Hello everyone. I wonder when the next lemmy canvas will be, hopefully we get the aussie flag completed (itI’ll have bluey on it)
Job application for animal tech role completed! Fuck I hope I get an interview at least, so I can see what those types of roles are looking for specifically.
I still don’t know if I want to go vet nurse or animal tech though. I can do the Cert IV Vet Nurse at my current TAFE, or go to Box Hill for the Diploma in Animal Tech. Vet Nurses are needed quite desperately, but so are Animal Techs, and Animal Tech is very lab-based research - which is extremely up my alley haha.
I’d love to be an advocate for animal welfare in animal tech spaces, and I’m not sure I could handle vet nursing due to the clients (many unknowingly mistreat their pets), but either way I just want to help animals. Vet nursing means I can help owners understand their pets needs, and animal tech means I could contribute to life saving medicine and research.
I was also considering animal agriculture as well, but I’ll 100% need my driver’s license for that!
I love all the animals! Choices choices!!!
Good luck :)
When I volunteered at Lort Smith, many people were there to build up their resume for animal/vet roles. In case you’re looking for more ways to get good things on your resume.
Thank you!! Just applied as a volunteer!!
They’ll probably start you in the laundry room for three months. It’s a pretty easy four hour shift doing industrial laundry and delivering clean towels to the areas. I later moved to kennels. The laundry shift is great in winter, it’s really warm with the big dryers. I left because a kennel tech cracked the shits at me for playing with a ‘red’ coded dog that I’d asked the lead tech about. The dog wasn’t aggressive but it was strong and would jump at people with an open mouth creating a bite risk. I’m also a big strong dude so I was trying to help socialise the dog in a calm manner and the mid range tech came in an yelled at me without knowing the full story so I quit.
I don’t know much about careers and stuff but if they’re equally appealing you could go for whichever has the higher salary, so you have a bit more financial stability if you want to change to the other one in future?
Or whichever offers experience to help you get into the other (if it works like that)
True true! I think I’d just happy working with animals at this point, regardless of the actual job! And I have about six months before I get my cert III so plenty of time to think and research and apply :D
True about the poultry free!! So hard because I think a lot of it is chickens are pretty cheap to process, and taurine is a requirement for cats specifically, so it’s an easy way to get that amino acid. I think there is taurine powder available, that can be added to their diet, but I don’t know much about that or what else is in it! But thank you! Another career option to consider!!!
I had an interest in a certain line of work around 10 years ago. I literally drove to those companies unannounced and asked the the owners if I could chat about the career for a bit. To my surprise they were very accommodating and answered all my questions. It helped immensely.
Maybe try that?
E: maybe make an appointment first lol. I can be passionate and impulsive at times.
I’m planning on emailing local shelters and vet clinics and see if they’re willing to take me on (either volunteer or part time, so I can still go to school).
I’m back from Chapel st and the book store. Scored a small pile of Melodiya and Supraphon LPs and 2 Yehudi Menuhin records. from the op shop. $1 each
Got my bike after about a decade from a relative’s house because we have no room, and whilst the bike is still an okay size (I haven’t grown since I was probably 13), the helmet is not. My head must’ve grown.
Anyone else got a thing for cute brunettes in Kilts? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gyGTEHyUysM
I’ve got a thing for Tennant.
Oh he is a delight 😎
Rough night’s sleep. Don’t feel too rested today.
Work partner is out sick today as well so bleh.
Let the day end already please.
Yeah I think I slept ok but still woke up drained as well. Weird.
Here’s hoping we both get a better night’s sleep tonight.
good night everyone 😘 sweet dreams
MFW we’re drunkenly discussing US politics and neonazis and the Polish dude starts getting weirdly insistent about how many Jews his family saved during the war.
Sounds like he doesn’t want to be mistaken for a neonazi haha!
My fam and I had a big rant about US politics the other weekend when I saw them. My Opa was a lil boy in Nazi Germany and has some wild, wild anecdotes from that time. Crazy shit. He’s pissed AF the US is going down the same route. Nan is also pissed as well, we all are.
I was teased for being a Nazi when I was in PS and HS, because my surname always attracts questions. Kids are kids, but because of Opa and my experiences, and history, I FUCKING HATE NAZIS!
There should be no place for them in today’s society, no matter how anyone spins it. It’s fucked up to the highest degree, and is extremely insulting and offensive to everyone who fought for our freedom and liberty, our rights and our right to be our honest authentic selves.
We should NOT tolerate intolerance.
