Village idiot - DS.

Can't help myself. How about jounalist. Drunk.

Sorry Jeff, I come from the school of "retaliate first". I'm sure that the good Directeur will have some less than flattering comments on various posters.

DSP - moron

What an interesting topic? I have all my life noticed a remarkable number of people in various organisations that have roles seemingly fitting their names. I have always pondered on this ? is that a reverse of the person being named by what they did to being assigned a role of what they have as a label? Is the system so basic that the common denominator is , has been and always well be a label? Much like a nickname. I dont thjink i have digressed , but rather have started where our names origionally came from. That is we were nicknamed on what we may have been good at, and now that nickname becomes what we should be good at? fats , slim , stinky, drain, miller, smith, constable .... the list goes on. The role of course requires skills and achieving with those skills , that by logic means having the right attributes to be able to apply those skills. Can you imagine a blacksmith that cannot lift a hammer or faints in the heat? Motivation of course can overcome all as we mostly can adapt our strengths and mitigate our weakness's to be fit and able to achieve what the role demand. Or we do something else. maybe "busking"? :)))

People define & 'position' themselves through their job,clothes,music,haircut, tattoos,etc. Others pigeonhole us using the same cues. A youth with tatts & piercings wonders why job interviews don't go well. The highly educated but boring boffin wonders why the vivacous young upstart gets promoted. We (often unconsciously)choose the messages we send, & occupation speaks volumes. Are all police officers jaded drones? Are all estate agents money hungry shysters? Are all magistrates pompous, holier than thou dictators? Are all journalists lazy, scruffy, cellophane peak wearing, slightly dodgy characters? Of course not. One of the most revealing questions you can ask regarding occupation is "How did you get here?". Many people drift into a job they hate, & stay there, or drift on to another, remain unfulfilled & wonder why life isn't what they had hoped for. So, unless you are doing what you love, DON'T be defined by your job! Mark Twain said it well : Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover

plumber -drain, policeman -constable, gardener - plant, doctor- well, driver- gone, journalist- drink or scribe, priest-lord, taxman -dracula, accountant - goodsir, teacher-scribe and so on. Kenny for plumber ? sorry JC you obviously drink too much whilst watchin tv (at the brothels) oh i forgot , this is dedicated to jeff and the profession of journalism . Prostitute -reuter! :)

Casualty doctor / nurse / employee : overworked, selfless, invaluable. (Good) school teachers : guardians of the future.

notashrink : busking is an excellent case in point, although busking is surely not an occupation, but a past time for the talent deprived?

AB~nce, now if I were to be tarty -I would say "if you dont like newcastles 'position' in the marketplace of available buskers then its the town that your issue is with, not the quality of buskers that it can sustain. But I'm not like that and will kindly point out that venice, berlin, san francisco and paris have good buskers whilst Newcastles are umm shall we say "have a little way to go" in talent development. If you want them improved I am sure that a "fame school " could be encouraged by a tithe on your booming investements? (oh when pre-emptive strikes become the order of the day perhaps we are losing th essence of debate and the ability to share and encourage wit and understanding of good knowledge? -as funny as it was :))))