passed my exams

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: January 26th, 2011 | 0 Comments

I’m meant for this post to be up sooner, but better late then never I suppose! Last Friday our results for the exams that we sat just before Christmas were released. The results are not supposed to be officially released until 5pm when the college will send out an email with login details for you to go to a site and get your results. From previous years I have noticed that if you can remember your login details from previous semester results then you can go straight to the results website earlier in the day, usually sometime around 2pm and you can log in early. That way you get your results early and don’t have to wait if the college site crashes and you cant access your email. If you get an access denied message, just try again every 10 minutes or so, eventually they will be up. Now onto my results, the good new is I passed everything! I am absolutely delighted about it, I didn’t get exactly what I expected, they seemed to be marked harder than I thought, I wasn’t alone, others in my class felt the same, but overall I am happy. The last thing I wanted to have to do is repeat an exam from Christmas during the summer, it’s a nightmare. That’s the way our college does things, instead of the logical way of making the re-sit in January, they decided to add it in with all of our summer exams! Ever try and remember stuff for an exam about 8 months after doing it? So now that I have my results, I am more at ease that I wont have a repeat hanging over my head, now I can focus on everything I have to do this semester. I am really looking forward to these final exams in summer, more so looking forward to finishing college and getting started on a career, college is getting boring now and all I keep thinking is, get the work done and get out.

Silence on the blog front

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: October 2nd, 2009 | 0 Comments

It's been over a week now since i last visited this blog. I have been so busy i have had no time to actually sit down and get a post sorted for the night.

There are a lot of reasons for my absense on this blog. I have been working constantly with my job. It is supposed to be a part-time job however with the hours i am getting these days it definitly would feel worse than a full time job! Some shifts can be 12 hours.

And that work-rate is not going to slow down over the next few weeks or months, as Christmas is approaching (we actually put Christmas decorations out today!) in a few months it means that we will be working more and more. I am greatfull to have the hours, however working day after day with these hours is just mental!

I am back at college too, so between college and work, my time is pretty stretched out. This week i also went to the funeral of my Great Granny, 101 years old! And i also had an appointment with the hospital this week.

So when i did finally get some time to sit down to my computer i would usually just put on some music and then work away with a website that i am doing for an Electrical Company. I was pushing to have the first version of the site done for yesterday (Thursday) and i succeeded :) A lot of work went into it and i have made it live on the internet now.

There is still a lot more that will be changed on the site, i sat down yesterday and had a meeting with the owner and he was asking what i could do to improve the site. A few suggestions were made and now i have a short list of tweaks that i will be making to the site over the next week.

Busy busy busy, with all this work i hope to still manage to get out some more posts a bit more regularly. Lets hope this will not be the last post of this month!

Week off work next week

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: September 11th, 2009 | 0 Comments

I am really looking forward to being off work next week. For the past few weeks i have been working very hectic days in work. So having a week off will be great :D .

The reason i am off next week is actually my winter holidays, it may seem a very early time to take a weeks holidays but because i work in a retail store the final 2 months of the year are very hectic since Christmas stock will be arriving and will be out on sale as of November.

So no staff are allowed to take any week long holidays because they cannot afford to have less staff during the busy holiday season.

Something that really gets on your nerves when working in a large retail store, and i am sure if you ever worked in dunnes like me then by the time Christmas comes along and everyone else is happy to be putting up their decorations, you usually hate the sight of them since you would of seen them for the past 2 months.

So looking forward to my week off next week, it will be my last week off this year before next spring :( .