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Forumers: Past, Present, Future
Lady Eri
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I thought this might be a neat thread to make, chronicling where forumers have been in their lives, and where they are going. Always fun to see if someone is living nearby:
Past: Grew up on the West Coast.
Current: Attending John Hopkins, last year, on the East Coast.
Future: Psycologist in New York or Chicago.
Past: Grew up on the West Coast.
Current: Attending John Hopkins, last year, on the East Coast.
Future: Psycologist in New York or Chicago.
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Past: Born in Texas, lived most of my life in Maryland
Current: Moved to Hawaii, attending the local CC to save money before hitting UH Manoa
Future: Fuck if I know.
Past: Born in Turkey, moved to the U.S. at age 16 all by myself. Moved back at age 23.
Current: On an island @ the Aegean Sea. Willing to sell my left nut for a chance to go back to the U.S.
Future: Moving to Spain in a few months for a job. In 5 years or so I want to continue partying in California.
Present: Living in Staten Island, New York.
Future: Will probably die in Staten Island, New York.
Present: Still in Kansas; security guard
Future: Hopefully not in Kansas, nor a security guard
I know, I'm terribly interesting.
Edit: Damnit, Drez. Quit stealin' my ideas.
Past: Born in a small farm town in Ontario
Present: Moved to Ottawa to work for The Man (government job)
Hopeful Future: Having own business in Ottawa
Probable Future: Work for The Man till I retire.
Present: Studying CompSci at UWE, Bristol.
Future: Hopefully finding a job in Bristol post graduation.
Present: Learning Chinese in China, the newest land of opportunity.
Future: Is bright.
Present: Live in Leeds, work in a decent paying IT job in Leeds.
Future: World benevolent dictator.
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I've got a spare copy of Portal, if anyone wants it message me.
Present: Living in awful, awful east Texas, getting my shit together of my own motivation.
Future: Seattle area (maybe) with awesome little lady.
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Past: (five years ago) Signed up for PA forum.
Present: Making this post for PA forum.
Future: Still posting on PA forum.
I lived in northwest Kansas for a year. I was a foreign exchange student. It sucked
You left out your stint as a mod.
Present: Moved to East Lansing, MI to attend Michigan State, currently in my 5th and final year for a BA in English/Film Studies.
Future: Probably working as a full-time employee for the AV department I work for now until my girlfriend graduates and we get the fuck on. I'm thinking Chicago.
Present: Studying Electrical Engineering in Ohio
Future: Want to move the fuck out of Ohio
I took a trip to California this year and loved it, so I'd really like to move out to the West Coast somewhere (finally, someplace where the population is liberal enough for me
Ohio was a great place to grow up, but our economy has been total shit. For as long as I've been paying attention to that kind of stuff, it's always been worse than the US economy in general.
Present: Attenting my 2nd year at University of Toronto.
Future: Hopefully getting a job with the UN or an NGO in development/public policy.
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Don't. I worked at the WB (UN agency) on rural development. It is boring, corrupt, too bureaucratic, and not well paying.
Current: Studying up in Cambridge.
Future: God knows.
Past: Grew up in Watertown, WI.
Present: Retail unloader in Watertown, WI.
Future: Run like hell in the direction of Portland, OR.
Present: In Austin Texas of m own motivation and volition. Likely to find a job at Aspyr Media testing games.
Future: Fifteen years ahead, I'd like to move back to Columbus, Ohio or Athens, Ohio and found my own game company to feed off the talent coming out of OSU an OU.
Present: Currently a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point
Future: Aviation officer, hopefully flying Apache helicopters.
Present: Working in IT in Nottinghamshire and living with a classy dame. And some cats.
Future: Marriage some time in the next couple of years. Not planning on kids because they'd only get messy fingerprints all over my treasured comic collection. Writing that fucking novel maybe. Stint as Kelly Brook's official suntan oil-applier. Retiring to a seaside cottage and only coming back for one last heist, dog.
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Present: Going to school at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA
Future: Graduating in short order, finding a job, all that good stuff.
Snark all you want, but I like it.
Bullshit, I bet you plan on breathing.
Present: Studying Chinese for the Navy in Monterey, CA. Currently getting my ass kicked by it but I'm passing.
Future: Hawaii baby.
Harsh
Present: Working for a small but growing company in St Paul, MN as a Senior Developer
Future: Would like to get back to Milwaukee at some point or possibly open my own software company in west central Wisconsin.
w00t! Another Hokie
a friend of mine lived in bedford for a while working for a sub-company of lazyboy.
But breathing isn't volluntary.
but they're listening to every word I say
present: just changed jobs for the 3rd time in 3 years after the family business was sold to a bunch of douchebags, currently in a great relationship in working at a job that seems decent and is super close to my place. also working out a ton.
future: able to lift at least my bodyweight in several of the basic lifts.
Present: Registered Nurse at the Mayo Clinic.
Future: Nurse Anesthesia and disposable income.
Present: Still stuck in this shitty state.
Future: Either Colorado Springs area or Seattle. And college. Yeah, that thing...
Present: Studying Economics and Economic History at the London School of Economics
Future: Hopefully Ibanking/consulting for a few years in New York, MBA, then who knows...
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Present: Going to MICA in Baltimore
Future: Not fucking up college
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Present: Richmond, VA going to VCU for Comp Sci. I have been enrolled with VCU for 7 years(since 2001), but my crutch is the Army and 2 deployments.
Future: Northern VA/DC/Maryland. Goal is to work for the NSA or CIA, but I'll probably return to DHS as an IT person.
Current: Living just north of Atlanta now in my dad's house paying $1000 a month since he took out a loan to buy a house in Florida so he can go and die.
Future: One of two routes: either joining the Airforce so they pay for my grad school and give me a 9-5 for the time being, or my dad kicks it, I sell all of his antiques and valuables and pay for grad school with the massive amount of money sitting in my attic that I can't touch.
I actually arrived here in 2005, so I imagine we never crossed paths.
Since there's only one major furniture manufacturer in town I'm gonna say he was working for Frank Chervan.
It's because I'm not real. I'm a figment of the forum's imagination.
Past: Born in NC, moved around to England, Utah, Panama, and finally Pensacola, Florida where I was at from 4th grade till about a month ago. Got three years of my college done there and then moved to...
Present: Monterey, CA where I am going to marry some whore of a sailor and finish my last year of my psych degree before we head off to
Future: Hawaii. And then somewhere. I don't know where it will be long after that but it's going to involve lots of pets and faux-snobby dinner parties with friends. It has to.