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--Jeff
Damnit! I suck, and qualify for none of these jobs...I shall remain unemployed.
Don't you guys need an actor? Or a fight director? Or a playwright? Or a Chinese Opera performer? Or a Taiji teacher? Or a Qigong healer? Or a vagabond spear-fighter who lives by his wits?
Curse my luck.
Curses for not being able to move to the Seattle/Bellevue area!
Good luck to whomever gets the job(s) - y'all are an awesome bunch o' folks.
As it turns out Nick, we need all of those things.. when can you start?
Jason
NOW!!!
::Starts researching airline tickets! Beethoven's Ode to Joy plays in the background::
Oh... too late, Pett just got the job. As it turns out.. he has all the same skills... but you could be his apprentice.
Jason
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::Concerned readers,
The above is the resultant output of Nicolas Logue collapsing dead on his keyboard. We hope you enjoyed some of the adventures he wrote before Jason Bulmahn ended his life with one casual cruel jibe. Don't worry Nick's going to a better place...
...let's not kid ourselves, actually. Nick's going straight to hell...where he quite frankly belongs.::
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Hmm... what do you consider "equivalent experience in an industry related to this job" for the accounts receivable position? I don't have a four-year degree, but I have been working in insurance sales and customer service for 2 years straight (which involves a great deal of bookkeeping, payment handling, and other such things). Are you asking for 4 years of office experience? I don't quite have that much yet.
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Hmm... what do you consider "equivalent experience in an industry related to this job" for the accounts receivable position? I don't have a four-year degree, but I have been working in insurance sales and customer service for 2 years straight (which involves a great deal of bookkeeping, payment handling, and other such things). Are you asking for 4 years of office experience? I don't quite have that much yet.
Some things may be flexible.... and the amount of flexibility is probably determined by the number and quality of other applicants. :-)
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Some things may be flexible.... and the amount of flexibility is probably determined by the number and quality of other applicants. :-)
Well, I'll send in a resume then, but I won't get my hopes up since I'm sure you'll be receiving hundreds of resumes, some of which from people who have been in the workforce far longer than I. :)
I live in Arizona currently, but I would sell everything I own (except for my clothes and my gaming books) to move to Seattle if it meant getting a job at Paizo. To be honest, the wife and I have been considering a move to the Northwest for quite awhile. The biggest factor holding us back has been "finding a new job there might be rough."
Any need for architects yet? I'm also good at baiting Mike McArtor...of course everyone is good at that. ;)
Sigh.
To be honest, the wife and I have been considering a move to the Northwest for quite awhile.
It's real purty up this-aways. You can get just about anywhere in the Northwest if you use I-5. Can get cold in the winter, as the cannibalistic adventures of the Paizo staff showed earlier this year, but it's usually pretty mild in the winter.
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To be honest, the wife and I have been considering a move to the Northwest for quite awhile.It's real purty up this-aways. You can get just about anywhere in the Northwest if you use I-5. Can get cold in the winter, as the cannibalistic adventures of the Paizo staff showed earlier this year, but it's usually pretty mild in the winter.
My two best friends (and most sorely missed members of my gaming troupe) moved to Seattle last summer. It hasn't been the same without them. Hence my reasons for wanting to move.
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My two best friends (and most sorely missed members of my gaming troupe) moved to Seattle last summer. It hasn't been the same without them. Hence my reasons for wanting to move.
I think the bigger mystery than why you would want to move is why you would want to stay in Arizona in the first place. At least my godforsaken desert has the ocean nearby.
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I think the bigger mystery than why you would want to move is why you would want to stay in Arizona in the first place. At least my godforsaken desert has the ocean nearby.
Oddly, that's what the friends who moved away said. Honestly, the reason I'm still here is because I have a fantastic job and a really cool boss. Of course, if I could KEEP the cool job/great boss combo AND not have to live in AZ anymore, there'd be nothing holding me back!
Oh.. that's too bad. Pett just said that he could not take the job. I guess we will just have to find someone else to take that spot. We could, of course, use a zombie around the office to do our bidding.
Jason
::One contingency married to animate dead later...::
BRAINS!!!
I always forget...how long do you have to wait after the death of a party member to loot the corpse?
Just in case: DIBS! on everything that was Nick's. Particularly weapons.
I do have a lot of nice weapons. Chinese fighting spears (mao qiang), broadswords, Chinese broadswords (dan dao), Chinese halberds (da dao), nunchaku, and a host of daggers and throwing blades...
...all for stage use of course...
...it's not like I'm a vigilante in my spare time or anything...
