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Shroom_i
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OP what kind of nature courses are you taking?
For some reason lately I've felt limited in my opportunities by my shitty area. I know that's not the case, but it's hard to find something besides shit/mundane JOBS around here. I want a career I care about..
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millzy


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Re: Your Ideal Life [Re: Shroom_i]
#18965943 - 10/11/13 09:26 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Shroom_i said: OP what kind of nature courses are you taking?
For some reason lately I've felt limited in my opportunities by my shitty area. I know that's not the case, but it's hard to find something besides shit/mundane JOBS around here. I want a career I care about..
right now i'm an english/phil major. i'm considering law school (you can study and practice law in texas if you've been off paper for four years). but it ain't over till it's over with school. i'm also considering some type of career in writing, like perhaps technical writing. teaching college is another option i would love to pursue. i'm working closely with my advisors to ensure that i'm not wasting my time while studying what interests me. there's no telling where i'll end up but i'm confident that i'll be successful regardless.
you may want to consider jobs away from your area depending on how easy it would be for you to relocate.
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Shroom_i
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pcplease said: Are you doing anything towards achieving any of those goals? I'd guess that having the business would lead to the others pretty well/easily
Yeah I'm about to graduate college. I honestly couldn't be in a better position to achieve this goal considering my degree is based on nature. Damn I thought more people would like this thread!

I knew I read something about a nature degree.
This is who I meant to address that part of the question to.
but yeah OP, not an easy move atm.
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millzy


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Re: Your Ideal Life [Re: Shroom_i]
#18966287 - 10/11/13 11:07 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah, sorry about that.
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i like cow poo
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luisacuadillo said: My ideal life: making art, admiring fresh fruit and botanical things, having a few friends to study math/philosophy with, inventing new languages, playing on the swings, sewing stuffed animals, occasionally using mushrooms I've picked in the wild and identified. In my ideal life everyone would be a disembodied soul so there would be no competition for resources/beauty/food, we would all be pure loving spirits curious about the world.
Thats pretty awesome. It would be a better place if everyone had more love in their hearts than hate. I miss our skype chats by the way.
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i like cow poo
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Re: Your Ideal Life [Re: Shroom_i]
#18967309 - 10/12/13 06:34 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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pcplease said: Are you doing anything towards achieving any of those goals? I'd guess that having the business would lead to the others pretty well/easily
Yeah I'm about to graduate college. I honestly couldn't be in a better position to achieve this goal considering my degree is based on nature. Damn I thought more people would like this thread!

I knew I read something about a nature degree.
This is who I meant to address that part of the question to.
but yeah OP, not an easy move atm.
I'm going to have to disagree. There seems to be a lot of jobs in fish and wildlife. Living in the countryside would be much cheaper than the city in the long run. Atleast I hope I'm right. I'm taking conservation, ecology, and permaculture classes.
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KremrBigSikter
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I'd like a small house somewhere decently warm. Close to the ocean. Not too far from civilization. Enough land to grow some vegetables or whatever. A workshop where I could make shitty sculptures from locally sourced driftwood and/or scrap metal, and then maybe sell them to tourists. A person or two that I would be comfortable living with. Maybe a couple of llamas also.
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millzy said: i was a cadd tech for 11 years. i started out in architecture but moved into civil engineering and specialized there. completely self taught. i have a knack for drawing so i picked up drawing construction plans rather quickly. construction is a good field to get into. i'd probably still be doing what i was doing had the banks not crashed and my life took the turns it did. now i'm in college earning a degree.
I'm an engineering graduate (complete B.S, as they say) with cad knowledge and getting into cad construction is not easy. Still unemployed. Any tips?
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millzy


