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- doggydoggdog0
Two options, same pay:
1. dumb job that's easy and you learn nothing and your boss approves all your half-assed work. But you have nice coworkers that you like as people, good perks and work ends at 4pm.
2. "cool" job where you learn tons of stuff, make nice work with talented people for big brands that you care about 1/3 of the time. But you work 10 hour days and it takes time away from your own life and personal work. But your personal work is getting better as a result.
- 2 while you’re a kid, 1 later in lifescarabin
- Ditto abovepseud
- 1. And do the cool stuff in your spare time.********
- Depends how old you are.BusterBoy
- 2. life will find its way
1. if you want to be brain dead without even noticingsted - 3.Krassy
- If you've already had 2, then go for 1. Do 2 for as long as it makes sense.zarkonite
- or 3 take that personal work you mention and make it your job ;)zarkonite
- +1 scaroey_oey
- 1 for sure, over 30 - then find a solid hobby and monetise it by 40 and retire early.grafician
- Phone it in on 1, then work those extra three hours on something to help you quit 1 and be your own boss.monNom
- ...Assuming you've levelled up early on grinding and learning a bunch at a type 2 place.monNom
- Echo what Scarabin said at the top. Now I'm 40, I'd go option 1 to have more time to work my own projects, every time.Wolfboy
- dbloc2
When people post WWG1WGA I reply with WYSIWYG
- Fax_Benson0
This evening's smell, making its way in on the boiling, creeping "breeze" is; Hot Dogshit and Curry.
- grafician0
Has any of you old dogs considered mentoring someone younger?
You know, taking an apprentice, learning them everything you got so far, like teaching a younger self everything you know from 10-15 years into the future just for the sake of it?
- I have trained a few praktikants (interns) in our office on how to make pictures. It has become the most rewarding part of my job, to be honest.face_melter
- Nah, let them find out for themselves.Doris_McSquirter
- Unless she's a hot 19 year old. Eh, readers :oDoris_McSquirter
- Praktikants. Great wordGnash
- Praktikants - amazing!grafician
- ... and you can call em kants for short. Ace word.MrT
- "hey kants, are you ready for some learning?"grafician
- _me_1
Worked on my first Xmas script of the year today...
- kingsteven2
Are these apricots? I nibbled a bit and it was delicious, not too sweet, somewhere between apricot and grape in flavour. May try making jam if i can figure out they're properly edible...
- im in ireland but by the shore and our gardens a suntrap... been in the house 2 years but didn't notice any fruit last summer on this guy.kingsteven
- there are other, related fruits, such as the Loquat or Kumquat, that are very similar in taste and appearancemonospaced
- I'd bet that's a kumquat, not an apricotmonospaced
- plums yoscruffics
- but what the fuck do I know? ;)monospaced
- https://en.wikipedia…scruffics
- We had an apricot tree when I was a kid. I remember the fruit was always in tight clusters. But the leaves and bark look rightGnash
- scruffics you may be on the money! a polish family owned the house before us so that kinda adds up. will check it out further now.kingsteven
- Ha, i just skimmed the bit that says they grow all over the UK anyway and saw 'Poland' :D but yeah this looks to be spot on thanks mate.kingsteven
- yeah plums. we got two in our garden, not ready yet though.microkorg
- cool, bright yellow plums!monospaced
- Nísperos?maquito
- ^ thats similar to a loquat that mono mentioned. i may have something similar in my front garden bizarrely. i'll be back for round 2 :Dkingsteven
- Nísperos = loquat********
- Plumslnu
- these are yellow greengages I`d saya_aachen
- perfect for jama_aachen
- lemon plums, make some jam!garbage
- scarabin1
Interesting Back to the Future fan theory
- scarabin0
Anybody know what sutteklut’s up to?
