A Mark In Time
General Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: ingridswing on August 27, 2008, 02:34:42 PM
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I like all kinds of information.
What kind of jobs we all have, I think it's very diverse.
Mine is CPA, or chartered accountant.
So I am playing with the balancesheet and taxlaws all the time ;-))
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Until I had my son (now 38 yrs) I was a secretary, which was pretty boring. Then later on I worked in a nursery (horticulture), sowing seeds, transplanting, potting-on, etc. That might seem boring to some people, but I loved it. I really looked forward to work each day, seeing the plants growing and smelling the lovely perfume in the greenhouses. I felt really close to nature there and it was very therapeutic. One of my favourite parts of working in the nursery was making hanging baskets, window boxes, etc for people from the vast range of plants that were available. I had job satisfaction too, because I saw the whole process from beginning to end and of course, happy customers! :)
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i work at Esprit, a big clothing retailer, and am now busy for the next 3 yrs implementing SAP software,...interesting....
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I'm a jewelry artisan, working with sterling silver wire, assorted beads (crystal, semi-precious, handmade glass, fair trade silver, etc.), leather, stamped sterling silver items, etc., etc., etc. I make earrings, bracelets, necklaces... I have a website (still being worked on) www.2fabfristers.com.
I am also an avid gardener! Let's talk flowers, Val! Here's a link to some pics of my gardens:
http://picasaweb.google.com/gbobmi/Garden2008
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Great the response till now! And wow!!!!!!! Nice garden!!
I love to watch nice gardens but hate to work in them.
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Interesting thread! Nice to see what people are doing for a living.
I work for a manufacturer of clothes for golfers. We specialise in rain gear and we are bl****y good at it even if it's me saying so. ;D
My duties range from entering orders on the computer to taking care of returns/complaints, on our export markets, especially the UK!
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Love the garden, Gayle! It looks just a bit bigger than mine... Here's a few pics of my garden.
http://rapidshare.com/files/140549052/garden.ace
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Hi.
I manage a shoe shop, selling designer brands, and i have been now for nearly 20yrs.
I am the 'Al Bundy' of the forum. ;D
I am also a full time Knopflerado 8)
Cheers BBBundy
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I promote Wine for 10-15 companies covering approx 200-300 different Wine brands. Pernod Ricard and Constellation Wines are 2 of our biggest International clients along with companies like McWilliams & Tyrrells, which are 5+6 generation Australian Family owned companies.
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I am an English teacher at two middle schools, and I act as a tutor in my spare time besides Knopfler music listener. I love music, as well as English. And it's really great to let more kids know how to use English and can know other English speaking people. So I share English, as well as Knopfler music, these two things play the main role in my whole life.
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I was a career English teacher. I concentrated on literature and writing, but most important my kids. I was at my last school for over 23 years. I was back today, in the district office, doing some consultant work and the head maintenance man(a former student) walked through, and said, "You just can't stay away, can you." "No, I can't," I said. Now I am preparing reports for the principals (two of which are former students) and the other two, long time colleagues across the hall when we were all teaching.
When not teaching or reading, I spend my time helping on the ranch, taking care of the cattle, horse, dogs, kitties, chickens and peacock. I do Artificial Insemination with the cows in May and June of every year. Sunrise on a ranch is the most beautiful place to be, especially watching the cows looking for and calling their babies, watching the babies run and kick for the sheer joy of life.
At home more reading and hours in my garden, babying and nursing my roses. I keep in touch with friends and my precious brothers and sisters by phone and email.
And my MK collection grows and grows.
Today I coached a young writer (a former student) with his first novel. Damned good for a first try; he has promise. So I'm still teaching. I can't NOT teach.
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Nothing exciting here. I am a department manager in training for a big food retailer here in the UK. But one day someone might stumble across my photography and pay obscene amounts of money for it.
...I'll keep dreaming :D
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Love the garden, Gayle! It looks just a bit bigger than mine... Here's a few pics of my garden.
http://rapidshare.com/files/140549052/garden.ace
I can't open this file, Val! I've tried 3 times... :'(
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OK Gayle, I'll try another way. ::)
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/superval100/Garden?authkey=lrevrSa_qE4
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I have been a sports writer for nearly 42 years. I retired July 31 -- coincidentally the last day of MK's '08 tour -- but am still planning on writing some stuff for my newspaper.
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Hi Knopfling. Welcome to the forum, nice picture :D
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Welcome, knopfling! Glad to see you here!!!!!!!!!!!
Val, the new link worked. YOUR GARDENS ARE GORGEOUS AND PUT MINE TO SHAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I BOW TO YOUR GARDENING EXPERTISE!!!!!!!!!! :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
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Thanks Gayle - it's very therapeutic! ;) I would like a bit more room though!
BTW - I like the new avatar - have you had a head transplant! ;D
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I have been a radio operator for the Omaha Police Department for 14 years. Before that I was in the Records Dept for a couple of years. My 'kids' are some of my favorite people, and I love 'em. They do get the cranky side of me from time to time, and then they also get baby afghans and cookies. I have a while longer to go before I retire, and I have to say, I'll miss them when I do retire. Before I worked for the cops, I did a lot of strange things.
