If I could turn back time

[MarillionFan]

Work is so unimportant to me it just does not have enough meaning to have any regrets in it, I do feel privileged to earn more than anyone I know outside the industry though (bar the missus) . Considering how little effort I put into the job I am 110% happy with my lot.

I didnt realise there was so much money in it!

Is she still turning $5 dollar tricks in Glasgow or has she moved on to table dancing yet?

[cojak]

Astonomer. At 10 I was all for it.

At 11 in first year physics I realised I was too thick to understand levers and see-saws and stuff.

One of the biggest disappointments of my life...

[expat]

I didnt realise there was so much money in it!

Is she still turning $5 dollar tricks in Glasgow or has she moved on to table dancing yet?

Five dollars? In Glasgow?

Oh ye cannae spend a dollar when ye're deid,
Oh ye

.... oh ****, nobody else will recognise it. I'm more out of my time and space than the Doctor.

[expat]

I mostly used a telescope

Nah, we didn't actually look through a telescope. We looked at glass negatives through a microscope and then used an inch-thick book of 6-figure tables to work out some interesting pieces of spherical trigonometry relating to those fuzzy black spots on the glass.

And then read the Astronomical Ephemeris for relaxation.

[Clippy]

I think photojournalism has pretty much evaporated as a career. Everybody has a foolproof camera and they're all pleased to give away their photos for free. No more payments for sending a pic to the paper, far less the BBC, who can pay with a credit of need be. And stock photography is 25p a photo if you're lucky. Of course there are still pros but I suspect the career path is harder.

As for wedding stuff, do you really want to get involved in that? Endless aggro from a bunch of drunken bums who have not bought into your project in the first place but are friends of the paying customer. And other friends of the customer will faff about with their cameras and then spend 3 hours in Photoshop removing extraneous detail from one photo, and the customer will wonder why the Pro couldn't produce a result like that. Useless to tell her that you could, but 3 hours of your time costs a bit.

Aye, pretty much true.

[Cliphead]

Nah, we didn't actually look through a telescope. We looked at glass negatives through a microscope and then used an inch-thick book of 6-figure tables to work out some interesting pieces of spherical trigonometry relating to those fuzzy black spots on the glass.

And then read the Astronomical Ephemeris for relaxation.

Digging through RT data looking for patterns.