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I don't think anyone wants to be a catholic monk... the priesthood is where the young children are. [edit] what a snipe!
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LuckyCat posted:Buddhist, catholic, or miscellaneous? Catholic. I mean, I'm Catholic by birth anyway but stopped practicing after the whole raping kids thing came to light. The robes are cooler, the monasteries are more my style, but mostly I think I could settle into a monastic lifestyle after a tough adjustment period.
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signalnoise posted:Currently sitting on my couch next to dog  I wish it paid.
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Be a hermit, just find a nice cave and meditate on whatever you like. Monks are just peer pressure with extra steps.
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Catholic. I mean, I'm Catholic by birth anyway but stopped practicing after the whole raping kids thing came to light. The robes are cooler, the monasteries are more my style, but mostly I think I could settle into a monastic lifestyle after a tough adjustment period. Be a Trappist and brew beer!
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i gotta admit a life of little wealth where i am given the necessities sounds pretty great... but i want to use my free time reading novels, watching movies, drinking, smoking weed, or playing video games... gently caress praying
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I used to own a martial arts school but I closed it about 6 months into Covid because the world is a gently caress. I also traveled around doing seminars and coached professional fighters. With the way things are going I doubt I'll ever be able to return to doing those things. So now I just hang out on our non-working farm with my 5 kids and and a bunch of animals. Mrs Isaboo has a successful career that she's able to do from home. I'm also working on a couple of creative projects - another book like the one I just self published, and a screenplay.
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Bags Fly at Noon posted:Be a Trappist and brew beer! the dream is to be a Carthusian and live in a beautiful thousand year old monastery in the alps and make Chartreuse and never have to talk to anyone but I love my wife a lot and I'm not really all that holy or whatever to begin with
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Catholic. I mean, I'm Catholic by birth anyway but stopped practicing after the whole raping kids thing came to light. Can always go Anglican if you want to get your Christian stuff on and still be able to bone down with adults and be married. Lot less of the kid rape stuff there. Hell, you can even be gay or a woman in some places. Or just practice your own poo poo. God can hear your thoughts anyway, she doesn't really give a poo poo where or how you do it, just don't be a dick.
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Worship a cryptozoological monster and rewrite the bible to include them throughout the book. Pretty sure it's public domain by now.
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right now i'm making wargaming terrain. me n some buddies are gonna play battletech
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The Butcher posted:
This is the way. The true path. Good for you. Seriously.
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The Butcher posted:Community, I just one day declared myself as the caretaker of a neglected park and a few blocks around it, and it just kind of stuck. So now I gotta take care of the plants, remove trash (trash... trash never changes), check on people sleeping rough and deal with OD's/first aid and give help wherever to lonely olds or whatever. you are a good human... now tell us how to beep boop the stock market for money every few hours... thanks!
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Me: "Sorry, I don't mean to make seat drive, I work a few blocks from where we are going." Lyft Driver: "Oh, what do you do?" Me: "I study the effects of wastewater run-off on the mating habits of rats addicted to ketamine for the RAND Corporation, basically I send emails all day, curse at Excel and long for some good snacks to show up in the break room because I am too cheap to pay for lunch. I don't know how to work the copy machines and our office manager thinks I want to learn how to install staples in it after making it very clear multiple times that it is their drat job." Lyft Driver: "That is so cool! How do you even get a job doing something like that?" Me: "I literarily knew basic math and they said they would pay me to do this and I decided that this career would not result in me hurling myself off an overpass. Also I get free healthcare and 28 days of PTO." Three Olives fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Jan 19, 2022 |
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Three Olives posted:Me: "Sorry, I don't mean to make seat drive, I work a few blocks from where we are going." what?
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:the dream is to be a Carthusian and live in a beautiful thousand year old monastery in the alps and make Chartreuse and never have to talk to anyone Ya I'm going through this phase right now. Chartreuse is rad. However if your Marrried and all that...uh just make Chartreuse and rad beer in your garage or something? I dunno.
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I push buttons that make lights do patterns for this they pay me
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I’m responsible for everything on a massive eCommerce site and I absolutely hate it. I’ve worked in retail home offices for almost 10 years and it’s the absolute worst. Most of my peers are horrible people that don’t give a poo poo about their employees or their customers. They just play ridiculous political games all day trying to get other leaders fired or lick boots for curry favor. None of them are qualified for their jobs and only have them through nepotism or because they did some really hosed up poo poo with/for the CEO. Helped the boss cheat on his wife by covering for him repeatedly? Sounds like you are ready for leadership. It’s a private company family business too so it employs every failson in the loving family tree in way too important a capacity. Publicly traded companies were bad but this place is hell. This is my last year working in retail. It absolutely eats your soul. Stay the gently caress away. The pay is good but I haven’t had a retail job that wasn’t highly political, 9-14 hours a day, and with the dumbest but most arrogant people.
