Fully agree.  Currently in second year studying Maths and Stats and all we do at the moment is state some person's theorem and then prove it.  Hardly the best thing to have happened in my life.

When people say "best years of your life" they seem to be talking about 99% nostalgia.
They say it about school, Uni, and strangely people said it looking back at the War years. Were the War years that good for some people, or is it just looking back 20-30 years later things take on a rosy glow?

The War years were not good for most people.  It's just that when you watch videos about it, they make it look 'nicer' than it actually is. You can't show the war in graphic detail because the horrors would upset the majority of people.

No one said to me that Uni would be the "best years of your life".  They just said that it would be an adventure and it's certainly been a turbulent one of those.

What I specifically meant was people who lived during the war sometimes remember them fondly.

none of the above.

I am a housewife.  No children, no pets.

I used to work.  I usually quit jobs or got "laid off".  The longest I ever worked anywhere was 1 1/2 yrs.  I was a laboratory technician.

I have just completed my Computing Science degree course (my last exam was last Friday), and I'm now looking for my first full time job.

Work full time...always trying to find valid excuse to not show up...long to go back to school. I would love to learn professional photography or videography. Want to make learning tapes and documentaries. Unusually craving for nature too...getting stronger and stronger.

I work in a child care centre with a class of up to 25 three- to four-year olds.  Although I've worked in various clerical positions, including property conveyance over the years, I must admit I love my current work.  Little kids are easier to understand than adults because they are very literal.  Also I have sort of "gravitated" towards the two kids in my class who have been diagnosed as autistic, mainly because I know exactly where they're coming from and we interelate better than they do with the other carers.  
The only real trouble I have is trying to remember names to go with faces; does anybody else have this problem?  Nearly everybody looks alike to me, it's very frustrating.  
Alison

Hi Alison, have you heard of prosopagnosia?
Some people with autism/AS have it.
It can vary in degree from not recognising faces, to being complete unable to recognise a face as a face, or even know yourself in the mirror.

http://www.prosopagnosia.com/

If you do have it to a degree you could try tricks to help yourself compensate. Like focusing on something distinctive about a person, like unusual glasses style, always have a pen in their top pocket or whatever and linking that with their name.
Such as 'pink glasses mary'.

Hi Amy.  
Thanks for that; it's a relief to know that others also have it.  I was only diagnosed as having mild Aspergers in the last couple of years, so am still finding my way around, if you like.  
I've become very adept at telling the children in my class apart by their hair styles and colours, and get a bit miffed whenever their mums decide it's time for a haircut!  Also, I live in the capital city of Australia (Canberra, not Sydney!) and we have a huge mix of ethnicities, so skin colour is a helpful indicator of who I'm speaking to.  But I still tend to get a bit mixed up at times; luckily the kids all think I'm just eccentric or playing a joke by calling them the wrong name, and I tend to play along with it.  
Alison

I avoid calling people by their name, so that I don't get it wrong.

Me too... because I'm afraid of getting it wrong.

I'm not able of learning names, either.

I'm home with my kids, but as I'm divorced, this is not satisfying from the financial point. I'd like to work, but somehow don't know how to manage the double stress. Another problem is, that school is over at 1 pm and we have a very high unemployment rate.

I stopped university when getting the babies (well, I had a profession before, so I thought it would not mind) and I had a husband who said, I would not have to work  :roll:

I really wished I knew what to do. I do some book reviews for the homepage of a friend of mine (saves money, for I get the books for free). I'm quite good at writing and I can interact with people if it is not for too long and they are not upset.

When life was less stress I was quite creative, doing paintings, drawings, pottery, weaving and stuff, but that seems to have all gone with the divorce and all the work and stress with the kids on me alone. It would have been of no financial use anyway.

Sibylle

uni.... hey i liked uni - it taught me to think in 3d and do really really really hard equations, problems etc (ok ok so i did do 2yrs of mechanical engineering).... ok.

work update - i have now got a cert.2 and cert.3 in Information technology, and today i withdrew from cert.4 after doing it for 2 days (oh wow.. not)... and im looking for a job now.... i would have to be one of the world's most overeducated 22yr old! no wonder my mind went WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA too much learning and information overload - lets get panicky, nutty and psychotic all at once! (read my site for details)....

oh yeah.. cause im an official pensioner (nut. lol)... this job agency said i can do some assisted intensive course or something where they can teach me new skills and stuff.. ie if i wanna do some MYOB, they will pay for it.. joysssssssssssssssssssssssssss im moving up in the world i hope. :oops:  :razz:  :shock:

Stay-at-home homeschooling mom.