Diary of a career changer - part one

So I hate my job - who doesn't?

That isn't strictly true. I don't hate it as such, the people are nice, I know what I'm doing and I get decent money. It is just dull, I have been doing it for 14 years and I get bored out of my mind. The only potential progression is people management and I am bad at that, tried it, failed, got burned, not doing that again.

I have decided to move into IT, more specifically database design and/or admin. I have some transferable skills but a hell of a lot to learn so I am learning it. Books at the moment but come the autumn I am starting an OU course which will, one day, lead to a computing degree. So that is the plan.

I get the learning bit, easy, I can do that but I will still not have much in the way of work related experience to this new direction and that is where I'm struggling. I'm not sure how I will get round that as a mid 30ish person with a mortgage in an entry level world. But my wife is behind me, supporting me (wonderful woman) and I feel that we can do this.

I guess that part of the dream hasn't been worked out yet but I'm sure we'll get there.

Paranormal Activity - scary film?

No it was shit. In no way was it scary at all, dull dull dull.

I ma enjoying the Star Wars Begins documentary on You Tube though - ace. Watch this!

The world is ending

Now, I'm not sure about the whole Mayan calendar ending in 2012 thing but I think we, as a human race are on the downward spiral. The western world has tried to ruin us with the banking crisis, cuts and world wide recession, the middles east is going through massive upheaval and the planet mostly NZ and Japan is trying to kill us too. Where does most of the world's wealth come from? Oil, and where does that come from? So the area that generates the most wealth and affects every person on the planet is in massive turmoil, prices are going up and what happens when the supply lines start to get cut? The world will start to grind to a halt. The cradle of technology, Japan, is also under attack by the planet, a warning maybe or just a geological phenomenon, I can't say. I think that before too much longer the unrest will spread, societies will collapse, starved of oil and we will regress, the next generation will live in caves, mark my words. It will take one rogue state to puh the button when faced with this upheaval and armegeddon will be let loose so I say enjoy it while we can. Max out those credit cards, if the world doesn't end at least you're stimulating the economy. Blowing up the bubble for the next finaical blow out.

Enjoy life - it'll soon be over.