects by learning English for the European job market.
So no real crisis for me yet. The cost of living in general though is much more expensive here in Spain than when I arrived just over 4 years ago.
However, my private classes have increased, People wanting to enhance their cv´s and future job prospects by learning English for the European job market.
So no real crisis for me yet. The cost of living in general though is much more expensive here in Spain than when I arrived just over 4 years ago.
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Well, I am supposed to be retired, but work just keeps coming at me ... and I enjoy it all! Lately my voice seems to be in demand - no never was a singer - I do Reading of scripts in english for a medical professor for her power-point presentations on cancer rearch for her lectures to her doctors ... amazing how many different realy odd things there are to do in life huh?
And all the people with full-time jobs seem to get their homes into a terrible mess, and so I got this whacky job of sorting out their lives for them and giving them a neat and orderly home ... throwing out junk, re-organising their apartments for energy flow, I even get taken on their shopping trips to advise with their buying!... AND get paid for all this!
And all the people with full-time jobs seem to get their homes into a terrible mess, and so I got this whacky job of sorting out their lives for them and giving them a neat and orderly home ... throwing out junk, re-organising their apartments for energy flow, I even get taken on their shopping trips to advise with their buying!... AND get paid for all this!
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smoky: Well, I am supposed to be retired, but work just keeps coming at me ... and I enjoy it all! Lately my voice seems to be in demand - no never was a singer - I do Reading of scripts in english for a medical professor for her power-point presentations on cancer rearch for her lectures to her doctors ... amazing how many different realy odd things there are to do in life huh?
And all the people with full-time jobs seem to get their homes into a terrible mess, and so I got this whacky job of sorting out their lives for them and giving them a neat and orderly home ... throwing out junk, re-organising their apartments for energy flow, I even get taken on their shopping trips to advise with their buying!... AND get paid for all this!
Getting paid for having all the Fun.And all the people with full-time jobs seem to get their homes into a terrible mess, and so I got this whacky job of sorting out their lives for them and giving them a neat and orderly home ... throwing out junk, re-organising their apartments for energy flow, I even get taken on their shopping trips to advise with their buying!... AND get paid for all this!
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smoky: Well, I am supposed to be retired, but work just keeps coming at me ... and I enjoy it all! Lately my voice seems to be in demand - no never was a singer - I do Reading of scripts in english for a medical professor for her power-point presentations on cancer rearch for her lectures to her doctors ... amazing how many different realy odd things there are to do in life huh?
And all the people with full-time jobs seem to get their homes into a terrible mess, and so I got this whacky job of sorting out their lives for them and giving them a neat and orderly home ... throwing out junk, re-organising their apartments for energy flow, I even get taken on their shopping trips to advise with their buying!... AND get paid for all this!
And all the people with full-time jobs seem to get their homes into a terrible mess, and so I got this whacky job of sorting out their lives for them and giving them a neat and orderly home ... throwing out junk, re-organising their apartments for energy flow, I even get taken on their shopping trips to advise with their buying!... AND get paid for all this!
Smoky! That sounds like my kind of work!
What a voice!
That reminds me of my very jealous ex Spanish boyfriend who tried to sabotage my English language recordings for students. He said the male students would be doing you know what whilst they were listening.
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Jan1305: Smoky! That sounds like my kind of work!
What a voice!
That reminds me of my very jealous ex Spanish boyfriend who tried to sabotage my English language recordings for students. He said the male students would be doing you know what whilst they were listening.
Sad but true!
What a voice!
That reminds me of my very jealous ex Spanish boyfriend who tried to sabotage my English language recordings for students. He said the male students would be doing you know what whilst they were listening.
Sad but true!
Yeah, I was worried initially about my accent, but fortunately I dont seem to have the typical SA accent! Probably to do with living in an english speaking province in SA? She (the professor lady) said I have a neutral voice, neither american twangy nor british nasal (ha ha ha dont bomb me you brits! she said it not me!)
Typical SA accent sounds like this: "Ah cahm vrom Sarf Efreeka and I likes da sunny skuys and beeeches der"
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smoky: Yeah, I was worried initially about my accent, but fortunately I dont seem to have the typical SA accent! Probably to do with living in an english speaking province in SA? She (the professor lady) said I have a neutral voice, neither american twangy nor british nasal (ha ha ha dont bomb me you brits! she said it not me!)
Typical SA accent sounds like this: "Ah cahm vrom Sarf Efreeka and I likes da sunny skuys and beeeches der"
The Dutch I worked with sounded a bit like that.Typical SA accent sounds like this: "Ah cahm vrom Sarf Efreeka and I likes da sunny skuys and beeeches der"
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smoky: Yeah, I was worried initially about my accent, but fortunately I dont seem to have the typical SA accent! Probably to do with living in an english speaking province in SA? She (the professor lady) said I have a neutral voice, neither american twangy nor british nasal (ha ha ha dont bomb me you brits! she said it not me!)
Typical SA accent sounds like this: "Ah cahm vrom Sarf Efreeka and I likes da sunny skuys and beeeches der"
Typical SA accent sounds like this: "Ah cahm vrom Sarf Efreeka and I likes da sunny skuys and beeeches der"
I know what you mean. My accent is what´s known as "standard English". I could read the news for the BBC if they´d have me!
I was born in Liverpool, but my posh school hammered out the scouse accent, then I moved to the South of England when I was 22, so the result is what it is...standard.
If I´m angry or very tired though, my scouse accent is detectable to a good ear.
I work with a South African (of Spanish parentage) who speaks beter English than the Queen, but he still comes out with it from time to time, and he was taught, oh I can´t remember the names, but a couple of specific South African languages at school.
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Conrad73: The Dutch I worked with sounded a bit like that.
