Occupational Audit

[Horus]

Which isn't a pleasant thread title. :)

Today, I was offered a position with a local business as a Web Designer, a very strong hosting / development / software business based a stones' throw from me here in the UK. I'm delighted, and happy to be spending Christmas on the first rung of the career ladder that I want to spend the next 50-60 years of my life doing.

This is planned as a half-celebration, half-discussion thread. The discussion was intended to ask all of you what jobs you have, if you have already left school. So out with it; we're all interested!

Horus

[CMartucci]

I can at least be the first to say congratulations. However I'm still in college so I can not contribute much more to this thread.

[Horus]

Thanks CM, I appreciate the good intention. Do you not have a part-time thing either? I remember working poor hours at a tiling company to get money during school. It alleviated the pressure on my family, really.

I suppose if you want money so badly, you would be willing to work anywhere. That's how McDonalds exists.

[Mitch]

Congratulations! Glad to hear you go the job! You seem to have a real talent for that stuff!
Horus' Website: http://www.neohertz.com

Me, I work a Drug Mart (Pharmaceuticals, not illegal drugs :p) and am simply a cashier guy or sometimes work at the post office at the back. I really like it because it's a small and friendly business with ~20 employees.

[CMartucci]

Thanks CM, I appreciate the good intention. Do you not have a part-time thing either? I remember working poor hours at a tiling company to get money during school. It alleviated the pressure on my family, really.

I suppose if you want money so badly, you would be willing to work anywhere. That's how McDonalds exists.
Yea, I work a part-time job. I consider myself assistant manager, though my title is "Facility Attendant". I'm making 8.50 which isn't bad at all.

[Ed Jones]

Congratulations! Glad to hear you go the job! You seem to have a real talent for that stuff!
Horus' Website: http://www.neohertz.com

I hope Horus doesn't set you on fire while you sleep for showing us his website. That would be rather unfortunate for you and whoever does the laundry.

...i'm in a strange mood today...

[Mitch]

What??????????????????????????????????
:D

[Horus]

*Puts rag and lighter fluid behind back*

Of course I have no intention to set him on fire!

But yes, that is my site; two days old and I'm in the process of getting more clients on board. Have two projects that I'm mapping out right now, so we'll see. It's a wage on top of my regular wage, and good fun to do.

8.50 isn't bad, I'm sure your parents appreciate you working part-time as well as college. That kind of timetable puts you in good stead for when the long working hours come around later on in life.

[Locke]

Future aspirations anybody?
I would perhaps want to do research in some field.

[CMartucci]

8.50 isn't bad, I'm sure your parents appreciate you working part-time as well as college. That kind of timetable puts you in good stead for when the long working hours come around later on in life.
That's true. Though I am lucky because I work in an office and I have my own computer, so I have time to get a lot of homework done on slower days. That'll change during the summer though.

[Mitch]

Yea, I have future aspirations.
Next year i'm planning on going into Computer Engineering or, if not that, Computer Sciences.
(And a minor in Political Science :p)

[Locke]

Polisci is interesting
and so is Sociology.

[Cattraknoff]

Future aspirations anybody?
I would perhaps want to do research in some field.

I plan on starting a career in politics in the near future.

[Horus]

Technical Director, or running my own web development company. I think recent developments have sped up my aspirations, but I'm quite willing to take half a century to get to the top of my field.

[Locke]

I plan on starting a career in politics in the near future.

I have to say, not uncynically, that you would probably be shunned for your so-called "radical" views. People are afraid of change, and therefore cannot change their own fear. And, somewhat speculatively, the fear is installed by the very institutions it protects, and the ones you wish to penetrate.
I beg you, haste! I wish to see changes in that field sometime soon (although I do not foresee any.)

The Arts are one path whose demands I would perhaps yield to.
Mainly music and writing.

[Cattraknoff]

I have to say, not uncynically, that you would probably be shunned for your so-called "radical" views. People are afraid of change, and therefore cannot change their own fear. And, somewhat speculatively, the fear is installed by the very institutions it protects, and the ones you wish to penetrate.
I beg you, haste! I wish to see changes in that field sometime soon (although I do not foresee any.)

The Arts are one path whose demands I would perhaps yield to.
Mainly music and writing.

If I meet any success, I will indeed be shunned, portrayed worse than Hitler, and probably arrested and called a terrorist at some point. I'm aware that change is something those who have a great deal of power resulting from the corrupt status-quo, will do nearly anything to prevent. I do not wish to penetrate their institutions, as they are broken beyond any repair, and would have anyone who desires meaningful change become completely reliant on it themselves. But before I can do anything, I do need to prove that my theories are correct. If they are not, then change itself is impossible; And while I cannot necessarily prove them wrong beyond any doubt, proving them to be true is going to be challenging to say the least. I am relying the people themselves to change things, because my own actions alone cannot yield the desired results. The question is whether they are capable, and willing to do so.

[Locke]

Yep. I can already hear the cat-calls.
Soon they will devolve into accusations.

[Horus]

Isn't it funny that Catt would be labelled as a terrorist or an extremist? It's nauseating how you can be called a hero or a villian simply by which side you are to the media (and as a result) inherited opinion.

What I'm trying to say here is that extreme differences like that can simply be gotten from a differing point of view. When people are placed outside of their comfort zones, they begin to fear what they see.