- Not entirely sure. Don't understand a word of norwegian lolpango
- Up to a gangbang********
- ಠ_ಠpango
- Kidsmonospaced
- Ohhh those are her kids!?! Should have Google translated lolpango
- utopian1
HBD Paul Rand (08-15-14)
- sted2
1980 HBD to all the qbners in the states and elsewhere on the planet, xD ,good luck for the rest u.
- bainbridge4
My job is remote, easy and boring. I feel fortunate to have a job and my coworkers like me and my work and I like them and we have nice zoom calls.
But I feel like I'm not working to my potential and sit at a computer all day and miss doing things with others in the real world.
I don't want to stay home and stare at my screen for 40 hours a week doing a job that's kinda basic for another year.
But it's also hard to look for different types of jobs.
People at the supermarket seem happier. But I make more money than them and trained to get where I am.
- that's what pretty much everybody is having to go through. Just focus on the 1st paragraph for now. The final paragraph is bollocks.Fax_Benson
- they seem happier at work or off work?pango
- At work. I feel lonely working from home.bainbridge
- Sometimes I feel like this. Weird times.monospaced
- buy a canoe, go canoeing at 6am before work. and again at 5pm after work. you'll now be fine.shapesalad
- buy a bike, go biking at 6am before work. and again at 5pm after work. you'll now be fine.sted
- Ever heard of weed, man? It's the only way to work remotely and keep things lively. And, yes, bike as much as possible to clear the brain. Stack $$ otherwise.davey_g
- Geez...first world problems..."it's also hard to look for different types of jobs" :)yuekit
- Or quit your job and go travel and beg at walmarts********
- Or do whatever it is I think u want to that a job keeps u away from. I suspect nothing, but ready to be proved wrong********
- You're not alone though! I read this short article recently, I think it sums up your situation nicelypseud
- https://jezebel.com/…pseud
- you don't have to work from home forever but considering cc Ovid, its the smart thing to do. when things change and its still a service people get, use ashellie
- co- working space that attracts the kind of people you want to be exposed to. here in the US, office space is a write off.shellie
- Be grateful you have a job. Ive been a struggle finding a job this year.desmo
- Morning_star3
Asking for a friend.
Does anyone have a link to somewhere that would give me a good guide to identifying Liberty Cap mushrooms. I'm... oooops....my friend had some growing in his garden but is unsure that they are the doors to perception or a very bad stomach.
- lmgtfysarahfailin
- Tried that SF, I need a source I can trust and was wondering if anyone can recommend a comprehensive resource.Morning_star
- https://64.media.tum…grafician
- if you go to wikipedia they show 2 other similar ones that look exactly alike but are toxic. good luck 0ø_niko
- See if they bruise bluethumb_screws
- And take spore print if you can. That’s how I identify them. Not dead yetthumb_screws
- Find somebody that knows and have them pick with you. There's so much nuance and it's not something you.. I mean your friend.. should take a chance with.garbage
- Way too early in the year and no cold shocks to prod them into fruiting, no?Nairn
- Which hemisphere you in Morningstar? I’m southern and the season is just ending.thumb_screws
- Northern Hemisphere. UK, MidlandsMorning_star
- Post a pic?Nairn
- Show usscarabin
- you hold them to the sun, if the plimp starts to glow, you are good...always eat them in even numbers.uan
- heh, +1 uan :)Nairn
- sarahfailin8
About to submit a federal grant request for my nonprofit - 50 pages of program narrative, 20 more pages of appendices (resumes, workplan, etc.), a 15-page budget, and about 15 more pages of official forms.
ALL for a narrow chance of getting $450,000/year for 2-3 years. Wish me luck!
