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f4f3A meme! Just b/c Slobberpuppy did it, and I haven’t done one in ages:
1. How many jobs have you had, and which was your favorite?
When I was at Uni I was a shop assistant at C&A, and a cleaner at Stobhill Hospital. Though the shop job paid better, I enjoyed working in the hospital more.
When I graduated, I had six months in the Scottish Development Agency, then joined Ford Credit. Then Lloyds Bowmaker, then a tiny University Start Up, then Motorola, then Scottish Power, the MoD (very briefly) a merchant bank and then on to Fujitsu. This is the simple version, btw, as I worked for myself for large parts of that.
The BEST job was probably with that start-up. I was working for friends, with friends, and writing full time. I was pretty sad when the company founders retired, and I went to work for their biggest client (though that involved some interesting travel, and I’m still friends with some of the folk I met there, more than 20 years on.
2. When did you first connect to other people via computers?
1990 or so.
3. Were/are you on AOL? Compuserve? LJ? Dreamwidth? A Listserv? Other?
Compuserve was my first on-line community. I hung out on the role-playing forum, and the Comics forum (with a couple of fan boys called Warren Ellis and (I think) Neil Gaiman). I’m on LJ, obviously, and Facebook. I’m not as active on Twitter as I used to be, and don’t really use Linked In, though I’m on it.
4. If you went to college, does your major match your career/current job?
Not at all, though I knew after the first term that I wasn’t going to be a lawyer. I’m still glad I did Law though.
5. Have you had a mammogram? Colonoscopy?
Neither, though I suspect one of them lurks in my future.
6. When did you get your first cell phone? What was it like? (Did it have a screen? Could you text? Was it a brick or flip?)
I think I had a Nokia (a 9000?) before my first Startac. But I could be wrong. The Startac was much more fun, and I had three or four of them while working at Motorola.
7. When did your family first acquire a colour TV?
The early 70s, I think.
8. When did your family acquire a second TV?
Never. Though I did have one in my room which I bought with my first hospital pay-check, and still had 4 years later when I moved out. My mum still has one TV, and so do I (laptops, iPads and phones don’t count, right?).
9. Did you ever own “designer jeans”?
Are Levi’s designer jeans? I’ve also ended up with Calvin Klein, Hillfiger and DKNY through the kind services of TKMax.
10. Have you ever been to a disco?
God yes. I’ve even been to a roller disco.
11. How many places (towns, states, countries) have you lived in?
England and Scotland, but mostly Glasgow.
12. Have any of your contemporary friends died? (ie: people more or less you age.)
I’m afraid so.
13. Are your parents still living?
Yes, and kicking. I was out with my sister and mum at the weekend, and we visited my Gran.
14. Do you have any gray hairs?
Less than I would expect at 50, though my beard is pretty salt and pepper these days.
15. Did you or your family own a Betamax?
I don’t think so.
16. How did you spend New Year’s Eve 1999/2000?
At a Neolithic stone circle in Argyll.
17. What’s the oldest article of clothing you still wear?
I have a Cerebus UK tour t-shirt from 1986 which gets the occasional outing.
18. Do you eat your vegetables?
Vegetables aren’t food. Vegetables are what food eats.
19. Are the privileges of adulthood worth the responsibilities?
I don’t accept the premise of the question – youth had its own privileges and responsibilities, and I think the mix comes out pretty even.
20. Do you feel like an adult?
If you could tell me what that means, I’d answer. Most days I just feel like me.
21. Is youth wasted on the young?
Definitely not – we should all get to enjoy it!
1. How many jobs have you had, and which was your favorite?
When I was at Uni I was a shop assistant at C&A, and a cleaner at Stobhill Hospital. Though the shop job paid better, I enjoyed working in the hospital more.
When I graduated, I had six months in the Scottish Development Agency, then joined Ford Credit. Then Lloyds Bowmaker, then a tiny University Start Up, then Motorola, then Scottish Power, the MoD (very briefly) a merchant bank and then on to Fujitsu. This is the simple version, btw, as I worked for myself for large parts of that.
The BEST job was probably with that start-up. I was working for friends, with friends, and writing full time. I was pretty sad when the company founders retired, and I went to work for their biggest client (though that involved some interesting travel, and I’m still friends with some of the folk I met there, more than 20 years on.
2. When did you first connect to other people via computers?
1990 or so.
3. Were/are you on AOL? Compuserve? LJ? Dreamwidth? A Listserv? Other?
Compuserve was my first on-line community. I hung out on the role-playing forum, and the Comics forum (with a couple of fan boys called Warren Ellis and (I think) Neil Gaiman). I’m on LJ, obviously, and Facebook. I’m not as active on Twitter as I used to be, and don’t really use Linked In, though I’m on it.
4. If you went to college, does your major match your career/current job?
Not at all, though I knew after the first term that I wasn’t going to be a lawyer. I’m still glad I did Law though.
5. Have you had a mammogram? Colonoscopy?
Neither, though I suspect one of them lurks in my future.
6. When did you get your first cell phone? What was it like? (Did it have a screen? Could you text? Was it a brick or flip?)
I think I had a Nokia (a 9000?) before my first Startac. But I could be wrong. The Startac was much more fun, and I had three or four of them while working at Motorola.
7. When did your family first acquire a colour TV?
The early 70s, I think.
8. When did your family acquire a second TV?
Never. Though I did have one in my room which I bought with my first hospital pay-check, and still had 4 years later when I moved out. My mum still has one TV, and so do I (laptops, iPads and phones don’t count, right?).
9. Did you ever own “designer jeans”?
Are Levi’s designer jeans? I’ve also ended up with Calvin Klein, Hillfiger and DKNY through the kind services of TKMax.
10. Have you ever been to a disco?
God yes. I’ve even been to a roller disco.
11. How many places (towns, states, countries) have you lived in?
England and Scotland, but mostly Glasgow.
12. Have any of your contemporary friends died? (ie: people more or less you age.)
I’m afraid so.
13. Are your parents still living?
Yes, and kicking. I was out with my sister and mum at the weekend, and we visited my Gran.
14. Do you have any gray hairs?
Less than I would expect at 50, though my beard is pretty salt and pepper these days.
15. Did you or your family own a Betamax?
I don’t think so.
16. How did you spend New Year’s Eve 1999/2000?
At a Neolithic stone circle in Argyll.
17. What’s the oldest article of clothing you still wear?
I have a Cerebus UK tour t-shirt from 1986 which gets the occasional outing.
18. Do you eat your vegetables?
Vegetables aren’t food. Vegetables are what food eats.
19. Are the privileges of adulthood worth the responsibilities?
I don’t accept the premise of the question – youth had its own privileges and responsibilities, and I think the mix comes out pretty even.
20. Do you feel like an adult?
If you could tell me what that means, I’d answer. Most days I just feel like me.
21. Is youth wasted on the young?
Definitely not – we should all get to enjoy it!
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Date: 2015-02-18 11:20 pm (UTC)I'd pay to see you working the room at that roller disco.
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Date: 2015-02-19 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-02-19 04:33 pm (UTC)For the record, the roller rinks I attended were before the in-line days as well. What a time we had!