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Ultrathread I: Thread of the Year - 2014

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Misanthrope

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I'm of a similar belief, Drew, and I appreciate your story and knowing it's not just me.

I sometimes think back nostalgically and wish I'd spent longer in Korea, but I left at the right time for me. I moved to Australia with a girl who would, thus far, prove to have been the most significant woman I've had in my life. I left the country 'on a high' and while I sometimes wish I'd maintained that high a while longer, I know it could never have lasted.

I tried to go back and re-create that after a break-up, and while I still loved Korea, it didn't feel right being back there. I lasted about two and a half months before I left.

I'm at a similar point in my time here. I'm well known and well liked, I'm dating, and I'm enjoying life. But short of finding the girl of my dreams and being deliriously happy, things can't really improve any more for me here.

At best, they stay the same. At worst, they go downhill and tarnish my memory of my last six months here.

It's time for a new adventure.
 
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Misanthrope said:
I'm of a similar belief, Drew, and I appreciate your story and knowing it's not just me.

I sometimes think back nostalgically and wish I'd spent longer in Korea, but I left at the right time for me. I moved to Australia with a girl who would, thus far, prove to have been the most significant woman I've had in my life. I left the country 'on a high' and while I sometimes wish I'd maintained that high a while longer, I know it could never have lasted.

I tried to go back and re-create that after a break-up, and while I still loved Korea, it didn't feel right being back there. I lasted about two and a half months before I left.

I'm at a similar point in my time here. I'm well known and well liked, I'm dating, and I'm enjoying life. But short of finding the girl of my dreams and being deliriously happy, things can't really improve any more for me here.

At best, they stay the same. At worst, they go downhill and tarnish my memory of my last six months here.

It's time for a new adventure.
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Once your work consumes your life that much it better be something you love doing and can't wait to get up and do it each day. Just tell them you do not think you can do those hours at all. You have other work which needs your attention and you can not commit to 6 days a week.
 
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mickyj said:
Once your work consumes your life that much it better be something you love doing and can't wait to get up and do it each day. Just tell them you do not think you can do those hours at all. You have other work which needs your attention and you can not commit to 6 days a week.
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I'll be up front with them and just say that the reasons I want to stay in China are not going to work with the kind of hours they're looking for somebody for.

The owner is something like a mate, so I'm sure he'll understand why I can't take the job.
 
mickyj

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cool they might offer you less days.....
I've done jobs that were very long hours which I did not mind to start but when it was my full life in that i sleep and worked and most the weekend was catching up on sleep no amount of cash is worth it
 
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After an over two year hiatus from working on my novel, I wrote 7000 words in three hours tonight. Pretty stoked with that.

Inspired to write some more tomorrow too :)
 
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No, it's not a goer mate. Inside a month, you would absolutely hate it (although, you would be absolutely perfect for it). Your social life would rocket down the gurgler in no time. I have not even considered the compensation.
 
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Sent him my 'thanks, but no thanks' email tonight and, as predicted, he was okay with it. Going to help him promote his upcoming World Cup parties, but that's it.
 
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Misanthrope said:
After an over two year hiatus from working on my novel, I wrote 7000 words in three hours tonight. Pretty stoked with that.

Inspired to write some more tomorrow too :)
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How you uh, how you comin' on that novel you're working on? Huh?

Got a a big, uh, big stack of papers there?

Got a, got a nice little story you're working on there?

Your big novel you've been working on for three years? Huh?

Got a, got a compelling protagonist? Yeah?

Got an obstacle for him to overcome? Huh?

Got a story brewing there?

Working on, working on that for quite some time? Huh?

Nice little narrative? Beginning, middle, and end?

Some friends become enemies, some enemies become friends?

At the end your main character is richer from the experience? Yeah? Yeah?




sorry, couldn't resist.

and i request a role in the novel too. don't mind being the villain. i make a good villain..
 
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Oh squiggly line, in my eye fluid.

I see you lurking there on the periphery of my vision.

But when I try to look at you, you scurry away.

Are you shy, squiggly line?

Why only when I ignore you, do you return to the center of my eye?

Oh squiggly line, it's alright.

You are forgiven.
 
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