When ARSE was born

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When ARSE was born

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It's ARSE's 15th birthday today so what were you up to in May 2002?

Then:
I was about nine months into the first year of my first proper job after Uni. I was building online e-learning courses so I was basically writing HTML, CSS and Flash all day long. I was single and renting a house on my own, although I had a great social life back then so don't pity me :D

Now:
Nowadays I'm doing basically the same fundamental job and amusingly I've just built an e-learning framework, although that's the first time I've worked on that sector since that first job. I dropped Flash for Javascript a few years ago too.

Now I have wife + child + dog + house, more money and less time. :melt:
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Then:
I was 13 so still in primary school. The good old days really haha.

Now:
Full time butcher easy job. In the last 12 months Married my now wife, bought a house and got her pregnant/now have a 4 week old daughter.
So yeah same more money less time! haha
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Same as now.. but less sore.
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I was just about to turn 30 & racing BMX's - true story!!!
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In May 2002 I had just started my own business... it didn't last too long and by the end of the year I was working for someone else again.

Now, I am running my own business... but we're in our eighth year and we're one of the country's largest independent cyber security service providers.
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Then: May 2002 I was finishing up my Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics at Adelaide University, focusing on applying numerical methods to model groundwater flow an salt transport in the Padthaway region of South Australia

Now: Working for the South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources as a Senior Groundwater Modeller, focusing on modelling the flow of groundwater and transport of salt in the Pike River floodplain in the South Australian Riverland region. Probably fitter and healthier than I have ever been in my life. Life is pretty good.
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Then: 24 years old and just started my first full time job as an architectural drafty. I drew a lot of toilets back then. Single, living at home.

Now: perilously close to 40. Design technology manager at a medium sized national architectural firm and about to speak at an international conference about what I do. Still drawing buildings but now it's usually high rise apartments. Hundreds of toilets. Married, two kids and a house.

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Then: Fumbling through a Uni degree that I never finished. Mucking around with my first WRX rally car. In a relationship with a woman that I would divorce 10 years later, after having a child.

Now: Three weeks away from getting married to a much better woman who cares for my child like she was her own. No longer rallying. Managing the family firm of radio frequency licensing.
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Then: Young, dumb and full of cum with no real responsibilities or idea of what I wanted out of life. Living in Alice Springs, just starting out in the Telecommunications field. Bundles of money and nothing to spend it on but myself.\

Now: Not so young, still dumb and out of cum. Kids (two) living on the sunshine coast and still working in the Telecommunications sector (Telstra on the NBN). Not nearly as much money these days and It's never in my pockets long enough for me to do anything with it.

Still don't know what I want out of life, but I'm happy just to cruise along for now.
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Then:
I'm a bit hazy on the details but I do remember 1) soon buying that BMW I had my heart set from age 12 by age 21. 2) completely fucking up a small relocations patch panel "looks likes a fuckin birds nest" and your eyes "look like piss holes". Then being told to "rip all shit out and do it properly".

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Managing 5 teams, supporting ~4500 users across 6 major buildings and a bucket load of smaller sites. Playing the middle management game by outsmarting your peers and finding efficient, smarter ways of doing things for planned work and well unplanned is still unplanned but at least we put the customer first while playing smart within the policy and procedures. In 17 years no 2 days have been the same.
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Then: 30 year old manchild that posted immature stuff online for fellow manchildren, also had a bung knee that was threatening to halt my career.

Now: 45 year old manchild that posts slightly less immature stuff online for fellow manchildren, bung knee is back and threatening to halt my career.
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Then: 30 year old manchild giggling at the immature stuff playing GPL

Now: 45 year old manchild giggling at the immature stuff playing AC, bung neck, ordinary foot and back

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Then: wondering if it was possible to do a full lap of the ring without an off

Now: anal


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Bauer wrote:Then: wondering if it was possible to do a full lap of the ring without an off

Now: anal

from half ring to full ring.
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w00dsy wrote:
Bauer wrote:Then: wondering if it was possible to do a full lap of the ring without an off

Now: anal

from half ring to full ring.
Then: loose in the corners.

Now: Looser in the corners.
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2nd year of uni, drinking too much, time rich, money poor, thought I knew it all.

Now almost the opposite. Still trying to figure out where the money goes... kids I suppose :)
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Then: just starting my academic career. Idealistic, had plenty of time to visit exhibitions and art galleries. Strangely had money

Now: ending my academic career. Cynical, have no time to visit exhibitions and art galleries. Strangely have no money.
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@pix I'll try to keep it to just the one wife ;)
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Then: I was working where I am now in Oxford but I was involved in the human genome mapping project. I'd bought a flat 2 years earlier and was racing GPL quite a bit :)

Now: Still working in the same place but my job has changed and I now work in a flow cytometry facility where we sort out the cells we want from a mixture. Still in the same flat but Oxford prices being the way they are I've doubled my money if I sell it!
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Then: Working 12 hours a day 7 days a week and living on 24K per annum between myself and my wife, (invested anything that we made over the 24K). Played some GPL and went to the movies once a fortnight for entertainment.

Now: Retired, spend at least 20 hours a week in my garage working on our karts, (I'd forgotten how much I love racing after a 15 year hiatus), and travel around racing as much as we can, while we can, in our Coaster bus.
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Then:
I think I would have just been new to Darwin having finished up some time in East Timor working for my old man's company. Around this time is when I would've first discovered LFS and started getting sucked into sim racing. It would have been a little while after this I discovered RSC and ARSE.

Now:
I'm actually back working for the old mans company now for the last 3 years or so, married, no kids, bought a house about 6 months ago. Lead a pretty comfortable life, can't complain at all but watching on with interest as we slowly slide into an Orwellian future.
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Then:

Was working through my last year at Uni – mostly putting off working on my own final year project to spend time with the guys doing the Formula SAE project.
Was still living at home, racing Grand Prix 3 and Nascar something with a Thrustmaster wheel whilst driving an automatic Mark 2 Escort.

Now:

I have finally found the job that really suits me (thanks to two redundancies and falling into it butt first) – turns out I am a way better draftsman than I am an Engineer/Project Manager/Pressure Vessel Inspector – probably because as a draftsman I just get to do my own thing for the most part and spend way less time dealing with people! Now that I have found the right job, I just need to find a stable employer that is not crippled by debt and horrible previous investments – fingers crossed!

More significantly I am now within a month of becoming a Dad for the first time – hence the Razzy Inside avatar. That was a joke I made for my wife as we currently refer to our incoming baby boy as Razzy. Really looking forward to meeting the little dude who we were told would never happen but he is well and truly on his way now and the SS Commodore (I want him to come home in a V8 Holden, otherwise it would be gone already) will soon make way for a Territory. Not in the least fussed about that, the novelty of the Commodore has worn off but it was a great box to tick.
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I was 24 and working as a theatre orderly after giving uni away, racing rc cars, single, playing GPL.

Did a brief stint in the AFP, didn't like it much.

Now a theatre technician in the public health salt mine system. Married, 2 dog's, no kids. Don't play much online these days but still like Assetto Corsa and I fly rc helicopters as a hobby/money pit.
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Crazy to think how much things have changed in 15 years...

Then: High school, failing not really putting much effort in

Now: Got married a few weeks back and spending my weekends looking to buy my first home. Work wise its gone well, I work for a large IT company looking after a team of technical sales folk
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