Anders In The City

Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Job: Translator

I am currently writing a CV and application in English why Statoil of course should hire me as a Corporate Trainee this summer. While translating my Norwegian CV, I had problems with translating one of the bullet points.

In Norwegian:

Styreleder Bjørgene Borettslag II

In English:

Chairman, Bjørgene II Co-operative housing organization

Hmm, I'm more and more impressed by English titles! I'm also more and more convinced that the trainee job I'm most interested in is made for me. At least when concidering my proud years as a chemical process technician (There you go again!). Should be a perfect match...
We had the first lecture in Corporate Finance today, and I got the feeling at once that the teacher is really gonna put pressure on us. Great! We will have group presentations, and the groups should be inter-gender, inter-nationality and inter-background oriented. That will be interesting and challenging! tomorrow is the first lecture in Shipping investment & finance, a subject I look forward to!
I'm otherwise quite impressed by the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund, or Lånekassen as it is called in Norway. In order to receive this year's loan and scholarship, I had to return an answer sheet. Because I had changed bank since the last time I sent my best regards to the fund, I also had to add a form with my new bank account number. This week I was informed that they hadn't received the answer sheet, which I sent in December. Miraculously however, they have updated my account number on their web pages, information which was sent in the same letter... And since it's not possible to send this answer form abroad, time goes by. So slowly. (Get it, get it?!)

2 Comments:

  • Hehey.. Madonna! :D

    My first lecture is today. Environment and resource-economics. Can you believe me taking that crap?!

    Maybe I should begin as a pro CO2-trader?

    By Blogger Joakim Reinert Knutsen, at 7:57 am  

  • In that case, I know just the course for you here...Energy, Trade & Finance!

    By Blogger Pandaen, at 11:09 am  

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