Fandom Star Trek: Vigilance (OOC)

[MechanicalSnake]

Mu condolences...

I need a vacation lol. Haven't taken one for like coming to one and a half years, and I fear that I'll have to hit the second year mark first before I can go. I'm just like a tired old man now lol

I feel ya, my life is basically this joke:

A: It's great being a freelancer! You don't have to ask for a vacation, you can just take some time off anytime you want...
B: So when did you last have a vacation?
A: .............

 

[Darkraven]

I feel ya, my life is basically this joke:

A: It's great being a freelancer! You don't have to ask for a vacation, you can just take some time off anytime you want...
B: So when did you last have a vacation?
A: .............

It's exactly the same with me ahhaha. I'm a freelancer too, but with a thriving business.

The thing is, I started this out because the lifestyle would have made benefits unimportant. Turns out, I wasn't entirely accurate. With the reduced working hours and freedom, I was sick less often, and I wasn't put on the grinder as long. But all it did is to just increase my tolerance to routine. I still need a break from the city lol.

Hey, but at least there's that. If it was the office as an employee, I would have been broken long before a year's out. I remember thinking seriously of a vacation by the 4th month haha. At least now, I only thought about by the 15th month. Quite a huge improvement XD

 

[MechanicalSnake]

It's exactly the same with me ahhaha. I'm a freelancer too, but with a thriving business.

The thing is, I started this out because the lifestyle would have made benefits unimportant. Turns out, I wasn't entirely accurate. With the reduced working hours and freedom, I was sick less often, and I wasn't put on the grinder as long. But all it did is to just increase my tolerance to routine. I still need a break from the city lol.

Hey, but at least there's that. If it was the office as an employee, I would have been broken long before a year's out. I remember thinking seriously of a vacation by the 4th month haha. At least now, I only thought about by the 15th month. Quite a huge improvement XD

Well yea, there is that. When I was teaching, I always only lasted 4 months too before I wanted to shoot my brain out.

 

[Darkraven]

Well yea, there is that. When I was teaching, I always only lasted 4 months too before I wanted to shoot my brain out.

By teaching you mean in a class? I became a professional tutor to avoid suicidal thoughts caused by dozens of children screaming into your head lol.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

By teaching you mean in a class? I became a professional tutor to avoid suicidal thoughts caused by dozens of children screaming into your head lol.

Oh it wasn't better with adults tbh. Sure, children were horrible, annoying and loud, but businessmen were also horrible, annoying and stuck up, and sucked the remainders of my positive energy (which I don't have much of, as I am old and jaded already).

 

[Darkraven]

Oh it wasn't better with adults tbh. Sure, children were horrible, annoying and loud, but businessmen were also horrible, annoying and stuck up, and sucked the remainders of my positive energy (which I don't have much of, as I am old and jaded already).

Yeah, which is why I decided a long time ago that there's no line between children and adults. They're the same things to me, just that children are inexperienced adults and adults, experienced children. It kinda made the adjectives 'childish' and 'immature' obsolete to me, unless I intend them as insults. Kinda changed my whole worldview, though I think for the better.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

That is true! In general, I have some good experience with teaching younger adults between 20 and 40, who were not obscurely rich. Meaning did not work in companies where they got paid so much that I was a joke to them. Anyone over 40 basically didn't give a damn about classes, because "they already knew it all, didn't want to learn and their employer was making them to" or "they were too old to learn and it wouldn't have worked anyway so why try". Anyone under 20 disrespected me because they were a kid and had the attitude "you cannot do anything to me, cause the law bans you from it". Out of the rest, that is people more or less my age, some were fun, some really tried, yet others just complained or reported me for things like coming two minutes late and using their printer (for THEIR handouts).

 

[MechanicalSnake]

And I think the one to top it all was this manager in Siemens, who had me arrive for classes and rarely ever made it himself, cause something more important always came up, yet he regularly failed to notify me (despite the contract stipulating that one may cancel a lesson up to 24 hours in advance, otherwise they must refund it). Then when I asked for those refunds, cause my time had already been wasted on travelling up and down, he was trying to screw me over, wrote letters to my boss, and also asked me in a very snobbish tone, why do I need refunds, when this cant really be my job, can it.... (Like, hah, this is so low class that you must be doing it as a hobby).
I mean fuck that.

 

[Epiphany]

Dare I ask what you taught?

 

[MechanicalSnake]

LOL. English and German. Nothing weird.

 

[Epiphany]

Yeah, people seem to treat language classes differently than anything else. No clue why. I saw some of that when I was learning Mandarian.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

Even kids treat them differently, like its relax

 

[MechanicalSnake]

(Mandarin sounds awfully difficult tho, I can't imagine anyone would try that without taking it seriously...)

 

[Epiphany]

It is and it isn't. Tones are a little hard to lock down and the lack of relationship between the written and spoken language is tough. The grammar is counterintuitive but very predictable once you know it. Some parts are easier. The months of the year are literally "Month 1", "Month 2", etc. There are a lot of colloquial phrases that don't seem that intuitive until I realize English is just as bad.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

I think I couldn't get past the writing, it's all like spilled tea to me...

 

[Epiphany]

Yeah, your only hope of learning hanzi is pattern recognition. See it enough times, it starts to click.

 

[Darkraven]

I think I couldn't get past the writing, it's all like spilled tea to me...

Don't worry about it. There are native Chinese speakers like me who have trouble with it too. It's so bad that English eclipsed Chinese as my primary language.

My problem was with remembering the characters and putting meaning into them. I also don't like the idea of being straight-jacketed by the fixed characters.

But my tip to you guys? Latch onto the hanyu pinyin like a God damn piranha. They'd help with the pronunciation and text recognition. At least, that's what I did to scrape through secondary school.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

I gotta admit I can't read even Russian. I'm pretty good at languages but any different alphabet throws me off.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

Darkraven hey is there still something to discuss at the conference or was this almost it?

 

[Epiphany]

We've been in this conference room since March 23rd. Kimberly's certainly happy to talk about the mission for as long as people want to but it's totally fine if we want to move things along and get people doing something else.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

We've been in this conference room since March 23rd. Kimberly's certainly happy to talk about the mission for as long as people want to but it's totally fine if we want to move things along and get people doing something else.

Yea Im wondering if I should slowly be posting about being glad it's coming to a conclusion

 

[Darkraven]

Yea Im wondering if I should slowly be posting about being glad it's coming to a conclusion

Yeah well, it'll come to a conclusion soon.

 

[MechanicalSnake]

Finally a post that wasn't long from me.

 

[Darkraven]

Urm... Okay, those who haven't posted yet for the last 2 weeks - are you guys gonna post soon?

 

[RPLongAndProsper]

Not sure I have much to say this time around...