The Dino-Aspie Ex-Café (for Those 40+... or feeling creaky)

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Dammit, Richie! Now it's going to be another hour before I get anything done!

I've already extracted a promise from my family that when I die, it's going to be a good old-fashioned Irish wake. They're going to get drunk, and sing, and remember all the stupid stuff I did, and I told them that if anyone spoils the party by crying, I'm going to come back and haunt their asses so hard, they won't know whether to get the old priest or the young priest!

After all, one of the great questions of life is, "Is there an afterlife, and if so, how far is it from downtown and can they break a twenty?" When I'm dead, I'll know. Too bad past performance shows I probably won't be able to tell anybody...

DeaconBlues, if you go to another place, surely you can contact us through cyberspace!

Wednesday Wisdom Topic

WP member Sophist is currently recruiting adult Aspies for a research project. There is a questionnaire, and you need to know your score from the AQ test. You might want to check that out. I must find the link. I will be back.

Dear blessedmom: I have pmed info to you. I cannot find where this link is in the forums.

I'm afraid I'll disagree (slightly) with you there.

If anyone feels like crying at my wake, I'd rather they just did it, there and then, instead of leaving it to later, or hiding in a corner. Get it done with, then straight back to the knees-up. Better still, cry while you're in the grand knees-up.

Lurking.

Trying to be responsable the past few days. Spring break is here and another week of 140 stressed out dogs to face on friday.
So I upated the resume, printed and looking for places to apply(the hard part but not as hard as the actual interviews).

While looking for a recipe to DIY suger free hard candy using xylitol(any chemists here?Will xylitol reach the hard ball stage?Will I blow up the apartment trying?)I stumbeled on a cool web site for the DIYers here.....


http://www.instructables.com/tag/type:i ... &offset=60


If the American economy keeps tanking, we will all be DIYers soon. DYI web sites are said to be getting more and more popular.
Hope you enjoy this one....I'm restricting myself to an hour a day there...and taking notes.

Good luck with the job hunting, krex. And well done, lau, on finally pinning down your elusive job.

now. . .THAT's more LIKE IT!!

thank you CC, youse is a good sister.

Quoting Krex:

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How you gonna spend the money that Bush is giving us? Now remember, you're supposed to buy something with it.

Thanks for the link, Krex. Here's my favorite:


I have a couple of old radios. I have been thinking about taking them apart and making sculptures from the guts. Now I am inspired.

Good luck with the job hunting.

Quoting Merle:

Enter the (Sleepy) Dragon topic

You have good eyes, Sleepy. I do not know how you enlarged that maze. Are there any good maze sites, or do you just google 'maze'? Do you find lau's mazes? I am going to find the path to the best mazes in case you or anyone else would like to know. I will be back. I do not have to work until next week.

This will amaze you: http://www.mazes.org.uk
but you can link heremazes

Ok. "Hypothetical Situation" here:

Saaaay.... that you've been working in a job for several years, doing well enough in it to receive very good annual evaluations. It is pretty independent, relatively easy, "not too bad" as jobs go. There are days when you stick pins in the voodoo doll of the ego-of-the-moment client, but you have good coworkers.

You receive a phone call from another division in your organization one morning. They are looking for a manager and have asked you to apply for the job. You can do easily about 1/2 the job tasks. Of the remaining, most are things you can pick up "on the fly" quickly with reasonable confidence of success. There are three major stumbling blocks to telling them you are interested:

1) You would be supervising several people (cue Aspie interpersonal skills, which aren't all that great, and a horror of supervising others)
2) You would be having to work heavily with budgets. Which you have done in the past, but which are an absolute misery as you have no sense of numbers.
3) While the pay would increase somewhat, and while it would be a promotion to a higher job grade, there would be a lot of stress involved (inherent in the job and also from the Aspie aspect of things).

On the flip side, you could increase your retirement income by several hundred dollars a month by working at this job for three years and then retiring. Which working at this job would allow you to do in three years.

Given that this is outside your "comfort zone" envelope by at least a mile, would you:

* formally apply for the position

or

* send them a nice, polite email thanking them for thinking of you but stating that you are not ready to move up the ladder at this point? (Which might kill your chances of moving up it again for a very long time.)

Last edited by Nan on 20 Mar 2008, 11:10 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Is it my imagination or are you getting blue in the face lau?

CONGRATULATIONS, RICHIE!! ! 6,000 posts and counting!

Hey Nan,

I would pobably send them a nice e-mail. Although the money would be nice, 3 years of living in a stressfull job would not be worth it too me. Time becomes much more precious when you age, and I would want to live those 3 years to my fullest. Taking home stress would impact me too much. There would also be a higher risk of being fired in a management job. Just some thoughts.