Yeah, does that mean you can be guaranteed to start again next year? If so, probably not a bad idea. Hopefully you can really prepare for it.

In the meantime, if you want to do anymore writing collaborations, let me know.

The bell is for me not for you.

SIT DOWN.

Did you bring enough for the whole class?

etc.

Chalk it up to experience.

You will have learned a lot from this, make sure you stress that to future employers. You might think about writing it all up now.

Aye, it’s not easy to bail but if it’s not for you or it’s just not working out at the current place then it’ll be for the best. Like I said earlier, my wife dropped out of teaching cos she had a bad mentor, but if she’s honest it wasn’t really her bag. We had a guy training at our place a few years back, things just didn’t click for him and he deferred. Apparently he did much better on his second shot, like you I think he just got snowed under with commutes (he was regularly heading back down to Yorkshire to see family) and all the other stuff that gets thrown at you from the uni side.

Best bet.
Go to Skillshare.com and signup for the free trial, download the Adobe suite trial.
Spend a month doing tutorials across a range of related stuff. See if the nitty gritty of it is something you feel you will enjoy doing.

It obviously won't be as good as what you would get out of a proper MA course but will avoid a false start. If you do decide it is something you want then consider subscribing to both and getting up to speed before starting the MA.
EV will likely find plenty on Skillshare as well.

Sounds like I'm a Skillshare rep here, it's just Lynda but not mad expensive.

Cheers Liv, I'll take a look at that tomorrow.

Also while I'm here, that sucks about the deferral Temps, but you know what's best for you, don't think of it as a failure, there's always something to learn from your experiences and it's good to see you tackling things and moving forward. 

Keep it up dude. 

P.s. practice your editing by making more sick vids like the MGS one pls. kthx.

Eugh, I've been trialling a new position for six months and I've to decide if I wanna stay soon. I've gone from a 5min walk to work for a 7 hour shift 7-2 or 2-9 and now have an hour's commute to a desk based job they want to bump up to eight hours if I stay. My college work has really suffered since going back this year and family life has taken a battering. Management think I'm crazy to be having doubts but what's wrong with carrying on as I was and making sure I do well in my degree rather than everything suffering for an extra few quid further down the road (no increase for extra hours but would start on an incremental scale) and "better job prospects from gaining experience in an office environment" ?!

They like to think it's all mysterious and us commoners wouldn't cope but in reality they spend most of their days looking at their phones!
Came home today to find out my kids had done their santa letters this afternoon so that was a bit of a kick.

So I've had a week off.

After crashing out of my PGDE in spectacular style I have an opportunity to apply to a Masters course called "Creative Media Practice" where you work on filming, editing, photography, set work, and so on. It sounds like it's exactly the kind of thing I'd love to do, and it comes with the benefit of including an industry placement for actual factual work experience. Iit starts on the 7th of Jan or the 18th of September depending on which cohort I decide to attend with

BUT

It's in Ayr, which would mean an an hour commute three days a week (which is nothing) but that would cost around £200 a month which would but me at a negative income of around £50/100, if I get the same funding as now and retain my weekend job but sack off the Bar job permanently. The plus side is that it's only til May, then i'd be able to work all summer to save up my transport costs for the next term. I dunno if I should grab this chance, or get a crap full time job and save like made until September.

Take the chance, and I'll also happily support you in any way I can.

Sorry to the teachers itf, but if you haven't worked in the industry recently you really don't know what employers want.

I am definitely grasping, because everything has been such a shambles for the last year. I just want the comfort of something that works and I guess I am looking for quick fixes.

Liv, I appreciate your bluntness there. My reasoning behind looking at that Masters is that it’s a skill honer and a foot in the door for local industry. I can’t see myself moving from Glasgow or Scotland in the short term and it’s a small game up here. Plus the world is a bit different now than it used to be when you got your BA. Degrees mean nothing, and people are being pushed as far as doctorates for guarantees of employability in their field. That doesn’t mean I’m going to ignore what you’ve said, the january start is rushing things. It just means i’m nit writing the course off just yet.

You're doing something massively worthwhile, that's to be applauded.

Gav is THE BOSS.