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Wonderful how many literate folks Glitch has

I'm still astounded at how many incredibly literate folk (pretty much everyone I've met) there are in this brilliantly wicked game :D I chatted about Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams copious gifts to man(glitch)kind and pretty much everyone one had something positive to say about one or the other. Not that it measures anything, I'm curious as to how many Glitchers out there have Graduate degrees or other advanced degrees. I have one in something completely gratifying but horrifically quite useless in today's job market and economy, Classical vocal performance (MA).

Posted 7 months ago by Bachjess♫♫♪ Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Singing? I'm degreeless...I'm afraid, but have always loved Douglas Adams.  Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was one of the first real books I read as a kid and still find it a hilarious read now : )

    Edit: Mind you, in regards to my career (excluding the past couple of years) all of the jobs I had I was surrounded by degree holders.  I always managed to wing it somehow.  I give good interview lol
    Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • MBA
    Posted 7 months ago by Koftun Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I love Terry Pratchett!
    Posted 7 months ago by RJStormRider Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love the use of brilliantly wicked - you must be a Brit? 
    love, Ratbag from London who works in the arts (oh, and who has an MA in culture, policy and management - interesting but will never make my fortune)
    Posted 7 months ago by ratbag Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ Arabesque, No worries, I often think that real world experience is far more important then which degree you have. I was just curious. After all, took me 2 and a half years to find a job after graduation (about 3 years ago), then found 2 retail jobs in music, only to be jobless again. Lol oh but I do have a part time singing gig. :D

    @Koftun- MBAs are infinitely more marketable then an Arts degree (MA, DMA or PhD) So right on :D

    @ RJStormRider: Yeah, Pratchett rocks!!! Come check out my group if you like, I sent you an invite. "So Long and thanks for the Scumble".

    Cheers all with *hugs*,

    Bachjess
    Posted 7 months ago by Bachjess♫♫♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hiya Ratbag :D

    Thanks for the reply and comment. Nope not Brit but did live and study there for 5 years. Cool, which Arts field are you in? I'm a musician who is passionate about Renaissance Polyphony. Oh and if you like Pratchett or Douglas Adams, check out my new group: "So long and thanks for all the Scumble". I hope you don't mind if I friend you all :D *hugs*, Cheers, Bachjess
    Posted 7 months ago by Bachjess♫♫♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Bachjess - So you're really living the dream! I think it's wonderful that you're able to perform : ) Must be such a rush!

    Edit: I'm going for Aussie?? My best friend lives in QLD, just outside Toowoomba! No worries is a phrase/term I picked up from her! Along with dick..which is what she ALWAYS calls me : )  I'm Canadian but raised for the most part in England.
    Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm Dyslexic, how's ttehchtarp yrret?
    Posted 7 months ago by Webbie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • PhD student in American Studies, but have an MBA that bored me to tears as well as my Hist MA.
    Posted 7 months ago by Magnificent Maude Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Webbie - So long, and thanks for all the fish?
    Posted 7 months ago by ~Arabesque~ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • College classes, various certificates, vocational school. No degree (except my HS diploma) but I read voraciously and can keep up with most of my friends who are all high-level degree-holding college graduates...
    Posted 7 months ago by foolbunny Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @bachjess - too many arts fields to mention! i live close to highgate so wander past adams' grave occasionally, which i suspect you'd appreciate. renaissance polyphony is fairly esoteric - how did you end up in that particular niche?

    @magnificentmaude - my undergrad was in american studies.  where're you based for your phd?
    Posted 7 months ago by ratbag Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I R smurt!
    Posted 7 months ago by Melting Sky Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I can't read :-(
    Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Elf, I haven't seen you in ages. Did you die?
    Posted 7 months ago by Joan Holloway Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No graduate degrees here, I was fed up with school once I got my BA in music performance (vocal emphasis, voice teacher tried to turn me into an opera singer, but I couldn't act to save my life). Absolutely love the books of both Mr. P and Mr. A. Anything that is fantasy or science fiction floats my boat, and especially so when it's humorous.
    Posted 7 months ago by Draeli Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm dead for tax reasons.

