The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:31 am

Va'al wrote:New update: mostly unemployed, with some freelance work (translation, editing, content writing). Bye bye teaching. Bye bye academia.

Did you give it up or did the jobs just... end?

News Credits: 6188 · Mon Jan 11, 2016 6:13 am

RhA wrote:
Va'al wrote:New update: mostly unemployed, with some freelance work (translation, editing, content writing). Bye bye teaching. Bye bye academia.

Did you give it up or did the jobs just... end?

The contracts are all temporary at this stage, and I had no intention of pursuing it as a career at this moment. Too much **** going on at both the micro and macro levels of academia. [-(

News Credits: 7 · Tue Mar 29, 2016 3:11 pm

Va'al wrote:New update: mostly unemployed, with some freelance work (translation, editing, content writing). Bye bye teaching. Bye bye academia.

I'm kind of in the same boat now. I had to resign from my engineering job in January, so now I am about to start working at my martial arts school for the foreseeable future as an instructor & program director (which means I will eventually do some marketing for the school, set up events and enroll new students. In addition, I am about to start a temporary gig as a Test Score Analyst (which means I will be grading standardized tests for two months) and I am trying to get accepted into graduate school so I can get my Master's degree.

News Credits: 1350 · Wed Mar 30, 2016 3:59 pm

I'm a stay at home dad who writes as a hobby, though I have been accepted by a publisher but there is strings attached that is a lot to deal with

Wed Mar 30, 2016 5:44 pm

ZeroWolf wrote:I'm a stay at home dad who writes as a hobby, though I have been accepted by a publisher but there is strings attached that is a lot to deal with

Well, it's obvious who wears the pants in your family. What does your wife do? Or your husband, we don't judge.

News Credits: 1350 · Thu Mar 31, 2016 1:22 am

She's a nursery nurse, last job I had was volunteer work in a toy shop which sadly had to close as the owner bran it into the ground thinking that everyone would flock to his shop with his high prices.

News Credits: 226 · Thu Mar 31, 2016 4:24 am

ZeroWolf wrote:She's a nursery nurse, last job I had was volunteer work in a toy shop which sadly had to close as the owner bran it into the ground thinking that everyone would flock to his shop with his high prices.

Seems to be working for TRU AU. >:oP

Thu Mar 31, 2016 8:53 am

Burn wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:She's a nursery nurse, last job I had was volunteer work in a toy shop which sadly had to close as the owner bran it into the ground thinking that everyone would flock to his shop with his high prices.

Seems to be working for TRU AU.

Well yeah, but high prices for a chain vs high prices for a Mom n' Pop place? Your looking at $20 (USD) for a deluxe vs $30. That about right, ZW?

News Credits: 1350 · Thu Mar 31, 2016 12:40 pm

It was even less consistent than that like $40 for a certain deluxe vs $10 for another and then $60 for g1 bumblebee. I've put prices in American just to get the point across but it was even worse for star wars figs, there was some good prices than there was the prices that tru were beating (without having them on sales or clearance)

Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:24 pm

That's wack. Did he have a system for pricing, or did he just pick at random?

News Credits: 1350 · Fri Apr 01, 2016 1:29 am

If he had a system, he kept it to himself. It just seemed incredibly random. I tried to do things a lot fairer but the cards were stacked from the start