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offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2010-10-14 23:38 [#02395834]
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Actually really boring.


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offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2010-10-15 00:58 [#02395843]
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haha

the worst job ever

unless you're the boss


 

offline morguean from Calgary (Canada) on 2010-10-15 03:12 [#02395846]
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what do u do?


 

offline Steinvordhosbn from London (United Kingdom) on 2010-10-15 09:41 [#02395849]
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Sifting through the prime groupies for the talent and then
the second tier gash for the crew.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2010-10-15 11:27 [#02395852]
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Audio editing and ego stroking. Pure leg work stuff. The
client is a rather popular group, they used to be heroes of
mine but god, this work is boring.


 

offline big from lsg on 2010-10-15 13:22 [#02395859]
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but at least the pay makes up for it?


 

offline panoptic sweep from panoptic fugue on 2010-10-15 13:24 [#02395860]
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People taking music tech courses take note.


 

offline big from lsg on 2010-10-15 13:27 [#02395861]
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Then again, most courses are useless.


 

offline panoptic sweep from panoptic fugue on 2010-10-15 13:31 [#02395862]
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I agree, but if you were young and optimistic and loved
music as I did you can easily think you're on some kind of
viable path.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2010-10-15 15:47 [#02395871]
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In defence of education I got this job through university.
An old lecturer gave out my number when asked if he knew
anyone suitable. The job is also using Logic, a program I
would never have bothered to learn if I hadn't had to for an
earlier college course, and I wouldn't have been given the
job if I wasn't already competent with it.

To agree with you though, I am in the vast minority I think.
Out of all my classmates who I keep in contact with I am the
only one who has a relevant job and even that isn't stable
(more like freelance work through a third party). The large
majority of people on my degree (there were around 40) were
guitarists doing it for a laugh with zero production or tech
history and the course was taught as such.

My degree taught me very little in terms of practical
knowledge, having spent five or six years teaching myself,
especially with google at my finger tips. The modules I
thought I would learn from (Game Audio for example) ended up
being complete wastes of time, often out of date or
completely irrelevant to any paid work you could go on to
afterwards (in Game Audio we had one lecture on compression
using PS1 audio standards and never did ANY practical
compression or audio programming ourselves, basically
scoring a CG trailer in stereo as our assessment!).

The degree was, however, useful in letting me get to play
with bits of tech I can't afford and cultivating a few
contacts, something I hope to expand upon dramatically
through doing a masters. It's pretty much the ONLY reason
I'm doing it to be honest.


 

offline Steinvordhosbn from London (United Kingdom) on 2010-10-15 16:33 [#02395873]
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I had a similar deal when it came to working in the Adult
Entertainment industry. You'd think it'd be all "cum over
this" and "let me rub that" but it's actually mainly admin
and a lot of waiting around.


 

offline misantroll from Switzerland on 2010-10-15 16:36 [#02395874]
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don't forget the anus washing before anal job bb...


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2010-10-15 21:10 [#02395885]
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If I could do it over I'd study accounting, plumbing or
armed robbery.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2010-10-15 22:04 [#02395887]
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so, what you plan to do?

i still have a job(s) still not feeling ok at times, for
stuff that sometimes appear irrelevant, and sometimes too
much.. it took years to master the art of photoshop, when
quality it isn't needed anymore. i'll probably be thrown
making graphics for the ipad like a sheep with a shitty set
of plugins. who cares as soon as i'm paid. scenes be seen
already, just repeating in a modern key. with all the
exceptions and shit. people are not doing very well every
time i ask lately. what you can do?


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2010-10-15 22:36 [#02395889]
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i said 'art' because personal growth acquired trough an
experience is the only deal, and because work intended in
everyones way, career-like, is a huge bag of fools


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2010-10-15 22:54 [#02395890]
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I will make a super mental installation artistic mega piece
which will blow your mind then disappear in to obscurity
working in an office again.

In the immediate future I plan to go out for a few too many
drinks and foolishly try to fuck one of the girls I live
with, I don't care which one, I'll get turned down
regardless.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2010-10-16 00:32 [#02395897]
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haha

talking about installations, there were some really poor
potoshops last time i cheked tate modern London

some other, talking about wall size pics, are colored in
order to give different depths to elements, they were great.
i enjoyed those with people


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2010-10-16 02:33 [#02395904]
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If you're drunk enough, you might be able to have success
with the living-mate-three-way and wake up with 2 girls
beside you.

But then instead of them waking up embarrassed, they both
say something like, "GoOOooood MooOoOrning, *your name*", in
harmonizing unison.


 


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