Decisions

[ninja]

Originally Posted by Necro

Was it a northern forum?



That week must have been lovely for you. I got all paranoid after like an hour of no reply following the most tragic attempt to ask someone out ever

Trust me. I live in the north. Leeds and co, your the fricken middle... anyho thats another thread...


Yes it was alovely week. I had to keep telling her "CHECK YOUR EMAIL". In a era pre broadband, internet on the go and everything else it was understandable.

[Weirdo]

Originally Posted by ninja

Trust me. I live in the north. Leeds and co, your the fricken middle... anyho thats another thread...


Yes it was alovely week. I had to keep telling her "CHECK YOUR EMAIL". In a era pre broadband, internet on the go and everything else it was understandable.

Depends if you describe Scotland as England or not...

North... OF ENGLAND...

Cometanime was where the cool people were at, back at the turn of the millennium

[Numpsy]

I've been working at the same place, with pretty much the same people, for 11 years now. It is doing a pretty good job of keeping me in excessive amounts of anime and games though.

The only major 'bad' decision i've made was to attempt to do a computer science/maths degree which resulted in a mid course university and course change, but if that hadn't happened then i might never have ended up doing a placement at the place i'm still working at, so it worked out quite nicely in the end

[trismugistus]

I've been thinking about this recently.

It was about a decade ago that I had an opportunity to move over from one job to another - I won't give details, but an offer was made and I decided to stay where I was. It's a bit complicated, but I'd been doing the job they offered me for 3 years and while I was good at it and enjoyed working with the guys I wanted to do something a bit different so I stayed working for the same company and did move in a different direction.

Just recently I have been looking for a new job and even got an extremely good offer. However, when I talked to my current employer (still the same as above - I'm either very loyal or perhaps lack imagination!) I was made a counter-offer it was difficult for me to refuse.

Well, actually, the counter-offer isn't as good salary wise, but it has a rather large carrot that I should get in a few years. Or to put it another way, the other job would have given me cake now, but staying here now should give me a bigger cake later.

[Puru]

I think is time to put my story
The night of my graduation party from Uni changed my life, one of our programming teachers was there, me and some friends went to say hi to him, after some good chatting he offered me a job, I wasn't considering working just after finishing Uni, but I said yes, lets give it a go, that job was for IBM, where I lasted 6 years till I quit to move here
Now, the tricky part is, if I wasn't working for IBM, I wouldn't meet Puru-two (aka Carl) so I wouldn't be married and I wouldn't be in this country....

strange things happens in life

[Dark Hearted Disco Queen]

Originally Posted by Tora-kun

I probably would'be opted for Illustration for Uni as opposed to Fine Art. More practical applications and all that. But tbh although I've made some decisions that probably weren't ideal, I believe that I've always tried the best I can given the circumstances I ended up in lol.

Maybe that's a loser's mindset and I should be more ambitious with life... ¦D

As an illustration graduate you can trust me when I tell you it is in no way practical and is equally as useless as fine art

10 years has gone quickly for me but I feel like lots has changed, even if I haven't really got very far - I think emotionally I have changed a lot, and there are very few friends from 10 years ago that I still have any kind of relationship with. My biggest regret is probably that I have always been a scaredy cat and don't like taking too many risks, I wish I had taken more risks throughout the last 10 years, and not played it safe with certain things. I always fancied living abroad for a bit and now I just don't know how I could fit that in, or what I would do - seems like I could have perhaps done it earlier in life before I had too many commitments. My best decision was probably going back to uni to do my Msc which I really loved doing and although I am not doing exactly what I wanted to be doing after I graduated I do like the life I have right now and appreciate all the good things I have.

[Tora-kun]

Originally Posted by Dark Hearted Disco Queen

As an illustration graduate you can trust me when I tell you it is in no way practical and is equally as useless as fine art

Sounds like a no-win situation if you study the arts then. Yay! \o/

[Kite]

Biggest decision for me was 7 or so years ago when I decided against going to university, and spend a 3rd year in 6th form doing my AAT qualification (the idea was to get a job as a trainee accountant and then get put though ACCA or the other accounting qualification).

Worked out fine until I couldn't get on the ladder, out of 20 or so job vacancies I applied for I got 1 interview down in Eastleigh way but got turned away, so started a temp job working as a mess accounts person for an army contractor in the local area in the hope of getting some experience and applying for some more jobs when they came up.

Then the financial crisis hit, all of a sudden the posts I was interested in dried up, so nearly 6 years down the line I'm still working for the same contractor, but in bar & retail account administration [basically I'm the go-to guy when the various mess/retail managers have any problems with the accounts system in use], I'm quite happy it's doing not a lot I did an extra year in college for (and that NVQ 4 hangs over my head everytime I try to get nominated to do other courses), plus I'm the named successor for my manager when she gets promoted/moves on, which is good.

I'm better off than my mate whom did A-level accounts the same time as me, he went off to Uni to study Business, and he's working in Lloyds bank, opening business accounts.

Who knows where my life would have taken me if I decided to go down the university route.

[Eros]

The old days. I came here back in the dark ages, when I still had a 56k modem, and all this cable modem/broadband stuff was only just poking its nose into the public domain. It is difficult to believe that was over 10 years ago now.

Many frequent posters have come and gone for various reasons, some of them feuds with each other, some of them because of uneasy events on the forum, personal life or a combination of both and others just moved on for what ever reason. It is interesting when you think back at how this place has shaped the lives of a few people, both for better and worse.

To use the baseline of 10 years ago, when I look back, I was just starting out at Uni doing Physics and Astronomy, Anime was something I was fairly fresh into, and I arrived here hoping to learn more and be accepted more. In my school, there were a few idiots who upon finding me interested in Japanese animation, then spread it on pretty thick that all Japanese animation was either Porn, or Pokemon... and that was a pretty tough thing for me to deal with. Uni gave me a bit of extra freedom and confidence to be myself and finding this place was a good starter for me back then.

When i came across this place I actually spent about a day trying to figure out a good name for myself, it was during an astronomy lecture that I came across the name Eros as a possible choice, a fairly large asteroid as i understood it, and honestly didn't know the source of the name until it was pointed out much later.... ooops

The days at Uni where an amazing part of my development and the person I ultimately became, and this forum was a part of that I have to say. Positive things that came from the forum? Well, probably the one which is still relevant today is writing. I enjoyed creative writing but never really thought about actually doing anything until a few of us started to do some roleplay alongside a forum game of Stars! (Still got that btw weirdo) Those times really prompted me to write for enjoyment and i still do it today.

In those 10 years, I got my Masters, a PhD, visited Japan 5 times and finally for the last 3 years moved to Canada. I married my partner who I met during my PhD and life continues to be exciting and challenging. Currently some extra challenges but, challenges we will look back on fondly in years to come.

I have frequented this place less and less as time has progressed, posting less and less was not something that I found hard, like i lost something for example, because for me, as involved with posting as I might have been, I was for the most part a member on the outside looking in at the central gang. I never quite crossed over I don't think, there was a time when I did, but it was not really for long. I do feel sometimes bad about loosing touch with some of the members, though I am sure it is just life getting in the way. Would be good to have a reunion of sorts if i am ever back in the UK sometime weirdo, be good to go out and get pissed and talk absolute garbage again, probably along with Mis