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Magic => Welcome to Magic! => Topic started by: James S on September 02, 2004, 16:52:10

Title: Day Jobs
Post by: James S on September 02, 2004, 16:52:10
I'm a witch, and at the moment my day job is building and configuring Unix and Windows servers.

My path is now taking me in a spiritual direction, away from the computer industry. I know I will soon find myself "employed" by my dreams and passions, and becoming a teacher of metaphysics and possibly healer. I am already attending certificate courses that will put me in a position to be able to teach, and I've recieved more than just a few confirmations from Spirit that this is where I am meant to be.

After 19 years in the computer industry, I'm really looking forward to the change. [:)]

Why not use magic to win the lottery?
The universe can have a perverse sense of humor. You can ask for a lottery win, or cast a spell accordingly, but you really want to be very careful of what you ask for. The concept of "a slap in the face with a wet fish" is something the universe knows very well. [:)] Lottery wins can come with their own sets of problems.

Material abundance is there for the taking if we just put forward our requests to the universe. It will always provide if we let it know what we need, and then surrender our requsts in trust and not hold on to expectations of how the universe will provide. It has ways and means of providing that go way beyound our comprehension.
Well, those are at least my thoughts on the subject.

Regards,
James.
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: Tisha on September 03, 2004, 18:48:51
I am a cost analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense.  I have a security clearance and all that.  I used to be bothered by serving the Death Force, but not anymore. I understand the creation/destruction dynamic so much better now than I did when I was a newbie witch.

I'm dating a very wealthy man, so of course I fantasize about what it would be like to be able to quit my job and work on my magical and psychic abilities 24/7.   But there is something powerful about a woman's financial independence!  It enables me to say and do what I want. Which sure beats a slap on the face with a wet fish, yes?

Title: Day Jobs
Post by: aryanknight666 on September 03, 2004, 20:21:32
dentist + bmw and ford dealer
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: James S on September 03, 2004, 20:46:27
Just curious Aryanknight....which dealership do you work at?

I ask because I build servers for Reynolds & Reynolds, and there's a good chance your using our gear.

[:)]
James.
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: LiLRaverJay on September 03, 2004, 22:25:27
witch here.  im a full time student entering my 1st year to become a lair.  Oops, i mean lawyer.  I also work for McDonalds, and Im a gay rights activist as well.
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: aryanknight666 on September 04, 2004, 02:41:31
James- alto and alto.
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: James S on September 04, 2004, 05:30:30
Aryan,
The Alto Group! On the highway at Artarmon?
They're one of our larger customers, running on one of the big IBM servers. Those IBMs are the one line of server I don't build. That privelage is reserved for my boss - the head guru (or head nerd) of our company.

Funny, my boss is also a witch, as is his wife, but he eats sleeps and breaths computers. Part of my job is to translate for him. If any of our sales people come in to ask him a technical question, I  translate between High Nerd and normal english for them [:)]

Sorry Rastus,
Getting caught up in a bit of "small world" here.

[:)]
James.
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: aryanknight666 on September 04, 2004, 05:33:46
I live in pymble though. Where are you?
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: James S on September 04, 2004, 07:07:07
Melbourne.
My company's head office is there.
I did live in Sydney (well, Camden) until 5 years ago. Change of wife, change of life....

You're at Pymble? Not far to travel to work then. In Sydney traffic that can only be a good thing! Where's your dental clinic?

That's a rather diverse combination of jobs you've got.
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: Rastus on September 04, 2004, 07:19:12
That's okay.  I'm the technical guru for a bank.  If it uses energy, it's my problem (interesting choice of phrases?).
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: Naiad780 on September 09, 2004, 21:00:59
Well, I don't call myself any of those, but other people like to call me by those names, so ... *shrug*

Day job:  research assistant at a university behavioral research institute.

Night job:  indie record label operations manager (not that I can count that as "generating an income")
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: Rydel on September 10, 2004, 07:46:29
I consider myself a "mage", and I am currently a student, and I work with landscaping along with a little computer work on the side.
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: narfellus on September 10, 2004, 13:14:57
quote:
Originally posted by Naiad780


Day job:  research assistant at a university behavioral research institute.



Hey, me too Naiad! In fact, i'm at work right now "researching online." No, it's not a career, just pays the bills until i figure out what i'm supposed to do with my life. Sigh. Guess i'll keep working on energetically creating money for my higher good...
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: aryanknight666 on September 11, 2004, 06:49:55
quote:
Melbourne.
My company's head office is there.
I did live in Sydney (well, Camden) until 5 years ago. Change of wife, change of life....

You're at Pymble? Not far to travel to work then. In Sydney traffic that can only be a good thing! Where's your dental clinic?

That's a rather diverse combination of jobs you've got.


Um, two stops away from pymble on the trainline.
Heh...camden sucks! [8D] did you ever know anyone by the name hodson, mconie or buckley?
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: James S on September 11, 2004, 20:55:55
Sorry, no.
When I first moved to Camden it was a semi-rural town. It wouldn't be to difficult to get to know a lot of the people there, but when I left, it had become just another surburan sprawl.

- James.
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: aryanknight666 on September 14, 2004, 02:54:09
It's still semi-rural I'd say
Title: Day Jobs
Post by: Rastus on September 02, 2004, 07:19:14
I have a question for avowed Witches/Druids/Shamans out there.  What's your day job?  What do you do to generate an income?

I have the standard answers for the old "why don't they use magick to win the Lottery" question, but I'd like to know if there's some common callings?