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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Suggest to me either comical or helpful ideas for a new career for me. I fucking hate my job. I get almost no satisfaction from it at all and it's sapping my will to live.
Alt: What's your dream job? Do you have your dream job?
Alt alt: What's made you proud recently? On Sunday morning my daugher said to me 'I want to die like Jimi Hendrix, daddy' and then mimed smashing a guitar up. Fair brought a tear to my old eyes, I tell you.
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Alt: I'd like to have been an architect, if I had the talent.
Alt alt: My wife's dedication post birth to get fit puts me to shame.
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I have lots of experience of copywriting - dull though it is, it's probably the most fun I get out of work. A lot of my job is tedious admin and I am the last port of call for complaints as I am so utterly charming. My job is managing an online and catalogue retail operation so I can do and have done lots of different things from print management to people management - the problem is that it's dull as piss and I hate it.
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It is always worth remembering that when a job spec asks for "5 key skills" they'll often settle for less if you can be trained in the others and bring other qualities, such as charm.
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Even for jobs that are carbon copies of roles I've already fucking carried out for several years. I feel plan B may come into operation if I don't get this job on Friday.
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If you are over qualified, then aim high, CEO DG.
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Nah, don't fancy that to be honest. Also I've had management responsibility for staff in the past and I really didn't enjoy it.
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the only thing putting me off at the moment is space; the flat would need a major rethink in order to give me sufficient room to do what I have planned.
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Besides there's already a company out there licensed to make then so I've kind of missed that boat a bit...
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:54, Reply)
and call it Doctor Whom and the Darlecks
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What salary are you expecting?
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Plus my 'fuck it' attitude when it comes to 'that shit' would also be beneficial.
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Or maybe an author? Daily Mail Columnist?
Alt: I don't have one. My current one's not bad, not the most exciting but the money's OK and my employers are decent, I'm happy with it.
AltAlt: Something son-related that is boring to everyone but me I expect.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:15, Reply)
When I am unable to sleep, wired to the tits on MDs I try to come up with plot ideas but they are all without exception a) shit and b) accidentally nicked off someone else.
Another problem is paying the bills whilst I would write such a thing.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:16, Reply)
I wanted to be an author, but while I could do characters and worlds I could not make up plots to save my fucking life. I'd have ended up using the basis 'fantasy' plot of travelling halfway across the world to accomplish X while overcoming Y and meeting Z on the way. Damn my pride.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:20, Reply)
I nearly thought about jacking in the Jobcentre years ago and retraining as an architect. The cost involved put me off, though. And the length of the training.
Alt: I wouldn't say my last job was my dream job, but I certainly enjoyed it and wouldn't mind doing it again. No idea what my dream job would be though.
Alt alt: Fuck all really. I suppose the missus being recommended for a potential job is a measure of how much experience she has, but it would appear that the head of the school is already moving goalposts which are now making an attractive option appear less viable.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:16, Reply)
The head was off sick on Friday when she went in for a chat, and yesterday has decided that she will start on £3.5k less than the other learning support assistants and be employed on a month by month contract in case the kid she will be responsible for moves on again (he's been chucked out of two schools in a short space of time already). This is not what she was told last week. Therefore it's a case of does she accept this role, as it's still a lot better money than she's on, and leave behind a relatively secure if crappily paid job, with the risk that it could only last a couple of months?
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:21, Reply)
Can you give her a big smoosh from me please.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:25, Reply)
I've told her to call his bluff at the end of the trial. They're desperate for qualified and experienced autistic support, she fits the bill for this perfectly and the assistant and deputy head both think it stinks that the head isn't willing to pay her on a comparable salary because the other LSA's take on additional responsibilities such as coordinating school clubs etc. But giving intensive 1-1 support is a full time, mentally draining job in itself so why should she be penalised for not having time in the working day to do other things?
She really needs to say at the end of the trial "If you want me you need to pay me the going rate same as all the others, and offer a more robust contract, otherwise I'm not willing to give up a secure job and salary. Plus my husband's a massive sponging doley and if I end up losing my job as well we're fucked."
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:30, Reply)
Plus my husband's a massive sponging doley and if I end up losing my job as well we're REALLY fucked."
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:37, Reply)
Which is that she's so badly paid now that she'll be grateful for any increase in salary. Yeah, OK, it is a much better salary she's being offered, but if every other LSA starts at a certain level why should she be any different?
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:03, Reply)
Call his bluff. I would assume it's not a job groaning at the seams with suitable applicants.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:05, Reply)
At least if he refuses to change the terms of the offer, she's still got a job. If she wasn't employed at the moment I'd say go for it. But we just can't take the risk right now.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:12, Reply)
as he has huge behaviour problems that none of the other support staff can handle, and it's a special needs school, ffs.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:28, Reply)
he can touch him up as well if he really wants
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Most kids shows have quite a psychedelic element these days and he's actually pretty sweet with kids. Uncle Monty's Magic Hour...
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Alt: Always musician. I'm not greedy, I don't want fame or riches, just enough to be able to live on without having to work 9-5 as well.
Alt alt: Slip her some barbiturates in her milk at night.
Soppy answer: my son constantly makes me proud, they just seem to have that knack.
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Alt: I don't have a job at all *weeps into her cup of tea*
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:23, Reply)
and novels from my balcony in the caribbean. please.
you should come and write them with me.
i am proud of myself for my creative writing masters results, esp as i did it alongside my job. and my nephew got man of the match in his rugby match on sat, which was cute.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:50, Reply)
still wondering whether to appeal the distinction - to miss it by 0.4% has gutted me a bit!
