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punwit- No, I don't....HippyGirl is going to be one.....and right now she performs in a benefit circus for children with cancer....as a clown....and shes pretty good......of course she may not anymore because that was a few years back....oh yeah and I was a mime in a traveling circus for a little bit during the summer....those were good times
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Dessy-What should I really know? Now I'm confused...
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Navy Mechanic. I hope to one day to either own my own tavern or to make so much off of my investments that I don't have to work. However, that is all a long time from now (about 14 years away).
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I'm a student (English major) hoping to someday get some novels published.
For the moment, though, I'm working two part-time jobs at campus food service and computer lab helpdesk.
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Student half the time, and an assortment of other things the other half.
I generally seem to end up in personal support work. Right now I have a full-time job as a supply educational assistant, and hopefully a part time job doing relief work for a nearby community living facility.
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Student hoping to one day be a high school English teacher. However, I might be in the process of being discouraged from the English part by my English class this semester... Grrr!
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I was talking to someone once about what I should do with my career. He asked me what, if i didn't HAVE to do a specific thing, what would I choose to do?
I think the line of thinking that, "well, I've got this degree, and this job is available, and it has good benefits so I think I'll take it," is not a bad line of thinking. It is just living in reality. His question, though, gave me permission to really think beyond what was practical and acceptable, to what was ideal. It kind of lifted a burden off of me and gave me some good motivation. I'm making the practical choices now to some degree, but I am working toward that ideal. It helps me maintain my motivation and excitement.
So, if you didn't have to do what you are doing, what would you be doing?
(I thought it would be better to leave this in this thread than start a new one.)
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I am a high school student right now. I will either teach music & music history at the college level, or I will perform in a symphony or chamber group. I am thinking about joining the teaching core between my undergrad and my graduate degree.
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Waiting to finish undergrad and to find out where I'll be next year continuing my Classics studies ::crosses fingers:: I already know I'm not going to Washington... jerks...
In my spare time, I moonlight (daylight?) as a Student Hourly receptionist/general office worker in the department of Counseling Psychology.
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I don't have to work, therefore I am doing what I want to be doing. I'm a writer. I write for two magazines plus I'm working on several (many) novels, all sci-fi. And it makes me heppy heppy heppy! Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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Well, at the moment, I seem to be paid to sit around in my cushy office and spend hours and hours every day doing my own thing. Occasionally interrupted by manual labor.
I'm trying to figure out how to get people to pay me for doing this, and my goal is to learn enough about character animation to be able to work at a company like Pixar. I'm trying to get into an awesome distance learning program for that, but it's going to be swamped with applicants, so we'll see.
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Paginator aka news page designer. I work at a newspaper and put articles on pages.
And ... I am writing a series on weight loss - mine. Two articles out already, and the editors seem pleased with my work. Posts: 2034 | Registered: Apr 2004
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quote: I believe that hippygirl is your alter ego.
Well....now I am truly insulted.....and I'm sure that she will be too.....we are two totally different people......we just happened to meet by chance in 6th grade.....
Edit: this is SteveRogers.....she signed on my computer and the computer did the automatically sign you on thing.....I'll become me in a second
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ok now I am me......I'll remind her to log off next time she signs on my computer so that way I don't end up logging in as her...
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I can't tell you, I'd have to kill you. Lets just say that I work in the D.C. metro area for one of the three letter agencies.
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Jay, Seeing as how the launch of the JWST isn't scheduled until 2011, are you concerned that they might cut your project and instead opt to try to keep Hubble operational?
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Not in the least. It’s a totally different kind of telescope and wouldn’t matter even if Hubble was still up there. Once this baby is up it’ll make the images that Hubble has brought us look like old black and white stuff. Ok, not quite that bad, but it’ll be a big difference. Plus the new budget doesn’t give money to keep it up: http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6978 Personally I would rather see it stay up and eventually brought down in the shuttle cargo bay so it can be put in display in a museum. Either that or drag it out to the moon so it can be used there one we have our base. I don’t know. Guess it just seems a waste to splash it into the ocean.
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OK, I'm a lawyer and an archaeologist and a hippy, and a writer (for fun), and about to become a student again, but what I love most is READING. Wish I could get paid for that!
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Unfortunately, NASA tends to be one of the agencies that gets blown in different directions by differing administrations. My question wasn't necessarily geared towards the administration cutting funnding, but a reallocation of internal NASA funding to save other projects.
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THT, True. You are quite correct. But I get the feeling from those around here that Hubble has been great and terrific PR. But that they are done with it. Sort of like saving Windows 95. I could see private funds coming into play though and that might be an interesting turn of events. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with Hubble, but no matter what JWST is the next generation and will most likely have even more PR then Hubble once it is up.
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I really do live in the D.C. metro area. We'll have to see what May brings. I know that I'll be out of country the last week of April through about the 9th of May.
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Computer programmer by day, and *dun dun dun* circus performer by night. There are so many of us! I feel so... common. Posts: 1810 | Registered: Jan 1999
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High school students are so uniformly romantic about their future careers. None of them seems to want a job that sticks them in a cubicle under fluorescent lights all day. I don't think that's part of anyone's plans for their life. I know it's not how I pictured myself. But here I am, not saving the world and getting a green tan in the process. [/tongue in cheek]
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I have never been to a nudist colony, I enjoy the circus, but only from the audience, and I was sandwiched in between the hippie culture and disco.
Somehow, I ended up being a pharmacist, and HippieGirl, if you are serious, I would caution you to investigate how Medicare D and HIPAA may affect the profession in the next few years to come...
But in the end, I really want to be a modern-day adventurer, and just go wandering around the entire planet with nothing but a satchel and a Visa gold card.
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According to my business cards, I am a Technician. I work at a (very) small Environmental Testing Facility. My job is calibrating heat treating equipment for several companies here in Phoenix. The rest of the stuff we do is subjecting various things to simulated environmental stresses (because no one wants their airbags going off from the regular shocks and vibrations of driving and we all want the landing gear actuators on our planes to work even when covered with ice). Posts: 5879 | Registered: Apr 2001
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yeah....she came down for a visit and signed on....and forgot to sign off....so when I got on....I'm used to it automatically logging in as me.....but since she forgot to log off it signed me in as her.....
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real job: Catalog Coordinator unreal job: Have a bakery / dessert shop - husband bakes and I do "other" stuff. As I hate to cook, this works out well...
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