8991 - fri

Thinking good thoughts for mootpoint, Mol, and Dominic.

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Payday! Just in time, as BHK and I both got to the doc and I get a pair of fillings on my right side. BHK's teeth are jim-dandy... remember to floss!

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I grabbed this from yoames / phillykat / pilarcruz and countless others.

1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post your top ten results.

Here's mine - (I kept going, to answer all the questions. My first pass had a lot more computer/social worker stuff)

1. Epidemiologist - Sounds interesting, but I don't have *any* solid training for it. Could come in handy for the coming zombie apocalypse... or preventing one! Best case, already in a clean house-type bunker. Worst case, that's where the epidemic starts. I guess if I worked for a villain, before dying, I could at least say that I worked in a lair fashioned inside of a dormant volcano, under the sea in a bubble-city, or from a satellite lab in high-earth orbit.
   
   
2. Oceanographer - I still haven't finished reading Fluke, but I do enjoy marine biology. I imagine the optimal life doing that sort of thing... maybe like an idyllic remake of the Flipper TV or Jonny Quest. Living in the keys, fighting pirates, discovering sea-monsters, etc. Would I get a hydrofoil and cool gadgets?
   
   
3. Anthropologist - Humans are pretty fascinating critters. I suspect that I'd be more interested in this than Oceanographer. Field work at the ocean would be more palatable to me, though. Again with the Jonny Quest. Maybe with a little less or Race Bannon's "Take that, you heathen savages!" I will, however accept bad guys that die with a scream of "AIeeee!" as they fall from a cliff, get disemboweled by Yeti, or are shot by whatever helpful bodyguard/guide-types are along for the ride.
   
   
4. Writer - I try to do that here and again, but the time factor keeps popping up. I really need to devote an hour a day to it, and I simply don't have the will to set aside the time to do it properly. I'll always love doing it, but I'd have to have a way to support myself and my family if it were my full-time gig. I know quite a few writers, both professional, "wannabe" pro, and strong amateur, most of them very talented at word-craft. Given the amount of junk writing that's out there, I'm fairly confident that I could find a niche with the right publicist. Also would be handy for "Murder, HE wrote" mysteries later in life. If Angela Lansbury can do it, so can I.
   
   
5. Botanist - I do like plants. Do I like 'em enough to make them my life? Not sure. The Sea and Humans certainly have more of my interest. Now, if it were the phytoplankton people from Atlantis, I guess I'd be set... especially if they need some Research done on their databases. see below. I know what happens to Botanists. Ask Jason Woodrue, Ted Sallis, Alec Holland, Pam Isley, or any of dozens of folks turned into plant-critters, green psychos, pod people or muck-encrusted mockeries of men. Maybe when pot is legal, or if I lived on the planet Mardru.
   
   
6. Library Technician - been there, done that. Fun and rewarding if you surround yourself with the right people. (true of most any job, really) It can be pretty thankless, and while I like books, I'm a far stretch from Burgess Meredith in that Twilight Zone episode.
   
   
7. Historian - So very variable. Some parts of the past are amazing... other bits are deadly dull. Plus, the pay issue again- I imagine it's difficult to live on the average historian's wages. How do I become an authority?
   
   
8. Researcher - If I could make any good, livable wage doing this for an organization that wasn't a super-villain, I'd probably dig it. Depends on the research, though... do I really want data about women's shoe sizes, and how they compare to hemlines? Fairly close to historian, Above. Job description is too vague.
   
   
9. Database Developer - Heck, that's a chunk of what I'm doing in my gig right now! I enjoy the challenges and solving the puzzles that arise in most of the larger builds that I've had to do.
   
   
10. Multimedia Developer - I've dabbled with this... seems like a very competitive field to get a gig that's worthwhile.
    
    

Web Developer, Systems Programmer and such all appear in the top 40, further down the list.

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Limited edition Raspberry M&M's are pretty good. Not amazing, but not too shabby. I prefer the holiday mint ones....and wouldn't mind if they did orange-chocolate M's.

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Getting this entry out of the way early, as I don't forsee much computer time tonight... see two lines up. I'm looking forward to a nice evening of Movies and games in our little treehouse loft, or in the living room. (depending on our desire to watch stuff on the laptop or the dvd player.

[edit - Strike that, we had Chinese at in-laws and watching "Because I said so". Maybe Games and yo-yo tomorrow! Good food and good company tonight - movie was meh.]

Until Saturday-ish, dear journal!

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