what DO you guys do for a living?

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  1. Feldon Kane

    Feldon Kane New Member

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    Care to sponsor a racing team, 'tard?

    There, now this counts as work. :smile:
     
  2. nicebrain

    nicebrain New Member

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    I am a Webb Designer but I do not have so mutch to do right now so I am woring as a Computer teacher.
     
  3. bryant1380

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    Is the team gonna be a winning one? If so, then the answer is yes, we will sponser it.
    :wink:
     
  4. Maniac

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  5. Quethim

    Quethim New Member

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    I am 15...what else is there to do with my life besides nothing
     
  6. Sheriff Fatman

    Sheriff Fatman Active Member

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    Okay, this is REALLY goingt o sound like an old fart moaning through his wrinkled cheeks. It's not meant that way, q., believe me.

    When I was fifteen I used to help the milkman with his deliveries. Started at 6.00 am and had to do it Saturdays until midday, too. It was fun, running round trying to beat our speed records and getting to know all the poeple who lived in my town.

    I'm not suggesting you do that, but at 15 life's a laugh and there are plenty of things you can do.
     
  7. Jinxed

    Jinxed Active Member

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    Like becoming a crack hoe or joining the local trigger happy gang. Sounds like fun. :smile:
     
  8. Sheriff Fatman

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    The thought of Queth roaming the streets in a gang, terrorising people with his words-that-are-stronger-than-his-fists is truly scary.

    [EDIT] sorry about that, Q. - the image just made me chuckle :grin:

    <font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Sheriff Fatman on 2002-04-05 09:49 ]</font>
     
  9. Jarinor

    Jarinor New Member

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    Actually, I have classes for a couple of days each day...including a 2 hour, 4pm lecture on Friday afternoons!
     
  10. ThreeDogs

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    I obfuscate issues. Take a simple business transaction and make it last for weeks and then overbill my clients.
     
  11. Deadly Bread

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    I work for *shifty eyes* ...a bakery. I...bake...yes...that should work.

    ...

    I typed all that didn't I?
    Note to self : don't type personal observations in a public forum, or you may slip out that you're a spy for Jarinor's Communist World Domination Plan...
     
  12. gamenut

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    I am 13, in the 7th grade, and I go to school at a JR. High in Houma Louisiana. My real job right now is to protect Jarinor from assasination attempts because I am off for a week because of Easter.
     
  13. Quethim

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    Well I am in the 10th grade. May not seem like it but I am. I am actually prett smart. I just do not apply me self very well. I never care about anything, I do not care what happens to me. My grade are about average. I just do not do my homework. As I said I do not really care what happens. I can change my way of acting in this forum if I really want to.
     
  14. gamenut

    gamenut New Member

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    Me too. I could have skipped a couple of grades, but I have never really wanted to do anything in school. I sleep half of the time because it is mostly stuff I learned in the 4th grade I am learning right now.
     
  15. Quethim

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    Yes...most of the stuff I am supposed to do I already know. Mainly English and History. Math I actually do not have a problem with. I can actually stand math but all the others I can not stand.
     
  16. DarkUnderlord

    DarkUnderlord Administrator Staff Member

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    This was only about work, but given the Quethim and Gamenut comments, I thought I'd post a bit of my life story.

    Let's see, pure A grade "square" student all-through primary school and high school until year 11. When I went through that whole "Why am I here?" and "What am I going to do with my life?" patch. I was most likely heading for Law School as I never really considered Computer Programming as an actual "job" per say. However, instead I failed Year 11, changed schools, finished Year 11 (rather poorly I might add) and only bothered with half of year 12. Then I decided on computer programming and as I was too young for the Uni mature age entry exam (my only hope, due to my grades), I went to a private computer training institute named: Interim Institute of Technology who have since changed their name (and web-site) to Spherion Education Group. That is actually the 4th name change the company has had in about the past 10 years or something (1st warning sign).

    I spent a year there doing a Diploma of Business Programming which turned out to be the biggest (and most expensive) waste of my time that was possible. I did get a 3 month job making web sites afterwards, but that was only because the guy could "afford me" because I was cheap. Every other company said "Get a Uni degree".

    After that, I got something in the mail from a political party and thought "wouldn't that be fun" so I joined up. Started volunteering there, thought up an idea for a TV ad that impressed the right poeple (even though the ad never got on made) and then was given a temporary job for 12 months of which I still have about 8 months to go.

    Now I am in the enviable position of deciding on whether to continue on in the work force, as I am now entitled to seek employment in the public sector (very hard to get into, due to the high pay and little actual work involved :smile: ) or go into University instead and study Programming (trying to specialise in C++), AI and Pure Maths (if I can get in) for the next 4-8 years in the hope that I will actually be able to code my own 3d graphics engine and AI afterwards. Of course, this all relies on me passing the entry exam with a high enough grade.

    So.... That's what I do.
     
  17. Sheriff Fatman

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    My history is:

    Leave school
    Telecoms engineer for 4 years
    Uni
    Programmer/Researcher (emergent techonologies)
    Systems Analyst

    Since the phone engineer, my goal has been to get a job I'd be actively happy doing on a day-to-day basis. My current job is pretty close within my initial aims of:
    • Creative
    • Varied
    • Worthwhile
    • I'm good at it
    • Pay, etc is pretty good
    but recently my perspective has changed a little, probably because of the slump. There are two aspects currently causig me some dis-satisfaction:
    • It's a desk job: I've recently begun to wonder whether manual labour wouldn't be healthier and have a more tangible degree of satisfaction.
    • Complex: there are too many people in computers and the Internet who don't know their arse from their elbow. Programmers just wanna hack. Clients want a web site without knowing why. Graphic designers insist on doing all their work the night before the deadline, and getting most of it wrong.

    My best mate, who used to develop VB/Access systems and earn a damn large chunk of money at it, got cancer a year or so ago. He survived and is now well again, but it made him (and all the people aroud him) think pretty hard about quality of life RIGHT NOW, rather than building for the future.

    He now runs a seaside cafe and only does a bit of part time Access work from home for his previous company. He's very happy.

    I keep thinking I'm on the verge of doing the same thing.
     
  18. rosenshyne

    rosenshyne New Member

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    i would tell my life story, but it would take up too much damn space. that, and it's depressing. and it's one of the three day with-holding subjects.
     
  19. Qilikatal

    Qilikatal New Member

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    What do i do for a living? I tell my oarents that i em hungry and they give me food or tell me to make it myself. Or well i em still at school and i intend to stay there for a while. And i have NO idea of what i em going to be.
     
  20. rosenshyne

    rosenshyne New Member

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    that's okay, most of us don't know what we want to be. even when we end up doing it.
     
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