| General Discussion If you have anything off topic to say or you are unsure where to post, this is the place to do so. |
| Welcome to the Layonara forums!
Layonara is so much more than a game. We started off as a tabletop Dungeons and Dragons campaign more than a decade ago. Since then we have developed into a fantasy world with as much compelling and engrossing detail as you will find anywhere.
Our current showcase is a Neverwinter Nights version of Layonara, where our world comes to life in a finely polished persistent world which you can play free of charge. These forums are set up to support and accentuate our player's experiences, but it goes far beyond that.
After years of passionate effort, our world is so well developed, so detailed, so refined that any of the handbooks, maps, historical accounts, legends, descriptions of artifacts, creature reports, character biographies, short stories, novels, movies and original art which populate these forums can surely serve as resources or inspiration for your own fantasy endeavors, whatever they may be. And our world is endlessly evolving, so resources are frequently added and updated.
There are also years of sage advice and commentary on role-playing, gaming and online community development stored in these forums. If camaraderie is what you seek, we offer that too. Our community is as active and supportive as you're likely to find on the internet. In short, these forums are a resource for you to use for whatever purpose or project brought you here.
We're confident that you will find what you are looking for, and likely, substantially more.
Please be our guest and browse around the forums which are available to you. As you do, keep in mind that you are sampling only a portion of what Layonara has to offer. Membership in our community is free, and allows you to establish a Layonara identity to pose your questions and share your thoughts on the forums. When you join you'll also be able to communicate privately to other members (PMs), establish and respond to polls, upload and download content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free. So please. join our community today!
|  | 
04-07-06, 04:05 AM
|
#1 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,057
Thanks: 59
Thanked 80 Times in 34 Posts
|  I all comes down to this
For those that dont know I have been going to school to be a union plumber. I know what most are thinking, why do you have to go to school for that long to do that? Well it is for the 3 test I have to take towards the end of my 5 years of schooling. Which I am at the 4 1/2 year mark.
This sat will be the first, it is a 6 hour test it has over 500 questions. (exp. What is a crown weir, to what is the code number for brazing low pressure medical oxygen used in a emergency room.) Next sats test will ba a hands on test another 6 hours. From drawing a waste piping system, to perpairing two peices of pipe to gether to be brazed, and other. the third will be another test this time take on the computer this is the shortest of the test 3 hours long.
I have two shots on each test. If I dont pass just one of these tests I have done all of my training for nothing. I must start over again. I do mean all over. I am kicked out, and have to start with the interview process again. That means I will have no job  . Until or if I am excepted back in to the program.
I am not good with writen test as most know I am a very bad speller. I am very good with hands on. Well the computer test will be rough but I am sure I can pass that one. We will soon see.
So If I dont pass these test anyone what to hire a washed out plumber to do yard work I come cheep. I will only charge you my going rate for right now, 28.50 and hour.
I would not trade it for the world. I have worked on a cheese plant, built one of fresno's biggest hospitals, help on the biggest building in fresno the federal court house, Built a retirment houseing, and lets us not for get the bad of the bad a sewer treatment plant (stayed out there for 2 days then asked for a layoff).
I would not trade it, not many can say I have walked the red iron, seen a building come alive, death two of them both iron workers (they were friends and I still miss them to this day). I have stood on top of building and could see most of fresno and clovis. When there is no smog in the air it is a nice view of the mountians.
Well that is all. I have to go to work now. (I am so vervious right now and the test is not until tommorow, this is not a good sing.) |  |   | |
04-07-06, 04:13 AM
|
#2 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Back in L-town
Posts: 3,016
Thanks: 1,266
Thanked 488 Times in 310 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
you'll do fine. just relax. you're not learning anything new, so trust your instincts. we'll still be here after you've passed it.
__________________
~Milton Yorkcastle
"AND STAY DOWN !!!" ~Cole Norseman
"... if posturing and succumbing to their fancies is the requirement to gain their respect, they have already lost mine." ~Steel
"You may call me... The Cat Witch!" ~Sahala | | | | |
04-07-06, 04:21 AM
|
#3 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Posts: 407
Thanks: 2
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
I have to say; and from my past experience of exams, it is not the questions but the technique and the way you approach them that is most important. I am sure you will be fine, and I wish you the very best of luck.
You were one of the first people I met when I joined Layonara, and I am always pleased to talk wih you when our very different timezones allow. Go into that exam, take some deep breaths and stay calm (easier said than done I know). Think not of success or failure, but of doing your very best, and you will sail through.
Good luck mate, all the way from England.
__________________
A cynic is what an optimist calls a realist
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn\'t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain.
| | | | |
04-07-06, 04:24 AM
|
#4 | | Beholder Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: England
Posts: 536
Thanks: 1
Thanked 8 Times in 7 Posts
| RE: I all comes down to this
good luck
__________________
"Congratulations! You discoverd an ancient race of mysterious beings, slaughtered them and looted their compound! That's what we call EXTREME archaeology."
