well on a message board, what else is there to do but pick apart the words people choose to publish?Pretty much.
My ass is still really fat.
well on a message board, what else is there to do but pick apart the words people choose to publish?
My ass is still really fat.
My ass is still really fat.
I'm changing up my personality and going straight-up GANGSTA, BITCH. Ya'll niccas can't fuck wit dis.
I'm changing up my personality and going straight-up GANGSTA, BITCH. Ya'll niccas can't fuck wit dis.
u wot, m8? r u avin a giggle, m8?
well on a message board, what else is there to do but pick apart the words people choose to publish?
Said nothing about message boards.
Here you go creating conflict. You said, "posts." What else would you be referring to?
I always thought they were funny. :yeshrugAnd that's why I love you. You understand me.
well on a message board, what else is there to do but pick apart the words people choose to publish?
Said nothing about message boards.
Here you go creating conflict. You said, "posts." What else would you be referring to?
Weirdly, this relates as I was "reprimanded" for being too light hearted in practice patient interviews today.
I need tips on being bland and boring
If Himu gets confrontational and pissy on here I just think, lol welcome to girl hormones.
:-*
Why did I google that?
:stahp
Stoney seems more like the neutral path to me. It could be positive, it could be negative :obama
look at all these wankers taking shit way the fuck too seriously in here
I really need a psychologist and an ass whuppin ASAP.
I have a lot of needs.At least you're quite a ways away from making real life Father Mike/Buffalo Bill decisions.
I bet I'll be making Martin Raperman-esque posts in the not so distant future If I don't get my shit sorted out soon. :fbm
Did you at least upper-deck a few toilets on the way out of Bob Jones? I'm sure it would have made you feel better.My rebellious nature is much more passive-aggressive.
look at all these wankers taking shit way the fuck too seriously in here
Oh, that reminds me.
I need to stop dumping an encyclopedia book worth of knowledge of internet shit when someone I know IRL brings up shit like "pamperchu" or Chris-Chan.
I get that "Oh my god, you're a total internet special fellow." look from them. :(
It's been months since I've done that but I really should keep that shit to myself.
Oh, that reminds me.
I need to stop dumping an encyclopedia book worth of knowledge of internet shit when someone I know IRL brings up shit like "pamperchu" or Chris-Chan.
I get that "Oh my god, you're a total internet special fellow." look from them. :(
It's been months since I've done that but I really should keep that shit to myself.
I shared that pamperchu screen cap with my friends. Usually when I show them fucked up internet shit they laugh and say shit like "bro where do you find this shit?"
This time tho, no response :-\
look at all these wankers taking shit way the fuck too seriously in here
The fuck are you on about? Most of the canceled stuff is public knowledge via people's resumes and LinkedIn. Go google a little bit.
And don't you fucking EVER dare to put the "anti-Japan" shtick in my mouth. I never said it, and I never would. You little piece of shit.
Guys, it's 2013. For people who are turning 18 (born in 1995) this year, there never was a separation between real life and the internet. It's all one in the same. We will be judged for our internet sins.
Stoney seems more like the neutral path to me. It could be positive, it could be negative :obama
look at all these wankers taking shit way the fuck too seriously in hereThe fuck are you on about? Most of the canceled stuff is public knowledge via people's resumes and LinkedIn. Go google a little bit.
And don't you fucking EVER dare to put the "anti-Japan" shtick in my mouth. I never said it, and I never would. You little piece of shit.
:gurl
look at all these wankers taking shit way the fuck too seriously in hereThe fuck are you on about? Most of the canceled stuff is public knowledge via people's resumes and LinkedIn. Go google a little bit.
And don't you fucking EVER dare to put the "anti-Japan" shtick in my mouth. I never said it, and I never would. You little piece of shit.
:gurl
also my donkey kong scapegoat threw a Nintard into such a depressive spiral that he threatened to kill himself repeatedly and eventually got himself banned from the GAFs, so all I can say is that plan went better than expected
also my donkey kong scapegoat threw a Nintard into such a depressive spiral that he threatened to kill himself repeatedly and eventually got himself banned from the GAFs, so all I can say is that plan went better than expected
If that was the plan all along why not return?
no, that wasn't the plan, just an unexpected bonus. you guys know why I left. I think even if king tyler were dethroned, I wouldn't go back. kind of would feel like being the weird old guy at the nightclub. average age there is easily more than ten years younger than me.