To get the accent perfectly ..... you take out your false teeth, grow a huge beer belly, drive a 4x4, and have at least 6 children and your in-laws living with you (if you`re male) and work weekends as a Car-Guard in the local supermarket parking grounds to pay towards your annual holiday in a camping ground on the coast.... where you all wear Day-Glo beach wear and eat ice-cream cones and ride on Dodgem cars at the beachside fairgrounds, and get repeatedly hauled out of the surf by long-suffering Lifesavers.
If female, she`s so tired of the kids, the maid, and her husband and rugby and soccer and cricket, she drinks coffee with her neighbors, and goes shopping and spends all the holiday money on clothes for her fantasy sea-cruise that she imagines she`s gonna go on one day when he dies from overwork and she collects the insurance - and thats the reason he does Car-Guard work on weekends when there`s no Rugby, Soccer, Cricket to watch on the Telly.
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smoky: To get the accent perfectly ..... you take out your false teeth, grow a huge beer belly, drive a 4x4, and have at least 6 children and your in-laws living with you (if you`re male) and work weekends as a Car-Guard in the local supermarket parking grounds to pay towards your annual holiday in a camping ground on the coast.... where you all wear Day-Glo beach wear and eat ice-cream cones and ride on Dodgem cars at the beachside fairgrounds, and get repeatedly hauled out of the surf by long-suffering Lifesavers.
If female, she`s so tired of the kids, the maid, and her husband and rugby and soccer and cricket, she drinks coffee with her neighbors, and goes shopping and spends all the holiday money on clothes for her fantasy sea-cruise that she imagines she`s gonna go on one day when he dies from overwork and she collects the insurance - and thats the reason he does Car-Guard work on weekends when there`s no Rugby, Soccer, Cricket to watch on the Telly.
That sounds like a lot of hard work!If female, she`s so tired of the kids, the maid, and her husband and rugby and soccer and cricket, she drinks coffee with her neighbors, and goes shopping and spends all the holiday money on clothes for her fantasy sea-cruise that she imagines she`s gonna go on one day when he dies from overwork and she collects the insurance - and thats the reason he does Car-Guard work on weekends when there`s no Rugby, Soccer, Cricket to watch on the Telly.
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mike69spain: Just curious.
Mike Spiky ... perdona´me .. olvidaste algo
quien non quire trabajar officialmente - at least
Why we have to suffer a system - I work freelance - where do I fit your pollos ?
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highfidelity: Mike Spiky ... perdona´me .. olvidaste algo
quien non quire trabajar officialmente - at least
Why we have to suffer a system - I work freelance - where do I fit your pollos ?
quien non quire trabajar officialmente - at least
Why we have to suffer a system - I work freelance - where do I fit your pollos ?
No, no olvido nada aqui...
I really was going to add a few cases and where they would belong; in there is the freelancer, but then I was thinking - a job is a job is a job.
Fulltime, that would be all day numbering somewhat more than 7 hours over 5 days.
Part time, less than that
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To be honest, I wish the phone would stop ringing.....I'm turning work down...
mike69spain: Just curious.
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Lagoona22: To be honest, I wish the phone would stop ringing.....I'm turning work down...
We are two doing that... at least I have some to forward to.
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Hey old pals!!!
Hope you're all well!!!
I'm working only a few hours a week by choice giving Spanish lessons to groups of adults who live here in South of Spain. I also do healing therapies, the odd haircut and my latest fun job: watching "Greys Anatomy" in Spanish with an Irish guy who who then slows down the dialogue with his PC software. Next, we listen to the episode's dialogue again and my job is to explain any vocabulary/expressions he can't understand.
I've been quite busy getting a real life but think about you guys every now and then. Might say hi a bit more often (may be!!!!!!!!!hahaha!)when I get the internet
Hugs to you all and thank for everyones kind words at different times. Sorry I have not replied to the messages/flowers/congratulations/new years greetings as when I get into a ciberplace I always end up dealing with the urgent messages first then run out of time to do "internet play"
Hope you're all well!!!
I'm working only a few hours a week by choice giving Spanish lessons to groups of adults who live here in South of Spain. I also do healing therapies, the odd haircut and my latest fun job: watching "Greys Anatomy" in Spanish with an Irish guy who who then slows down the dialogue with his PC software. Next, we listen to the episode's dialogue again and my job is to explain any vocabulary/expressions he can't understand.
I've been quite busy getting a real life but think about you guys every now and then. Might say hi a bit more often (may be!!!!!!!!!hahaha!)when I get the internet
Hugs to you all and thank for everyones kind words at different times. Sorry I have not replied to the messages/flowers/congratulations/new years greetings as when I get into a ciberplace I always end up dealing with the urgent messages first then run out of time to do "internet play"
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Hi Flowerofthesun. Good luck with your real life
Mike, the crisis is real I suppose. Not us, but people are loosing jobs out there
Mike, the crisis is real I suppose. Not us, but people are loosing jobs out there
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Where would mums tick a box?
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cristina: Hi Flowerofthesun. Good luck with your real life
Mike, the crisis is real I suppose. Not us, but people are loosing jobs out there
Mike, the crisis is real I suppose. Not us, but people are loosing jobs out there
Hi Christina
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cristina: Hi Flowerofthesun. Good luck with your real life
Mike, the crisis is real I suppose. Not us, but people are loosing jobs out there
Mike, the crisis is real I suppose. Not us, but people are loosing jobs out there
Hey girly girl!!! Thank you!!!
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cristina: people are loosing jobs out there
They sure do, the crisis is very real.
I am not content with the causes and the ideas on how to mend it, thats all
How I wish for a better idea coming up, but none have yet been presented that holds water.
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