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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ledded" data-source="post: 1244074" data-attributes="member: 12744">Hey, is that similar to the Special Equestrians?  I did some volunteer work for them before in the summers a while back and it was very rewarding (soul-wise, not money-wise).  As far as jobs go, I have a pretty good job right now, but I'm getting very tired of the kind of work I do, which is a senior software engineer/systems architect.  A lot of pressure, the work gets to look like the same thing time after time after a while, your clients never call unless they are pissed, and every time you turn on the news/movie the only computer person that ever gets any credit for being intelligent or worthwhile are these 14 year-old script-kiddie "hacker's", most of which wouldnt know real code from a hole in the ground.  I did hate my last job quite vehemently, during which I got to travel often for 9 days straight working 16 hour days in some of our countries finest food manufacturing plants while learning more about process cheese science than any man should be allowed to know.Of course the pay is ok which is pretty much the main redeeming factor that keeps me in this line of work;  that and I'm not that good at very much else  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> At least, not anything I could make a living and support 3 kids doing  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

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