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Jan. 25th, 2006 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaletianSometimes I look at what I've done with my life and despair. I went to Oxford University and yet I've managed to steer myself into a position where I alphabetise for a living. It's so humiliating.
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Date: 2006-01-25 02:28 pm (UTC)Two points:
1. Work, though sometimes unfulfilling, is a necessary pain in the backside to endure. (Note: I've spent most of this morning drudging my way through a tedious and lengthy research outline which could've been done - better, I suspect - by someone with the skills of a sycophantic PR consultant!)
2. Nothing lasts forever.
*Hopes you find something more challenging or suited to your skills, tastes, and qualifications.*
Terry.
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Date: 2006-01-25 02:45 pm (UTC)If it makes you feel any better I basically have an MA in alphabetising...
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Date: 2006-01-25 02:52 pm (UTC)*Makes note to do that *hug* thing more in future. It's what I meant, but I just went off on one instead. *Sigh.*
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Date: 2006-01-25 02:57 pm (UTC)*hugs the Squeen* You are most brilliant. Do not fret.
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Date: 2006-01-25 03:50 pm (UTC)It's definately more involved than alphabetising it sometimes involves alpha-numeric reference numbers or wow is me dewey...*g*
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Date: 2006-01-25 05:21 pm (UTC)The alpha-numeric stuff is so much more advanced, yus.
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Date: 2006-01-25 08:29 pm (UTC)And 16 digit numbers are always a great laugh.
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Date: 2006-01-25 04:03 pm (UTC)*hugs the Squeen*
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Date: 2006-01-25 03:07 pm (UTC)With all due respect... ;o)
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Date: 2006-01-25 03:10 pm (UTC)Although in my experience everything is mostly a vicious circle of experience and qualifications = you can't do something because you dont have enough experience, you can't get enough experience because you don't have the right qualifications, you can't get the right qualifications and you don't have enough experience... round and around
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Date: 2006-01-25 03:18 pm (UTC)I'd hate to be going through the undergraduate system today, I tell you.
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Date: 2006-01-25 03:06 pm (UTC)I do know the feeling. I look at where some of my contemporaries are and look at where my brother is and think "damn, where did I go wrong?" and then I remember that although I *DID* go wrong (in the sense that I chose utterly the wrong thing to do at A-Level and then made an even bigger **** up at uni), if I hadn't done so, I'd probably be standing at a roadside measuring the volume of traffic as it passes and I wouldn't have met *ANY* of the folks I'm now happy and honoured to call friends.
So while there are crap bits, some of it's been rather on the shiny side :)
*hugs again*
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Date: 2006-01-25 04:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-25 05:17 pm (UTC)What you do does not define who you are, and the latter is far more important.
And it is possible to get out of the alphabetizing - just 'cos you're doing it now does not mean you'll be doing it forever x
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Date: 2006-01-25 05:17 pm (UTC)I keep telling myself that it's just a stage though. I'm still young and flitting from thing to thing, and eventually I'll get where I want to go. When I figure out where it is exactly that I want to go.
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Date: 2006-01-25 05:38 pm (UTC)but you are not a dog, nor "the other thing" & you are not someone who tells Scouting stories...
plus, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO CHANGE LENIN'S TIE *nods*
I love you in all your alphabetising fineness & I know you could do ANYTHING if you set your mind to it (and possibly did the life-of-crime thing for funding purposes...)
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Date: 2006-01-25 05:55 pm (UTC)*kicks the system*
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