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I am 41 years old and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
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I'm unemployed. I used to work in the lab at a chemical recycler but it paid rear end so I learned to press computer buttons. Then I wrote apps for a media company and a defunct car company. now I'm loving off till I feel like pressing the buttons again
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i’m a social worker (integration for asylum seekers and refugees) and have recently been designing development projects in the Sahel. later this year i’ll likely be managing a project for the first time
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I'm a 911 dispatcher and training officer. I have 8 years until I can retire, not like I'm counting days.
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:Oh hey I did a bunch of R coding and machine learning for my masters, got any open positions? Not right this moment, I think - they typically open up after another student finishes. The relevant group is probably this one, but I don't know if there is any way to get notified when they have an opening - I'll mention it if I find something.
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ELTON JOHN posted:i’m a social worker (integration for asylum seekers and refugees) and have recently been designing development projects in the Sahel. later this year i’ll likely be managing a project for the first time this is cool. i dunno what you think of the development projects as those can be hosed or not, but refugee work is human work
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:
development projects can be extremely hosed up and many times (the 80s and 90s were real bad) ended up making things worse especially anything involving the IMF or world bank. nowadays things are a bit better because there is a greater understanding of how projects have to be adapted to local needs and capacities, but of course this is far more resource-intensive than the one-size-fits-all solution of free market bullshit that everyone used to believe. so the most effective projects are smaller ones that target a few specific variables to make things better. like for example increasing vitamin A and b12 intake among pregnant women and children under 5 in urban areas in a small west african country. a lot of development projects, especially larger public-private partnerships, are massive time and money sinks that can take years to get off the ground and then fail a few months in because there is a military coup or something. the best solution of course is to just literally direct cash transfers but that wont ever happen on the needed scale (maybe a trillion a year, 1/80th of world gdp) under capitalism so for the most part we're doing what we can while the rising oceans slowly move up the rivers and destroy arable land
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I strongly relate to the following video https://youtu.be/znQsktsxo2Q
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Bags Fly at Noon posted:Wow, I bet after a long day you’re really dead tired! One of my coworkers assures me that he'll kill me last but experience has proven otherwise. 
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right now im at home sipping coffee in a half reclined position staring at my email bewildered, will be here for a few hours
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I'm a researcher/fact checker for an educational company. I'm sure I'm now on a watchlist somewhere with the poo poo I have to look up. I've been looking up stuff on funerary cannibalism, human sacrifice, and ancient people getting buried alive this morning.
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LadyPictureShow posted:I'm a researcher/fact checker for an educational company. You and every other anthropologist, friend.
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Wendigee posted:i gotta admit a life of little wealth where i am given the necessities sounds pretty great... but i want to use my free time reading novels, watching movies, drinking, smoking weed, or playing video games... Honestly same but I love bathrooms
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I work on TV shows and movies, lots of the “prestige” type things. Been doing it since 2016 after a half decade in a totally different industry. It’s a gig like any other, people seem to think there’s something cool or magical about it but 90% of my day is spent interpreting someone else’s vision and getting incomprehensible notes back. And like 3hr of meetings a day lmao. I’m glad I got into this after my 20’s tbh. It’s a lot easier to keep a work-life balance, and I’m much less likely to get the “you’re a fan of Marvel, right? So you wouldn’t mind staying an extra 4 hours for no pay each night for six weeks?” requests. They know I’m too old to put up with that poo poo
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Catholic. I mean, I'm Catholic by birth anyway but stopped practicing after the whole raping kids thing came to light. The robes are cooler, the monasteries are more my style, but mostly I think I could settle into a monastic lifestyle after a tough adjustment period. I was a postulant at an Anglican monastery for a year. It can be a good life for very specific people. The community was very conscious about understanding that the vows of poverty were symbolic given the relative comfort we lived in (that was also accompanied by a lot of involvement with the local homeless community through providing material and social resources). Good food, honest labor, and their commitment to cultivating a life of authentic community was honestly pretty great in our heavily atomized era. There were no illusions that you had to be "holy" in the way a lot of people imagine it - everyone came in there a full human being with their own traumas and history. We were given allotted time every week to see a professional therapist and we did our best to be communicative about our frustrations/differences