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   waylandsmithy
   

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   Just out of interest, what do people do for a living? I'm a technical author, I write really boring instructions so people can fix or use things. Does anyone else write really boring stuff?

   Just curious to see what sort of people come here.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   rikkor
   

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   International Man of Mystery. Oh, sorry.

   My background is in IT management for big banks and mutual fund companies. When I started, you could actually begin your career in financial services IT with an English Lit. degree. But, as you can imagine, I was rather exceptional.

   As far as writing really boring stuff, I have actually written investment prospectuses. Try and beat that. Truly boring, no one ever reads them, but if you get one word wrong, investors will sue you into non-existence.

   Right now, just doing charity work. Will have to do something more serious ($$$-wise) in the future.

   No fats or femmes.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Qoxiivi
   

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   WS; PMd.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   The All New Jeni B
   

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   I really am an International Woman of Mystery.

   (When I'm not being a Law student, part-time bakery counter assistant, mother, wife, cook, cleaner, chauffeuse, laundress, seamstress, tutor, dog-walker, and party animal)

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   OllieP
   

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   Qoxiivi, am I to understand you are a professional creator of arcane acronyms?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   rikkor
   

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   Chauffeuse? You do hair, really?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   rikkor
   

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   Ollie, I believe that means he is a post-modernist architect.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   waylandsmithy
   

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   He's got an FP, it's a goodun'!

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   The All New Jeni B
   

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   You're quite correct Rikkor, I was trying to be a smart-arse.
   The correct term is, I believe, une femme chauffeur.

   I sit corrected...

   ...or do I ...
   http://www.audioenglish.net/dictionary/chauffeuse.htm

   Posted 1 year ago #
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    Qoxiivi
    

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    Fuck. Chose my sub for the FP. Didn't expect that I have to say. Just one small typo on the final line eds; turn "she's" into 'she' and job's a good'un.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    waylandsmithy
    

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    Getaway driver is cooler.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    rikkor
    

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    Jeni, I thought I was being amusing. I know what you meant.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    The All New Jeni B
    

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    Sorry Rikkor, my brain has left the building.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    dominic_mcg
    

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    I teach and write comedy. Teaching pays the bills. Writing keeps me sane - although pays almost nothing :0(

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Vertically Challenged Giant
    

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    I sit in an office and dick about on the internet more than I should, especially given that I've had my internet and personal email use brought up twice by the IT director. Well, former IT director. He's left now, which is nice because he was a prick.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Qoxiivi
    

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    I'm a copywriter. A frustrated copywriter I might add as almost everything I've written in my career has been geared to the lowest common denominator. As is, inevitably, the way with writing that’s geared towards the acquisition of useful parties by merely pandering to demographic analysis. The amount of times I’ve been asked to replace a word because it contains too many syllables...

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    waylandsmithy
    

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    Marmalade? Corrugated? Aluminium?

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Qoxiivi
    

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    None of them. Can't use 'em. Anything more than three syllables is strictly prohibited. The words I’m sanctioned to used are: bus, phlegm, crunch, sales, valued, customer* and bloat. Everything else has to be approved by the creative director, two marketing managers and at least four of their youngest children.

    *customer is the exception

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    guffaw
    

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    Is copywriting unbelievable remuneration?

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Quaz
    

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    CV includes Strawberry picker, battery hen egg collector (quit because I thought it was cruel to the chickens, and my clothes stank), Nurseryman (horticultural stuff), crepe chef, office furniture assembler, music journalist (unpaid, but the perks were great), International travelling man of leisure, and loads of IT stuff that no one quite understands what it is.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Quaz
    

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    Qoxi, didn't Orwell (and a few others) serve time as copywriters? It helps develop brevity apparently. Some quote about Mark Twain saying "Can do 30 pages in 2 days, need 30 days to do 2 pages". Bet it drives you insane though.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    be reasonable
    

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    Psychologist. And all of you are my subjects.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    antharrison
    

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    http://www.ssgadvisory.com

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    OllieP
    

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    Scientist by training, but have worked in property management for the last 4 years. Don't recommend the latter, but it pays twice as well as the former (in my experience). And I can confirm that neither are particularly amusing careers.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    button
    

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    I am a small disk sewn onto a garment (in my case a nice cardi) used to fasten it by being pushed through a slit, or buttonhole.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    rickwestwell
    

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    Aren't we all, in a way?

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    guffaw
    

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    I was doing alright then he mentioned slit.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    beau-jolly
    

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    As you may guess from my web site, I own a small specialist wine shop in Dorset. I did own a small specialist marketing consultancy in Warrington. Neither pay any money but now I get to drink more.
    I did a lot of free work for Gary Alliss (the cheque is still in the post), the son of Peter Alliss and head of the PGA. I have never played golf and don't plan to, but still wrote the promotional stuff for his academies. It was translated into Chinese which made it slightly more interesting.
    Before I bought the shop I was paid handsomely for a year making a director of a big company look good by writing all his memos and presentations. Come to think of it I wrote his original job application too.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    beau-jolly
    

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    Quick version of above:

    Worked once, now boozing
    Golf dull, London confusing.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    waylandsmithy
    

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    quality!

    Posted 1 year ago #

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