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What do you do for a living? Are you happy? What do you want to do? Do you reckon you can do what you want or do you reckon you need talent, or do you think you can learn? |
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I am a preacher. |
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What do you do for a living? IT- DBA/Server Administration. Are you happy? Yes, although that has little to do with my work. I feel the lack of an appropriate reward structure in my work is a massive motivation killer. When I started I was keen as anything, always came in early, did anything without complaining, worked long hours, etc. Come first pay review, I got the maximum possible amount increase (in line with our company policy), but when you see how little that actually affects your salary, after tax, as well as how little chance of promotion there is (through no lacking on your part), it is a massive, "Why bother?". So for a saving of 5%-10% (less than that once you take into account other cost factors associated with an employee other than salary, sick pay, leave, deskspace, etc.), they've lost about 33% extra workload, as well as a lot of flexibility on my part. I was quite upfront with my boss about this situation and my susequent attitude and he assures me that they are doing everything in their power to increase my pay rise, but until the extra money appears in my pay packet, they have one more half-arsed employee. I'm aiming to work somewhere else where there are better prospects, but still in something IT related. What do you want to do? Corporate Intelligence/Work for the high tech crime squad (IT division of UK police) Do you reckon you can do what you want or do you reckon you need talent, or do you think you can learn? You need a willingness to learn as well as a basic level of intelligence. Provided you have that any "mental" (as opposed to physical work like labouring, carpentry, etc.) work within reason is possible. |
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What do you want to do? Corporate Intelligence/Work for the high tech crime squad (IT division of UK police) you mean.. like.. be a Real-life Mod? |
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Provided you have any "mental" work within reason is possible. |
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haha, I never thought about that. But it does seem to be that. |
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But it gives you access to this mb at work I assume? That's all that matters.. |
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Yes. A mod where you don't just get to B7 the twats, you get their door kicked in and them sent down for a long stretch, or in the case of corporate intelligence, financially ruin them. Ecnadniarb- A fantastic example of poor punctuation making a reasonably coherent sentence into utter nonsense. Well spotted. Amendment: You need a willingness to learn as well as a basic level of intelligence; Provided you have that, any "mental" (as opposed to physical work like labouring, carpentry, etc.) work, within reason, is possible. IE provided you have a basic level of intelligence and a willingness to learn, almost any any job that doesn't require physical strength/craftsmanship, is feasible. |
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My recent return to regularly posting on the board can be attributed to the reaons described in my post, yes. :) |
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What do you do for a living? I writes programs and design databases and implement front ends and do a whole heap of shite that people find difficult so pay a lot of money for. On the weekend I am an Islamic terrorist. Are you happy? Professionally, yes, I just sort of do what I want to do. I dislike computers, but I have the option of working at home a lot of the time so that is really good. When I do go into the field I am lucky enough to work in different environments. As I am not at all materialistic I don't worry about money, I am as happy living in a bedsit as I would be in a mansion. What do you want to do? Exactly what I am doing. Do you reckon you can do what you want or do you reckon you need talent, or do you think you can learn? I could do anything I wanted, the problem is a lot of the things I enjoy I don't really want. |
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no no nothing yes |
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sounds like youve got a good work/life balance? ideal. |
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"I could do anything I wanted, the problem is a lot of the things I enjoy I don't really want." Do you mean there are lots of things you enjoy doing, that you wouldn't want to do as a job? (Genuine question, not a tit for tat grammar war ;-) Exaph, what are your answers to the questions? |
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There are a lot of things that I enjoy doing that would ultimately lead me to a position I wouldn't want to be in, or make me into a person I don't want to be. |
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What do you do for a living? web design, sometimes coding sites after designed. Having another designer and a flash programmer 'under my supervision' because i worked here longer than them. Are you happy? No, I'm feeling lonely and out of place everywhere. This doesn't deal with the job, though I'm not content in it. I have to find a girlfriend to become happy for some time. What do you want to do? website job is pretty much what I can do best. So i don't know what else would I want to do. Perhaps, english-russian and vice-versa translations, because I have had a good training for that in school, with excellent marks. Music - yeah, i'd like to. And, recently i started thinking about cheap clothes atellier. Maybe i will start it sometimes, I have a lot of friends - clothes designers. |
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I'm developing at the moment working on an online banking type thing that is to be implemented in the near future. I used to think its what I wanted to do, but sitting in an office all day looking at code sux imo. I'm a keen photographer, partly because I find it a sufficent outlet for what creativity I have, and it's pretty neat keeping a record of the world around you, etc. So I want to pursue that really, I'm working on depicting architecture/ aesthetic concepts in Manchester at the moment (I set myself pretty crappy projects) but hopefully it'll lead somewhere. I'm just soooo lazy, I need to crack on with it. I'd like to have my own small studio and take interesting comissions from people for silly money one day. So.. |
