What is or was your Occupation?

[postscript]

Post 102 Stephany. You are correct that journalism is one of the 'love to do it' trades as opposed to money-making opportunities, unless you are a major feature writer/editor. That of course is the point. As a financial journalist you are in a specialist market, which should add a litte to the 'normal' wage packet. Remember, too, journalism is not just the written word but broadcasting as well.

It is how I started freelance writing. I contributed a sequence of letters to a trade journal on a controversial subject, the last one being sent back to me with the injunction, 'stop sending me letters, write me articles and i'll pay you'. When I turned to 'general writing', yes, there was indeed a drop in the size of the pay checks!

Peter S.

[meldy]

I've just graduated from high school and entering the University of California: Irvine in September. My major is International Studies...however, I want to change my major. Oh and, I don't know what I want to be....I was thinking of changing my major to film production. I've found that I don't watch movies like others and I'm very picky about certain details. Whenever I heard songs, I would also imagine the videos in my head. But then again, I'm not really sure about film either. All I know is that I love music, especially classical which is very unlikely where I live, and literature. Right now, I need to find a summer job. I'll just see where life takes me. "Well something's lost but something's gained in living every day"

Meldy

[davemcc]

I am currently studing ICT at college and hoping I get back to do a HND in computing this year and do two years of CISCO and get the certificate. Want to be a web designer or work with networks, but want a web designer first. Two years of the HND and I will be 21 and looking for a job. Also wanting to a Microsoft Office Specilist certificate too.

I originally wanted to do Journalism, but decided computers would be a better idea. Love photography too. Maybe I might do something with that in future.

[Gene]

Peter wrote:
"hi Gene, I deal mostly with the small displacement 1.8-2.0 litre 8 valve VW motors and boost them to a max of 270-300hp (limited by compressor flow and the restriction of the stock heads - the early cars weigh 1700-2250 lbs). The largest twin screws that I stock are good for about 600 crank...so quite a bit smaller than what you'd need LOL... as far as manifolds go - the only quad rotor setups I've seen have been by Whipple or custom... you must have quite alot of hood clearance to be considering such a setup"!

Hi Peter,
Thanks, I'll take a look at Whipple. Actually, there is no hood on the vehicle. A couple of pics are shown below. I'm not sure what this has to do with Hayley, except she has tremendous energy and so does my "T-Bucket"! There is also a pic of my buddy's twin-supercharged, 630 CI street rod, currently under construction. His manifold is custom. The builder says that he will never build another one like it again! Too much work! So, I'm looking for a new source.
Regards, Gene

[Dori]

I am a student at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, currently completeing my English/Art History double major degree. I am also a part-time librarian at one of Auckland's biggest and most major public library. I am also a writer and a painter!! I love my job(s)!!!


The Clock Tower. Auckland Universitie's most historical building.


University of Auckland. New Zealand's number one university!!

Dori

[Stephany]

Hey Dori!
It's great to know a little bit more about you.
Do you know what you'll be doing after your double major??

Take care,
Stephany

[Dori]

Yes, teaching English and Art History in high school for five years, then i'd like to go back to university to get my Masters and PhD to become an Art Historian!! Besides that, i'm working on my first book i'd like to be published before i'm 20!! (i'm 18...)
Dori

[roger]

Hi Dori,

Thank you for telling us about yourself. Just think, by the time you major, you will also be a maestro on this forum. We'll have to invent a new title for you!

Please feel free to show us any of your artwork if you would like to.

Roger

[Dori]

Hello Roger,
I have a blog for my art workd (or some of it, anyway!) and it's still under construction, but i wouldn't mind by the least for you to have a look!! I used Hayley's images in some of my high school art work!!

sukaynasworldofart.blogspot.com

The good ol' days...:2fun:

Dori

[Stephany]

Hello Dori,
Thank you for sharing your blog's link.
I see that you are quite a fan of The Lord of the Rings. Great to know as I am one myself (particularly the books, but also the movies!). I was very impressed by your White Tree of Rohan cross-stitch pattern. I look forward to seeing your Doors of Moria. That one shouldn't be easy!

