If my memory is correct, Languish started in early 03 for most of us. It was around before as a tiny modding community, but after we all rage quitted from EU OT, we came here in droves.
That is almost going to be 7 years ago. Not a bad little chunk of time if you ask me.
So my question is this: What were you doing then with your life, what are you doing now and what sorts of things have happened to you in between?
Kids? Finished college? New job? Possibly dead? Some of us didn't make it this far, you know. Just like always though, all the assholes here made it through without a scratch. :P
I'd go first, but I don't want to set the bar too high and make the rest of you ashamed to answer, but I will listen and not be judgemental. :)
When I joined in summer 2004 I was stuck in a horrid accountant's job in Germany with dreams of writing pulp fantasy and sci-fi.
In December 2009 I'm stuck in a horrid accountant's job in Vienna with dreams of writing pulp fantasy and sci-fi.
I prefer Vienna over Holsteinian province, though.
MMm....
When Languish was new, I was overweight, depressed and working graveyard shifts at Jack in the Box.
Since then I've completed 3 college programs (AA, BA and teaching credential) and found drastically better work but the things I am most unhappy about remain unresolved.
I feel like I've gone from a fairly happy go lucky guy to being very jaded and filled with regret about the way I have lived my life.
Maybe its not too late to salvage something though. :)
I've graduated High school, graduated from College, and now I'm teaching in Korea.
Okay TIM
When I started posting on Languish, I was still in the closet, none of my Polish friends knew I'm gay, I never got out, I was almost 90 kilos, and I was in a dysfunctional relationship with a guy who leeched money off me.
Now I'm partially out of the closet, have a bunch of Polish friends who know I'm gay, I go out to gay bars and clubs, I'm down to 77 kilos and I am in three dysfunctional relationships with guys who don't leech money off me. :lol:
When I joined I was working in the nuclear industry. I kind of still am, but now I'm making a lot more money.
I fear change.
Quote from: The Brain on December 06, 2009, 05:53:17 AM
When I joined I was working in the nuclear industry. I kind of still am, but now I'm making a lot more money.
I fear change.
Define "a lot more".
Quote from: Martinus on December 06, 2009, 05:54:11 AM
Quote from: The Brain on December 06, 2009, 05:53:17 AM
When I joined I was working in the nuclear industry. I kind of still am, but now I'm making a lot more money.
I fear change.
Define "a lot more".
You want it in feather boa equivalents?
Same vocation, different location.
Seven years Older and deeper in debt.
Quote from: katmai on December 06, 2009, 06:07:29 AM
Same vocation, different location.
Seven years Older and deeper in debt.
Don't call him St. Peter, he can't go. :cry:
The more things have changed, the more they have stayed the same.
I just realized this morning that my 10 year anniversary is coming up at Paradox, and checked my join date and by JOVE it is today.
I have created the Paradox Pensioners Society to commemorate this event. -_-
mh, in 2003 I was still recovering from a hernia-operation that prevented me from getting into a wheelchair, I was teetering on the brink of depression and my studies weren't progressing as they should
since then I've had my depression and survived, got my degree, am working as an archaeologist after doing a six month stint at an administrative jobin a livestock-fodder factory and I'm on the verge of getting married.
so yay for me I'd say
Quote from: katmai on December 06, 2009, 06:07:29 AM
Seven years Older and deeper in debt.
:lol: Too true.
oof.
Finished school, so full of promise, went to college, it sucked balls, went to university nearby, also somewhat sucky, but then it got better as I met foreigners rather than rah-schwine and actually made some new friends, then I went to Holland, which was fun, then I came home, where I was da man, but uni sucked, then I came to Sweden, it was pretty OK, then I ran out of money, it sucked, then I got money, then I got drunk, then I fell asleep with the door open and was assailed by cats, then I turned my computer on and opened this thread, then I started pressing buttons on the key thingy.
I have learned how to eat, put my clothes on and go to the bathroom ALL BY MYSELF.
I was the emperor of mankind in '03.
In '09 still emperor but due to a horrible workplace 'accident' caused by that asshole Horus, I'm encased in a golden throne.
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 06, 2009, 09:29:44 AM
I was the emperor of mankind in '03.
In '09 still emperor but due to a horrible workplace 'accident' caused by that asshole Horus, I'm encased in a golden throne.
Actually, between when Languish started and now, your wife was born, we've had the wedding, and now you're up to your Shining in creepy ass twins.
Amazing what can happen in 7 years.
Hmmmm, it's been a long strange trip!
I went from unemployed hanging out on Sunday's waiting for Katmai to wake his ass up so that EU2 could begin with Habsburg, Stonewall, Sask, and assorted others in NC.
