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Dream jobs?
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terriphill
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My family thinks we have too many! At least our projects still fit in the garage! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif
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Me too, but that is not unusual.
bugimike
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I think that what Anthony was referring to (and which I also enjoyed) was this quote from Brooklands:
So...what you're saying is you want to be on the "cutting edge" of technology and "be able to draw" from a wide group of patients!
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Maybe one has to read the posts in sequence to find it funny?? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazyeyes.gif
So...what you're saying is you want to be on the "cutting edge" of technology and "be able to draw" from a wide group of patients!
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Maybe one has to read the posts in sequence to find it funny?? /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazyeyes.gif
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Actually, Rick Ingram said that I had quoted him in a response that the puns were a bit painful.
tony barnhill
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Steve_S said:
But, how many quotes inside quotes can we string together? That's the never ending quest....
anthony7777
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tony, just angle two mirrors one on either side of your monitor and count. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
wkilleffer
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At one point within the last five years, I was on the verge of getting trained for ASE certification. I like working on cars, and tend to do ok with it, and recognize that I have alot to learn. SWMBO was all for it, but then I got to thinking about how working on the MG and the Enfield were like my "my job stinks" after-work therapy, and that doing it full time might ruin it. As it is, I work on it when I want to or when I can, at my own pace. Doing it professionally would mean working on a clock and having to worry about customers moaning and groaning about repair costs and other such things. No thanks, for now.
Problem is that few of the jobs I've had fell into the good category. All but a couple have been pretty bad, actually. Seems I don't mix well with large multinational corporations. I've taken a good hard look at my life and what I think would be right, and have gone back to school to become a high school English teacher. I was planning to do that years ago, and ended up fighting it. Should have done it then and avoided the wasted time and dissatisfaction with my life, but oh well...
My dream job would probably be to write full time. I can do research-type writing, but that doesn't seem to pay the bills. I like writing, but it seems the creative spark that allows people like Stephen King and Gary Paulsen and Pat Conroy to do what they do seems absent with me. Some days, I feel like it might be over the next hill or around the next curve, but it hasn't been yet.
Back when I was four or five, my dream job was to be a garbageman. They drove big, loud, smoke-belching trucks, got to hang off the back, and part of the job included banging garbage cans around. Sounded perfect at the time. Runs in the family as my astrophysicist great-uncle felt the same way at that age.
Problem is that few of the jobs I've had fell into the good category. All but a couple have been pretty bad, actually. Seems I don't mix well with large multinational corporations. I've taken a good hard look at my life and what I think would be right, and have gone back to school to become a high school English teacher. I was planning to do that years ago, and ended up fighting it. Should have done it then and avoided the wasted time and dissatisfaction with my life, but oh well...
My dream job would probably be to write full time. I can do research-type writing, but that doesn't seem to pay the bills. I like writing, but it seems the creative spark that allows people like Stephen King and Gary Paulsen and Pat Conroy to do what they do seems absent with me. Some days, I feel like it might be over the next hill or around the next curve, but it hasn't been yet.
Back when I was four or five, my dream job was to be a garbageman. They drove big, loud, smoke-belching trucks, got to hang off the back, and part of the job included banging garbage cans around. Sounded perfect at the time. Runs in the family as my astrophysicist great-uncle felt the same way at that age.
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Bill said:
But he's bashin' eeensy-weensy particles together (even if he's just usin' equations!) now... all you'll get to bash around are STUDENTS. Doesn't seem like that much fun, Bill. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/jester.gif
AweMan
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I had a dream job as a young man {17}. It was working in a sugar mill, spinning sugar {the final process in making table sugar}. The reason it was a dream job was out of an 8Hr. shift we {spinners} worked 4Hr`s and were on break the other 4. Needless to say we were the envy of the company.
We had to be on station the whole 8 Hr`s but we worked 1/2 Hr on and break for 1/2 Hr.
The only draw back was, it was extremly HOT on the spinner floor, Hence the 1/2 on 1/2 off scenerio.
Made a lot of money for a 17 year old kid. Had a brand new 67 mustang. {wish I still had it}. Then my 18th B day, the T.E.T. offensive, the draft, and Y`All can guess what happened to my dream job. When I returned home the sugar mill was shut down so NO job of any kind awating me. That is when I decided on Tech school for welding. Most of Y`All know the rest of my working history.
P.S. My sisters pretty much made a mess out of my mustang,
there wasn`t a whole lot worth trying to save.
We had to be on station the whole 8 Hr`s but we worked 1/2 Hr on and break for 1/2 Hr.
The only draw back was, it was extremly HOT on the spinner floor, Hence the 1/2 on 1/2 off scenerio.
Made a lot of money for a 17 year old kid. Had a brand new 67 mustang. {wish I still had it}. Then my 18th B day, the T.E.T. offensive, the draft, and Y`All can guess what happened to my dream job. When I returned home the sugar mill was shut down so NO job of any kind awating me. That is when I decided on Tech school for welding. Most of Y`All know the rest of my working history.
P.S. My sisters pretty much made a mess out of my mustang,
there wasn`t a whole lot worth trying to save.