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Jacki, Is it a figment of my imagination or did I read somewhere on the other forum that you sometimes did some busking? :)
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Job? well...I am a student...of conservatoire...I am pianist !!!
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Righto, Val...in my spare time I still go down to the Old Market in Omaha and play on the street. Some of MK's work is in my repertoire. :) Won't be doing that for the next covple of months tho!! ;D
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Hi all,
I'm a primary teacher and I teach guitar on week-ends! Guitar is more than a passion for me, it's a desease! :)
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Industrial Disease? :o
C'mon, forumers, gimme karma!!!!!!!!!!!!! What? Asking for karmic points? How dare I????? Never mind........if one has to ask, then one does not deserve it....I apologize. :-[
But one can try! :D
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I'm a computer programmer with an insurance company.
Might sound boring and nerdy to some, but it's still challenging to me ;D
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you got it gayle.
and you too koen.
liked the gilmour dvd? did it work now??
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Thank youuuu, pottel! ;D
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Hi Gayle and Ian.
Ian, thanks on the picture. I got several I was pretty happy with over the three dates I saw on the 2008 tour. Check my signature for a link to more of them.
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Wow, too much information!!!!!!! :o ;D
Proctology too long to spell? ;)
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I look up people's bottoms.
...because he is a Gastroenterologist.
What a job.
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Hi Gayle and Ian.
Ian, thanks on the picture. I got several I was pretty happy with over the three dates I saw on the 2008 tour. Check my signature for a link to more of them.
Thanks for pointing the link out. I'll check them out now :)
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Sorry, draad, just a question, if it doesnt get too graphic...what is the difference between gastroenterologist and proctology? Or would you recommend I google it? I thought gastro was to do with stomachs but I know I have a lot to learn.
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Dan - two things.
1. it pays the rent.
2. it's the most important structure in your body - if it ain't happy, you won't be either!
I salute you draad, because it'is a job that I could never do.
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I look up people's bottoms.
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It definitely earns karma, draad.... ;D
Anyone who makes me laugh earns karma!
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Thanks for the explanation, draad!! I love knowing more than the people I work with!! I also believe everyone should learn something new every day. You fulfilled my daily dose! ;D
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And, I agree with another post, draad...it's a job I would never be able to do.
Another job I wouldn't want is dentist. I believe Scupperman is a dentist. Hats off to you too, Spence!! I can imagine you've seen a few things in your career you would rather not have.
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or doing pedicures.....
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And, I agree with another post, draad...it's a job I would never be able to do.
Another job I wouldn't want is dentist. I believe Scupperman is a dentist. Hats off to you too, Spence!! I can imagine you've seen a few things in your career you would rather not have.
Actually, scupperman is an optometrist! He looks into peoples eyes and sees what they're thinking...... :o
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Wow, Gayle, I learned two things today!! I'm a day ahead! ;D
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You are a day ahead of me, Jacki! :o
BTW: How are you doing? Recovery going well?
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Thanks for the interest, Gayle...Things are always rosiest about an hour after my dose of Percocet, but I really have nothing to complain about...I think the doctor took care of what I went in there for, and I fully expect to be hurting at least a little for a while from the surgery itself, but overall I have a far brighter outlook this time around than I did for my back fusion. Maybe it's the time of year...but I have really been in a great mood in the past couple of weeks. course, I had a great pre-surgery summer! But I am enjoying recuperating, reading, napping, hobbling up to the pizza place to visit at least once a day, AND I DON'T HAVE MUCH OF AN APPETITE!!! HALLELUJAH!! Finally! Really think I'm doing pretty good and thanks, everybody, for the kind thovghts. Now if the comp wovld jvst behave! (Some of my keys have decided not to work, have to get a geek on the case.)
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Somehow, after draad's post, I think everyone's job is going to sound pretty routine, but mine will probably be the dullest of all.
I work for a company that provides paper used to print newspapers and magazines. I am in Technical Services, which is working with printers in regard to how the paper actually performs on the printing presses.
This is normally enough to kill the conversation at parties, so I expect this to be the last post on this thread too...
Oh, and I play bass a bit as well (and sometimes get paid for that too).
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Hi,
New on the board, coming from the the other MK site. Looks like you guys are having fun here, so I thought I'll join the party. I guess I am a lucky one here. I get to stay home with my 3 young boys. 11, 9, and 3. All my boys know and love DS/MK songs. Even my 3 years old. He can name songs like Sultans, money for nothing, down to the waterline, Romeo & Julliete, and Boom like that. DS/MK music starts at 6:30 am and runs pretty much all day. My 11 year old is playing guitar to be like MK. Pls do not be jealous of me, I do get things done and take care of the kids. I hope I have more time to hang out here though!! :)
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Welcome, Sweetsvrrender. Always room for one more!! ;)
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draad, yov have a PM. ;)
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Whaauww what a great messages, where do I start!
