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um....yeah kuala lumpur

 

http://www.pavilion-kl.com/viewstore/Village-Roast-Duck

 

 that said been there a few times now and it's always been good but not great, but last night was perfect.

2nd best duck I have had,

 

best, Mr Wong's in Sydney,

http://merivale.com.au/mrwong/

Leg ham, where are you at now? 

Arrived in osaka this morning. Its been an intense day. No sleep during the flight, then pickup hire car (mazda supremacy equivalent). GPS with english functions is just that lol driving is soooo different here. We're not prepared for it at all. Lots of getting honked and running "red lights". Parking is a bitch. My first non-english speaking country and im struggling, but im sure itll get easier with each day.

Osaka auto messe tomorrow!
Decided i dont want a jap waifu. I had it in my head that jap culture was noticeably different from other asian countries, but im noticing (and people are saying) no, not really.
1 hour ago, Leroy Peterson said:


Arrived in osaka this morning. Its been an intense day. No sleep during the flight, then pickup hire car (mazda supremacy equivalent). GPS with english functions is just that lol driving is soooo different here. We're not prepared for it at all. Lots of getting honked and running "red lights". Parking is a bitch. My first non-english speaking country and im struggling, but im sure itll get easier with each day.

Osaka auto messe tomorrow!
Decided i dont want a jap waifu. I had it in my head that jap culture was noticeably different from other asian countries, but im noticing (and people are saying) no, not really.

Japan, ooh exciting!

I'm sure you'll be fine driving in Japan, I survived Europe whilst drunk, jet-lagged and steering wheel in wrong side of the car. Did 200+ on Autobahn the next day, so yeah you'll be fine since you're driving the same layout as here. 

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It's just shit like this. Lots of turning lanes, no lines to show where to stop or edge of intersections etc. Because there's no where to park, people just pullover and chuck their hazards on.

Whats a public high school teacher get paid out of curiosity? 

Currently in the mix for an IT role at a high school managing their infrastructure ~1300 kids but recruiters initial salary rate was stupidly low, hoping I can sway them up once I meet or he's wrong.. he said might be hard as they have tight budgets (a few minutes after he said previous IT guy kept blowing a few hundred thousand on IT projects..?)

Found some old rates on google, but all the different levels etc no idea about. 

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It's just shit like this. Lots of turning lanes, no lines to show where to stop or edge of intersections etc. Because there's no where to park, people just pullover and chuck their hazards on.


Yikes.

Just follow the locals. That's what I did in Europe, was mega fun in Autobahn and Autostrada.
1 hour ago, Birds said:

Why would a teacher's salary be relative to that of someone in the IT department?

Its not, just curious and if they give me the 'don't have budget for that' I can put it into perspective 

Plus it would just be me and 1 other guy, and yeh definitely not 100k if the initial chat was anything to go by, although I'd be happy to take less than what I'm worth if I can take 12 weeks leave ;)

Other than that have an interview coming up at a security company which looks promising anyway, I'd rather the school though I reckon. Hopefully get 2 offers to pick from by the end of next week.. fingers crossed

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Actually both of these roles were all done by me, one through seek applying direct to them. The other (school guy) I sent an email to I saw him a couple of years ago, which the job fell through in the end but kept his details.

Also got a potential interview at an IT company from recruiter (who contacted me through seeing me apply on seek) although I don't want to work at an MSP again it's my 3rd choice currently.. 

So kinda doing both + pulling some of my own contacts 

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note that 100K is contract, so there is no 12 weeks leave... if you take leave you don;t get paid, same for sick leave and such. and there no redundancies they can jsut not renew your contract. Not sure if Super is paid either never asked that.

 

so that has to be taken into consideration.

Contact work is higher paid but much less safety net I would basiclly equate 75-80K salary job to 100K contract.

Getting loans and such is also more of a PITA with contract.

 

that said If I ever leave my current work I'm going to try do some short term (3 monthish) contracts to try new things after 16 years in one place.

 

The other thing you need to be aware of working in a school is you are going to see shit you don't want to.

your managing computers that the kids take home this is not a corporate lifestyle,

You come across porn, help track distribution of pics and videos of students and make reports to the school, he has had to take a few things to the police after finding kiddie porn and similar.

 

think:

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/students-from-70-australian-schools-targeted-by-sick-pornography-ring/news-story/53288536e0ce3bba7955e92c7f7fa8da?from=public_rss&utm_content=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=EditorialSF&utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook

 

In this role won't be touching the kids computers - just servers / network / staff PCs

Anyways will find out more info next week.. at least job hunt is going somewhere now 

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18 hours ago, UNR33L said:

In this role won't be touching the kids

Anyways will find out more info next week.. at least job hunt is going somewhere now 

Well good

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