I have been many things in the past. I have been a high school teacher, a math tutor, a psychic, a medium (yes they're different things), an editor's assistant at a science journal, and a clerk at my FLGS.
Now I paint minis and sell them. And look for jobs that'll hire chemists who happen to be two classes short of a BA.
I game with an R&D biologist, an EPA chemist, and a rich kid taking the year off between his pre-med degree and med school.
::fails at jobs::
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I have been many things in the past. I have been a high school teacher, a math tutor, a psychic, a medium (yes they're different things), an editor's assistant at a science journal, and a clerk at my FLGS.
Now I paint minis and sell them. And look for jobs that'll hire chemists who happen to be two classes short of a BA.
I game with an R&D biologist, an EPA chemist, and a rich kid taking the year off between his pre-med degree and med school.
::fails at jobs::
At least your jobs were semi-cool.
I am fail incarnate. *points to self*
absurd list of absurdAt least your jobs were semi-cool.
I am fail incarnate. *points to self*
Being a medium sucks. Either you have to act possessed and all grand and you usually fail or the place really is haunted and you have to explain to your client why exactly you started babbling and calling for mommy in a language you don't even know.
Being a psychic has its ups and downs. In general, and I got this question too many times for my tastes, when your client gives you a pleading look and says "I might have memories of being raped as a little girl. Did it really happen?" the answer is always "no". Doesn't matter that the cards say 'yes' and describe the guy right down to height, age, weight, hair and eye color, and his relationship with the family. Still "no".
At least with less cool jobs you don't take sanity checks as part of normal operations.
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At least with less cool jobs you don't take sanity checks as part of normal operations.
Dunno... When I was working as an assistant in a 100+ year-old library, I had a rather pants-pissing experience:
I was alone, in the basement, moving books. I removed a handful of books from the shelf, and there was someone staring at me from the other side of the shelf.
When I ran around to the other side of the shelf, there was no one there. My boss said that no one had gone down to the basement while I was down there.
I'm a publishing assistant (typing, editing, proofreading etc.) at a British specialist college for people with autistic spectrum disorders.
It's not entirely... actually not at all altruistic, because they do pay me and it happens to be my former college, as I have Asperger's Syndrome (and was diagnosed long before AS was cool enough to excuse being a geek with).
At least with less cool jobs you don't take sanity checks as part of normal operations.Dunno... When I was working as an assistant in a 100+ year-old library, I had a rather pants-pissing experience:
I was alone, in the basement, moving books. I removed a handful of books from the shelf, and there was someone staring at me from the other side of the shelf.
When I ran around to the other side of the shelf, there was no one there. My boss said that no one had gone down to the basement while I was down there.
That is awesome. I used to get those complaints all the time in the actual haunted places. Usually it's just dead dudes who are hanging out in spots they really used to like. Like the apparition in the first scene of Ghostbusters but without symmetrical book stacking.
No offense meant, I just have to ask. How do you deal with skeptics?
Being a medium sucks.
No offense taken. Oddly enough I get the most skeptics in the most haunted places. It's weirdly easy to deal with skeptics then.
Thing I've noticed about being a medium is the local ghosts are attracted to said medium. It's like they're finding the rare person who's actually willing to listen to them when they talk. I honestly feel it's less a supernatural talent and more just being willing to listen because once enough ghosts start following the medium around the haunted place the skeptics start seeing things too. As soon as that happens I win because I just stand back and let the skeptics come to realizations.
Doesn't mean they stop being skeptics. It's not that they rationalize it or forget it or even refuse to believe it. I dealt with a skeptic who got followed around the Winchester Mystery House by a dead dude and he knows it. He understands what it means. He still puts on the skeptic act in front of even me for the sake of his own sanity. So he can pretend his viewpoint of the world wasn't shattered.
And if there aren't any ghosts around when you're trying to medium some ghosts out of a place for some skeptics... Well, be honest and say that there are no ghosts there. Use logic when they get pissy and don't get angry. Don't let them get to you either. A bad skeptic can be worse than the worst possession, it'll make you doubt your own ability and that's when you stop listening. Stop listening and they stop trying to talk to you and then it's over because it is so hard to relearn how to listen.
My guess is that most skeptics are either close minded or scared or something different. ~grins~ Or they have just not realized what they are seeing. ~shrugs~ On one hand it would be cool to see a ghost, but on the other hand, what sort of Pandora's Box would you open up? Sometimes being ignorant can be good (sort of). OTOH, I do not agree with the "Ignorance is Bliss" line.
(~WHAPS my keyboard for "making" me have so many typoes that I had to fix~ There! Now behave!)
U.S. Air Force, SSgt, Aircraft Fuel Systems Repair (aka Fuel Cell).
My guess is that most skeptics are either close minded or scared or something different. ~grins~ Or they have just not realized what they are seeing. ~shrugs~ On one hand it would be cool to see a ghost, but on the other hand, what sort of Pandora's Box would you open up? Sometimes being ignorant can be good (sort of). OTOH, I do not agree with the "Ignorance is Bliss" line.
(~WHAPS my keyboard for "making" me have so many typoes that I had to fix~ There! Now behave!)
I always ask people why it has to be an either-or situation. Why can't there be ghosts and mediums without breaking into Things Man Was Never Meant To Know(tm)? It's why I'm studying chemistry and lusting after quantum gravity while still claiming to be a psychic and a medium.
We don't know everything there is to know about science. Realistically, we probably never will. Doesn't mean we shouldn't search. Metaphysics is in the exact same situation. I guess skeptics don't see that. Sad, really.
Mailman for the Post Office in Houston, TX, USA.
Moonlight as a computer repairman. I get more work than you think for word of mouth only advertising.. O.o
At the time this thread was posted, I was a temp worker for various data-entry jobs.
In the ten years between, I worked as a processor and assessor for an accounting firm that mostly did work for nonprofits, churches, and charity organizations.
Now I work for the state of Kansas processing various legal payments - child support, legal fees, and so forth.
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I am now the Lead Foreman and Lead Technician for Natural Stone, Hardscapes, Art Projects, Garden Show Exhibits, Low Voltage wiring and Masonry for a high end landscape company.
Currently nothing.
Formerly a pool attendant, park ranger at said pool, peace corps, park worker, wolf belly rubber, bat catcher, park worker slash human road cone.
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I write TTRPGs and do some mild housewife-y stuff for my (wonderful, beautiful, supportive) partner! They were desperate to get me out of 9 years of retail hell.
At least your jobs were semi-cool.
I am fail incarnate. *points to self*
If you can read this in 2024, don't go to college, it's a trap.
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...park worker slash human...
I think I saw that movie...
I make babies.
I make babies.
..customizable to order?