Val and Gayle I love your gardens. We also have one, but it is very tiny and small compared with yours, BUT .........we have some beautiful flowers and a nice pond! ;D
Quote Sweetsurrender:
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draad, thanks for the kind words. I think the first few weeks is sposed to be the hardest to get throo...looking forward to not sleeping on my back for certain!
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Another one to wake for the new members, even though many of the ones that have contributed on this thread are no longer with us or active. Maybe that will rattle them a bit and join back.
On my part I am currently working (but not getting paid) with photography (I have studied photography) and a photographic team. I have been working since 1993 at book publishers, bookshops, freelance photographer, helping topographers, and ice cream production and distribution.
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Never saw this thread. Was obviously long before my registration.
Well, I am working at an independetly owned bookstore for 15 years now, after studying librarianship for a few years in Hamburg mid 1990s. It is unusual to do it this turn around because is seems to be a setback, but to be honest, all those (academic) libraries I worked at for a few months were so ...outmoded, boring and some kind of ivory-tower, that I love to be "among" customers, being on my feet, lively, not sitting around all day. You really have your finger on the pulse of the time, it is all very fast and people react promptly often by buying the right book for every little thing that occures in their life.. Could be paid better, and the times have been better 10 years ago, but it is also a fact that never more books have been published within one year's time than these days. So everybody stating that the "book is dead" should take a look at Frankfurt Book Fair and is healed for the moment.
I think it is remarkable that the team in our shop is more or less the same since 15 years, with the occasional changing trainee, so nice team work is another reason for my staying there. And I do the purchase department and can pretty much do what I want - as long as it works out. ;D
Dream: Seeing a catalogue that announces the new Mark Knopfler biography "Memory Lane", 800 pages, with 200 unreased photographs, audio book read my MK himself, written by Mark and Kitty together...
Dreams...
LE
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I am afraid unable to work due to poor health. I have refractory epilepsy and as such have found it impossible for companies to employ me. I studied physics at university but no lab will want to employ me. The doctors have on two occasions very nearly killed me due to changing my medication, once giving me an overdose and once giving me pneumonia. Each time worsening my condition. I find if I have regular sleeping patterns though, I'm usually fine through the day.
On a brighter note I still have found time to do some voluntary work since they are able to be flexible with me at places like Debra, Haypark, Stirling Royal Infirmary and most notably at Relate Forth Valley. They help people who have relationship problems. I implemented a database of their clients and kept it updated and also took telephone calls from potential clients, taking their details and spoke to them to reassure them. Sometimes coming off the phone to a domestic violence case e.g. it was quite upsetting but overall it was quite fulfilling to do such a job as we helped so many people to get back on track. They are such a wonderful group of people who work so hard there for very little money.
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dmg, you are one of those posters around here that is alway funny, witty and really straight to the point... it is so surprising sometimes when threads like this one show suddenly that there are "real" lifes behind these little avatars... it seems your life conditions are not the easiest ones - but the way you communiquate here at AMIT for example seems to imply that you still uplifting your spirits and keep a good optimistic view on life... but Scotsman that you are, I guess this my writing here is all far too cheesy and weak here, so just... rock on! ;D
;)
LE
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dmg, you are one of those posters around here that is alway funny, witty and really straight to the point... it is so surprising sometimes when threads like this one show suddenly that there are "real" lifes behind these little avatars... it seems your life conditions are not the easiest ones - but the way you communiquate here at AMIT for example seems to imply that you still uplifting your spirits and keep a good optimistic view on life... but Scotsman that you are, I guess this my writing here is all far too cheesy and weak here, so just... rock on! ;D
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LE
Thanks LE. I've always been of the (very simple) view: can't do anything about it, so just live with it! Your words are very thoughtful.
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vgonis, very nice of you for making this post visible again.
It's wonderful to see the variety of occupations in here this list. MK's music touches people from all over the world and form dozens of life backgrounds. Very interesting, indeed.
As for me, I'm a journalist working in the public sector. I'm the editor of "Voz do Brasil" (Brasil's voice), a radio program with news from Executive, Judiciary and Legislative (my part) branches of Brazil's government. This program exists for more than 75 years, it's one hour long and its broadcast is mandatory for all radio stations all over the country.
Would like to know more about everyone!
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as of tomorrow i will be our company's "Head of Communication Retail EU" and am effing proud of it as well...
as we are not here to do adverts, i will just say that i work for a large clothing company, of American originin with a "french" name and a headquarter close to D
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as of tomorrow i will be our company's "Head of Communication Retail EU" and am effing proud of it as well...
as we are not here to do adverts, i will just say that i work for a large clothing company, of American originin with a "french" name and a headquarter close to D
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You said that it is Esprit already earlier in this thread, Pottel!!!! :lol :lol :lol
LE
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What a nice thread to read. Here are my 2 cents:
I've studied Civil Engineering during the mid 90s, when IT was still pretty boring. It only took me one internship to find out that I was better at that boring IT stuff than in Civil Engineering, so I got some combined jobs there after. I had a private company for about 3 years from 2003 onwards and worked on some Intranet sites for the Ministry of Infrastructure. Then I continued working as a system engineer and later on as a network engineer.
