Male and Female Imponderables--The way of the wise
POSTED BY: Tristan
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 8, 2006 13:04
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Afternoon, my little Imponderables (Gotta love these timezone slips - I'm gonna be in Tuesday by the time some of you guys wake up)
Still a caffeine-free zone here - may be why the posting has slowed. That and the Discworld crossover you evil people put in my head (I'm looking at you, Tristan, because EmmaRigby is off lemur-hugging)
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I, uh, what? Discworld crossover? Where would I find that? I may have missed some postings, so forgive me if I am about to ask an already answered question, SpaceAnJL...are you working on the crossover in fic? If so, where do I find it, as I would be interested in that.
Caffeine-free zone...sounds like some kinda prison torture...
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I'm writing it at present, ready to be posted for the summer challenge.
The working title: Feegles on a Firefly.
Is it any wonder I don't sleep too well? I have to say, it's one of the saner ideas in there. You really don't want to know about some of the others.
The caffeine thing is an effort to act like a rational human being. But then, I mainly write Jaynefic, so I may be a lost cause. It is like torture, only without the oh-so-pretty Captain Tightpants to keep my mind off it...
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I look forward to reading it when it is complete! Ought to be interestin'.
Got sort of an Imponderable today involving jobs and choices.
How many of you have jobs you just sort of "fell" into...I mean jobs you did not go after, but you find yourself working anyhow.
An example is my own. I am in insurance. I worked for this company during college as a file clerk, as my mother was working here as the receptionist (which is a bigger job than I thought...you'll see why). That was fifteen years ago. Two years ago, I am working in a flower shop (don't ask, family friends) and I get a call to see if I am interested in filling in on the front desk at the insurance company while they find a new receptionist (my mother retired several years earlier, the most recent one quit). I say sure, thinking two weeks' of pretty decent money. However, I really enjoy it. I offer to become the full-time receptionist, and I am hired. Less than six months into that, they decide I would make a better Agent, and move me into the back and begin training me. I mostly love this job, but it's not something I would have chosen to get into.
That's the kind of thing I'm talking about. Anyone else have something like that happen?
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Psht. That would be nice. I applied and went after my current job and I hate it.
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I'm working in a deli.
I'm a writer, basically. It is what I am, fundamentally, and the rest is just...paying the bills. But I wanted to work in academia, seemed like it would give me time and space and research in the right kind of areas (my speciality is castles)
Somehow, through A Series Of Unfortunate Events, I have found myself selling cheese for a living. 
Mind you, I get a nice envelope of money every week, a lot less stress and people are understanding (ie back away in fear) from the Notebook. Oh, and all the olives I can eat.
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Hello, everyone!
Back from NYC - Tons of fun. I got to ride around town in a convertable at night, got to eat at a GREAT restaurant (Agave, in the Village) and - wait for it - I went skydiving! Holy crap that was awesome. A tandem jump (I was strapped to an instructor), so I was really just along for the ride. 
What a rush.
Tomorrow, off to Edmonton for a week for work, but I can still post from there...
Whitefall, maybe someone already said this, but college is an investment in yourself, and the journey of your education is as important as the destination of graduating. Best of luck. It is a stressful process, but worth it.
My one bit of advice about being in college - be active. Don't wait for "stuff" to happen to you, go out and find things that you want to learn or do, and the people you'd want to be with. No one will be there to alert you to opportunities - it is exciting to search them out! People who wait for "stuff" to happen to them just miss out.
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Re: jobs - I was very very lucky. I fell into IT/computers/networking/servers, and I love it. It is the singular best piece fo luck I've had (besides meeting my wife).
To be honest, it is not hard for me to find the good in a situation I'm in, so maybe I would like many different things...
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i tend to fall into most of my jobs, at the moment i'm working as a phsyciatric nurse, have been for 2 1/2 years now, was bored of bar work aways back, my dad worked in that unit as a therapist, told me about the vacancy and got me an application form, time slips by and suddenly you wind up wondering how to get out (not doing job satisfaction right now) before that, h'mmm, thE summer job at the quarries, i very much fell into. s'a family business on one side, needed something to do one summer, so wound up there in the mason's shop. actually that i really enjoyed, and it was cool, turned out i had a 'flair for working with stone' which was kinda fun
the farm work a while after that again i rather fell into, and fell out of when i got fired for being useless at it, just, friends of my parents on an organic farm.
Bar wok, and working in an old folks home, those i went and found, but the old folks home i just couldn't deal with, and i hated the manager of the bar i worked in, which made getting out imperative 
think that's all of them, mostly fallen into, some for better or worse ^^
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I inherited a cattle ranch. It was never my intention to stay in Texas and punch cattle, and I didn’t until my parents weren’t able to do the work.
After high school, I had fully intended to move to the Great Northwest – Portland or Seattle and live in a somewhat less conservative part of the country (or so I thought). I have never really liked Texas, although not all aspects of living here are negative. Anyway, I stayed and went to a Texas University… tried a few odd jobs (one involved a lot of travel around the nation), worked in publishing for several years (my chosen field), but ultimately wound up back on the ranch.
I have to say that I don’t regret the decision, and since I married a country girl, we’re happy with our lifestyle. But, if you had told me years ago that I would be raising cattle, I would have laughed in your face. Funny how things work out.
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