with one another. Didn't mean we didn't argue occasionally, but the habits (haha) were there to foster reconciliation more smoothly. Took a lot of classes/read a lot about communication and social psychology. We had a lot of recovering alcoholics who really thrived in monasticism and needed the structure. Some people relapsed and needed to leave though. I think some people enter thinking you're going to stop suffering because you become a monk. Still the same human dynamics/problems, different context. There was also a mandatory psych eval before being taken into the community and they actively screened for people who didn't have relatively healthy relationships with their sexuality and, by proxy, wouldn't thrive in celibacy. It was openly understood that some people just need to gently caress, and there was no shame in admitted that you had to bounce from the monastic life for that reason. The psych had me draw a nude body of either sex during my evaluation, and I'm not much of an artist. I ended up drawing a crude picture of a nude woman with cartoonish honkers and I didn't know whether or not she should be smiling, frowning, or have a neutral expression. I spent way way too long worrying about the details of that one and I was pretty sure that was going to mark me as a red flag. They now have my bad porn somewhere in the church archives with my name on it. I would go back in a heart beat but I met a very lovely woman whom I married and now I'm a computer toucher by trade. Not as romanticized as monasticism, but my wife rules and I'm still happy with my life. It was a good experience over all, and tbh helped me mature enough for married life. Pulvis Sumus fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Jan 19, 2022 |
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Slothful Bong posted:I work on TV shows and movies, lots of the “prestige” type things. Hello fellow TV/film person, what role if you don't mind revealing it? And yes, being able to say "look man. i got kids" is a pretty amazing power when people are trying to bilk me for bullshit overtime nowadays. If you think we need to do overtime sounds like you hosed up, not me. Sorry chief.
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I already told you: I work with the goddamned customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills goddamn it! What the hell is wrong with you people??
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I do technical sourcing, database management, and data analysis for two dudes that convince people at google/facebook to work at whatever startup wants bodies. I feel kind of underutilized and sort of want to go back for my doctorate/learn python so I can muck around with more data but I get paid pretty well so its hard to justify a move until the market for devs calms way down.
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:Hello fellow TV/film person, what role if you don't mind revealing it? And yes, being able to say "look man. i got kids" is a pretty amazing power when people are trying to bilk me for bullshit overtime nowadays. If you think we need to do overtime sounds like you hosed up, not me. Sorry chief. I’m on the VFX side as a shading artist. While it’s not as sexy as something like costume designer or creature fx, I get to constantly push my own skills, and I get to see personal advancement show-to-show. Does mean no one knows wtf when they ask what I do though. Which is fine by me, means less questions that I can’t answer due to NDAs lol. What do you do if you can say?
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Slothful Bong posted:I’m on the VFX side as a shading artist. While it’s not as sexy as something like costume designer or creature fx, I get to constantly push my own skills, and I get to see personal advancement show-to-show. It's upthread, I'm an offline editor. The fun, storytelling part of post (in my opinion of course). I've heard some horror stories about vfx labor practices. Game dev level crunch hours and stuff. Have you been able to avoid the worst of that? Are you freelance or full time at one place? I'm in a slightly different position, because where i am there are agencies for freelance editors that negotiate our rates and (real, actual) overtime pay so i have some leeway to say "you signed the contract baby, cough up or i'm going home". I've heard vfx being non-union makes that kind of leverage much harder.
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I work as a Systems Engineer on a government 24/7 computer system that performs a useful public good. My main role is helping my coworkers figure poo poo out. Ops breaks and you have no clue what's going on, or how bad? I get called. You're trying to set something up in dev and it should be working but isn't? Call me. I work on the nastiest, ill-defined, inter-team problems. I touch database, OS level, hardware, network, authentication, system architecture, storage, security, and most importantly our automated alerts. At this point drat near every alert is one I created or touched at some point. My team is cool and chill, people have positive attitudes and work hard not to bother people off-hours or interfere with their family life. There are administrative policies that ensure we don't get stuck working late or on weekends and if someone else causes off hours problems the government boss chews them out. Outside work I'm the primary parent for my 5 and 7 year olds. I play Zelda BOTW with them watching and offering commentary, cook most meals, help them dress and take showers and brush their teeth. I walk them to and from school, help them with their homework, etc. I'm an amateur blacksmith and in the leadership of our local forge guild. I also do some woodworking and I'm handy around the house, my son says I'm a "good fixer". My family situation isn't ideal but I'm working on that. I help my brothers and sisters when they need it and hang out with them when everything is cool. I have a couple of close friends outside of my family as well.
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