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Stream of Consciousness / Re: The Job Thread

« on: February 22, 2008, 10:22:53 PM »

I'm starting to wonder what it takes to go in a new direction. I'd like to get into the healthcare industry. Seems recession proof. What sounds very interesting to me right now is cancer and nutrition. My whole background to date is business and marketing. Can I gain expertise as a nutritionist and apply it to a relationship with cancer? I'd love to work at Lucille Packard Childrens Hospital or Stanford. I'm not a nurse and have no medical background. Needles freak me out. I'd love to help people and contribute to their well being. When sick kids are in the hospital and families are here to be near them, what jobs are there that help those families?

I think I need to get career information somehow. Training needed, types of jobs available. Salary potential for said field of work. Please offer tips or thoughts on this. Maybe I'm having the proverbial mid-life crisis......

Set up a meeting with HR at Packard. Strictly informational. Tell them exactly what you're thinking, tell them your skills, and ask them what sorts of things you could do without having to go back to school for four years. Then ask them what you could do if you did go back to school. Just find out the possibilities. "Think of all the possibilities, and make a wish!"

Me - I made a serious job change six years ago. Left upper mgmt in high tech because I wanted to be an actual parent to my 2.5 yr old boy. (It was my wife's idea:  "You thought about doing something different?" "You mean, like marketing?" "No, I mean totally outside the industry!") I went way the hell in a different direction:  I became a carpenter and started the odyssey toward being a general contractor. Not your usual thing to start when you're 43 or 44. It can be done, though. I have my license, which means that I have a lot of the headaches I used to have when I was running engineering, but it also means those headaches are mine instead of the company's, and it means I can set my own hours and decide when it's time to go home and be involved with the family.

It can be done.

//John

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 13 Feb 2008--draggin' this thing into the 90's - 1991

« on: February 13, 2008, 10:34:16 AM »

And some pure pop goodness from the La's.  Definite BOS contender.

Definitely. My top contender thus far.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 13 Feb 2008--draggin' this thing into the 90's - 1991

« on: February 13, 2008, 10:30:38 AM »

VHM the Rembrandts, before they had any Friends.

Is that really the way it is? Or was? I enjoyed this one, and bought it before they had any pals.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 13 Feb 2008--draggin' this thing into the 90's - 1991

« on: February 13, 2008, 10:17:16 AM »

Hey Hey Hey!

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 13 Feb 2008--draggin' this thing into the 90's - 1991

« on: February 13, 2008, 10:14:27 AM »

In mah opinionation... '91 is less than fine.

and yeah, the Webb Wilder is a Narada for me too. Of course I moved here in June of '91 and once I was here I listened to KDIA almost constantly.

I moved here in October of '91 and landed immediately on KFOG.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 13 Feb 2008--draggin' this thing into the 90's - 1991

« on: February 13, 2008, 10:07:28 AM »

HM, to Webb Wilder, Toughin' it out. This is a def. Narada for me--I heard it in later years, but in 91--no way.

And now Mr. Wilder is languishing in semi-obscurity in Nashvegas.

I don't know this song at all. Where was I in '91? Hmmm, Boston listening to the Phoenix. This wouldn't have been their cup of tea, so to speak.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 12 Feb 2008 -- It's 1982!

« on: February 12, 2008, 11:20:26 AM »

Is "88 Lines" tune #10 today?

is this the orig indie version or the RCA remake? I get 'em confused.

Methinks this was the original, now that I've heard the whole thing.

Wow, is "I Burn For You" making its third appearance in less than a year? Sure seems like it.

OK, now I *KNOW* we've heard this several times in the past year, but the shraytabase sez we've haven't heard it since Nov 2006!!! That's just not possible.

Yes, I've heard "Burn For You" and Joe King Carrasco before. Not every show in db I imagine.

I can't agree about Carrasco, tho'  -- i'd def remember THAT.

There's a little part of me (don't ask which one!) that makes me think that it was as a bonus track in the last couple of months. It seems like I recently flashed back on that concert because of The King. Or was it as part of a My Three Songs? Hmmmm, maybe the little part of me is my brain.....     

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 12 Feb 2008 -- It's 1982!

« on: February 12, 2008, 10:44:25 AM »

Is "88 Lines" tune #10 today?

is this the orig indie version or the RCA remake? I get 'em confused.

Methinks this was the original, now that I've heard the whole thing.

Wow, is "I Burn For You" making its third appearance in less than a year? Sure seems like it.

OK, now I *KNOW* we've heard this several times in the past year, but the shraytabase sez we've haven't heard it since Nov 2006!!! That's just not possible.

I think it's been played a couple times as a classic replay, or does the shraytabase track that as well?

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 12 Feb 2008 -- It's 1982!

« on: February 12, 2008, 10:41:56 AM »

Is "88 Lines" tune #10 today?

is this the orig indie version or the RCA remake? I get 'em confused.

Methinks this was the original, now that I've heard the whole thing.

Wow, is "I Burn For You" making its third appearance in less than a year? Sure seems like it.

This song is actually a remake of 88 Lines, but the background chanting is just in tune. 

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 12 Feb 2008 -- It's 1982!

« on: February 12, 2008, 10:31:42 AM »

Stand or... eh, I'll just fall, thanks. This one annoyed me after a week on the charts.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 12 Feb 2008 -- It's 1982!

« on: February 12, 2008, 10:29:04 AM »

time to get hypnotized by that H&O beat

I'm gonna pogo as soon as my perm sets up.

LOL! BOS H&O, tho' I wish Dave'd expand his appreciation of their '80s catalog.

They do have some very good R&B on their platters.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 12 Feb 2008 -- It's 1982!

« on: February 12, 2008, 10:22:52 AM »

time to get hypnotized by that H&O beat

I'm gonna pogo as soon as my perm sets up.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 12 Feb 2008 -- It's 1982!

« on: February 12, 2008, 10:20:11 AM »

Transkatrinalator, "Every '82 Set That We're in".

You're in '82 but I'm not!

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 12 Feb 2008 -- It's 1982!

« on: February 12, 2008, 10:18:40 AM »

I remember a concert with [...] The Producers.

I would *love* for "What's He Got?" to come up in this set.

I positively loved their first two albums! I saw them live four or five times when I lived in the Dallas area. I'm surprised I Love Lucy hasn't shown up once.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 12 Feb 2008 -- It's 1982!

« on: February 12, 2008, 10:07:57 AM »

1982 possibilities: J Geils, FMac, Human League, Rick James, Tommy Tutone, GoGos, Men At Work, John Cougar, Flock o' Seagulls...

And one comes true already. WOS vote!

I remember a concert with Flock, Joe King Carasco, Squeeze, and The Producers. Great set by Squeeze that night, and that damned synth from the Flock was unbearable. That hair and that echo chamber guitar the entire set!