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:57, Reply)
Most people would be gutted by this but considering I did my course at a time of really major upheaval in my life I was as chuffed as a dog with two cocks. I expected much less.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:59, Reply)
but i was an english student, i did fuck-all work and missed a first by about 1%. my 2 best mates, who did law and clinical sciences, worked like a pair of bitches all year, and i still beat them. when i whined about just missing a first, i thought they were actually going to kill me. kill me dead!
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:01, Reply)
I think you would make a top notch school crossing attendant.
Only about 1 hours work per day, and a smashing dayglo coat. The rest of the time you could write the great english novel.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:52, Reply)
He loves it. Mind you he wiped old people's arses before he started at the Post Office, so I guess anything's an improvement after that.
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I don't think this is too much to ask.
Oh and pays at least what I earn now. Maybe account management stuff WOO EXCITING. But I did enjoy doing that
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:55, Reply)
I need to feel like my job is worth while.
I haven't felt proud about anything or anyone for quite a while now.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:56, Reply)
I could fire off a page of outraged bluster by nine each morning, leaving me free to pursue my real love - enebriation.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:32, Reply)
This is an example of the sort of job descriptions I'm encountering at the moment:
"You will deliver outrageously brilliant customer experiences by developing great communities which are tailored to individual needs."
Really? Outrageously brilliant? I don't know whether laugh or cry at the utter wankery of phrases like that.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:57, Reply)
If not I hope Monty ends up working with someone who uses that kind of phrasing
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:58, Reply)
I think I'd be outrageously brilliant at that job.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:15, Reply)
*Holds head in hands and weeps*
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:04, Reply)
Neither's that one.
ERR!!! WHY DO WANT TO BUY *THAT* ONE? IT'S FUCKING BENT - YOU IDIOT'
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He would best serve society by donating himself to a pig farm, as fodder.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:16, Reply)
I also didn't hate the film which amazed me. Still you'd expect nothing less/more of me.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:16, Reply)
It was ghastly. What upset me most was the number of people who thought I'd like it, simply because the malfunctioning Deacon at the centre of the tale 'likes records'. For God's sake.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:23, Reply)
I reckon you should sale the flat and fuck off out the country.
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For £35 I could get a Canadian passport and try my luck over there - but as father I could never do that.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:06, Reply)
Isn't she of the age where she'd be over it by the time she's a teenager? It might be for the best, that.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:11, Reply)
Haha, only joking, I've not been laid in years now, not always through choice.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:18, Reply)
WHicj Monty, bless his little black heart does.
But it's not a thing you're aware of until you spawn.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:20, Reply)
I mean you can't even sell them nowadays.
I reckon if I could get 20k a kid I'd pop a few out
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:22, Reply)
Passing on my genes was the best I could come up with.
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Evidently my semen are persistent little blighters. It's not something I plan to repeat either, this does not change the fact that the little bugger is part of me and I'd die for him.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:32, Reply)
... but it can be undone, if you kill each other's kids, you'll both be even, and you both can go ahead and lead decent lives again.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:43, Reply)
I genuinely loved the nutter and while the kid was a mistake it seemed like a good idea at the time, in the haze of love. He remains the best thing to come out of the relationship. WHile it was not what I would have chosn, it's not something I'd change either.
I hate it when parents say stuff like this, but it's hard to understand if you don't have kids. The bond is something it's really hard to understand, it's like falling instantly in love with someone, but with no sexual element and the knowledge that it will never end.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:47, Reply)
I once heard someone describe their child as "The best mistake I ever made", which I really liked.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:58, Reply)
Selling your child for medical experiments, not only would it free you to travel to Canada but you would get some useful spending money to tide you over.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:23, Reply)
but it fell through at the last minute when they found out she wasn't blonde.
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Hmmm. I like boxes - I like manufacturing....THIS COULD WORK!!!!!
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:14, Reply)
I love wrapping presents
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:17, Reply)
and sellotape. you'd need to come to New Cross though.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:21, Reply)
But all it does these days is put on tribute acts.
Including a Kasabian tribute act. Who the fuck likes Kasabian enough to go and see a Kasabian tributue act? I bet even Kasabian don't like Kasabian enough to go and see a Kasabian tribute act.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:33, Reply)
Mostly cover bands, going by the posters.I have not ventured in there.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:33, Reply)
Shame, I liked it there. Saw Carter The Unstopabble Sex Machine there a couple of times.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:34, Reply)
When I went to Stunned's house I found the area to be rather nice in parts. Paying nearly £40 for a black cab home was not, however...
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On the one hand Lewisham proper is worse than New Cross, on the other he actually lives out of the centre in nice but and I do not. Where I live is a shit hole, but I enjoy the element of having 3 or 4 distinct communities on my doorstep, depending which way I turn.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 14:20, Reply)
working at the final process of a sweet factory, placing Thorntons finest into its containers
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:25, Reply)
Oh roots, one day I'll learn to say "Hello, how are you?".
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:45, Reply)
I like the modern ususal way of doing things, using ingredients such as wassabi, chili or salt. I think if you want something really unusual. In terms of unusal flavours that I think would work, I think a jellfied puree of Sharron Fruit would be nice.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:53, Reply)
I slept in till 10 o'clock this morning. It was well ace.
How are you today?
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:56, Reply)
My uncle Nicolas would love the chilli.
I have my already tried-and-tested ones on standby too.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:59, Reply)
how can the sun be shining right in my bloody eyes?
British weather is just weird.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 14:01, Reply)
Another idea would be to jellify a mulled beverage such as cider or wine.
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Fudge Packer
Uphill Gardener
Rear Gunner
Bum Bandit
Arse Mechanic etc etc
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:45, Reply)
or creep around at night to partake in the theft of feces
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:40, Reply)
where your duties are to use a long pole to dislodge feacal matter when it become stuck.
(, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:41, Reply)
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