GET OFF MY LAWN
finding out i was older than you was one of the most disappointing days of my life, triumph :'(
What? I thought Oscar was younger.
ha, i wasted 22. i think i was doing stupid games journo shit and planned on making it a career. spent entire weekends drinking at the bar. finished out the year starting work on a gba game that ended up never being finished. the good news is the month after i turned 23 i got my head back into the game.god I hope this happens for me
what was i doing at 22? that seems a lifetime ago.... 16 years back makes it 1997
hmm - 1997...
Nearly destroyed my finals prep by buying an N64 and Mario 64, secured a job - moved to London, graduated, was with a different lady friend to the one i'm with now, moved into a house in Streatham with 3 young women, played FF7 and enjoyed it without shame, had no internet connection, went to Hong Kong, played Futsal at a decent level, incorrectly diagnosed with a heart murmur um.... pretty dull all round really. Oh Princess Diana died and i was in the minority of not particularly caring at all, this apparently made me some sort of heartless monster :/
ha, i wasted 22. i think i was doing stupid games journo shit and planned on making it a career. spent entire weekends drinking at the bar. finished out the year starting work on a gba game that ended up never being finished. the good news is the month after i turned 23 i got my head back into the game.
ha, i wasted 22. i think i was doing stupid games journo shit and planned on making it a career. spent entire weekends drinking at the bar. finished out the year starting work on a gba game that ended up never being finished. the good news is the month after i turned 23 i got my head back into the game.
Oh? What happened?
that's when i realized i didn't see a future in the games industry and finally went to university.
ha, i wasted 22. i think i was doing stupid games journo shit and planned on making it a career. spent entire weekends drinking at the bar. finished out the year starting work on a gba game that ended up never being finished. the good news is the month after i turned 23 i got my head back into the game.
Oh? What happened?
that's when i realized i didn't see a future in the games industry and finally went to university.
What for? Writing?
I can't tell if you're yanking my chain.
Where were you before London? US? Other-UK?
ha, i wasted 22. i think i was doing stupid games journo shit and planned on making it a career. spent entire weekends drinking at the bar. finished out the year starting work on a gba game that ended up never being finished. the good news is the month after i turned 23 i got my head back into the game.
yeah i was sure we'd been over this, but i have a master's degree in psych. basically came to japan to take a one year sabbatical before going in for the phd, ended up staying here because fuck clinical psychology is a dirty business if you don't want to be penniless.
GET OFF MY LAWN
finding out i was older than you was one of the most disappointing days of my life, triumph :'(
It's ok, you're only as old as you feel, and I guarantee that you feel younger than me, since I've pretty much felt dead for the past 10 years.
22- I almost died in a car accident that summer, head bashed into my windshield and I bled a lot. Six months later, I picked a sliver of glass out of my forehead.
My current plan is to work at a tech startup until it's acquired before the bubble bursts, and then reinvest that money smartly in stocks/bonds/etc. Then maybe work on my own little tech projects and see if I can grow them into a business. I really lucked out having the skillset I did when I got hired, if the bubble wasn't being inflated right now it would probably be impossible for me to find work without a college degree, and I would not have been able to get one with my family's finances. Now, since I have experience, I'm probably secure for life unless the tech industry/US economy tanks completely. (Which is a possibility, of course. We got too close for comfort in 2008... I should learn Chinese just in case, I guess, lol.)
Seems to me you're succeeding.
I need to get some sort of career going before I hit 30 or I'm always going to be a bum.
I'm really surprised I missed it if that's the case. Hmm. I usually remember details like this.
What did you do in between your Master's and current job?
nothing really between so much, but during, i was a mental health worker for the province of manitoba. unless you mean the english teaching job that i came out here on before i started my own school.
QuoteMy current plan is to work at a tech startup until it's acquired before the bubble bursts, and then reinvest that money smartly in stocks/bonds/etc. Then maybe work on my own little tech projects and see if I can grow them into a business. I really lucked out having the skillset I did when I got hired, if the bubble wasn't being inflated right now it would probably be impossible for me to find work without a college degree, and I would not have been able to get one with my family's finances. Now, since I have experience, I'm probably secure for life unless the tech industry/US economy tanks completely. (Which is a possibility, of course. We got too close for comfort in 2008... I should learn Chinese just in case, I guess, lol.)
from my recent job hunting perspective - here's what i came out with :
any coding skill was a bonus - and if i wanted to work using anything like Java, C, C# etc then unless it was cutting edge stuff (algo trading - with ooddles of experience) then i was going to be taking a bath on salary (50%+ cut)
what got me to not have to take the bath were the business side stuff, project/product experience, management, language (stop laughing at the back!)
