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britguy said:
VoxPhantom said:
I'm 24 and work for M&S. I've got a degree in sports journalism but I've not been able to get a job in the industry, so focusing on the retail career path now.
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I have a degree but ended up in retail for 5 years, (aged 19-24) some of my fondest memories as I made loads of good freinds while I worked - who unfortunately I have lost touch with due to me being unsociable. I was working my way up to management position until I got fired for putting a hole in a plasterboard wall in mens changing room while fooling.

You ever thought about trying to write for local free papers etc or maybe some sports blogs?
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It's not really the written side of the media I want to go into, I chose to go down the broadcast route offered in the third year - so I've got a skillset tailored towards radio and television. I've been thinking about doing a bit of freelance work on my weekends off, maybe filming the local amateur rugby side's games. Just a matter of finding money for decent equipment!
 
vashdaman said:
I'm 25 and basically just hang around the toilets of a certain university and try to look like I belong.
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You should attend a few seminars. I know of people who do so despite being, if one may put it this way, only de facto members of their host institution's student body.
 
britguy said:
I've just realised that I don't know much about you guys probably because I don't frequent the forum enough or interact with you guys enough, but I'm curious, what do you all do? Do we have a mix of school kids, uni goers, employed adults, job hunters etc?

I'm 28 and I work in the fascinating world of Export documentation at a Chamber of Commerce, how about you?
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Since i'm late to this conversation, i thought i'd throw stuff out about my boring self.

I'm 25, have an honours degree in mathematics and currently live between Edinburgh and home, which is in the middle o' nowhere. I finished my degree about 3 years back i should note, and i've found absolutely nothing which i can jump into job wise which doesn't require some element of "experience", so basically i work in retail at home. Stupid, but hey.
About 4-5 months ago i decided enough was enough and have opted to try and capitalise on other ideas i had. As such, i'm now studying through the AdWords Certification program via google. For those that don't know what this is, i'll basically be running adwords campaigns for clients/businesses so that they can get promoted showings on google/google related sites to increase impressions, conversions, etc and i'll need to maintain their bids and such so they can maximise profit. It's pretty fun, and with the video advertising market still rather untapped in the UK, a good opportunity. but there we go.

Outwith that? I'm generally a jack-of-all-trades, and have attempted(and failed) to dabble in blog writing, reviews without scores(my berserk reviews on the site are bad, i know) and other such things.

I think that's everything thats not immediately boring about me put out there, fire questions at me if you wish, but i don't think there is much more to add.
 
I figured I'll mention it here rather than elsewhere. I'll be AFK for a 1 week holiday with my folks (Center Parcs, been a long time now) so don't expect any of the threads that I've done to be updated instantly if any major news occurs for them (i.e. a new streaming title). If the admins want to update it while I'm gone they're free to do so. I'll be back on the 4th.

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Zin5ki said:
Arbalest said:
fire questions at me if you wish
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Indeed I shall.

If you were to eat yourself, would you become twice as large or disappear entirely?
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most likely disappear entirely. Unfortunately the ability to swiftly regenerate does not exist in me at present, therefore i cannot rebuild what is lost plus grow
 
ilmaestro said:
I'm old-ish, and got into anime after starting my Japanese course at Uni early in the 2000s. I've done some work in translation, but for the last few years have been working in odds making for a sports betting company. Magic the Gathering is the best game of all time.
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What was it that made you want to study Japanese at uni in the first place?
 
vashdaman said:
ilmaestro said:
I'm old-ish, and got into anime after starting my Japanese course at Uni early in the 2000s. I've done some work in translation, but for the last few years have been working in odds making for a sports betting company. Magic the Gathering is the best game of all time.
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What was it that made you want to study Japanese at uni in the first place?
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The page in the UCAS book that listed the Japanese courses! XD
 
Re. anyone that's into Japanese culture - if you live in London, the Japan Foundation and Daiwa Foundation are amazing; they host seminars every few weeks that are always really interesting and often touch on anime/manga and Japanese culture as a whole.
 
So, as a few of you know from last night in the chat, my cat Princess (aka Ginger Ninja) has been acting unusual.

We blamed her eating habits on the heat as she would only eat in the evenings, but then she started to stay out for 24 hours at a time without eating. We wanted to take her to the vet as she had lost a lot of weight, but as her nickname suggests, she is a tricky one to catch.

Eventually we got hold of her today and she was leaning towards the food as if to eat it, but at the last second she would pull away, so we decided to try and force feed her and during so I noticed her paw was yellow and we tried to work out what would stain fur yellow.

I then noticed her skin was yellow and immediately checked her eyes, and that's when we realised it was jaundice. We took her to the 24 hour vet and after a quick look she said that because she is young (Estimate her age to be 4, but as we adopted her we don't know for sure) some antibiotics should sort it out and went to feel her stomach and she thinks it may not be the liver, but her pancreas. If that is the case, she there is a chance she would be put to sleep.

She had a shot of antibiotics, some Vitamin D, a tablet which should make her want to eat etc... but warned my mum, who is about to go on holiday for a week (Taking her mum back home for one last visit) to say goodbye, just in case. Now, she is a family pet but is attached to my mum more than anymore, where as Angel is attached to me, so it's been really hard for her.

Also, Princess is an outdoor cat, but due to her disappearing acts we're having to lock her in my brothers room, which is pretty heartbreaking as you'd want her last days to be comfortable...

Princess is scheduled for a blood test tomorrow morning to see if it's the liver or the pancreas....fingers crossed I guess.
 
VoxPhantom said:
Hoping for the best for Princess, Golly.
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Echoed. My sister's cat went through something similar last year. She stopped eating and began wheezing, they discovered she'd developed an inoperable tumour which had began to block her throat. It was a bit of a shock because we thought it was probably just a stuck hairball or something - She'd been perfectly healthy up to that point. With the help of some injections that lessened the inflammation she got back a decent standard of living for a few months, but in the end we knew it was only a matter of time before it would return and the kindest thing would be to put her to sleep.

There are times when I still miss my lovely old rescue cat who seemingly died of shock during a serious thunderstorm a few years ago. I was very definitely her person, she'd come and knead at me on a morning and occasionally bring me the bloodied corpse of a small bird to start my day with - the best was the time she actually caught one through my open window and dragged it half alive onto my bed. As with all deaths though, it's about being thankful for the time you got to spend with them.
 
Geez, that sounds absolutely horrible GolGotha. I hope Princess is okay :(.

In other grim related pet news, Luke's hamster passed away in the early hours of this morning. He was two years old and had started to develop a tumour on its back about a couple of weeks ago. He was fine and still eating and drinking, but yesterday he not only stopped eating and drinking, but moving as a whole. Somehow, it had quickly spread and was basically covering his entire face. It was like he was in a coma - he'd look dead until you saw his small breathes and tickling his feet would illicit no reaction whatsoever. When I went to bed at 2am, he was still breathing but apparently, he had passed before Mum woke up at 5.
 
Oh dear. I hope Princess recovers. My family dog who we'd had since I was 6 died because she had a benign cyst which eventually grew so big crushed her airways. It wasn't visible from looking at her, so there was no way anyone could've known, and she was perfectly healthy till about 10 days before she died. The vet said since she was so old she probably wouldn't survive the operation anyway so my mum decided the kindest thing to do was have her put to sleep. I got back from my first year at uni, living away from home for the first time, to that news....
 
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