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1. How many jobs have you had, and which was your favorite? 5? 6? One of them lasted three weeks. One of them got transferred to a different location/organisation where it kinda feels like a different job. I like where I am now. They don't like us to broadcast who we work for on the internet, but it's in healthcare admin.
2. When did you first connect to other people via computers? At uni, 1996.
3. Were/are you on AOL? Compuserve? LJ? Dreamwidth? A Listserv? Other? My fandom used to be yahoo lists, followed by livejournal.
4. If you went to college, does your major match your career/current job? Not in the least.
5. Have you had a mammogram? Colonoscopy? No.
6. When did you get your first cell phone? What was it like? (Did it have a screen? Could you text? Was it a brick or flip?) I've only had two. I used the first until it broke. Then I bought the cheapeset replacement possible with a flip top and intend to use that the same. It's a phone. It's for brief phone calls and arrangement type texts and that's it. Guessing it was about 8-9 years ago I got the first one? I am hugely resistant to intrusive technology that means people expect me to communicate with them no matter where I am and what I'm doing.
7, When did your family first acquire a color TV? It was late, we had no money. I remember watching Doctor Who episodes in black and white that were definitely made in colour. And also snooker, hah. I think I was about 8-9. 1986-7?
8. When did your family acquire a second TV? ??????????????Around 1990-92 possibly we bought a new TV and VCR and the old tv got stuck in a back room?
9. Did you ever own “designer jeans”? No.
10. Have you ever been to a disco? Before I was old enough to drink. We did still call them that in high school, but it might be regional.
11. How many places (towns, states, countries) have you lived in? I've lived in every county of Yorkshire plus Lancashire and Nottinghamshire. 7 towns??
12. Have any of you contemporary friends died? (I.e., people more or less you age.) I don't think so.
13. Are you parents still living? Yes. Morbid questions much?
14. Do you have any gray hairs? Actually, no. :P I keep thinking I spot the odd one but it's not definite yet.
15. Did you or your family own a Betamax? No.
16. How did you spend New Year’s Eve 1999/2000? With my family.
17. What’s the oldest article of clothing you still wear? I still have a cashmere coat that was bought for my birthday about 20 years ago.
18. Do you eat your vegetables? That's my main diet.
19. Are the privileges of adulthood worth the responsibilities? I loathed being a teenager. Also, what responsibilities? (Kidding. Or not...)
20. Do you feel like an adult? Yes? I don't know that that has to mean what a lot of people seem to think it means. It doesn't mean you have to lose your sense of fun. Or stop watching cartoons. Or roller-skating. Or anything else you want to do. Don't take life so serious just because you have to be ultimately responsible for yourself.
21. Is youth wasted on the young? Like anonymous_sibyl said. I challenge the assumptions of the question.
anonymous_sibyl: Meme for the “Experienced” Side of Tumblr1. How many jobs have you had, and which was your favorite? 5? 6? One of them lasted three weeks. One of them got transferred to a different location/organisation where it kinda feels like a different job. I like where I am now. They don't like us to broadcast who we work for on the internet, but it's in healthcare admin.
2. When did you first connect to other people via computers? At uni, 1996.
3. Were/are you on AOL? Compuserve? LJ? Dreamwidth? A Listserv? Other? My fandom used to be yahoo lists, followed by livejournal.
4. If you went to college, does your major match your career/current job? Not in the least.
5. Have you had a mammogram? Colonoscopy? No.
6. When did you get your first cell phone? What was it like? (Did it have a screen? Could you text? Was it a brick or flip?) I've only had two. I used the first until it broke. Then I bought the cheapeset replacement possible with a flip top and intend to use that the same. It's a phone. It's for brief phone calls and arrangement type texts and that's it. Guessing it was about 8-9 years ago I got the first one? I am hugely resistant to intrusive technology that means people expect me to communicate with them no matter where I am and what I'm doing.
7, When did your family first acquire a color TV? It was late, we had no money. I remember watching Doctor Who episodes in black and white that were definitely made in colour. And also snooker, hah. I think I was about 8-9. 1986-7?
8. When did your family acquire a second TV? ??????????????Around 1990-92 possibly we bought a new TV and VCR and the old tv got stuck in a back room?
9. Did you ever own “designer jeans”? No.
10. Have you ever been to a disco? Before I was old enough to drink. We did still call them that in high school, but it might be regional.
11. How many places (towns, states, countries) have you lived in? I've lived in every county of Yorkshire plus Lancashire and Nottinghamshire. 7 towns??
12. Have any of you contemporary friends died? (I.e., people more or less you age.) I don't think so.
13. Are you parents still living? Yes. Morbid questions much?
14. Do you have any gray hairs? Actually, no. :P I keep thinking I spot the odd one but it's not definite yet.
15. Did you or your family own a Betamax? No.
16. How did you spend New Year’s Eve 1999/2000? With my family.
17. What’s the oldest article of clothing you still wear? I still have a cashmere coat that was bought for my birthday about 20 years ago.
18. Do you eat your vegetables? That's my main diet.
19. Are the privileges of adulthood worth the responsibilities? I loathed being a teenager. Also, what responsibilities? (Kidding. Or not...)
20. Do you feel like an adult? Yes? I don't know that that has to mean what a lot of people seem to think it means. It doesn't mean you have to lose your sense of fun. Or stop watching cartoons. Or roller-skating. Or anything else you want to do. Don't take life so serious just because you have to be ultimately responsible for yourself.
21. Is youth wasted on the young? Like anonymous_sibyl said. I challenge the assumptions of the question.