Nowadays I work as a programmer for a small company that produces financial software for the Trust market. Apart from that I work part time for the company that my girlfriend started just over a year ago. I do the technical part of the front-end design of websites (JavaScript and such).
Then we have some side-projects which we would like to expand, like fansontour and some services for record companies.
It's a busy but interesting life.
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Another one to wake for the new members, even though many of the ones that have contributed on this thread are no longer with us or active. Maybe that will rattle them a bit and join back.
On my part I am currently working (but not getting paid) with photography (I have studied photography) and a photographic team. I have been working since 1993 at book publishers, bookshops, freelance photographer, helping topographers, and ice cream production and distribution.
This is of interest to me as a mere amateur photographer who wanders around aimlessly in the vain hope of producing a good shot now and again! My interest was first noticed at high school when I joined the photographic society. I eventually became it's longest standing member, even helping out after I left school! I done photography for the school show programmes etc there. I used to do all my own processing but since we moved and the loft isn't floored now...
A firm believer in film cameras I have used a Leica M4 from 1967 and now have an M6 from 1991. I have various Leica M lenses too all sourced from eBay. I love the older ones as they have that lovely glow that you only get from the older ones (perhaps the single coating). My avatar was shot with my 35mm Summicron from 1966 and has that lovely old-fashioned colour - no photoshopping.
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A Leica camera used to be the fetish for every photographer. Even though by calculation I believe that we have a generation difference, I started photography when the digital cameras were merely an idea in somebody's head, so it was only film for the first 10 years. I do believe that the whole procedure with the film and dark rooms and developing and printing the films were giving the photos an element that is missing nowadays. It was sort of magical, or if you want to put it more logically it had the fine feel of a DIY that the modern digital photography has solved it, up to a point. Not necessarily bad, but still a different philosophy. Unfortunately I never fulfilled my dream of getting a Leica, M6. I still use B&W films-usually TriX, but I fear that when I get the money to buy an M6 it would probably be to fulfill my desire and not use it. since it is harder to get the variety (or any for that matter) of films anymore.
And yes, I too look for this elusive photo every day ;)
Pottel, congats! May it bring you happiness and fulfillment.
LE you have mentioned before that you work in a bookshop. Most of my working years were in this field as well. I guess you have many stories to tell!
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thnx V.
May you find some luck asap too....
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A Leica camera used to be the fetish for every photographer. Even though by calculation I believe that we have a generation difference, I started photography when the digital cameras were merely an idea in somebody's head, so it was only film for the first 10 years. I do believe that the whole procedure with the film and dark rooms and developing and printing the films were giving the photos an element that is missing nowadays. It was sort of magical, or if you want to put it more logically it had the fine feel of a DIY that the modern digital photography has solved it, up to a point. Not necessarily bad, but still a different philosophy. Unfortunately I never fulfilled my dream of getting a Leica, M6. I still use B&W films-usually TriX, but I fear that when I get the money to buy an M6 it would probably be to fulfill my desire and not use it. since it is harder to get the variety (or any for that matter) of films anymore.
And yes, I too look for this elusive photo every day ;)
Pottel, congats! May it bring you happiness and fulfillment.
LE you have mentioned before that you work in a bookshop. Most of my working years were in this field as well. I guess you have many stories to tell!
No generation difference at all my friend; I am one whole year older than you! With the popularity of the digital M8, M9 and recently introduced M and ME models, used M6's are bound to be cheaper than they once were. If you were to think about one, the 35mm Summaron is an excellent lens for the money and I'm sorry I sold mine. You can see some of my stuff here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.100928236598004.2076.100000424851640&type=3
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i am a press photographer. i work for the mirror group. i have done work overseas uganda, zambia, vietnam, thailand etc for an international charity as well as freelancing for british national newspapers. i do chiefly news and sport these days, but i have photographed mk on a number of occasions both in concert and for interviews. i am not and never have been part of the pap scene!!!!
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No generation difference at all my friend; I am one whole year older than you! With the popularity of the digital M8, M9 and recently introduced M and ME models, used M6's are bound to be cheaper than they once were. If you were to think about one, the 35mm Summaron is an excellent lens for the money and I'm sorry I sold mine. You can see some of my stuff here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.100928236598004.2076.100000424851640&type=3
dmg, saw your photo equipment and got a bit jealous. I have to close my eyes, since I am out of paid work for the time being, but will return if and/or when things get better. Funny, if it wasn't for fate we might have met at Napier. I was accepted in the mid 90ies but couldn't find the necessary funds. Most of my equipment (bodies and lenses) are Canon, and I also have a medium format and two old Nikkormat, with many fine lenses. I am after some good lenses for my MKII Canon5 that will meet up to the high resolution needs, and they are pretty expensive.
I went through your photos, they are wonderful! And even though I have lost interest in football after a bad incident in the 90ies, I was impressed by the Ibrox stadium photos. And the photo of your avatar has quite different colours than the one used at facebook. Is it the same? I think I prefer the big one.
