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Dream jobs for the QC cast?
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 09 Feb 2011, 13:58 ---
OK, so here's my point; I love math, and get to teach it. That's my profession. But I've also built furniture, repaired cars and appliances, roofed houses and barns, done electrical, plumbing and any amount of restoration work, and every single one of those things leaves me feeling more accomplished and fulfilled than teaching does. You can see what you've done, you can finish a job and take pride in it. With teaching, you constantly stare failure in the face, whether it's your fault or not, and you have to hope and pray that some of what you teach sticks knowing full well that most of what you taught splattered on the back wall after sailing over your student's heads.
It's the Mr. Chips effect, and it regularly has me thinking of doing something else for a living...
Then I hear from some former student about how much they loved my class, and how much they learned from it, and I get all mushy inside. :-P
--- End quote ---
Other than a summer job delivering mail and a two and a half year stint at the research center of a cell phone company all my work has been researching/teaching math, so I share the same profession as Carl-E, and his feelings sound familiar, too. I would love to be a bit more research oriented, but I had a chance to do that when I was younger, and the feelings of accomplishment were even rarer then (and never lasted too long). Teaching somehow comes naturally to me. It is a family curse trait. Dad, wife, sis, brother-in-law, uncle, cousin, her daughter... Not all of us teach math, and I'm the only one at the university level, but you get the picture :-). It's not always rewarding, but mostly I feel good after another week's load is done (that never was the case with research). The occasional positive feedback is a bonus. Like when I finally got tenured I wasn't the department head's favorite, but the students cast the deciding votes in my favor at the faculty council. I am also aware of the fact that out of my skills math has the highest market value, so I'm also playing the cards the way they were dealt.
Quick summary: I'm not doing exactly what I was dreaming about 20 years ago. But pretty close!
Antario:
even with that comic in mind it still raises the question, does hanners love cleaning or is she compelled to
aka, if her OCD vanished overnight would she still have the urge/desire to clean?
but taking it to a more advanced level would ofcourse make sense, hanners the super cleaner
Is it cold in here?:
Hannelore seems to have adapted by learning to enjoy something she's compelled to do anyway.
Skewbrow:
Penelope had the third highest vote count in the opening poll, so it will be her turn next. I have to admit that for a while I was tempted insert a poll on the ways AnthroPCs (mostly Pintsize) could help our cast to follow their dreams. Then I realized that many a poll item would be half-creepy, so I reconsidered...
Everybody agrees that Penelope and Wil both have shitty jobs. But which is worse? Barista or a bartender? I would expect the base pay to be the same, meaning that (in terms of income) it comes down to who will rake in more tips? Any thoughts? For my part I would be more likely to tip a hot barista. But the drinks served by a bartender are more likely to alter my mood towards generosity (if not beyond caring), which would tip the scale the other way.
Sharp:
In my experience, bartenders are tipped far more often than baristas. Because you may buy one coffee and leave, but if you stay at the bar, you buy more drinks. And it's customary that one drink=$1 tip.
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