- Good luck. What is it?Beeswax
- Earned Income Tax Credit outreach -- hooking poor folks up with thousands of dollars in tax credits they would get if they just filed their taxes!sarahfailin
- Good Luck!
https://i.imgur.com/…utopian - +++
Good luckPhanLo - wooft, good luck. just applied for individual arts funding which if successful will get less than i would have charged for dev work for the time it took :|kingsteven
- Good luck mate, that sounds cool!grafician
- Oh damn. Good luck!scarabin
- You got it!moldero
- What a fuckin waste of taxes. 3rd parties pushing in driving up tax breaks people don't take advantage of.********
- Fuck man I'd give respect to advocate removal of special interest tax plans and less tax to benefit such ppl. But what you do is parasitic********
- How many employees and how many volunteers on average? Half a million does so much better towards real reasonable taxes********
- I see deathboy said something, but I'm just going to assume it was a boring wall of illiterate nonsense. Big good luck to you, and seems like a great project!garbage
- lol of course QBN's premier demented libertarian pitches up when someone mentiones taxes.face_melter
- thanks everyone! :D I think i'll know if I got it by late septembersarahfailin
- mg332
A few nights ago my wife and I spent an hour debating a random question spawned out of something ridiculous one of us mentioned about someone from our past. For an hour we were cracking up and debating and laughing and on and on, as we tried to decide which is more embarrassing:
If you had to choose between what is more embarrassing to watch a female friend do, which is the more embarrassing of the two:
1. A white woman going to Cancun for vacation and returning with her hair in corn-rows (that’s a thing you can do there), or,
2. Any white woman coming back from anywhere with a henna tattoo on her hand and arm?There’s a sub-question to option 2 that also kept us cracking up, and that’s this: is it weirder for someone to come back with a henna tattoo and overtly show it off, like “hey, look what I got in India!” or to come back and casually go about their life and not say anything about it until someone mentions it (like at work)?
- What happens in India, stays in India...or Cancun for that matter.grafician
- Sounds like you are obsessed with race, racist.Hayoth
- See I thought mg33 sounded a solutely sexist pointing out dumb things womem do on vacation :)********
- Corn rowspango
- Both are embarrassing just for the fact of how fucking basic someone would have to be to do either. It's some gross temporary exotic flex.garbage
- I will say rows because I'm a white dude with outrageously nappy hair. I have to pick dreads every morning, and I'd feel like a punk if I tried to rock grooves.garbage
- 100%, no debate, it’s the corn-rowsGnash
- And that goes for any colour womanGnash
- even black women?pango
- @garbage "gross temporary exotic flex" - YES. You said it perfectly. I've seen someone get their hair braided in Cancunmg33
- before attending a wedding, and it was cringe-city. You could sense the cringe on so many people's faces. It had the multi-colored rubber-bands...mg33
- lol, I would have died. The heckler in me would have come out.garbage
- Coming back with a native baby like Brunoscarabin
- Lol my brothers girlfriend came back from cancun with corn rows just in time for a big family wedding much to everyone’s horror. thankfully it didn’t last_niko
- I think admitting you went to Cancun on vacation is embarrassing enough.ben_
- pango3
What song would you play at your funeral?
- https://youtu.be/CnQ…pango
- https://www.youtube.…utopian
- https://www.youtube.…BusterBoy
- Pe Cimpoideadsperm
- ^ this needs a link
https://www.youtube.…pango - The beauty of that song is that it doesn't need a link for you to hear it. I'm disappointed you didn't choose it for yourself.deadsperm
- I'm disappointed at my self as well.pango
- Pet Sounds and 'Soul Coaxing' by Norrie Paramor.********
- (Not the whole BB album, just the title track.)********
- No one cares what you think Bobo.pango
- The cries of my crushed enemies and the lamentations of their women.face_melter
- https://youtu.be/iLQ…scarabin
- https://www.youtube.…drgs
- https://youtu.be/QXW…maquito
- SimonFFM9
Due to all these Corona things, I have changed my plans and decided to work on a different new book project.
I will create a coffee table book with only cars and girls. As there are quite a few car threads here on QBN, I wondered, is anyone from QBN in Europe owning a cool car from the 1970s or 1980s and would like me to come visit with a model and shoot a series for my book?
Thank you!