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(photo in avatar is manc airport) |
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Yes, I know what you mean. I look at some of the older managerial types at my work and you really cannot envy them, in spite of their obvious wealth and supposed "success". They appear to be utterly without happiness and constantly harrassed. Seeing them in a social situation, they don't appear any better. |
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please take this </b> and insert it where it was needed. i'm sorry |
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Yea, but I know some that aren't like that (my dad)... Oh, I hope to have a book published one day within the next 5 years, a book that you lot will be interested in... so I enjoy doing that too. Writing helps me to remain rational! ;) |
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I hate office politics. The higher you go the more you have to either accept them or fight them. I stay clear as much as possible, and by working freelance you tend not to have to get caught up in a lot of the internal conflicts going on, you just ask "what do you want?", they tell you, you tell them a better way of going about it and then you just get on with it. I was talking more about other things though :P I have done a few stupid things in the past that give you a real feeling of power but you know that 5 years down the line you are going to be slopping out of a morning. :) |
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I'm in agreement that working freelance/as your own boss is ideal. |
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hehehe :) |
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i'm a student and a loser, it's ok for now... i know it won't be ok for long though : ) |
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thanks for the mail, it's good to see you back. what was the problem with the log ? Has agent Cooper fixed it ? :) What do you do for a living? teach english :P Are you happy? not with the ljob What do you want to do? sound engineering. working on it. |
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good lad.. who do you teach english to? is it difficult? |
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hi, i'm also glad that i'm in here again. I think the problem was solved when I checked the remember me flag. Without it i could not log in properly. Agent Cooper has not helped, and usual cookie-deleting shite didn't help at all. But it's okay now, the mb 'remembers me' well :) |
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this is my thread |
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lets pay attention to Exaph |
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yeah, i think I have answered the topic question here earlier. There is a message with unclosed bold tag - that's mine. |
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letz chill |
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i'm sorry for the offtopic to Matvey. recently i teach kids, teenagers. it's not difficult - if you are able to focus on various things at a time. i've been doing this for several years and i'm bored. i'm not a natural born teacher. that's why i've decided to study sound engineering. cause this is what i really love : sounds. |
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haha I'm a second year student at Wright State--mass communications major--I have no idea what I am doing or what I want to do. But I'm happy with the major. Just dont know what I want to focus on. When not in school (ie during the summer) I work at either a grocery story or JC Penneys. I'm another one of those loser students ;) |
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What do you do for a living? full time waster. i serve pints in a pub for cash. i could/should be at uni by now, but whats the point? Are you happy? my job isnt actually that bad, but the money is shit, but i can cope on the wage for now. i would never want to work in an office based environment ever again. those places are fucking weird. What do you want to do? become a recording artist. no seriously. i am going to do this. Do you reckon you can do what you want or do you reckon you need talent, or do you think you can learn? i can do what i want to do, but there is always room for improvement. |
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"(photo in avatar is manc airport)" Oh man I just looked at your avatar for the first time--very cool :) I never looked at it because I just assumed it was that stupid rabbit from Donnie Darko, based on the shape and colors. Hah! |
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there is a piece of gum on the floor. |
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Thats actually beautiful! So not the cover of Donnie Darko! Phew! ;D |
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when exaph said he made that art i assumed he really made it from scratch, not he just took a photo of an existing hallway at some airport :( that sound you hear is my dreams being shattered. |
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funny! i'm looking attentively but can't find it. could you please post the pixel coordinates? |
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funny! i'm looking attentively but can't find it. could you please post the pixel coordinates? |
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funny! i'm looking attentively but can't find it. could you please post the pixel coordinates? |
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funny! i'm looking attentively but can't find it. could you please post the pixel coordinates? |
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was it completely neccessary to post that FOUR times, matvey? was it? really? :) |
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shit. how did I do that? i pressed once.. then connection kind of broke. -3 points from me. |
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structural / CAD technician good job in good profiled building company. i see myself improving my engineering skills in future. i like the job. they could pay me more though. but still, i will have plenty of time to think about money. |
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and that man at the end of the hallway isnt symmetrical either - one leg is slightly more invisible than the other. |
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this is the worst piece of art ever! |
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i hope to finish college by the time i'm 40 or so. after that i'll probably work for the postoffice. |
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