To a job working in a prison in NC to a job working in probation/parole in NC to a job working in parole in NY. I went from apartment to apartment switching locations a few times for work. I now have a nice house, a new son, and a very well paying Union job.
And no EU2 :cry:
Oh, and I blame Habs for giving me this website to visit.
Finished high school. Finished college. Got into medical school. Won't be done until I'm thirty. Fuck.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on December 06, 2009, 01:19:19 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 06, 2009, 09:29:44 AM
I was the emperor of mankind in '03.
In '09 still emperor but due to a horrible workplace 'accident' caused by that asshole Horus, I'm encased in a golden throne.
Actually, between when Languish started and now, your wife was born, we've had the wedding, and now you're up to your Shining in creepy ass twins.
Amazing what can happen in 7 years.
It has been fun. Except summer '06- summer '07.
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 06, 2009, 01:43:33 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on December 06, 2009, 01:19:19 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 06, 2009, 09:29:44 AM
I was the emperor of mankind in '03.
In '09 still emperor but due to a horrible workplace 'accident' caused by that asshole Horus, I'm encased in a golden throne.
Actually, between when Languish started and now, your wife was born, we've had the wedding, and now you're up to your Shining in creepy ass twins.
Amazing what can happen in 7 years.
It has been fun. Except summer '06- summer '07.
Is that when you got your beetus?
Quote from: Jaron on December 06, 2009, 01:48:14 PM
Is that when you got your beetus?
I'M NOT WILFORD BRIMLEY.
Quote from: Slargos on December 06, 2009, 07:26:22 AM
The more things have changed, the more they have stayed the same.
I just realized this morning that my 10 year anniversary is coming up at Paradox, and checked my join date and by JOVE it is today.
I have created the Paradox Pensioners Society to commemorate this event. -_-
As I approach my 9th year tenure at Paradox forums I'm tempted to join. :blush:
Finished high school, college, and now am in year one of law school. Started in Paradox in June 2001, IIRC.
I began to embrace my humanity.
Got through uni, and been working 3 years.
Gone from Calgary, to Peace River, to St. Paul, to Whitehorse.
Gone through 2 girlfriends, got married, expecting child.
On my second house. Have gained 2 dogs and one cat.
Yeah, lots have happened since Sept 2001 (my Paradox registration date).
Not too much change for me. I've had my same job since 1997 or so. Less physically active than I used to be; I used to keep in pretty good shape - martial arts, aerobics, weights. Sadly, I've had some deaths and changes in family. I was unmarried then, and still am, but now own a home.
In some ways, I'm much the same, but I was quite wet behind the ears when I started on here. Where was I in '03? Reading a lot of Saul Bellow and Nietzsche, playing EU2, scanning slides of eye diseases into a computer for work, and very conflicted about how I felt about Israel.
Had the experience of love and loss, cruised the nightlife, and eventually had a nice relationship of almost four years that I watched sadly fizzle out. Read Althusser and Lacan, smoked two packs of cigarettes a day, quit, read "Being and Time," started again, read Derrida, cut down, and did a lot of concerted drinking. Left North America for the first time, twice, and visited the South, met Sheilbh twice and The Larch once. Worked a variety of jobs, contemplated my mortality, learned how to cook a basic repertoire of dishes, submitted to psychiatric treatment, lifted weights, stopped lifting weights, watched every movie John Waters made, and I still don't know what I think about Israel. And I saw Sonia Sotomayor on the street in Manhattan. That about sums it. :)
Are you Jewish Mihali?
I had more teeth then. Besides that, I'm pretty much the same.
Still working in the games industry, but better paid and have more pull. I'm married and just bought a house. Had some interesting research trips to a variety of places and met all sorts of colourful personalities, and some other trips as well. I dress better now than I did then. Oh, and I have an aquarium.
In 2003, I was still in high school, a wannabe goth, and aspiring to some kind of work within the music industry.
Since then, I dropped out of college, lost my car in a bad car accident, worked with the deaf, worked in a warehouse, worked as a hated telemarketer, and ended up back at the same job working with the deaf only to have it fold a few months later.
Currently, I'm back in college for a bilingual (Spanish) paralegal degree en route to a law degree, trying to get things together to get another car, and trying to figure out how to make my girlfriend of 6 years my wife.
I guess you could say there have been some knocks, but what they've knocked is my ass into gear to do better and more realistic things.
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 06, 2009, 09:29:44 AM
I was the emperor of mankind in '03.
In '09 still emperor but due to a horrible workplace 'accident' caused by that asshole Horus, I'm encased in a golden throne.