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Neither I nor mrs twm work now.
My mum, now quite elderly, "inherited" a box of at least a dozen Leica cameras about 10 years ago, maybe a bit more, along with some bits and pieces of Leica "kit". They came from someone who had bought them from dealers who specialised in old cameras for camera collectors. Some of the Leicas went back to the 1930s. She didn't need them or want to use them and, in the end, she sold them to a younger relative of the person who had gifted them to her in the first place. She felt this was the right thing to do, even if it was not necessarily the most lucrative.
Myself, I got given a Canon "bridge" camera for a significant birthday a few years back. Though it is not the sort of standard you guys have, it was a significnat step up from what I had before and I am broadly very pleased with the results. It has the option of a viewfinder, which I so much prefer that I almost never use the screen, though the latter is rotatable which allows overhead shots (for example, a photo of Patti Smith taken over the heads of the crowd at a speak-and-play session at a FNAC in Paris - not a great picture but, without that facility, I would never had got a shot at all). I find the camera versatile but, IMHO, it is not so good in low light situations (such as concerts, of course) though I am pleased with many of the results. The camera comes with a 12x optical zoom and I've bought an attachment that takes that up to 18x optical. The latter gives great depth of field results (that is, a "sharp" subject standing out against a blurred background). In my youth, I knocked about with some people who were semi-professional photographers, so got the chance to use some of their equipment - back in the days before automatic focussing and camera settings.
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No generation difference at all my friend; I am one whole year older than you! With the popularity of the digital M8, M9 and recently introduced M and ME models, used M6's are bound to be cheaper than they once were. If you were to think about one, the 35mm Summaron is an excellent lens for the money and I'm sorry I sold mine. You can see some of my stuff here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.100928236598004.2076.100000424851640&type=3
dmg, saw your photo equipment and got a bit jealous. I have to close my eyes, since I am out of paid work for the time being, but will return if and/or when things get better. Funny, if it wasn't for fate we might have met at Napier. I was accepted in the mid 90ies but couldn't find the necessary funds. Most of my equipment (bodies and lenses) are Canon, and I also have a medium format and two old Nikkormat, with many fine lenses. I am after some good lenses for my MKII Canon5 that will meet up to the high resolution needs, and they are pretty expensive.
I went through your photos, they are wonderful! And even though I have lost interest in football after a bad incident in the 90ies, I was impressed by the Ibrox stadium photos. And the photo of your avatar has quite different colours than the one used at facebook. Is it the same? I think I prefer the big one.
Small world!
Thanks for your comments, I save very hard and search eBay for bargains. As it happens I managed to find my best one yet only yesterday: a 28mm Elmarit for around half the price it should have been!
The photo is basically the same only downsized so the quality makes it appear worse than it actually is.
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same here. still happy after all those years, just like a relationship :-)
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Hi all,
This topic gives me the chance to tell all of you a bit more about myself.
I'm Maaike, 35 years old, living in The Hague The Netherlands.
I'm a big music fan and my two biggest musical favorites are Mark and Bruce Springsteen.
And yes, I also play the guitar. I'm doing a bandcoaching course with a local music school, so I do play in a band, but there still is a music teacher to help out when needed.
The music school comes up with a planning of small gigs and open mic nights. The band I'm in is called No Excuses.
But there also is the main question of ths topic. What kind of work we all do. Well.., I work as a secretary at the personell department of the Province of "Zuid-Holland" (Zuid Holland = South Holland).
Maaike
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Welcome music girl! Hope you have MK songs in your repertoire! ;)
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Nice than such and old post re-born...
I work in a Hotel. I work in the reception and I take care of customers in check in, check out, bookings and usually a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with my work, but the crisis hits everywhere and I have to help waiters, sometimes maintenance etc etc etc, sometimes its a big stress when you want to treat the customers as best as you can, but you can
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jbaent I know how you feel. Be patient, it is the bloody crisis that usually affects the ones not responsible for it. Here in Greece, tourist business flourish as well, but unfortunately, most of the tourists go to the big hotels that offer almost everything for 15Euros a day, so they don't spend outside the hotel. It is a shame, not because they don't spend, but because Greece is not only beaches, drinks, fun and sun, and if you don't have the courage to search in other places other than the hotel premisses (and it costs some money to do so) you don't see the beauties of Greece.
15 years ago I started learning Espaniol, because every one I knew from Spain didn't speak a word of English. No hablo Ingles
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=No%20Hablo%20Ingles
Thank God they learnt Greek. ;D
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I have been and still am a Railway Signalman since leaving school some 21 years ago!! And yes I love it!!
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I am a teacher/reading specialist - just retired (thus, I now have the time for this forum and lots of traveling)! ;D
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London Underground engineer, on the night shift making (and hoping) the trains run.
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What an interesting topic , how many different occupations !!
I`m working at the personnal department of an insurance company, I am responsible for the salary and I
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From next year on I will change the job, but stay at the same company : I will book hotels, train/flight tickets etc. for our business-travellers.