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KremrBigSikter said: I'm an engineering graduate (complete B.S, as they say) with cad knowledge and getting into cad construction is not easy. Still unemployed. Any tips?
my career pretty much ended when the economy shit the bed, and i'm in a state that's supposedly good for jobs. i'm making about a third of what i was. if i could draw plans through school i totally would, but down here it's like 50 or more guys competing for one position, and i don't even own a car at this point. i just had to move on and get into school.
be that as it may, if you haven't already, reach out to as many recruiting agencies as you can and bug the hell out of them. call, go to lunch, whatever it takes. the more they see or hear you the more likely they'll be to recommend you to a prospective company. aerotek is international and always got me what i wanted (you jump around a little more as a cadd monkey than an engineer). other than that, if you're not in an area that's being developed, see about getting to one because that's where the work will be. since you're starting out, i would surmise you might be more desirable to companies because you haven't specialized yet. sell yourself as a long term investment. engineering companies need engineers who will be with them indefinitely.
and just some general advice, don't be a dick to your cadd techs. they'll never be able to read your mind and always remember that you're the numbers guy. nobody hates mistakes more than the person who makes them, and you're putting together extremely complicated sets of documents. be laid back, but focused with a plan and people will bust their asses for you. irritable, sloppy and disorganized ain't cute, especially on someone doing your job. the best engineers i worked with were the ones who let me in on what needed to be done when and didn't rake me over the coals for stupid shit that could've been fixed in the time it took for them to open their mouths. i really only had that problem with one guy and it was a kid fresh out of school who never worked a real job. he could re-grade his site and leave his sewer stubouts sticking five feet out of the ground for forgetting to redesign his waste water system, but i'd get the third degree for not editing the date on a check set (which, in that case consisted of 200 pages and had about ten different borders without the dates being part of the xref'ed border files). also, if you're not a strong drafter, stay out of the files as much as possible and leave it people who are. engineers who can't draw don't need to be.
hope that helps. i hate reading that someone fresh out of school is having the trouble you're having. best of luck.
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GreySatyr
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Re: Your Ideal Life [Re: millzy]
#18967622 - 10/12/13 09:26 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Good thread but a tough question to answer...
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morrowasted
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Re: Your Ideal Life [Re: GreySatyr]
#18967702 - 10/12/13 09:58 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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travelling constantly, never feeling like I'm working, having many different lovers
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Patlal
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My perfect life, by Patlal
I would wake up every morning in my king size bed, open the curtains to see the beach from my bedroom window. I would take a shower in my luxurious bathroom. I would then proceed to my big kitchen with marble counter top to make myself a coffee which I would drink on my backyard patio while starring at the beach. My Shpynx cat would be sitting on the patio table so I could easily pet him.
I would then hop in my Mercedes and drive to a local restaurant that serves bacon and eggs 24/7 and order 2 eggs overeasy, bacon, ham, sausage, brown toast, fresh fruits and homemade potatoes. I would pick the daily newspapers and start reading them while waiting for my breakfast to arrive. I would then eat it and finish reading the paper before leaving.
Once I get back home I would tend to my garden and look at my shpynx chasing down butterflies. I would then go for a swim in my pool to clean off the sweat and for exercise. Then I would most likely have lunch which would consist of pasta and a bunch of veggies in the blender with spice for sauce. Delicious. From there I would most likely read for an hour or watch the new TV shows. After, I would do one of my favorite hobbies, depending on my mood.
I would then go on a long walk on the beach with my feet close enough to the water so the waves can reach them. After the walk I would workout in my home gym for half an hour. Then my masseuse would ring the door bell for one of the 3 massages I get everyweek. Massages with happy endings of course.
Then it dinner time. Either I go out to a good restaurant for sushi or steak, or I stay in and make it myself, whichever, both option is ideal for me. A good bottle of wine to start off the evening. Maybe a glass of high quality whisky. Then of course, I would go back on my patio with my cat to take a few hits of weed.
Once I come back, I would start a fire and chill for the rest of the evening. Maybe go for a movie
Repeat until death.
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i like cow poo
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Re: Your Ideal Life [Re: Patlal]
#18968006 - 10/12/13 11:40 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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thats so funny
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JacksonMetaller
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Re: Your Ideal Life [Re: Enjoywho]
#18968008 - 10/12/13 11:40 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Enjoywho said: Fat stacks of cash and a yacht. Basically it for me.
To each their own but only strive for that if you can be happy WHILE making the money. If you're looking for that end result regardless of the means, it gets old pretty quick.
As for the OP... My ideal life involves working on a research team in the areas of biochemistry, hopefully doing something that can benefit someones life. Ie, cures to cancer/parkinsons/alzheimers, tissue/nerve regeneration, alternative chemicals for food manufacturing that are cheap and healthy, etc. Whatever i can land my hands on as long as it's being used for the betterment of humanity. Then i would like to live out in the mountains. Hopefully in a log cabin styled home by a river. Preferably somewhere that has distinguishable seasons, yet never gets extreme. Preferably in driving distance from town, yet still isolated and private. And a garden that grows a lot of my food/drugs.
If that fails, i'll join the yurt village i visited on my last ayahuasca voyage. Basically i just want to get further away from people and closer to the earth. I always feel much more relaxed there
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i like cow poo
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Yea man I feel you. I just tend to have a feeling that a lot of people are kind of rotten inside. Like an apple that was good at first but then the harsh elements corrupted it.
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