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"One beep means show me your tits, two beeps means change my diaper."
Quote from: Neil on December 06, 2009, 08:14:30 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 06, 2009, 09:29:44 AM
I was the emperor of mankind in '03.
In '09 still emperor but due to a horrible workplace 'accident' caused by that asshole Horus, I'm encased in a golden throne.
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"One beep means show me your tits, two beeps means change my diaper."
:lol:
2003- recently married, office assistant of HK government, unhappy with job
2009 - married for 6 years, office assistant of HK government, unhappy with job
good thread jaronimo
Same city and jobs with better pay, our son is twice his age, our daughter is 5 , I was deployed to Kuwait, and now in a better unit, I ran a marathon, and in total have gained a few pounds. I am happy where I am in my life and languish has been part of it.
Same avatar!
Through high school...many relationships, had a kid, joined the army, did the whole Iraq and get shot at thing, got out and go to uni now. Looking to bone all your nieces, especially Eds.
Kapland in 02 or 03 (iirc) invited there by Sask. was in Japan, not quite liking it yet, still thinking I could date girls there. turned out no Japanese women I was interested in thought of me "that way" either (it's an international conspiracy) so I fell to my fallback of dating guys who either don't or can't communicate in any kind of meaningful, non sexual way.) Eventually I grew to actually enjoy teaching.
I paid off 3/4's of my debt while in japan, came home, scrimped and saved my way to paying the rest off over anoher year, became debt free. in Japan i lost 60 lbs and then gained it all back :(
Back in Van I found that teaching English here was not something I would ever be able to do because all the people hiring are smarmy assholes who think that actual teaching in a foreign country could never prepare you to do so in Vancouver
so i ended up back in the video store biz, quickly became the manger of the coolest store in the city (okay except Happy Bats)
I was diagnosed with high blood pressure. and have lost over 80 pounds since that time and now healthier than I have been since , well ever.
I'm healthier, not in debt but still the same confused, dizzy person I always have been and will always be.
I must say that reading this thread I'm kinda jealous of people with kids. Whether for good or for bad, they seem to fill the life with change like almost no other thing can. Now, I'm debating whether this is all illusory and a case of living vicariously through one's kid's life instead of living one's own, but having kids definitely gives an answer to this thread at least. :P
Was recently married and had one kid, did psychiatric work with adult psychos. Still married, two children and do psychiatric work with kiddy psychos. Generally speaking life is better these days.
When I registered at Paradox (late 2000) I was a year into my polsci bachelor, living in a dorm in Copenhagen, getting hammered non-stop and with ambitions of working international diplomacy.
Two years later I went to Sarajevo for six months, interning at the embassy there. Came home for six months (finishing my bachelor and starting my polsci masters) and then left for Prague, where I studied for a year. Came back from Prague to live in another dorm and do my thesis.
After graduation I had six months of unemployement hell, then started working in a municipality (with the Danish municipal reform). I got into the talent program at the incumbent telco in Denmark, starting of as a Product Manager in consumer broadband, then moving to Stockholm for an eight month stint as Executive Assistant to a director in the Swedish subsidiary. Came back and started working in product development in digital television in the cable division, where I stayed after the end of the talent program.
In my private life, I've probably gone through 15 girlfriends and an untold number of one night stands. Current girlfriend has been around a year and a half and looks like she may be it. The next milestone will be moving to New Zealand with her in the fall of 2010 for 6-8 months and then moving in together back home afterwards.
Quite a bit happened - and I hit 30 this year. :(
Well, when languish -started-, I was just a kid who played starcraft history games (WW2, civil war, etc..) all day. Happy little irresponsible gamer, played solid twelve hour blocks sometimes, slept through school. Convinced the South would rise again in my lifetime. Became interested in women, managed to get arrested, and briefly put in a mental place after spending 11 days in juvenile hall.
I got into languish just before I got into high school, and now I am a freshman in college. Gradually, grades went from being completely irrelevent to important to me. Moved four times. I met the girl I intend to marry, and we've been dating for four years. My mother died, and then the missus's father died, and just recently my father was put in a mental institution.
Was nearly starving until college, eating one meal every few days and then eating generously on weekends when the Missus could feed me. Now, in college, I have gained 12 pounds this semester. I am eating regularly, and very happy about it.
Found a best friend, reasonably inseperable for four years, now he's my roommate. Flirted with mormonism, but it never came to anything.
Came to terms with the fact that support for the Confederacy is a fringe opinion, but never wavered in it. I've gone through alot of historical 'phases'- Japan, Hungary, South Africa, Franco-Algeria, Carthage, Finland and random wars.