If you are going to send them to Spain, Valencia area, let me know, many of our hotel customers are this kind of travellers from abroad.
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There are so many of us on here interested in photography! A couple have Canon camera's and I know that Ken Rockwell (a professional photographer) does some reviews of Canon, Nikon and Leica. He comes across as a little arrogant in his reviews so take them with a pinch of salt but he does comprehensive tests with professional equipment so things like distortion and coma etc of lenses are interesting to note.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/reviews.htm
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From next year on I will change the job, but stay at the same company : I will book hotels, train/flight tickets etc. for our business-travellers.
If you are going to send them to Spain, Valencia area, let me know, many of our hotel customers are this kind of travellers from abroad.
ok, I will keep that in mind. But I
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What an interesting topic , how many different occupations !!
I`m working at the personnal department of an insurance company, I am responsible for the salary and I
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I don't know if you have listened to this, but it could be a day in the bookshop.
The original audio track!
http://youtu.be/Me3f7rI9AOk
The televised latter version.
http://youtu.be/PPouuA0KMO4
My favourite edition, by Monty Pythons audio only.
http://youtu.be/eCM2nEBE0RY
And one with Cleese and his then wife.
http://youtu.be/p62uutgNN4c
And yes it describes exactly what could happen in a bookshop. ;D
dmg, thanks for the Rockwell page. Nice one and I never came across it.
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What an interesting topic , how many different occupations !!
I`m working at the personnal department of an insurance company, I am responsible for the salary and I
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Well, I never liked Julia Roberts, but it is fascinating to think that a "beautiful" and young movie star, would accidentally come in the bookstore and after some obligatory (for the length of the movie) twists and turns, will fall for the man behind the counter. Even if that man is Hugh Grant and the bookshop in Notting hill.
Why again Hugh Grant is so successful?
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Why again Hugh Grant is so successful?
I never understood why - in my opinion he's a bit of a drip! ;D
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Mona, I wrote my last post BEFORE I had my first morning coffee... later this day, around lunchtime, it suddenly struck me (don't ask me why) that I had talked about the wrong movie - you meant the one with Tom Hanks of course, which I must have seen a dozen dozen times... and the other one is Notting Hill, a film I also like (I always wondered why the guitar in the score sounded so much MK like but was not from him...) Tom Hanks is quite cool in You've Got Mail (all scenes where he acts together with Dave Chappelle are great...)
(Morning coffee - that's also why I wrote refrigerator wrong, by the way.)
vgonis, thanks a lot for the clips - have not seen them before. You can clearly see (and hear) why John Cleese is the Greatest - the first (audio) sketch is really classic, compared to the acted one with Marty...
Today an elderly woman asked me if this Mrs. Rowling has "written anything else before? How comes they call her one of the greatest writers ever on the blurb - this seems to be her first novel?" I mentioned Harry P. but did not get glances of recognition.... ;)
But better leave this bookshop thing now, there are so many other jobs around I am sure...
LE
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Hi all!
Well I'm new here, actually I visited the forum on markknopfler.com for 5 years but it dissapeared :'(
What do I do for a living? I'm pretty close to 'death'. I'm a medic, or a male nurse to be more precise ;D ... I work in a hospital on a section for elderly, sometimes to make them better but often to guide them to their final stage of life. I work mostly at night from 21 to 7 and I'm fast asleep from 8 to 16 so I'm quite sleepy at the moment ...
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Hi all!
Well I'm new here, actually I visited the forum on markknopfler.com for 5 years but it dissapeared :'(
What do I do for a living? I'm pretty close to 'death'. I'm a medic, or a male nurse to be more precise ;D ... I work in a hospital on a section for elderly, sometimes to make them better but often to guide them to their final stage of life. I work mostly at night from 21 to 7 and I'm fast asleep from 8 to 16 so I'm quite sleepy at the moment ...
Welcome to the forum Adventurer! It takes a special kind of person to be in "the caring profession."
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Welcome to the forum Adventurer! It takes a special kind of person to be in "the caring profession."
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Any one who helps people with health issues are the real back-bone of a human society!! :clap
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Welcome to the forum Adventurer! It takes a special kind of person to be in "the caring profession."
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Any one who helps people with health issues are the real back-bone of a human society!! :clap
So true! The mirror of society is the way it treats its people. And it is pretty bleak lately.
Welcome Adventurer to the best MK forum!
And a relevant with your profession welcome joke: In Greece we have a saying. The mistakes of the doctors are fixed - buried by the undertaker.
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Thanks all for the warm welcome! :wave
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I'm currently a student, I study International Business at the university of Groningen.
Next to that I fill the stocks in a supermarket and in another supermarket I'm leading the people who fill the stocks, so you can guess which one I prefer ;D
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I'm currently a student, I study International Business at the university of Groningen.
Next to that I fill the stocks in a supermarket and in another supermarket I'm leading the people who fill the stocks, so you can guess which one I prefer ;D
I guess you prefer to empty them! Oh every job is fine if you like to do it.
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Hello all.
