Finally, it is time for other things and other passions. What will i do with all this time that uni has freed up. Uni always gave me new problems to solve and though i hated it, i still really enjoyed being able to finally solve it and achieve the "Eureka" feeling. But no more of that, I suppose its time to break free of that old way of life and start looking for my own challenges. Hum, hum.
I wonder if i can become a cook/chef. These humanity areas are a great puzzle to me, the stepping stones into the industry seem so awkward, distance and wobbly shaped. I dont know which way to step right now to get me to where i'm going. Would a TAFE course be the way to go? or just applying to jobs in the paper and see what i get? *sigh* As to where i'm actually going, who really knows. I'm very interested in applying my skills into the biomedical industry and actually helping people with technology, yet being a cook seems like fun and excitement and just as satisfying and fulfilling (probably my preception of the industry is totally warped by TV). I want to be an engineer and a cook, can u actually be both?
I'm too frayed right now.
on another note, just read an article today which had a striking effect on me. I'm not a big fan of Jamie Oliver, I enjoy watching his cooking show and he really knows how to present the cooking experience but the food he makes just never really struck me as really super tasty, but rather good recipes with nice twist sorta thing. Anyway the article is about Jamie Oliver and how he's changing the way kids eat lunch at school in Britain. Some people have already told me this, and told me the kids didnt like the food at all, and i was thinking well Mr Jamie Oliver mustn't be that great, just trying to work on the publicity, another reality tv show blah blah blah. Apparently it says in the article that he hid himself in a cupboard and wept because the kids barred him. It sounded funny when i read it *drama*.
But as I read on i see why Jamie did what he did, he tried to teach kids to eat healthy, or more specifically to teach people how to make healthy food taste wholesome and good and thus a means to his ends. Apparently he went around teach kitchen staff how to prepare fresh lunches from fresh ingredients in a manner that took the same time and cost as the processed option. The length article goes through some of things he did throughout the campaign and how he struggled through it, and then how he triumphed after a long wait and intiated huge changes in the industry of school lunches, even causing a processed chicken company to go into receivership.
I really like how he's putting his talents behind a worthy cause. Not to belittle other worth causes, but this one isnt like "Cure Cancer" or "Cure Aids" or "Abolish Poverty" causes which are so astronomical that I can't see how i can help. Jamie, saw a huge problem and said "I can fix this" and he couldn't, but he didnt give up and tried harder, its not fixed yet but its on its way...and kids love him now, and all is good. so props to you Jamie!
I wonder if i can become a cook/chef. These humanity areas are a great puzzle to me, the stepping stones into the industry seem so awkward, distance and wobbly shaped. I dont know which way to step right now to get me to where i'm going. Would a TAFE course be the way to go? or just applying to jobs in the paper and see what i get? *sigh* As to where i'm actually going, who really knows. I'm very interested in applying my skills into the biomedical industry and actually helping people with technology, yet being a cook seems like fun and excitement and just as satisfying and fulfilling (probably my preception of the industry is totally warped by TV). I want to be an engineer and a cook, can u actually be both?
I'm too frayed right now.
on another note, just read an article today which had a striking effect on me. I'm not a big fan of Jamie Oliver, I enjoy watching his cooking show and he really knows how to present the cooking experience but the food he makes just never really struck me as really super tasty, but rather good recipes with nice twist sorta thing. Anyway the article is about Jamie Oliver and how he's changing the way kids eat lunch at school in Britain. Some people have already told me this, and told me the kids didnt like the food at all, and i was thinking well Mr Jamie Oliver mustn't be that great, just trying to work on the publicity, another reality tv show blah blah blah. Apparently it says in the article that he hid himself in a cupboard and wept because the kids barred him. It sounded funny when i read it *drama*.
But as I read on i see why Jamie did what he did, he tried to teach kids to eat healthy, or more specifically to teach people how to make healthy food taste wholesome and good and thus a means to his ends. Apparently he went around teach kitchen staff how to prepare fresh lunches from fresh ingredients in a manner that took the same time and cost as the processed option. The length article goes through some of things he did throughout the campaign and how he struggled through it, and then how he triumphed after a long wait and intiated huge changes in the industry of school lunches, even causing a processed chicken company to go into receivership.
I really like how he's putting his talents behind a worthy cause. Not to belittle other worth causes, but this one isnt like "Cure Cancer" or "Cure Aids" or "Abolish Poverty" causes which are so astronomical that I can't see how i can help. Jamie, saw a huge problem and said "I can fix this" and he couldn't, but he didnt give up and tried harder, its not fixed yet but its on its way...and kids love him now, and all is good. so props to you Jamie!
2 Comments:
muzza :)
you are in same boat as me! i have just finished and you know where i'd like to be too =)
promise me i get to be your food photographer if you ever make a cookbook hahah! plus i get to eat them after duh!
also - jamie's thing - yeh it was on tv a little while back showing stuff, joely told me to watch it. i really liked it. but those pommy kids are crazy...and have been weirdly educated in terms of vegies :P
sure i'll see u soon! x
also - i think you are excellent as an egineer coz you think like a thinker!
that said - mebbe you can put engineering and cooking stuff together but then i'm not sure how that works re changing the world - but that's ehy you're the engineer =)
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