If time and money were no objection…

I’ve been using the “livingsocial” application on Facebook quite often recently. You have to choose your Top 5 of anything: Top 5 bands you love, Top 5 best films of all time, Top 5 sports to watch, Top 5 books you dislike, etc.

This morning I filled in a few, and among others the one I want to talk about: “If time and money were no objection, choose your top 5 subjects you would go back to school for“. My answers were: Photography, English Language History, Electrical Engineering, Cooking & Food, and Business Organisations, Management and Leadership.

These 5 subject matters came to my head pretty much straight away, I bearly had to think about it for long.

Photography: I’ve been very busy in the last couple of months and have had no time to go out and take pics. But it still remains my favourite hobby. I’ve always said that if I won the lottery and could afford to work as anything, it would definetly be as a photographer. My poor flickr site has been a bit abandoned lately, even though I pledged to go out and take more and more pictures at the beginning of the year… Oh well.. We’ll see what will happen after the wedding.

One of my favourite pictures

English Language History: This subject has always fascinated me. Even back at Uni it was one of my favourite subjects. The problem I found were the teachers (oh yes, blame it on the teachers). They didn’t make the subject attractive, although I loved reading the books. Baugh and Cable’s book, compulsory reading at uni, is now proudly standing on my bookshelf and I re-read it sometimes just for fun.
The book I’m reading at the moment (“Mother Tongue” by Bill Bryson) has fully inspired me to somehow keep studying this amazing subject. It is an amazing book dealing with a very relevant subject: Language through history and how it is changing nowadays. I recommend it to anyone into English and its origin, plus Bryson has a great sense of humour and it makes for great reading.

Electrical Engineering: Obviously, working for Andromeda this is a very important subject to me. I have already said on this blog before how challenging I find my day to day job. Not difficult but challenging. And the key to the problem lies in my lack of electrical engineering knowledge. I bought a couple of books (this one was the best) but they really didn’t work. I think I just lack the right grey materia in my brain, the one that make guys so good at maths and so on. I am not calling myself stupid, I’m just not a “science|” girl…

Cooking and Food: I love food. Anyone who knows me knows that I eat a lot. I am not a fussy eater, I like mostly everything, and I like food in industrial quantities. I know how to cook, the only problem is that I always end up cooking the same recipes, maybe for lack of time, or simply because I am scared of trying new things and failing miserably. One day, when time and money are no object, I am going to attend one of those fancy cooking courses (they are sooo expensive!) and then go to “Come dine with me” LOL

At this rate I’m going to be fat by the age of 35!

And finally, Business Organisations, Management and Leadership: Office politics fascinate me and trouble me at the same time. I am only in the engineering support team in my office, but I am always going on about all the things that are wrong and that I would change if I was a manager or a leader. However I am well aware of the implications of being in such position, all the stress, all the fingers pointing at you. I suppose that if my career was heading towards that direction, I wouldn’t mind doing a course in management. But for the time being office politics are just a pastime.

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