Versus Books NWN guide
=====================
| | | | |
04-07-06, 04:26 AM
|
#5 | | Orc of the Black Hand Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Dearborn, Michigan
Posts: 54
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
I have been a professional educator for almost twenty years and I don't like to give advice because its not usually worth the time it takes to read. But I will say this; RELAX. Your passion and dedication to your chosen profession are obvious, you have spent five years learning the material, almost everything you are asked will seem like second nature to you. It will be like asking a sports nut how to use a TV remote. The biggest hurdle to your success will be your own mind, so really RELAX, you will do GREAT. (repeat to yourself) Relax. I will do great. (believe this and say it again) | | | | |
04-07-06, 04:31 AM
|
#6 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Gulfport, MS
Posts: 732
Thanks: 7
Thanked 38 Times in 16 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
Tell my Dad to go easy on your computer test!
__________________
[img=http://img174.echo.cx/img174/8670/chanda6jn.gif]
| | | | |
04-07-06, 04:49 AM
|
#7 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Brazil (-0300 GMT)
Posts: 733
Thanks: 0
Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post
| Re: I all comes down to this
What everybody said.
Relax.
__________________
Ubi amor, ibi oculus.
| | | | |
04-07-06, 06:37 AM
|
#8 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Portugal
Posts: 1,172
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
Take it easy man, and good luck! 
__________________
"Fire doesn\'t cleanse, it blackens."
| | | | |
04-07-06, 06:44 AM
|
#9 | | Beholder Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Beavercreek, Ohio
Posts: 622
Thanks: 36
Thanked 30 Times in 26 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
Wow. All your hard work is about to pay off. Get a good night's sleep and eat a good breakfast.
Congratulations!
__________________
"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way." - Mark Twain
| | | | |
04-07-06, 08:17 AM
|
#10 | | World Leader Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Boston
Posts: 957
Thanks: 57
Thanked 36 Times in 25 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
Good Luck Grid. I have no doubt you'll do fine. If it makes you feel better I took a similarly hard exam back in October. Studied the entire summer for it and thus missed out on the beautiful weather. If I failed the test I had one more chance to pass it but I did and I'm sure you can too Just relax, I'm sure you've prepared well for it.
__________________ The First and the Redeemer. - Best read when listening to Wings of Marie Part 2 by Tool (10,000 days).
The only opinion that matters is an unbiased one.
| | | | |
04-07-06, 08:20 AM
|
#11 | | World Leader Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Boston
Posts: 957
Thanks: 57
Thanked 36 Times in 25 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
P.S. We all get nervous with these things. Some are just able to hide that nervousness from others. I'm sure there are many others that are about to take this exam - that are just as nervous or even more so than you.
__________________ The First and the Redeemer. - Best read when listening to Wings of Marie Part 2 by Tool (10,000 days).
The only opinion that matters is an unbiased one.
| | | | |
04-07-06, 08:25 AM
|
#12 | | Beholder Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Aurora, Colorado
Posts: 649
Thanks: 108
Thanked 43 Times in 23 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
Good luck!
__________________
GO TEAM VENTURE!
| | | | |
04-07-06, 09:17 AM
|
#13 | | Giant Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: OKC,OK
Posts: 145
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
Good Luck
-----
IN TIME THE STUDENT BECOMES THE MASTER
"a hero is no braver then an ordinary man he is just brave 5 minutes longer"
"courage is fear holding on a minute longer"
"he who fears being conqured is sure of defeat" | | | | |
04-07-06, 09:31 AM
|
#14 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Posts: 1,947
Thanks: 82
Thanked 216 Times in 132 Posts
| RE: I all comes down to this
Best of luck Q! | | | | |
04-07-06, 10:30 AM
|
#15 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Staffordshire, England
Posts: 769
Thanks: 37
Thanked 15 Times in 12 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
Good luck! You'll do fine I'm sure! | | | | |
04-07-06, 01:59 PM
|
#16 | | Adamantium Golem Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Australia
Posts: 251
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
Won't wish you good luck as you don't need it, you just speant the last five years studying it, all ya need to do now is apply it, Luck will not be a factor, just relax and ace that test ! 
Peace
Den
__________________
Dimmy Waterford - Wot Mark?
Geddrin Swifthammer - Och!
Sho Tan Sei Whu - Training is Paramount.
Nothing succeeds like a Parrot.....
| | | | |
04-07-06, 11:02 PM
|
#17 | | Gamemaster Join Date: May 2005 Location: South Africa
Posts: 2,313
Thanks: 144
Thanked 121 Times in 87 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
Good Luck Q.
Like everyone said. Get a good night's sleep, eat a healthy breakfast and just relax and if dont know the answer to one question move on and forget about it. Dont let it rattle you.
You will do great, you will see. | | | | |
04-08-06, 05:09 AM
|
#18 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 1,057
Thanks: 59
Thanked 80 Times in 34 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
Well I think I am ready, tried to sleep but you all know how that goes. So I am wired on Mountian Dew this morring . If I could I would shake all of your hands but with the price of gas and plane tickets this will have to do, thank you all for your kind words. (Ok for all that dont know me my hummor is very dry and that is my best try at it.) Here I go. | | | | |
04-08-06, 09:28 AM
|
#19 | | Beholder Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Baraboo,Wisconsin, USA (CST)
Posts: 521
Thanks: 7
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
| Re: I all comes down to this
Man youll do just fine. Just stay chilly 
I cant spell and HATE math but in the NAVY we had to learn Electrical Engineering, in a school that you fail one test and your gone. I know your your thinking Engineering for the US NAVY well out at sea sometimes you dont have parts and you need to build from scratch. Sounds like fun dont it ... not.
I hope this is the Master Plumber cert. | | | | |
