Just in case anyone is curious ...

[Ashtal@School]

Hihi! This is a very Un-Modly Ashtal posting from School. I don't trust the system with my other passwords (which reminds me to go and change my hotmail account password again ... ), but I still wouldn't mind being able to post from school in a non-Modly way.

Hence, the 'Ashtal@School' handle.

And if something goes REALLY wierd, and I start saying very Un-Ashtal things (at least, Un-Ashtal for ENWorld), then you know someone has gotten this profile and run-amok with it.

Anywho, hope everyone has a great day! I'm off to Meat Theory.

(We actually got to see a video on moose-slaughtering! Hee!)



Ashtal

 

[hong]

I was under the impression you'd actually finished school, and in fact had just found a job...?

 

[Ashtal@School]

Heh.

I had finished school, Journalism, and did have a job. But, things got icky this year. When the contract ended, the organization didn't have any money to renew it, so I was out the door, on my butt, not a penny in my hand. Then I had thyroid cancer. That's resolved now, but it left me out of the workplace for about three months, and when I went back in, there wasn't a job to speak of in the city - nothing besides basic office work.

So, after the urgings of my BF, I decided to dive into Chef Training.

I'm having an absolute blast with it, too. It's like everything's clicking and I'm on this total, energetic high, at least when I get the thyroid pills down my throat at the right time! They are probably going to be tinkering with my dosage for the next few years though.

This training course is a year long, then I enter the industry. After a few years, I can write my papers, and be a fully accredited Chef.

Interestingly enough, I'd say about half the class I am in consists of people who have dramatically changed career paths. And I've learned the hard way that I never want to work in a straight-laced office again. Ugh.


Ashtal

 

[hong]

Heh.

I had finished school, Journalism, and did have a job. But, things got icky this year. When the contract ended, the organization didn't have any money to renew it, so I was out the door, on my butt, not a penny in my hand. Then I had thyroid cancer.

Memo to self: avoid citizens of Sudbury, who can be recognised by their distinctive healthy glow, which illuminates a 20-foot radius at night. Recommend UN inspectors check out Canadia for signs of weapons of mass destruction.

Seriously, that's heavy. I keep thinking of cancer as something only old people get, but obviously this is slightly inaccurate.

Interestingly enough, I'd say about half the class I am in consists of people who have dramatically changed career paths. And I've learned the hard way that I never want to work in a straight-laced office again. Ugh.

The department I work in is about as non-straightlaced as you can get, in an insurance company. I thank my lucky stars.

 

[Ashtal]

Memo to self: avoid citizens of Sudbury, who can be recognised by their distinctive healthy glow, which illuminates a 20-foot radius at night. Recommend UN inspectors check out Canadia for signs of weapons of mass destruction.

Seriously, that's heavy. I keep thinking of cancer as something only old people get, but obviously this is slightly inaccurate.

*LOLOLOL*

Well, you know, it helps reading late at night, not getting lost in all these snow storms, that sorta thing.

Actually, from what I understand, Thyroid Cancer is one of those cancers that's hitting my age group really hard and heavy. Mine wasn't even visible when it was spoted - my doctor felt something a little off when he did the neck/cough test. It's a relatively nice cancer, in that it's so localized, can be removed, and a pill afterwards fixes you up. Still something I'd rather have skipped, of course, but better than alternatives.

 

[Jarval]

So, after the urgings of my BF, I decided to dive into Chef Training.

I'm having an absolute blast with it, too.

In Ashtal's Profile:
Occupation: One that offers only mind-numbing insanity...

Time for a profile update, maybe

Seriously, I'm glad to hear things are going better for you. Sounds like you're having a great time with the chef training (although I'm not too sure about the whole moose-slaughtering thing ).

 

[Piratecat]

(We actually got to see a video on moose-slaughtering! Hee!)

The immense silence you hear is me not making a Canada joke.

 

[Crothian]

Re: Re: Just in case anyone is curious ...

The immense silence you hear is me not making a Canada joke.

LMAO, ya, that would be a little easy.

 

[Ashtal]

Heh, you should have heard the jokes WE were making.

I mean, honestly, we had some people positively repulsed watching it get gutted in the out of doors, with only a sheet of plastic between the carcass and the ground.

And yes ... a profile update is probably a good thing.

 

[rackabello]

So, after the urgings of my BF, I decided to dive into Chef Training.
....
And I've learned the hard way that I never want to work in a straight-laced office again. Ugh.

Ashtal, if you haven't already, you must read Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential. While it's not for the faint of heart, nor, in all likelihood, for Eric's Grandma, it's a very funny, very profane memoir of a lifetime NYC punk rocker and junkie chefs exploits in the restaurant business. Witty, wicked, and full of self-deprecating machismo. Though it'll make you leary of ever again going out for brunch...

edit: puck rocker? i wanted you to think Ramones, not hockey!