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What the hell do you do for a living? (pg. 7)
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
Yes. Sadly it's not powerful enough to get a clear image of my head.
Uh... not that I'd ever do such a thing...
Also, I started on that remix of yours. |
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You should have taken a picture of the failed attempt to see your skull! And, I can only imagine the bizarre things you must see every single day :p
And, yay, I'll be eagerly waiting :) |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
And, I can only imagine the bizarre things you must see every single day :p |
It's much more boring than you would think :| |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by PETRAN
Ah nice choice. How come that you don't wanna be an architect? (you know "the building" kind lol). I think that fashion must be a difficult and very competitive thing to get into though but it must be quite adventurous |
well, basically it goes like this:
- first of all i have a penchant for the avant garde. i never began studying architecture because i wanted to learn how to reproduce georgian facades for expensive townhouses. my interest in architecture has more to do with alternative culture, politics, and lifestyle.
- architects work excessively for terrible pay unless you're a partner. when i worked as an architect i was working an average of 12 hours a day, and as many as 16 for less than 40k. and this was in nyc. Yes, I know you can do better than that, but see below:
- the entire process of making a building is a systematic gang-rape/disembowlment of your design by basically every member of the community and governmental organization, and architects themselves. you basically need to compromise on nearly everything because the stakes are very high for everyone involved. at the end of the project it's often barely recognizable unless you have so much clout in the popular culture that people pay you exclusively for your personal sense of madness.
- which brings me to my next point, to succeed in this way commercially and artistically, you basically have to play an elaborate game of suck up to the media, global corporations, financiers, other architects, architectural educational institutions, etc. anyways, i was never interested in commercial growth, only as much as it would afford me the means to finance my personal explorations in both design/art and travel.
- there are two types of avant-garde architecture. one that comes out of other people's pockets, and one that comes out of your own. that kind that comes from other people's pockets requires large organizations, large amounts of resources, a systematic faustian soul-selling, and ultimately you and your work become a tool of the power classes, often just another thing to make tourists or taxpayers spend more money. i am interested in that work that comes out of my own pocket (see below)
- i feel that a lot of buildings don't need the often frivolous and self-indulgent caprices of architects, and that civil engineers do a better job of solving problems. actually architecture as it is taught in school is basically the art of making imaginary problems out of thin air in order to 'solve' them with an expensive (financially and ecologically) building that no one who uses it even likes or needs.
- architecture school and theory is a crock of bull. the theories are not academic in the least - there is no rigor of research, no seriousness. it is a free-for-all of grasping at foreign concepts and arranging them in clever ways for the delight of other ignorant architects to justify the useless junk that you spent the last couple of months making.
- to become a registered architect in the US, you need 3 years of documented apprenticeship, and you have to take 7 tests that cost hundreds of dollars each. And it's rare to pass each one the first time. It's possible to have professional development in your firm pay for this, but see my next point:
- as a beginning architect you basically design doorknobs and window mullions for years. A 'young' architect is 35 years old. If you're that young and own your own successful firm, it is considered remarkable. That means you spend your youthful years slaving away 12 hours a day designing doorknobs and gluing your fingers together (if you're lucky, because most commercial architects outsource their model building now) all for the sake of designing an ugly overpriced yuppie luxury condominium that will displace real artists, immigrants, and underrepresented families.
- commercial architecture doesn't fit with my conservational view of ecology. I believe in less development, not 'greener' development. There is this craze about green building in the world and ultimately it just makes people consume more rather than work with what they already have.
which brings me to my actual interest in architecture, which is small-scale, Do-It-Yourself, vernacular, recycled, self-sufficient, and creative. More on this to come in the future as I am working on a related project. |
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| lacksesepsotygh |
back in 1992, i created a ragtime hit-single release on the italian label GFB Records. the following years, it got released on several other labels including Clubstitute Records, Dance Street Records and MFA. later on, i released an album and a few singles.
i'm still collecting royalties from this track, and i got a real upswing financially when a hard dance project chose to remix my track in 2007. |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ygrene
Lol I don't have a kid!
I'm responsible for delivering market share, consumer, shopper, category management insights & solutions. I'm also responsible for embedment of Oracle BI into certain functions of our organization. |
traitor to training! Do you guys use Oracle for Talent Management? |
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| jester |
Currently a full time student, but on certain days of the week I have a stage (internship) and I am pattern maker for the person I do the stage (internship) for.
Plus I am one of my fathers business partners. |
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| Banora |
| I work for Gamestop and go to school. |
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| Ygrene |
| quote: | Originally posted by EricB.
i thought you sold washing machines |
In a sense, I still do. Now it's just more from a strategy and capabilities standpoint.
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
traitor to training! Do you guys use Oracle for Talent Management? |
I still conduct training for our Oracle BI tool! I honestly don't know if HR is using Oracle though. |
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| LeopoldStotch |
| quote: | Originally posted by butterfly
i was told today that i need to do more of that in my job. |
Unfortunately, my boss man has told me this too. :(
Going over getting people to follow the "company process management", fill out the right forms, send the "right e-mails" and to the "correct aliases", and get on people's asses why we aren't seeing results and getting logs. :( basically he wants me to be an . :p |
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| EricB. |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ygrene
In a sense, I still do. Now it's just more from a strategy and capabilities standpoint.
I still conduct training for our Oracle BI tool! I honestly don't know if HR is using Oracle though. |
STRATEGY I WANT A WASHING MACHINE!
when faced with a critical decision do you ever put like a red pair of pants in the washer and a white. Red meaning one solution to the problem and white being the other solution. Which ever you pull out first is the one you go with? |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by Banora
I work for Gamestop and go to school. |
Which Gamestop? Ima come stalk you :disbelief
I work as a software developer for a travel agency. I also teach swim lessons to kids on weekends. I'm also a full-time student, on track for a masters degree next summer :) |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
I work as a software developer for a travel agency. I also teach swim lessons to kids on weekends. |
That's so random :p |
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