Grain of Salt

I have to write a 3000 character "application statement" on my job application to convince Queensland Health to hire me as a nurse when I finish university in June. That's not as daunting as I first thought, as it's 3000 characters, not words. If you give an average length of 5 letters per word, that's 600 words. Then subtract spaces and punctuation - which count as characters on an online application - and it's even less.

So maybe my original plan of "because I'm awesome and you know you want to" would still work.

Hmmmm, perhaps not.

I have to answer this question that was especially devised by the graduate nurse recruiters:

What do you envisage your role and responsibilities as a first year Registered Nurse to be?

Oh dear. Where's my shovel and boots... time to sling some fertilizer about!

Anyway, whilst I contemplate the best way to get hired, you can contemplate this coupon I swiped from some sea salt at The Large Grocery Store That Employees Me:


180 DOLLARS FOR A SALT MILL??? Let me tell you, for a salt mill to be worth that much it better do a lot more than just grind my salt. It should cook the meal for me, clean up afterwards and possibly tell me how wonderful I am for $180. Because I can think of other battery operated devices that would do a hell of a lot more for me in the personal satisfaction department than mash up salt crystals for less than that price.