...well, not too often.
Sometimes life just give you a sign. I'm an Inventory Clerk with 5+ years experience and my wife and I were kicking around the idea of moving to the Seattle area. I will have to bring this up with her.
Sometimes life just give you a sign. I'm an Inventory Clerk with 5+ years experience and my wife and I were kicking around the idea of moving to the Seattle area. I will have to bring this up with her.
Awesome!
I'm so envious! I wasted my life on performance and martial arts...no jobs for me!
Choose well Paizons,
You warehouse be a little slow! Garrr!
Don't hire them Pett and Logue fellows, or they be spending your time dreamin up stories!
KA
I wasted my life on performance and martial arts...no jobs for me!
How dare you say a life a martial arting is a waste! I've got 22 years invested in kicking people asses. Now acting, that's a waste.... errr... wait, I make my living teaching Shakespeare to Chinese college students... ummm. Perhaps I should not demean the profession.
You guys don't need an experienced pit fighter who can spew Elizabethan poetry and translate between French, English, and Chinese, do you?
I wasted my life on performance and martial arts...no jobs for me!How dare you say a life a martial arting is a waste! I've got 22 years invested in kicking people asses. Now acting, that's a waste.... errr... wait, I make my living teaching Shakespeare to Chinese college students... ummm. Perhaps I should not demean the profession.
You guys don't need an experienced pit fighter who can spew Elizabethan poetry and translate between French, English, and Chinese, do you?
I don't know about Paizo Kruelaid, but my Trans-Pacific Superhero Team and Art Society could use you. ;-)
What are you studying currently? If you are in Shandong, there must be some good xingyi or bagua masters about. Xingyi was my favorite to be honest, even though I only got to train it for six months. Good times. The year I spent as a full-time student at Beijing TiYu DaXue (the Physical Education University in Beijing) was the best year of my life in a lot of ways. Taiji, xingyi...and sanda...what a bizarre combination! ;-)
Nick,
When I first came I trained with a guy who did paochui (cannon style).
I have learned a little from him, but after 17 years of Wado Kai Karate it is really hard to change, and learning cannon when you are over thirty is tough. Plus, I find kungfu to lack economy of movement.
I spent most of my time giving his students something a little different to worry about, and every week the Shifu would test himself against me.
To be honest, I got tired of being hunted about 10 years ago, when I was in a large province wide organization in Canada. Youngs students use to come to my club because they saw me fight at the tournaments and they wanted some variety. Invariably they would play loose on the control and I would end up defnding against people who really wanted to hurt me.
So today, I kinda like my nice quiet Taiji in the park.
You guys don't need an experienced pit fighter who can spew Elizabethan poetry and translate between French, English, and Chinese, do you?Can't hardly swing a kobold 'round here without hitting one of those.
Heh...it's true, but no French for me...replace with Spanish...and add Pidgin too!
Nick,
So today, I kinda like my nice quiet Taiji in the park.
Me too my man! Me too!
Paochui looks like fun, I've met some people who've done it, but never studied it myself. Xingyi, Wing Chun, Jeet Kune Do, Arnis, Savate, Hong Quan and Silat. But Taiji and Qigong are all I keep up with now. Good times!
Beijing Opera (Jingju) training of course eats up more of my time than martial arts these days. Which is funny, cause it's much more physically grueling than any style of kung-fu I've studied, but has absolutely no martial application...it just looks wicked cool...ah, how our lives change as we grow up and realize knocking heads (and getting our own knocked about) really isn't that much fun when you're over 30. ;-)
I have sent my resume. Let us see what comes of it.
Good luck!
Good luck Fatespinner. Please keep us informed of what happens.
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I managed to refrain from putting "+20 Diplomacy check" under the 'Relevant Skills' category. It was VEEERY tempting, though.I have sent my resume. Let us see what comes of it.Good luck!
I can attest to that skill. I've met Fatey in person and he's a real nice guy. My attitude was probably shifted to helpful.
Good luck!
I managed to refrain from putting "+20 Diplomacy check" under the 'Relevant Skills' category. It was VEEERY tempting, though.
They probably wouldn't have batted an eye. :P
Beijing Opera (Jingju) training of course eats up more of my time than martial arts these days. Which is funny, cause it's much more physically grueling than any style of kung-fu I've studied, but has absolutely no martial application...it just looks wicked cool...ah, how our lives change as we grow up and realize knocking heads (and getting our own knocked about) really isn't that much fun when you're over 30. ;-)
Other than the fact that it is a great target for parody, how I do so hate Beijing Opera.
