Me thinks

[MissHoneychurch]

typing correctly is an advantage in the job. Especially as librarian :eyes:

[DarkTirade]

1. Me hopes so. :) Me trying to get new job.

And me type 90+ WPM with few errors. :)

[MissHoneychurch]

2. I am more than glad

that we have computers nowadays. With the typewriter .... oh boy, the correction tape would be spent fast ....

[DarkTirade]

3. The typewriter my mom used to have was half typewriter, half computer.

It had a memory of 8 or 10 characters, so you could go back and fix things as long as it was within the last word or so. :)

[MissHoneychurch]

4. Cool

every now and then I need to use a typewriter. I try to type correctly and slowly ... doesn't always work.

What kind of job are you looking for?

[DarkTirade]

5. Right about now I'd settle for just about anything.

Unfortunately 'anything' doesn't always pay well enough. I just lost my car and I need a job that will not only keep a roof over my head, but help me get back into school AND get a new car. In this area, there's no way to earn a living without a car. It just doesn't work. Too much urban sprawl + crappy public transit. And with no degree and no office experience and no places around here that pay worth a damn besides office type jobs... not all that easy.

Also unfortunately, I'm one of those people who knows a little bit about a lot of things. I don't really have any one specialty. I'm damn good with computers, but I don't know enough programming to get a job as a programmer, I don't know enough about networks to become a network admin, every computer I've owned I built, but I don't have any kind of official technical certifications, ect. ect.

I thought about using my typing skills to do transcribing, but I'm horrible at picking out words when they're played back on a speaker. Don't know why, I just suck at it. I started to take a test for a website that does transcription work, and I realized that more than half of the test I was going to turn in would be (unintelligible). :(

I also like to make things. It doesn't even necessarily have to be creative work, I was satisfied working at a pizza place when I was trying to pay my way through college. It wasn't challenging or interesting, but at least I was making something every day. Unfortunately that kind of job won't pay well enough to get me back in school and get me a new car, so we're back to square one.

With my collection of weird and random skills, I realized I might do well at Medieval Times. (Basically a stationary ren faire) I applied there last week, I'm gonna call them and bug them when they open this morning. I figure even if they don't have any positions open, with my laundry list of skills that could be useful there they'd be crazy NOT to hire me. :) And with the times they're open, I might even be able to keep my current part-time job and work that one at the same time. So even if the pay isn't that great, I could still take the job and combine my two incomes. I've got my fingers crossed with that one.

[MissHoneychurch]

6. Wow, you are in a tough position

I wish you the best of luck. What do you wanna study? Computer science? That would be the best guess from my side after what you told me about your skills.


Sometimes it is strange what one is able to do and what not. Me for example. I am German and since my nanny time and internship in the US speak a pretty good English. I can switch between German and English without problem. I understand English very well and communicate in English very well. But the moment I am supposed to translate something from the one language into the other one my brain goes blank. I am not able to do that.

[DarkTirade]

7. For long term I always wanted to get into video game design

that way I'd be using my computer skills and making things. :) But for the short term, I'm not sure. There are a lot of skills that could help me get there. Programming is always good, as is art. At first I went to college for music, I wanted to get into music composition and minor in programming or something like that. I figured since I don't have much skill with art, I'd focus on those two and so I could program, design and write soundtracks for games.

I still do that anyway in my spare time, I just don't get paid for it yet. :)
The demo for my most recent game is here if you want to see screenshots or download it. Nothing too creative, I just took the premise behind a couple of classic arcade games from the 80s and mashed 'em together.
http://www.stickmanltd.com/breakinvaders2.html

And I've got the full soundtrack (and some other music I wrote) up on my site too.
http://www.stickmanltd.com/mymusic/

[MissHoneychurch]

8. If you are able to write software for games

then go for it.

may I ask how old you are?

[DarkTirade]

9. A quarter of a century old.

And getting older by the day. :)

As I mentioned earlier, I'm a little behind in my programming knowlege. Lately I've been cheating and using gamemaker programs to make my games rather than programming them from scratch myself. :( But that's why I'm hoping to get back to school. I don't care about the degree, I just wanna learn useful skills.

[MissHoneychurch]

10. A degree is always useful

don't make yourself smaller than you are. "Cheating" by using a gamemaker ... I believe most videogame designer are doing that. Same with writing a homepage.

[DarkTirade]

11. Oh gods no, I never use website creation software.

Notepad and a good brain make for the most powerful HTML editor in the world. :)

[MissHoneychurch]

12. Good for you

I would be at a total loss without the software. But then... I am a librarian, not a programmer.

[DarkTirade]

13. I have been easing my way back into regular programming too

the main problem is that Windows changed everything... and most of what I learned was pre-Windows. (started programming at a young age. :) ) But I'm working on it. Slowly but surely chopping away at it. The stump of ignorance shall be chipped away until my lawn of knowlege is clear.

Or something like that. :)

[MissHoneychurch]

14. Do tell me about it

at work I got Office Word 2007. It took me some time to get used to it. And I love working with computers. Actually, programming was my best class in school. We programmed Pascal (way back .... LOL). But I never got a kick out of doing it for a living.

[DarkTirade]

25. Ah yes, Pascal...

the first 'real' language I learned. I'd been programming in BASIC since 3rd grade, but that's not quite enough to do the things I wanted to do. :) I made a few little text-based games in BASIC, but that was it.

I took a Pascal class in high school, and since I was the only person in the class who'd ever really programmed before, and the class was geared towards people who'd never programmed before, it was incredibly easy for me. I spent the first 5 minutes of every day doing my own work. Then the next 10 minutes or so helping other people understand theirs. Then I'd spend the next hour and fifteen minutes doing my own thing. Made an ASCII game engine first, then a graphical one. I had an idea for an RPG in my head called 'Sword of Caltia'. I got the engine working, designed the first section of the game, started working on the plot...

Then I realized I couldn't do a real soundtrack for the game in Pascal, and since I feel that a soundtrack is what really gives a game its life, I put it on hiatus until I found a better programming language. :) Still, good experience working on my first serious game.

[MissHoneychurch]

26. You really should study that topic

I only wrote little programms ... If yes then ... if no then ... LOL
Every time my dad tried to explain software to me at home I fell asleep ..... :shrug:

As said, long time ago and it took me a bit longer than 5 minutes.

So if you have a good idea for a game, go for it.

[DarkTirade]

27. For now my 'studies' are just me doing it and learning along the way.

I had to give it up for a little while when my last computer died, but I've been back in the saddle for the last few months. :)

[gr8dane_daddy]

15. Me thinks you're one hot librarian...

grrrrr!

[MissHoneychurch]

16. ....

:blush:

[gr8dane_daddy]

17. you know I love you babe

my hot german strudel w/out raisins

[MissHoneychurch]

18. I know you do

:*

[gr8dane_daddy]

19. Does the Lounge know?

we can't hide it forever

[MissHoneychurch]

20. They know now

:7

[gr8dane_daddy]

21. Oops...

Hey Lounge....me and MHC are a "thang"...

she's my ying to my yang.

[MissHoneychurch]

22. Now that that is cleared

what else ought we tell the Lounge?

[gr8dane_daddy]

23. How about that night when you showed me what...

a Bavarian Preztel position...errrr, nevermind

[MissHoneychurch]

24. LOL

I still get cramps when I think about it :P