I am an engineer and work on an oil rig in the middle of the North Sea. Myself and 18 colleagues board our "private aircraft" to make the 2 hour flight to work, being away from friends and family 2 weeks out of 5. On the way out it's the worst job, on the return it's the best.
150 miles from the nearest land, drilling for and producing oil and gas 365 days a year through the worst of weather, living with the dangers all that entails.....never dull.
Greetings to you all.
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wow Bufod1 very interesting job! Any photos? Or is it forbidden?
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Hello all.
I am an engineer and work on an oil rig in the middle of the North Sea. Myself and 18 colleagues board our "private aircraft" to make the 2 hour flight to work, being away from friends and family 2 weeks out of 5. On the way out it's the worst job, on the return it's the best.
150 miles from the nearest land, drilling for and producing oil and gas 365 days a year through the worst of weather, living with the dangers all that entails.....never dull.
Greetings to you all.
Sounds definitely like a job that MK could write a song about one day ("The nearest Land" ;D ) . Thanks for adding to this thread!
LE
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I was on this one a few years back - good clip, common to all, which emphasises Mother Nature. Days like this, no matter how long you've spent offshore, makes you feel a little on edge and vulnerable.
http://youtu.be/NNvmK9mUjvI
Great camaraderie, a second family really. A sense of achievement and public service in some respects but always the potential. Whilst things have come a long way since the mid 1970s we must never, ever let our guard down
25 years gone, respects to the lost and thoughts to the families
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/you-could-only-call-the-scene-apocalyptic-the-piper-alpha-disaster-25-years-on-8692596.html
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Thank you for the article and video. It is a hard work and yet when everything goes smoothly a rewarding one, at least watching the water element and its power!
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I'm relatively new here and just saw this "interesting" thread..
I am a mechanical engineer by trade but work in finance. Used to be a banker (the good kind, not one of those arrogant *^#@$! that blew up the world) for a long time, now work for a large construction company where I am responsible for financing of large infrastructure projects in the US (think highways and bridges that cost hundreds of millions of $$).
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I'm a BSC Nursing student and team leader at a emergency/ambulance assistance unit. Helping people, aaaaaalll day long ;)
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I am a business systems analyst. ::)
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Self-employed non-fiction translator.
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Welcome you all! :wave
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I'm a teacher at a Primary School in Germany. I torture...err...teach children how to read, write and calculate ( and 90% of the time how to become a good member of our society ) ;D
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I was 14 years a medical secretary for 3 doctors, 2 of the 3 retired 2 years ago so I had to stop and now I'm working in a class of 10 disabled children with the Teacher in a Primary school and I love it!!! It doesn't pay as much as my other job but I do have all the holidays so I manage to be able to look after my aging Parents, Mum is 81 and Dad is 87!! They're starting to be quite dependant nowadays!! Thanks Ingrid for starting this thread!! :wave :thumbsup
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Teacher of music in a special needs school here!
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I could tell you - but then I'd have to kill you LOL. :-X
Seriously- I'm a civil servant doing an admin job for a government department. :disbelief :smack
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I am a ghost
Oh yeah Pensa, I thought that ghosts were living in Scottish castle only!!!??? lol... :wave
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I am a ghost
Then you would become a ghost's ghost.
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I am a ghost
Dirty Dick or Little Nell? :lol
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I'm a dentist in a small village in the North of France between Arras and Cambrai.
And always music (with a lot MK) in the background for the pleasure of my patients and myself !
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I am a Railway Signalman, and have been on the Railway since the age of 16!! Yes, 25 years in July.
In my spare time I am a Cub Scout Leader too with Parkstone, St Peter's Scout Group.
Our Scout Group's 'claim to fame' is that our sponsoring church is where Lord Robert Baden-Powell & Olave Soames were married and of course we have very unique links with nearby Brownsea Island - Where Scouting began in 1907...
And of course I still find time to play the Fender MK's too!!!! :wave
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Revival update of this nice topic for all new-coming members.
For about two decades of working at publishing houses, bookshops and the last 4 years in an ice cream factory during the summer, I have found a new job, at a vinyl record shop. It used to be one of my dream jobs (the other being a paid photographer) and I have had several "High fidelity" moments! Of course once you are in the job, it loses part of the mystic, but still I am lucky to have good people working with me and being able to listen to music most of the time, music that I never knew existed (and I am, some times, sorry to say, it exists...) Listening to dub reggae records for 8 straight hours, can drive you nuts, especially if it is not at a relaxing position, at a beach, or smoking...
One of the best "High fidelity" moments (actually happens quite regularly) is when in a busy afternoon I placed a record through the shop loud speakers, https://youtu.be/l-L38wTkVJg and with pleasure I witnessed three customers rushing at the turntable to check what is playing. Record sold! The same thing happened for Andy Summer's XYZ LP https://youtu.be/j8qNtenfRpc, Booker T and the MGs - Green onions https://youtu.be/_bpS-cOBK6Q, Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised https://youtu.be/qGaoXAwl9kw, Buddy Rich, Larry Carlton, Isaac Hayes, Ohio Players, Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain, Air- Moon Safari, Nas- Illmatic and way too many others, some less known, to mention or remember. Mark Knopfler is not in my department unfortunately, but I have witnessed that people do care for good music, through a good audio system and are willing to have it. And despite this : https://youtu.be/HBjOd92JBqQ considering MK underrated, he is very well known and doesn't need any tricks to sell steadily!
