Hyaaaaaaaaaaaawn

[ithika]

I've discovered something amazing.
If I leave my house at 8am (to get to uni at 9), I invariably arrive at uni at 9.20.
If I leave my house at 8.40am (to get to uni at lolwhut), I seem to always arrive somewhere between 9.05 and 9.10.
Madness, yes?

But it's all good, because it means that I get to do moar things in the morning. Like not wake up at 7.
Seriously, it has been so hard to get sleep lately.
Too. Much. Stuff.

It's interesting though. Every week for the past 3 weeks, I get sick on Wednesday morning and feel slightly better but still sick on Thursday.

WHY IS THIS PDF TAKING SO LONG TO DOWNLOAD HURR.

Also I can has questions.

- Life would be a lot easier if I didn't have to do my bank cleaning job (2 hours/night 5 days a week, has to be done some time between 5pm and 7am), as I only get about $170/fortnight out of it, and it severely cuts into time for sleep/uni work.
so I want to find out what the requirements for getting some kind of youth allowance are? Or where can I look on the interwebs to find out? I know there are limits because of things like your parent's income, but I don't think my parents earn that much. O_o Does anyone know?

- Mraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar.

Elbereth isn't happy. :( :( Running so slow! :(

Comments

[theducks.livejournal.com]

2 hours per night, 10 nights per fortnight, 20 hours work and you only get $170? I think you can get something that pays better than $8.50/hour

[auntpol.livejournal.com]

Isn't that less than minimum wage?

[patternsofchaos.livejournal.com]

It definitely is for casual, not sure for part time but I don't think you're doing enough hours to classify as part time.

Though I assume $170 is what you get after tax? If so, you'd be earning closer to $10 an hour which is the minimum I think.

[bloodied-aura.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's after tax. :( Second job tax. Boo

[bloodied-aura.livejournal.com]

It's so little because it is split in half with my mum. If it wasn't split with her it would probably be more worthwhile. The reason I have to share it with her is because she has to stay on the payroll so she can do awesome things like clean the bank for me during folio week and when I take holidays. It's probably not worth it.

[auntpol.livejournal.com]

I'm not 100% sure on all the requirements. Somewhere on the centrelink website it will say. this (http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/payments/youth_allow_iat.htm?) and this (http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/factors/index.htm) seem to be the most useful.

HOWEVER centrelink are quite full of lame, and one person may approve your application and another deny it. It's quite the luck of the draw coupled with persistence.

[bloodied-aura.livejournal.com]

Aw, the website seems to say that you have to be living in abject poverty or away from home. But I can't afford to move away from home!

I really pity students whose parents earn only $30, 000 a year, that must be nearly impossible. And who wouldn't have assets to the value of $500, 000 when the average house in Perth is going for that at the moment. :( awww


Oooh.
Maybe I should travel around to find the nicest possible centrelink person. I don't think the ones in Midland are very nice, they always seem angry.

Thanks! :)

[auntpol.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's lame the whole "you have to earn $10 000 to be poor" thing.

We got centrelink when Al was made redundant, so our income was...$0. It really sucked because he couldn't get a job, as he was made redundant when he was 62 and no one wants to employ someone who is 62.

Our house isn't worth much either (esp. at the time, because we didn't own the block) because it's so...out of the way/strange/doesn't have an access road/sewage/rubbish collection/scheme water. Lols.

[bloodied-aura.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's silly. Also - Austudy (Ausstudy?) what the hell. 25? Why support students who are starting study at 25? Why not support the younger ones as well? I mean, even if a 25 year old student wasn't in the best financial situation ever at the time that they start study, surely they'd be better off to begin with than younger students? Because they would have been working up to that point? *confuseface*

Oh, that must have been terrible :(
Your house is wonderful though. I suppose it is a long way from most places though.

Actually, where do you take your rubbish out to? Does it get collected? Your road/driveway/thing seems somewhat rubbish-truck unfriendly!

[auntpol.livejournal.com]

it gets collected on the bottom track, nearish the road.

We keep our rubbish bins there and just put stuff in them there.

[voyaging-moon.livejournal.com]

If I leave my house at 8am (to get to uni at 9), I invariably arrive at uni at 9.20.
If I leave my house at 8.40am (to get to uni at lolwhut), I seem to always arrive somewhere between 9.05 and 9.10.


... How the hell does that work? The universe is indeed mysterious and this here is evidence of what i have always thought .. time changes speed! I knew it!

[bloodied-aura.livejournal.com]

I Don't know!
It is pure madness.