I had some spare time - i was going to pick up some coding qualifications .... instead i just got ITIL :/
Job security is pretty much dead, its all about finding a field where there is plenty of jobs.
In other words find a pond where you are the big fish.
I'm not talking about career people, just your normal average joe shit.
"I need to do this, I need to do that before I reach 30" is such a construct of the mind. Life is not a race. Accept that many successful people don't get their lives on the move well into their 30's and they're still happy. I felt really sad I was applying for grad school when I was 27, the realization, I'd be 30 when I finally graduated. But time marches on. Accept this.
oh boy, now that Himu has put on her philosopher chapeau again we can look forward to plenty of Wear Sunscreen posts like that one, hunh?
One day after a meeting my boss said to me "good work, you'll be in management soon" in front of everyone, thus putting me on multiple people's shit lists.
Yeah, I'm thinking of learning a trade that's in demand (one where you're not treated like shit and paid a pittance despite the fact that you're in demand). Which I should have done before I went to university, but hindsight is 20/20.
I really enjoyed reading about your lives, especially you in Japan or formerly in Japan. As someone who's about to graduate college and considering going overseas, it's interesting seeing how that worked out for you all and what your expectations were and how things ended up.
As for myself, I'm 28. At 22 I had just finished four years in the Air Force and was going to college for the first time. I had big plans to finish a degree in International Studies and use my security clearance to go back to the Middle East as contractor making big bucks (although I had no concrete plans for what I would do over there—my skills from the Air Force were in IT but I had no desire to do that). That didn't pan out but I did go back to the Middle East in a different capacity when I joined the Army National Guard a year and a half into college. I picked infantry for a new experience and I really enjoyed it, but it's not something I'd like to make a career.
Now I'm about to finally graduate college with that degree in International Security Studies and still have no concrete plans for what to do. I want to go overseas again. I'll probably have to go to graduate school if I want to work in my chose field of study but I haven't taken the GRE yet. I've been applying to all sorts jobs to see what the market's like and so far the only promising lead is a job building trails in rural Maine with AmeriCorps.
oh boy, now that Himu has put on her philosopher chapeau again we can look forward to plenty of Wear Sunscreen posts like that one, hunh?
I have no idea what any of this means.
If you go for an in demand trade, go with something that actually interests you. It may sound cliche to say, but don't become a plumber just because it brings in the dough. Then again, being a plumber may make you happy, I don't know.
No offense taken at all. I was just saying, that, you seem concerned with money or whatever. Maybe it was because I was hit on the head a few times growing up, but it's hard for me to not come to the conclusion that a good career is something you enjoy. I know that I won't make much as an animator, at least starting out, but that should be okay.
No offense taken at all. I was just saying, that, you seem concerned with money or whatever. Maybe it was because I was hit on the head a few times growing up, but it's hard for me to not come to the conclusion that a good career is something you enjoy. I know that I won't make much as an animator, at least starting out, but that should be okay.
It seems pretty en vogue for people to become an accountant or an engineer because it's what in demand and they will get a lot of money from it, even though they clearly don't enjoy doing it. I just don't want you to think, oh, I don't have a career so I should go with the thing that will bleed the most cash even if you don't like doing it.
It's very idealistic, and not the least realistic or pragmatic, but it's what I've always thought.
I said nothing about poverty, either.
There are also things you can do to save money and live better on lower income (although that's still not poverty levels). Cut out some unnecessary clutter and downsize, for example. I actually like the concept of living small and am fascinated by the whole tiny house movement.
It's very idealistic, and not the least realistic or pragmatic, but it's what I've always thought.I'm with you to some extent. I'd rather do something I like for sure, even for a small but sufficient paycheck.
There are also things you can do to save money and live better on lower income (although that's still not poverty levels). Cut out some unnecessary clutter and downsize, for example. I actually like the concept of living small and am fascinated by the whole tiny house movement.Yes!
Same, Bork. Even as a child, I never got the point of owning a home. Sure maybe if you have a large family, but my family was three members.
We have a big dining room we use maybe once or twice a year, if that. What is the point of it? It feels excessive and wasteful.
Yeah, one thing living in Japan will give you is an appreciation for smaller living spaces, heh.