Planned to be a lawyer in 2001, plan to be a lawyer here in 2009. Never once have I been excited about it. Over the years, I have fantasised about moving places: Ireland, independent Scotland, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, France, and Utah. Coming to terms with the fact that I will probably live out my life in the South.
Things are kind of full circle, because now that I am back in college I can finally play starcraft again, but so few of the old group are still around. I am not the best at american civil war 3.0 and other maps anymore, but I am definetely still in that cadre. The group of people I know from starcraft are my longest friends, and we feel suprisingly strongly for each other for people who have never met.
I will turn 20 in about 50 days.
Quote from: Martinus on December 07, 2009, 02:24:06 AM
I must say that reading this thread I'm kinda jealous of people with kids. Whether for good or for bad, they seem to fill the life with change like almost no other thing can. Now, I'm debating whether this is all illusory and a case of living vicariously through one's kid's life instead of living one's own, but having kids definitely gives an answer to this thread at least. :P
I dunno, man. Four hours with my nieces is like a 16 hour workday.
I love em to death, but they adversely affect my sensibilities by not doing what you tell them to do, they never sit still, and they make noise. My Fortess of Solitude ain't geared for that.
I'd rather children be a spectator sport.
Couldn't agree more, Count.
I'm not sure, but perhaps having and raising kids has become a lot more difficult and expensive (and not only in money) these days. When I was a kid we spent a lot of time by ourselves, playing in the street. Today it's all organized and planned: sure, the sons of my brothers are learning to ride horses and things like that, things I couldn't even dream about, but they seem to be always under adult surveillance, and their fathers usually 'hover' over them.
That has got to be exhausting for both fathers and sons.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on December 07, 2009, 06:41:29 AM
I dunno, man. Four hours with my nieces is like a 16 hour workday.
Amen. My girlfriends nephews are great, but I tire just from thinking about them.
Moved to London and to Bristol then to London again. Tramped around a lot of Dorset and Somerset in my new found West Country love (just got back from the Bath Christmas Market last night - NO FREE SAMPLES <_<). Finished university. Started applying for an MA. Had a number of boring jobs. Avoided dysfunctional relationships by leaving people's houses when they go to buy a paper, leaving only a half-full packet of fags and memories. I've not changed much.
Edit: I've got better friends than I've had before and some are planning weddings, which is exciting. I can't wait for my first friend's wedding + open bar :mmm:
I was 18 year, 7 years ago.
Life happened. More girls then one cares to count, more jack daniels then workers in the factory, enough Jobs to make one cry. More debt, more stuff.
Still can't write properly.
Quote from: Alatriste on December 07, 2009, 07:04:09 AM
Couldn't agree more, Count.
I'm not sure, but perhaps having and raising kids has become a lot more difficult and expensive (and not only in money) these days. When I was a kid we spent a lot of time by ourselves, playing in the street. Today it's all organized and planned: sure, the sons of my brothers are learning to ride horses and things like that, things I couldn't even dream about, but they seem to be always under adult surveillance, and their fathers usually 'hover' over them.
That has got to be exhausting for both fathers and sons.
Its not that hard. Stick 'em in the room with me, erect those kid fences and watch TV while they play with something.
I'm old school.
Quote from: Ed Anger on December 07, 2009, 08:30:05 AM
I'm old school.
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I think I joined Languish in late 2004 or early 2005. In the years since, I spent quite a bit of time abroad in Australia and the US, got a bachelor's and a master's degree and started working in a trainee program at a good company.
Social life sucks as much now as then, for much of the same reasons.
Professionally, back then I was drifting without any kind of goals or motivation, spending most of my time learning how to do random stuff in front of a computer. Eventually I found that I could actually get paid doing that instead boring myself to death in dull jobs.
The biggest difference is obviously Crohn's which has completely changed my life (and not precisely for the better) during the last years. I'm going to have to leave my career. Unlike what happens in more civilized places an engineer is expected here to work from sunrise to sunset (without compensation). Having had half a meter taken out already, I'd rather keep the rest of my bowels, so I'm becoming a boring, inefficient civil servant ASAP. Damned global crisis is getting in the way, though.
Quote from: bogh on December 07, 2009, 05:42:14 AMThe next milestone will be moving to New Zealand with her in the fall of 2010 for 6-8 months and then moving in together back home afterwards.
What are you doing in New Zealand?
Quote from: Jacob on December 07, 2009, 05:12:12 PM
Quote from: bogh on December 07, 2009, 05:42:14 AMThe next milestone will be moving to New Zealand with her in the fall of 2010 for 6-8 months and then moving in together back home afterwards.
What are you doing in New Zealand?
Besides his GF?