Jsyk, paradox of intolerance goes right tf away whrn you realise we’re talking about a social contract violation.
My aunt’s parents were kids in nazi germany as well. Fuck they have some heartbreaking stories.
My mother was young during wwii.
She told me her Jewish neighbours were taken away. No description, just a statement. One of the very few things she said about her war experience.
Aunt’s father was one of the kids stuffed into uniforms and given guns once the allies started taking german territory. Dude was barely four foot in his 80’s recalled being captured by a US platoon, all of them HUGE in comparison. He spoke no english and they spoke no german. Freely admits he pissed himself.
Aunts mother complains about the rats. Always the rats. Only spoke of the actual nazi tenure once, when very drunk. Friends, neighbours, people were disappearing and everyone knew why but no one said or did anything. She broke down in tears. “We were so stupid”
😢
It’s a bit hard to see, but there’s a very happy wattle bird eating nectar from the salvia outside my back door. Have been feeling very blah and burnt out lately, and the bird chatter is a nice distraction
I can see it! I love hot lips salvia. Such a cheerful, pretty plant :)
Yesterday I saw a rainbow lorikeet but didn’t get a pic
A bunch of them are obsessed with eating our diosma flowers and ripping the lead paint off the balustrades. Less for me to take off i guess.
Off work today and tomorrow to try and beat myself into getting this uni fieldwork started - adhd tendencies in hyperdrive… just unable to focus on the random sampling bit so that I can get out there already while the weather’s good. I’ll get there, beating myself up is not helpful…
…but the good news is, today’s been a day for procrastiductivity: I FINALLY PULLED THE TRIGGER and bought an 8-place benchtop dishwasher after some research. As it always goes: it really wasn’t that difficult after all!
It’s arriving tomorrow; hopefully Appliances Online will bring it up the stairs for me. Installation should be super easy, just attach it directly to the spare washing machine tap I mysteriously have, and drain out to the laundry sink immediately adjacent.
I only have 3 months left on my lease (hopefully can extend to 4-5 to see me through the end of uni), but dishes are an obvious pain point for me that drags down my mood and momentum, so $315 is worth it - it’s about an extra day of work after tax, I can make up for it easily. And it should be easy to sell on afterwards if I don’t need it later
Remember: if you don’t have kitchen hookups there is nothing stopping you putting it in the laundry! That’s what we did :)
I almost have no choice but to put it in the “laundry” as I can’t sacrifice any more benchtop space in the kitchen; as it is I have to keep putting away my air fryer and rice cooker after use and haven’t even taken my toaster out, all of which shits me. But the “laundry” works a lot better because it’s basically a cupboard right next to the kitchen anyway - so minimal steps to transfer items, and makes use of empty space on top of the washing machine.
Worth doing. I got a couple wrong that I didn’t think were wrong when I answered. Bit of a wake up call.
10/11. The credit card one fucked me.
same, I pay mine off asap or don’t use one at all
Ahh… I don’t have a car and am a pensioner. Also I don’t have a credit card. I can only really speak to the eggs.
Does this mean I’m entitled to kids meals and tickets?
10/11 - the super contribution one got me (by half a percent!).
Exactly the same here. Even down to the amount I was off by on that one we got wrong.
Twinsies!
7/10 not mad about the ones I got wrong!
Same here! I got the ones right that I should’ve.
9/11 - I fail at the math ones lol! And the tyre one hahah
8 outta 11. not bad!
I got 8. It would be great if this stuff was taught in schools. I worked in a bank for a while, and as unpleasant as that was at least it made me learn about interest
I couldn’t be bothered doing the math. 4! Which is rather a worry given what I’m doing this week 😝
The egg one is baffling. I’ve never seen buy one get one free for eggs.
9/11. Don’t rely on me to change a tyre!
Yeah no, it’s way too early to be awake right now.
Yes, yes it is. Stupid brainmeats.
It’s fine. Take this ☕️
Much appreciated.
Here’s one for you ☕️
Tossing up whether I ride to work today. I always see if I can convince myself otherwise but usually end up going
A while back boyo told me off for not having my furniture wax cloths in a sealed tin. He’s right, they can spontaneously combust. But… I just discovered a 🤢🦠Gah!
That’s what puts me off oil paints (that and laziness). The risk of spontaneous combustion
Got jokingly teased at work today because I couldn’t lift stuff that everyone else could lift. I think it’s time to potentially invest in a PT. Or just head to the gym and try to go consistently to actually see results. My muscle mass is low, but I also think the tension is low, and that’s not something that’s as fixable.
