bodice_ripper

I'm not anti apprenticeships, I'm sure they are frequently a better idea than college. Leaving school early is a bad plan though. At least if you finish, then apprentice, when you get sick of getting up at the crack of dawn 6 days a week for like 80 euro in the first year, while all you friends do 11 hours a week in college, you can do a u-turn.

i'm finished an apprenticeship, plus I've an honours degree in Fine Art. I didn't have to bust my ass on a portfolio to get in, because they take into account your Leaving Cert result as well, and I kicked ass. Which is besides the point, if you have only one year to finish, why not finish, then worry about apprenticeships, that way you keep you options for the next decade open. Anyway, apprenticing as a painter is a poor choice. The money is in electrician. seriously, don't narrow your options so young. I know that sounds patronising, but when I was 17, I wanted to be a Marine. Thank fuck my parents stopped me and I grew out of that....

ps, I have scads of friends (who you probably know...) who see themselves as "freelance graphic designers", by which they mean they buy Juxtapose and believe that working as a graphic designer means sitting around smoking dope and beating one lame catchy image to death while making no money. The two people I know who make money in graphic design are both college educated and bust their holes on other people's projects. That's the reality.

Have some sense, finish school you eejit. The world is CRAWLING with young fellas who though they were too smart to finish school when they could be making pocket change. The job market in Ireland is on the way down at the moment. ps teachers are notoriously poorly paid in ireland, so its probably a bad comparison "Generally, you will need to have completed your Leaving Certificate. However, if you are applying for a place as a mature student, you will not be asked to meet the usual entry requirements. Different courses operate different entry procedures, but, in general, the colleges will take into account your educational background, work history, community involvement and other achievements and interests. This system is known as the Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL). It is useful to find out whether the college of your choice uses the APEL system before you apply. In some cases, you may be asked to take an entrance exam" http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/education/third-level-education/applying-to-college/third_level_courses_for_mature_students its not a case of, "ah sure, you may as well drop out, and then get in the back door at 21 with no Leaving". Some colleges won't take you at all, some will require an exam, some will have no Mature Student places in particular courses. If you can't man up and finish the last year of secondary school, you AREN'T going to like the reality of life as an unskilled labourer. anyway, you are a scenester, I know this, college will be right up your street.

Kings of Leon - Molly's Chambers

re-reading this

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Fucker

Fiona Apple - Slow Like Honey

I'll have you young fellas know that homosexuality is the One True Way to Satan.

The Decemberists - Grace Cathedral Hill

imma keep posting screwable young ones. either I'll get propped, or, I'll just troll the internet for fuckable girlflicks. either way I win

Black Rebel Motorcylce Club - The Line

I can't think of anything clever to solicit props.... I have them to give in return though.... :)

dire straits - walk of life

Iron and Wine Creedence Mindless Self Indulgence

You’re propping up a dying system, man!

I'm more heavily armed :)

thank you poesia. I'd prop, but i was DENIED

this seems like the random bullshit thread.... who was that young one who busted her ankle landing a jump in the olympics in gymnastics? Remember, the coach carried her around. maybe the 1996 olympics I think.....

So, Amy Winehouse's music is a re-hash of music devised and better played by other people? NOT AMY WINEHOUSE!?!?

Re: dear kat von d I have to disagree on the overweight thing. Racist, maybe, but that's a real good looking girl.

its an irish film, so its going to suck

I wasn't complaining, I was just wondering if rules had changed while I was on hiatus from ch 0

you know what I mean though. Time was when the word "bong" was like auto-close.