Back on the OU study train

I got my new pack of OU reading materials the other day, so I'm back studying again. This involves getting up an hour early every morning, and studying before going to work. A simple system, which was surprisingly hard to come by last year. I got in a real mess at the beginning when I was trying to work out how to organise myself, and I fell behind straight away. I was struggling to keep up most of last year, but I'm determined that this year that won't happen.

This year's course is looking harder already. It's level 2 and has some maths in it - luckily not as difficult as the maths course last year as yet which literally had me crying in frustration midway through September when I was trying to figure out how on earth I'd worked out population sequences back in January. It was one of those moments when you see your own work and you're astounded that you clearly understood what you'd been writing about at the time, like when you open your uni notes after having let your brain rot at work for a few years. But instead of there being a gap of years into which the information was lost, there was only a few months. Dang!

I'm really enjoying the course so far, and I'm feeling really driven at the moment. Temping seems to be really sharpening my vision about what I want from life. I mean, at the moment, I'm not really using any of my skills or education. It's fun and challenging and I'm doing things that I never did in my previous job, but it's really making me want to have a path again. It also makes me want to learn enough to get a proper job, a proper career and a proper wage. On my wage at the moment, my aspirations of a double-fronted house with a workshop and a couple of acres are a total pipe dream. Unless it was in Bulgaria maybe.