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28 Jul 2007, 9:20 pm

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I was a prose proofreader/editor in china, but a financial proofreader is just someone who catches typos made by data entry clerks. It is very low skilled work and I don't think a college degree is even required for it. Still, it is ideal temporary employment because it is mostly solitary work, and I can listen to the radio all day.
I reckon that would be one of the coolest jobs ever!


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03 Aug 2007, 8:01 pm

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I reckon that would be one of the coolest jobs ever!


It is not unpleasant work per se, though it's not quite what i thought i'd be doing at my age, with three languages and a two degrees from a good university.

I am getting tired of talk radio. Next week I think i will bring audiobooks instead. Maybe some of those big Russian novels i've always meant to read.



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10 Aug 2007, 5:05 pm

I might get a dishwasher job up in Fort McMurry that pays amazingly... about $200 per day! Long hours, but easy work. Don't wanna do it forever, but I'll do it for a few months. :D



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10 Aug 2007, 10:45 pm

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the only downside, of course, is what a potential employer would think when he/she sees that i have a masters in music... "thought he could become a pro musician and failed, what kind of idiot majors in music?".


An inordinately large number of computer programmers... I can rattle off 3-5 people I know personally from my career in ColdFusion who have degrees in music and that's not even mentioning people I've only met or talked to casually. Music and computer programming are oddly similar in ... form... Because programming isn't about "numbers" any more than music is, even though the form of it is laced with numbers (timing where music is concerned). They're basically both about the manipulation of and interaction between patterns (in software it's patterns in concepts of abstraction).



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13 Aug 2007, 6:44 pm

Ana54 wrote:
I might get a dishwasher job up in Fort McMurry that pays amazingly... about $200 per day! Long hours, but easy work. Don't wanna do it forever, but I'll do it for a few months. :D



What the hell? Who is it with, haliburton?



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13 Aug 2007, 10:32 pm

Ana54 wrote:
I might get a dishwasher job up in Fort McMurry that pays amazingly... about $200 per day! Long hours, but easy work. Don't wanna do it forever, but I'll do it for a few months. :D

Hopefully you'll have some money left over after rent and food. The housing cost there is insane 8O



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14 Aug 2007, 4:33 pm

How about volunteering with the AMBUCS 2 and being a Self Advocate?

The Government gives you SSI to live on because the job programs for people with disabilities in my town, don't serve people who have Autism or Asperger Syndrome.

Now how funny is this?

LOL LOL and LOL.