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[tails_redux]

Thinking of jumping ship (again).

If you were not in your current employment, what (without going into the realms of wish fulfilment) other jobs could (or would) you do?

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[hirez]

Lord knows. I'm ideally suited to the spod trades.

[tails_redux]

May seem like a daft question, but have you always known?

[hirez]

More or less. In that Dad told me early on not to go into farming, so my next plan (aged sixteen or whatever) was the RAF like my uncle.

Then I discovered heroic-era computing, and that was the end of that.

A few years ago, I went back to college as a mature student to read psychology. I lasted a year because I wasn't content to be told what was interesting and hated writing essays.

On the other hand, I learned an awful lot of other things. I could write long screeds, but only if it was my stuff; critical theory is excellent fun, and I really, really should stick to hackery because anything else is going to be No Fun At All.

The downside is that if I end up in a job that's going a bit horrible, it tends to poison how I feel about hacking, which has been v. bad news mentally. Less so now, mind.

Sorry. That got a bit long.

[tails_redux]

No worries, was wanting some insight and got it, so thanks.

Being ideally suited strikes me as being both a blessing and a curse.

[hirez]

True.

I'd have been furked if I'd been born even twenty years earlier.

[tails_redux]

Dunno, you may have made it into the RAF ... or enjoyed the warm glow of valves and the wonders of the transistor age.

Causality bingo is a funny game.

[flowdeeps]

Causality Bingo Caller

[annomalley]

There's a thought. Maybe I can't work out what I'm meant to do because it's not been invented yet.