Virtually Paul

Life of Paul update

February 3, 2008 on 8:04 pm | In The Life of Paul |

It’s Sunday night and I’d have to say I feel quite good about my preparation, to date, for the two exams I will be sitting in the coming week. The first one is tomorrow afternoon and the second on Wednesday morning, after which I will (touch wood) have completed my Graduate Certificate in Chartered Accounting Foundations. I won’t sidetrack the post with a rant on my less than flattering opinion of the course but you can email me if you’re interested.

Completing the Grad Cert makes life extremely more interesting, given that I’m not enrolled in anything else. That will make the coming semester the first time that I haven’t been studying something, since leaving high school at the end of 2001. I cannot wait. I will be moving up to full time work in the coming weeks, outside of which I will have absolutely no ongoing commitments or expectations being placed upon my time.  It’s going to be good.

I moved back over to the north-west of Melbourne in mid-January, the day before my former housemate got back from his honeymoon. With the exams pending, my parents were gracious enough to allow me to return to the family home, so that I could devote sufficient attention to studying and not be rushed into finding new accommodation.

It’s been nice being back home, even though it involves almost an hour’s drive to get to work.  The work thing will probably take its toll eventually but so far I’ve survived.  It’s been good having a chance to just spend time with my family and hear about things that are going on day-to-day.  I’ve also spent a bit more time at my family’s church in Essendon than I had been whilst living out east.  I really like the familiarity sometimes.  The sermon this morning was excellent too.  Dan preached on interacting with the community and reminded us of how ineffective it is to have separatist habits, where we just stick to being friends with ‘churchy’ people.

It has gotten to the point where I’m almost going to have to choose between two very viable options for the remainder of the year.  I could choose to live in either the east or the north-west of Melbourne, without either being a terrible option.  Finishing the Grad Cert also has me asking bigger questions of career choice and life direction.  I think I’m actually going to find it challenging to just sit still for a little while, without necessarily knowing where I’m “based” or “where I’m headed” but I’m hoping that’s a good thing because it leaves room for lots of pleasant surprises.