Maybe I should have taken that money and put you out of your misery after all. Pett? Are you out there?
Beijing Opera (Jingju) training of course eats up more of my time than martial arts these days. Which is funny, cause it's much more physically grueling than any style of kung-fu I've studied, but has absolutely no martial application...it just looks wicked cool...ah, how our lives change as we grow up and realize knocking heads (and getting our own knocked about) really isn't that much fun when you're over 30. ;-)
Other than the fact that it is a great target for parody, how I do so hate Beijing Opera.
You are not watching the right Beijing Opera my man. The martial plays kick ass...less singing...more badass tumbling and weapons play...that's my brand...the civil plays bore me to tears too. Trust me. Check out a martial play, you'll dig it!
Hao bashi da bu guo changxi de! ;-)
Beijing Opera is a lot like Shakespeare...done well its pure magic...done badly its a great target for parody indeed. If you check out a really good troupe with a talented hualian actor (the painted face roles)...you'll be like "Holy S$+*! This is what theatre could be!!! Awesome!" But yeah...if the actors suck and aren't playing their hearts out (they often don't for a lot of the gristmill paying shows), then it's pure poop instead.
Give it another chance my man! The recitation (yun bai) is amazing when done well!
Hehe. Ok, I'll give it a chance.
I reckon it's like watching western opera: familiarity is a prerequisite for enjoyment. And actually, I've only seen some shoddy Jingju put on for tourists. In '97 I came over here on a language scholarship and the school provided us with tickets to a few cultural events that left us rather unimpressed.
I have thus has no reason to give it another try and I stuns me every time I see a westerner with a shine for it.
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I can attest to that skill. I've met Fatey in person and he's a real nice guy. My attitude was probably shifted to helpful.
Good luck!
Thank you, kind sir. You and your friend were quite pleasant as well! You'll definitely have to give me a ring if you ever head back out this way.
See that, Paizo Human Resources person (I have no idea who actually does the resume reading/interviewing there)! I have references RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!!!
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Hehe. Ok, I'll give it a chance.
I reckon it's like watching western opera: familiarity is a prerequisite for enjoyment. And actually, I've only seen some shoddy Jingju put on for tourists. In '97 I came over here on a language scholarship and the school provided us with tickets to a few cultural events that left us rather unimpressed.
I have thus has no reason to give it another try and I stuns me every time I see a westerner with a shine for it.
If you hit Beijing I can turn you on to some good troupes to catch...I don't know Shandong's troupes very well sadly. But do give it another try! Catch a martial play! Or at least a zhe zi xi (three small play showcase) that includes one...cool stuff I promise. Sand demons, and eagle spirits, and tiger-bandits! Badass sword and spear play. Incredible feats of acrobatics mixed with fantabulous acting. Doing Jingju for two years made me a much stronger Western performer as well...they use the musicality of the voice for stage-speech (not the schreechy singing in a way that outshines most Western professional singers (and it's not even singing, it's dramatic recitation! So awesome!).
If you like shakespeare, I guarantee you'll like Beijing Opera done well. My Shakespeare mentor out here in Hawai'i, Terence Knapp formerly of the RSC and Royal Theatre, whom I had the extreme honor of performing the role of Kent for in a production of King Lear, loved Jingju. If you give it a chance, you'll love it too my man! :-)
I just finished directing a production of Jingju headed to the Edinborough Fringe Festival in August. Sadly I can't go with it, as I am performing in the New York Fringe Festival at the same time I believe. I'm so Fringy. ;-)
I'm currently in the job market, and as much fun as a job in the game industry sounds, I doubt Paizo has much need for veteran military intelligence analysts :)
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Here's a whacky question. How far is it from Bellevue to the Canadian Border? I know there used to be a ferry from Victoria BC to Seattle, but it appears to be closed. Let's imagine I wanted to move to BC (sorry, British Columbia) and get a job in, say, Bellevue, how insane would the commute really be? Anyone have any experience working in the US while living in Canada? My father-in-law used to live in France and work in Switzerland, but he could ride his bike to work.
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Here's a whacky question. How far is it from Bellevue to the Canadian Border? I know there used to be a ferry from Victoria BC to Seattle, but it appears to be closed. Let's imagine I wanted to move to BC (sorry, British Columbia) and get a job in, say, Bellevue, how insane would the commute really be? Anyone have any experience working in the US while living in Canada? My father-in-law used to live in France and work in Switzerland, but he could ride his bike to work.
It's roughly a three-hour drive.