Take care,
Stephany

[postscript]

dori said:

Yes, teaching English and Art History in high school for five years, then i'd like to go back to university to get my Masters and PhD to become an Art Historian!! Besides that, i'm working on my first book i'd like to be published before i'm 20!! (i'm 18...)
Dori

Right strategy, Dori. I'm the 'author' of several books taken to various stages of INcompletion because the day job got in the way! I spent my student and early working years when mangement responsibilities were not great acting.

I gave up acting in my late twenties for two reasons:

• Work demands (due to factory production shift patterns) made me unreliable for a long run--I belonged to a company that owned its own theatre so produced several shows a year and usually ran from ten days to three weeks.
  
• Interpreting other people's original creativity palled and I wished to develop my own original creativity.
  

By that time however, management demands were too great to give the freedom of thought and salary contentment blocked any idea of taking a year out to 'get it ll all off my chest'.

Your doing it right. Now you have:

• youth
  
• an academic environment
  
• not too sated in wordliness (i.e. income) to take time to 'stand and stare', absorb and truly be.
  

This is a great time for you and it sounds as though you are intending to make the most of it. Rght on, lady, right on.

I don't know how Hayley manages her creativity rushing from pillar to post, except that possibly her entire environment is creative which helps with the continuity of thought. That was my failing, working in a business production area where an unscheduled machine stop could be losing us over £1 a minute--and that was thirty years ago!

Good luck in your endeavours. What's the book, fiction or non-fiction?

Peter S.

[petertong]

gene said:

Hi Peter,
Thanks, I'll take a look at Whipple. Actually, there is no hood on the vehicle. A couple of pics are shown below. I'm not sure what this has to do with Hayley, except she has tremendous energy and so does my "T-Bucket"! There is also a pic of my buddy's twin-supercharged, 630 CI street rod, currently under construction. His manifold is custom. The builder says that he will never build another one like it again! Too much work! So, I'm looking for a new source.
Regards, Gene

Hi Gene,

IIRC, you mentioned Hayley and that car in the dream thread awhile back Now I know what you were talking about! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

If Whipple doesn't have something I'd just have it custom fabbed... with rarified projects such as this its usually not easy to find off the shelf solutions. I constantly run into this myself unfortunately... just had a custom fabbed (for boost) short runner prototype manifold made for my own project recently... cost me over $1k.... should go like stink though which makes it worth it! After all nobody expects a cheerleader mobile like a VW Cabriolet to blow their hunk of american iron off the light - got to love the sleeper approach

What does this have to do with Hayley Westenra (esp since the project convertible in the interest of lightweightness doesnt even have a radio!)? Well I like listening to the motor on this car just about as much as I like listening to Hayley sing. Both of them are amazing sounding! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif

Peter T

PS: when your builder says it was too much work... it usually means you probably got your moneys worth

[Gene]

Peter wrote:
Hi Gene,
IIRC, you mentioned Hayley and that car in the dream thread awhile back Now I know what you were talking about! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif
....After all nobody expects a cheerleader mobile like a VW Cabriolet to blow their hunk of american iron off the light - got to love the sleeper approach

What does this have to do with Hayley Westenra (esp since the project convertible in the interest of lightweightness doesnt even have a radio!)? Well I like listening to the motor on this car just about as much as I like listening to Hayley sing. Both of them are amazing sounding! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif
Peter T

Thanks for the information, Peter. Yes, I keep dreaming that Hayley will drop from the sky in that parachute that I put on her. No sign of her yet, but I keep looking up!

The "sleeper approach" is so funny to see. A couple of friends of mine own sleepers and it's fun to watch the look of astonishment when they bury other vehicles. I've never been able to do this because I've never owned a sleeper. But it has to be one of the greatest feelings in the world!

Yes, like yours, the sound of my street rod is music to my ears. The difference between my racing engine and Hayley is that Hayley calms my nerves and puts me in a state of peace and solitude. My 1,100 horses on the other hand, burn my brain, fry my body and cause my fillings to fall out! But, what a ride! At the stoplights, everyone always lets me go first!
Best, Gene

[grant]

Hi Peter T & Gene

All very interesting but can we Brits have a translation please?

Best wishes
Grant

[Dori]

Hello Peter,
My book is non-fiction about my teacher who changed my life. I think teachers are truly unsung heros. Wow, you've had an extremely busy career life!!! I have huge goals and set the bar high, so i hope i can achieve them all!!!
Dori