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duckalmighty's little meme:
1.) I'll exploit your oft-declared cheapness here and ask: What's the most expensive article of clothing you've ever bought with your own money? See, now you're making me think, because I can't remember the last time I bought expensive clothing... Let's see, I bought a blazer for, like, $45.... a few pairs of jeans... A few concert shirts were ridiculously overpriced, at $22 a pop (it's been a few years since I actually bought one)... What can I say, most of my spare cash wound up in my CD collection.
2.) During your occasional attempts to shrug off the yolk of coffee addiction, what do you do to give yourself that extra boost? I took the opposite route. This is something that has to be planned ahead. I pick a weekend I'm not doing anything. I'll wake up Saturday morning and have decaf instead of regular coffee. If I got sleepy, I'd go back to sleep. At some point I'd wake up again. Eventually, the withdrawal headache will fire up, which I would kill with a few Advil or Tylenol or whatever you have on hand. The first two days you'll be groggy, but not nearly as bad as you would think. By the third day, you should be functional, just in time to go back to work.
3.) Are you a Beatles man or an Elvis man? Beatles, definitely. I can't really get into Elvis. Elvis was amusing, but his music was nothing special. Besides being great celebrities, the Beatles were excellent musicians (if you can get over most of their songs not make any sense lyrically), and their music was timeless. Even after they broke up, the four of them continued to write viable music. Given a choice, which do you think teenagers would be more into, at least those that know music?
4.) After you've dodged all the obstacles dropped into your path on the way there, what's the first hour of your work day consist of, typically? I couldn't say the first hour is any different from the rest of the day. My job consists of the following: (1)designing spaces, including furniture, maximizing space utilization of a given space in an office building or whatever; (2) drafting up a set of construction drawings (floor plans, ceiling plans, details, elevations, sections, etc., etc., which basically tell the contractor exactly how to build what you designed; (3) interfacing with clients to solve problems and/or receive input. Often I end up working on one of the above for days at a time, especially #2.
5.) Finish this sentence your own way and without using Google: "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but..." at least it can give you the confidence to tackle problems, without getting discouraged. Bah, inspirational-sounding. But that's my answer. So there.
I'm pretty terrible at coming up with questions for people, so I can't guarantee I'll come up with 5 questions if you ask, like I'm supposed to.
duckalmighty's little meme:1.) I'll exploit your oft-declared cheapness here and ask: What's the most expensive article of clothing you've ever bought with your own money? See, now you're making me think, because I can't remember the last time I bought expensive clothing... Let's see, I bought a blazer for, like, $45.... a few pairs of jeans... A few concert shirts were ridiculously overpriced, at $22 a pop (it's been a few years since I actually bought one)... What can I say, most of my spare cash wound up in my CD collection.
2.) During your occasional attempts to shrug off the yolk of coffee addiction, what do you do to give yourself that extra boost? I took the opposite route. This is something that has to be planned ahead. I pick a weekend I'm not doing anything. I'll wake up Saturday morning and have decaf instead of regular coffee. If I got sleepy, I'd go back to sleep. At some point I'd wake up again. Eventually, the withdrawal headache will fire up, which I would kill with a few Advil or Tylenol or whatever you have on hand. The first two days you'll be groggy, but not nearly as bad as you would think. By the third day, you should be functional, just in time to go back to work.
3.) Are you a Beatles man or an Elvis man? Beatles, definitely. I can't really get into Elvis. Elvis was amusing, but his music was nothing special. Besides being great celebrities, the Beatles were excellent musicians (if you can get over most of their songs not make any sense lyrically), and their music was timeless. Even after they broke up, the four of them continued to write viable music. Given a choice, which do you think teenagers would be more into, at least those that know music?
4.) After you've dodged all the obstacles dropped into your path on the way there, what's the first hour of your work day consist of, typically? I couldn't say the first hour is any different from the rest of the day. My job consists of the following: (1)designing spaces, including furniture, maximizing space utilization of a given space in an office building or whatever; (2) drafting up a set of construction drawings (floor plans, ceiling plans, details, elevations, sections, etc., etc., which basically tell the contractor exactly how to build what you designed; (3) interfacing with clients to solve problems and/or receive input. Often I end up working on one of the above for days at a time, especially #2.
5.) Finish this sentence your own way and without using Google: "A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but..." at least it can give you the confidence to tackle problems, without getting discouraged. Bah, inspirational-sounding. But that's my answer. So there.
I'm pretty terrible at coming up with questions for people, so I can't guarantee I'll come up with 5 questions if you ask, like I'm supposed to.