- Simon not to spoil your idea, but travelling is pretty restricted in EU still. And you'd need 12 cars?grafician
- No, thinking about 30 cars. It's a project that will take around 2 years.SimonFFM
- trabant girls TMrenderedred
- Pr2 has a sweet old school MercedesGnash
- got 68 vw campervan in decent condition. near FFMd_gitale
- ^ bastard!Gnash
- good for a free love hippie chick typed_gitale
- and a friend has some really cool cars, as he is a dealer. Ford Mustang, rare BMW, and more. also near FFMd_gitale
- 30 carss?! UPVOTED!grafician
- He's not on here, but you should look up Mario Feliciano (Feliciano Foundry) and head down to PT to shoot his cars. Have fun!ben_
- A friend of mine just made this one
https://www.lannoo.b…tank02 - I've got a sinclair c5 in storage.********
- Would be an ace prop for an 80s 'hairy bush' shoot.********
- My uncle is a classic sports car dealer. Mostly old Jags and Ferrari's. My aunt wouldn't allow a SimonFFM shoot tho ;)microkorg
- @d_gitale Sounds fantastic. How can we hook up? Can you email me pls?SimonFFM
- My Dad has an early 80s / late 70s Fiat 124 Spider in mint condition with purple paint near Munich.mekk
- @tank02 Looks good, book comes out in a week, I will buy it.SimonFFM
- @Shabby Are you speaking of this: https://de.wikipedia…SimonFFM
- too bad I'm not in europe.i have a cool 1973 buggy.shellie
- Damn it! A buggy was on my list! Luckily, I found one in France. But it would be cool to work with someone from QBN...SimonFFM
- @mekk How cool is your dad with nudity? (Don't want to upset anyone).SimonFFM
- Bikes would be cool too, but cool bikes?grafician
- I'd buy your book Simon, no doubtgrafician
- Bikes are difficult to shoot. For a calendar, they're ok. For a whole book, cars are easier. Even those are difficult (not to do the same over and over again).SimonFFM
- I have an Alfa GTV6 and could introduce you to some car guys/girls. But they are all in Zurich and around... you should come down.Longcopylover
- Yes, happy to come to Zurich. Can you send me an email pls? Easier to write.SimonFFM
- lol, he is an old hippie and still appears on goa parties at age 67. His wife is has to be convinced..mekk
- Damn. Hit me up if you're in Kansas City and in need of a Kia Rondo.bezoar
- Lol, bezoar:)Gnash
- grafician-2
Devs...
- i_monk1
After nearly 14 years of making Brand New free and open to everyone, the time has come to move into a paid subscription model.
- Good luck!scarabin
- I’ll likely do it. Their content is pretty goodGnash
- who runs it?Hayoth
- Oh i thought it was i_monk’s thingscarabin
- +1 Gnash. If $20 / year works for them, it works for me.MrT
- I guess the Brand New conference didn't work out?ben_
- He's worried the postponed confs will have to be cancelled next year, nearly bankrupting UC.i_monk
- What exactly does UC do other than let people get angry at logos?pseud
- $2 a month or $20 a year - I’m totally fine with that.Chimp
- scarabin10
I have a sore throat. It was nice knowin’ ya.
- RIPmoldero
- https://www.youtube.…drgs
- Lol drgs!scarabin
- https://youtu.be/WGa…scarabin
- soonBusterBoy
- can you still post?grafician
- dont think sore throat is one of the symptoms. be wellhotroddy
- but vampires can't die, you're okBennn
- Keep posting. “It’ll go away... it’s fading.”maquito
- Share your sauce, jic, ya know.maquito
- I kid. Also got a sore throat last week. Still lurking.maquito
- You should go easy in the bj'soey_oey
- +1 graficianoey_oey
- Yes, unfortunately i can still post. I’m just dying is all. No need for you to feel bad or anythingscarabin
- Actually a couple drams of whiskey cured it completely. But you should all feel bad. Shame, shamescarabin