It’s New Year’s Eve. I don’t make resolutions.

Some bread I baked.

This post is for casual conversation if you don’t feel like making a post of your own.

  • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
    6·
    18 hours ago

    It’s 3 pm on the last day of the year and guess who hasn’t filed their mandatory reporting with their professional regulator, nor renewed their licence?

    (I’m going to do it once I dry off from this shower a little bit, really.)

      • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
        3·
        17 hours ago

        There are different professions that have regulators. They oversee the admission of members into the profession, and the conduct of their members practicing their profession. Some examples include lawyers, doctors, nurses, dentists and engineers.

        The licence I am talking about is my engineering licence. I have other licences but they are more like trade licences.

        The level of oversight and mechanism for enforcement is different between my engineering licence and my trade tickets. One example is that engineering is self regulating so if I’m a bad engineer I have to go to engineer court (this is a comedic oversimplification) and I could lose my licence. No criminal charges would come from this, but I would be subject to criminal charges if my actions harmed others. The bar for repercussions is much lower than for the trades. For that, I would simply be charged criminally for my actions related to the laws around the trade (or other laws).

        I need to renew my licence (basically just give them money, state I am still practicing) and as a separate thing I need to give them my training records for the year to demonstrate that I have completed my required professional development for the year. It just happens that my renewal date and the deadline for the reporting is the same for me because of my renewal date. Kinda nice to only have to remember one date 😄

    • Arcanepotato@crazypeople.onlineEnglish
      3·
      17 hours ago

      FASCINATING

      The portal is offline for maintenance from noon today until Monday. The requirement is to report no later than today. Not sure why maintenance wouldn’t start tomorrow but I’m going to try my best to be chill about this and just do it Monday.

    • Murdoc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      I left my reporting for government assistance until just a few days ago. They prefer to have it by mid-month. ED is a bitch.

  • Murdoc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    17 hours ago

    Let’s see…

    Navigating the local health care system to try and get a regular “family” doctor. Today’s e-mail tells me I have to walk in to get this started. It didn’t actually confirm that they had any doctors accepting new patients right now. 🙄

    Trying to work up the nerve to contact therapists for various types of help. I have found two possibilities, but something is holding me back that I don’t understand.

    Learning to play Spacebourne 1 to see if I want to buy #2 before it goes off sale in a few days. Not sleeping well so I’ve spent more time playing old save games of Deus Ex instead.

    And no plans for NYs. Not enough friends or money.