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What did all you guys and girls do with your lives? Changed the world no doubt.
I work for software company doing boring computer shit. We have an app for reading newspapers and magazines. I also have a videography businesss I started last year which is starting to pick up, called Shot by a Ninja (shotbyaninja.com). These days, I no longer get randomly approached by people asking if I'm Grey Fox from Square Gamer. Unless it's by Ziggy.
I work at a vocational education awarding body type place, in their IT department, fixing other people's fuck-ups to make sure people get their test materials on time and get the correct results/certificates at the end of it all.
I generally don't think about work at all when I'm not there though.
I sit in front of the computer, watch anime or play videogames. Living the NEET dream.
Unfortunately, occasionally monetary issues forces me to get a job. Usually I sit behind the counter in a store which sells third-party printer supplies. A few months a year is enough to supply me for a year of rent, food and internet. What more can a man need?
Slashley wrote:I sit in front of the computer, watch anime or play videogames. Living the NEET dream.
Unfortunately, occasionally monetary issues forces me to get a job. Usually I sit behind the counter in a store which sells third-party printer supplies. A few months a year is enough to supply me for a year of rent, food and internet. What more can a man need?
Seriously? I guess you live pretty frugally, but still seems pretty awesome to me that you only need to work a few months to make enough for a year.
Slashley wrote:I sit in front of the computer, watch anime or play videogames. Living the NEET dream.
Unfortunately, occasionally monetary issues forces me to get a job. Usually I sit behind the counter in a store which sells third-party printer supplies. A few months a year is enough to supply me for a year of rent, food and internet. What more can a man need?
Seriously? I guess you live pretty frugally, but still seems pretty awesome to me that you only need to work a few months to make enough for a year.
Yeah, do you like rob the till or something to top that balance up?
Lord Golbez wrote:Seriously? I guess you live pretty frugally, but still seems pretty awesome to me that you only need to work a few months to make enough for a year.
Frugal is a keyword. I'm a small man, I eat only a little. There's also much faster broadband available, but I'm still chugging with my trusty old ASDL because it is cheaper.
I also lucked out by getting an apartment from my grandmother. Which means I never had to get mortgage, or pay a huge rent to whoever actually owns the place. I only have to pay my small piece of the... what do you call it in English, I wonder. My cut of the building's maintenance.
And I've never robbed the till. Are you nuts?
Getting caught doing that for some small change will get you nothing but trouble!
I used to work in education management but that was tons of work for little recognition, so I switched career a few years ago. These days I work for myself, mostly doing Internet marketing related things and designing teaching/training materials for other businesses.
Calbrena wrote:I used to work in education management but that was tons of work for little recognition, so I switched career a few years ago. These days I work for myself, mostly doing Internet marketing related things and designing teaching/training materials for other businesses.
Grey Fox wrote:So basically Slashley is doing exactly what he was doing 10 years ago.
Hey now, 10 years ago I had a stable job! How do you think I had the money to visit Vancouver! ... that was in 2008, I think? And 2010? I don't think I saw you in 2010.
But other than that... yeah. Pretty much. My life has never changed all that much
Grey Fox wrote:So basically Slashley is doing exactly what he was doing 10 years ago.
Hey now, 10 years ago I had a stable job! How do you think I had the money to visit Vancouver! ... that was in 2008, I think? And 2010? I don't think I saw you in 2010.
But other than that... yeah. Pretty much. My life has never changed all that much
You were here in 2010? I don't remember where I was in 2010. I just remember we went to Fugg n Sudds once when you were here.
Calbrena wrote:I used to work in education management but that was tons of work for little recognition, so I switched career a few years ago. These days I work for myself, mostly doing Internet marketing related things and designing teaching/training materials for other businesses.
And you speak now.
Well, I did back in 2000-2001 too. Just not English.
Anyway, nowadays... after giving post-doc research a try for a while - till I ran out of funding
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happily employed full-time as a software engineer for a mediumish-sized tech company.
A bit more dull, but far less stressful and much better paid, so works for me!
The RDM works for the State of New York (the court system) making computers do computer things better than they do already. That's after eight years of banging his head against a wall for a defense contractor who never wanted anything to be made better ever because change is scary.
And the RDM has two kids who are the best and a wife who is pretty good too and too many dogs and cats and cars for some reason.
He also rarely speaks in third person these days, even on the Internet.
The RDM has been right: 44,831,295,471,763,402,839,021,738 times‼
WaWard wrote:The RDM is too damn right all the time.
RDM wrote:The RDM works for the State of New York (the court system) making computers do computer things better than they do already. That's after eight years of banging his head against a wall for a defense contractor who never wanted anything to be made better ever because change is scary.
And the RDM has two kids who are the best and a wife who is pretty good too and too many dogs and cats and cars for some reason.
He also rarely speaks in third person these days, even on the Internet.
I'm in the process of quitting a PhD program (physics) because I am done done done with academia. I have a decent shot at a non-academic job as a "data scientist". But I shan't speak of it further right now because it might not happen!
Yep, if I get this particular job, which is based in Toronto, I'll be able to work from home in Montreal (which we'd like in the short term, since Montreal is great) but have some flexibility in where we live too.
smeared ink wrote:I'm in the process of quitting a PhD program (physics) because I am done done done with academia. I have a decent shot at a non-academic job as a "data scientist". But I shan't speak of it further right now because it might not happen!
Good for you! I wish I had done the same and wasted a lot less of my life on a worthless PhD I don't really care about.
smeared ink wrote:Yep, if I get this particular job, which is based in Toronto, I'll be able to work from home in Montreal (which we'd like in the short term, since Montreal is great) but have some flexibility in where we live too.
Being able to work from home is awesome, I'm glad there are so many opportunities to work remotely these days.
My company wont let me work from home even though I live an hour away and my primary function is reading e-mails and doing stuff with web based tools. Working from home sounds great.
My company pretends they encourage working from home, but they really don't. One person in my office travels 3 hours there and 3 hours back each day to sit at a computer that's connected to every other computer in the world, including the ones in his house.
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By the way, in order to plan for your move to Manchester, have you considered looking for jobs which can specifically be done remotely?
And yeah, I love having a commuting time of roughly 30 seconds. I'm considering eventually renting a desk at a nearby co-working space though, since luckily this opportunity exists here in Brooklyn.
I've thought about it, but really we plan to live a lot closer to where we work than we do currently. The journey in every day is increasingly painful and part of the reason why we've decided to relocate. Working from home will be a bonus but not a pre requisite of what I do next.
What I meant was mainly about making it easier to relocate during the transition period from London to Manchester. But yeah, long commutes are a pain. When I was in Doha my commute was about 5mn long door to door, it was awesome since I actually worked in a really nice office at the time.
What does it mean in this case for a company to pretend to encourage working from home but actually not? Do people work from home (with permission) and then get scorned for it?
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