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Vgonis, that's my dream job too!
I love High Fidelity, the book. The movie is OK but moving to Chicago the action that happens in London takes out part of the charm...
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Yes, jbaent, I agree! The book was a glorious feel good discovery, which I visualized with my own experiences, (which are far from the UK stereotypes, but even further from the US ones) while the movie was OK, but didn't quite match the book, in depth or smartness! Of course the casting was brilliant, the Bruce cameo was a surprise and the scene (which I only saw at the cinema but was later cut) with the pissed wife that sells her run with the secretary husband a classic. And the fact that Belle and Sebastian were in there as well. And Lisa Bonnet.
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Oh yes... Lisa Bonet ;)
John Cusack fits well too.
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I'm in culinary school training to be a ship's cook, and a part-time musician. Something like Harry from Sultans of Swing.
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Hi, National 97. A very interesting job! I have heard of ship's personnel becoming great artists on several fields like music, photography, literature etc. It probably has something to do with a life on a ship, long journeys, seclusion like a monk, that leads to deep inner self analysis, etc. I have considered becoming a sailor some years ago, due to these, but I guess I didn't have any real knack for it.
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Hi, National 97. A very interesting job! I have heard of ship's personnel becoming great artists on several fields like music, photography, literature etc. It probably has something to do with a life on a ship, long journeys, seclusion like a monk, that leads to deep inner self analysis, etc. I have considered becoming a sailor some years ago, due to these, but I guess I didn't have any real knack for it.
I know it sounds like such a cliché but there truly is something about the sea that inspires people in their own ways. Fortunately for me it helps fuel songwriting :)
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I am one of those in between "the schools" and "the rules". ;)
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I am one of those in between "the schools" and "the rules". ;)
Minister of education?
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Some kind of consigliere, maybe. ;)
If you are some sort of education inspector-advisor, and if you don't mind my asking, your function is to gap the differences between the decisions of the "rules" and the needs of the students - parents, or act as a messenger of one or both sides?
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Go and listen to TR ;D
I thought a DS/MK forum would have that reference shot down in a heartbeat :)
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then came the lawyers, then came the rules...? ;)
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Go and listen to TR ;D
I thought a DS/MK forum would have that reference shot down in a heartbeat :)
Nice riddle. :clap Don't know if there is a song with the mention of my profession. :think
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Go and listen to TR ;D
I thought a DS/MK forum would have that reference shot down in a heartbeat :)
Nice riddle. :clap Don't know if there is a song with the mention of my profession. :think
Private Dancer?
(Sorry mate, it was wide open! Couldn't resist! ;) )
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Private Dancer?
There's something in it... :)
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well, I got fired on Wednesday - so I dont have any!
Gonna stick to my guitar for a while...
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well, I got fired on Wednesday - so I dont have any!
Gonna stick to my guitar for a while...
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Sorry to hear that. I know how it must feel. I have been in and out of jobs since the beginning of the crisis in Greece. Good luck finding a new, better one, as soon as you want to!
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well, I got fired on Wednesday - so I dont have any!
Gonna stick to my guitar for a while...
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Sorry to hear about that, mate. Hope you'll get back in track asap.
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well, I got fired on Wednesday - so I dont have any!
Gonna stick to my guitar for a while...
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I'm really sorry to read this Tobben!! Hope you'll get a new job ASAP!! :wave
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Thanks for the nice comments! :) I'm positiv, and think I'll find something new soon :)
MK doesn't need a new guitar tech does he? :p
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Sorry to hear Tobben. Hope you will find a new and even better job soon. Good luck!
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At the moment i go to the secundary school ;D
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Good luck Tobben.
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Nice than such and old post re-born...
I work in a Hotel. I work in the reception and I take care of customers in check in, check out, bookings and usually a lot of stuff that has nothing to do with my work, but the crisis hits everywhere and I have to help waiters, sometimes maintenance etc etc etc, sometimes its a big stress when you want to treat the customers as best as you can, but you can
Quite strange how things change... This old post by me in this thread from 2012... it was posted one month before I got redundant so I losed my job at the hotel and after some years of unemployment in a crisis situation in Spain, last year I got to work for four months as a career counselor for the regional job office. One month ago I got a call to start working again in the same job, I don´t know for how long, it could be one year, two or more... so, it will be nice to look at this thread again in some years time!
It´s weird when you are seeking a job and then you find one where you have to help others to find a job...
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Yes, it is nice to help people get a job! Here in Greece, there is no lack of jobs. If you are willing to get 2 Euros per hour or less, you can get a job right away.
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I`m a layout&graphic designer althought I studied long long time ago biology... Dire Straits and their music introduced me in the Graphic Designer World 21 years ago...