Sal J
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Sal J
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I'm now retired.
I might get a part-time job, retirement sucks in the long run.
I can imagine it might start to get a little boring - that's how it was after I got laid off and was on employment insurance for like 8 months. Fun at first but then, you kind of miss the routine and having something to do.
Community Manager for Jagex
My life had been on rough roads but hard work paid off, and with a super brain, dreams came true.
I'm currently owner of the biggest salon / spa in my city and an investor.
I used to dream of becoming a well known writer. It was disrupted because life happened
But now that I am set in life, I've returned to writing. Currently, I'm setting up a new website to launch a business in publishing.
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Aponi
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My life had been on rough roads but hard work paid off, and with a super brain, dreams came true.
I'm currently owner of the biggest salon / spa in my city and an investor.
I used to dream of becoming a well known writer. It was disrupted because life happened
But now that I am set in life, I've returned to writing. Currently, I'm setting up a new website to launch a business in publishing.
and the other week you were saying you're a councillor in a different part of the forums
Mr Brushie
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Niyah
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Unemployed leeching reprobate.
I've been there
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I know a 45 year old man who started life at 16 as an "unemployed leeching reprobate"...
He has been chasing a pipe dream of becoming a world-renowned musician (a la Ozzy Osbourne). So far he has yet to achieve the recognition, fame, and wealth he so stubbonly believes life owes him.
Ozzy Osbourne has done well - his wife (or ex not sure) has kept him sane'ish - he's has two beautiful children, a lovely wife, nice home, records, a name for himself - good and bad
I know a 45 year old man who started life at 16 as an "unemployed leeching reprobate"...
He has been chasing a pipe dream of becoming a world-renowned musician (a la Ozzy Osbourne). So far he has yet to achieve the recognition, fame, and wealth he so stubbonly believes life owes him.
Ozzy Osbourne has done well - his wife (or ex not sure) has kept him sane'ish - he's has two beautiful children, a lovely wife, nice home, records, a name for himself - good and bad
Yes, Ozzy has done well. The jackass I'm referring to, not so much.
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Aponi
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My life had been on rough roads but hard work paid off, and with a super brain, dreams came true.
I'm currently owner of the biggest salon / spa in my city and an investor.
I used to dream of becoming a well known writer. It was disrupted because life happened
But now that I am set in life, I've returned to writing. Currently, I'm setting up a new website to launch a business in publishing.
and the other week you were saying you're a councillor in a different part of the forums
I've done many things in my life. I try out different area and see what works best and bring in the most money. My strength is I'm inconsistent. People want you to be consistent because they want you be be predictable. I evolve and change everyday
You have no idea how many jobs I have done since high school.
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Aponi
I don't really play runescape anymore back when i did play that is what i did. I am a tree planter now 4 months of the year.
Tree planting is a tough dirty job. I plant in northern Alberta. I replant cut blocks, old oil lease sites and oil sands reclamation in Fort McMurray. I have a special shovel and planting bags. The seedlings are about 20cm long with a dirt plug in the size and shape of two C batteries stacked on top of each other. I live in a tent for these 4 months. It sometimes snows mid july. There is no where to wash my clothes. I work in the rain. sometimes the rain doesn't stop for weeks. And Alberta mud, wet socks, wet clothes. 6am time to put on my wet tights and shorts and wool sweater, it's only 5 degrees C. I leave my tent, shivering, stumbling through mud and fallen trees as i exit the tree line into the main camp area with the cook shack and the weather haven tent where i eat. I eat some hash browns and pineapple while i make a smoothie with a muddy blender and a mud covered bag or frozen strawberries. Then I garb 6 or 7 protein bars my lunch. You see planting trees is a lot like gaining xp.... you are paid by the tree, every tree is worth 13-22 cents! I only bring protein bars because I can eat them easily while still planting trees.
I'm starting to get use to the chilly temperature now and I grab my stuff, shovel planting bags and day bag and throw it in the side basket of a helicopter that sits 5 passengers. before long i'm flying over grids of destroyed forest, pipe lines and oil lease sites. After about 5 minutes i'm dropped off in the middle of a cut block. I walk to a tarped cashe the helicopter droped the day before, under it boxes of seedlings. i fill my bags and begin planting lines of trees and curves around obstacles, filling my piece assigned to me from the back.
It's a marathon. The day lasts 10 hours. I am considered a freak by my foreman, I consistently put 4-5k trees in the ground a day. Lots of money. no more room
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I have worked in many different jobs, mostly as a care assistant and health care assistant.
At the moment I am not in employment due to mental health issues.
Keeping hopeful I can return to care work when Im a bit better.
Fml, still not working, but supporting my mum with stage 4 cancer, and other things being a mum of 3 entails.
Remember Caz. Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.