    I spend most if not all time on Glitch in IM, since its just far easier to have fun.
    Posted 7 months ago by ☣ elf ☣ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 42 ~.^
    Posted 7 months ago by Thursday Soleil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have a Master's in Library Science and a zillion years of reading experience! Love sci fi & fantasy, like Draeli says - especially when it's humorous.

    Now I recommend young adult books beyond the bestsellers on my blog: BooksYALove.blogspot.com .
    Posted 7 months ago by katyroo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • *weeps*
    Well, I'VE missed you in global.
    Posted 7 months ago by Joan Holloway Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Huge, huge Douglas Adams fan here. My mom gave me a paperback of Hitchhiker's to read on the way to the beach when I was a kid, and I was hooked...  I even got the cassettes of the original radio shows for Christmas the next year. (Yes, cassettes! I am not the youngest of Glitchen :-)  )

    I'm working through a mid-career Masters in public policy. Glitch has been a mighty help in preserving what's left of my sanity.
    Posted 7 months ago by Georgia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't have a degree. I got my job as an emergency dispatcher when I was 18 (5 yrs ago)
    Posted 7 months ago by EarthtoGrace Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was pretty much won over by Eliot, Joyce, and cummings in Le Voyage Violet. (No lady writers though. How about some Woolf or Wharton?)
    Posted 7 months ago by Pii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Or Gertrude Stein!
    Posted 7 months ago by Pii Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I for one Love Douglas Adams. Just sayin!!
    Posted 7 months ago by Tricia McMillan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have a J.D., and I can confirm, given the legal job market both now and when I graduated, that my decision to go to law school in no way makes me "smart."

    I know a lot about the U.S. Constitution, though. So that's nice.
    Posted 7 months ago by BumbelB 2na Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm a librarian by profession, 'Nuff said.
    Posted 7 months ago by Mal'akh Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow
    Posted 7 months ago by Misty Power Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ Arabesque Sigh, nah, more like a Classical singer who is exceedingly part time right now: as more and more arts programs get cut, musicians are too often the first to go. We are expected to volunteer our professional skills. Just see the London Olympics and Queen's Jubilee.

    http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/olympics/olympic-news/olympic-musicians-told-work-for-free-7639875.html

    I do miss England greatly. Thoroughly loved my 5 years there at music school then Uni :) I do love performing though. Singing Renaissance Polyphony does transport me to another place entirely- feel so at peace when I sing that repertoire. Ah Aussie Land, haven't been there in years but have fond memories of feasting on seafood (aged about 10) in Sydney harbor :) Also, have a ton of Canadian friends...I adore the French pastisseries (spelling) in Quebec (if I'm remembering correctly).

    Cheers & *hugs*, Bachjess
    Posted 7 months ago by Bachjess♫♫♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ Webbie Hmm I'm not sure what you said there but I have met dyslexic folks who could not spell words like dyslexic so in the immortal words of Pratchett "Pull the other one, it's got bells on".

    @Magnificent Maude The field of American Studies has always fascinated me. Indeed the study of cultures (any culture) is a wonderful thing to build a more unified world. My hubby calls me Little miss Unicef. Hence, Glitch resonates with me completely :D And ah History, love the study of it.
    Posted 7 months ago by Bachjess♫♫♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oops forgot @ Webbie and Magnificent Maude, Cheers and *hugs* :D Bachjess
    Posted 7 months ago by Bachjess♫♫♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ foolbunny My Dad only has a high school education and he works as a Captain with a Commercial Airfleet. Many of the folks I've met in my life have no college degree but so much valuable work and life experience. Just read over my post and I shouldn't write when suffering from a lack of sleep lol. I did not mean to equate intellectualism with graduate degrees or indeed any college credentials- Really I was putting down my musings on two separate things. My bad, should have split that into 2 posts. So apologies abound, if I gave anyone the wrong impression and came across as a snob regarding education.

    And perhaps I'm painting with too wide a brushstroke to equate literacy with a love of reading but that's what I really meant. Darn you Glitch for robbing my life of little things like food, drink and sleep :P Really, I think that folks who don't enjoy reading will find it harder to "get" this game. Indeed, Glitch is not for the crowd that needs high resolution graphics and  adrenalin pumping audio. They need to find their fix elsewhere, but for those of us who love reading and all the joys that come with it, this is an ideal gaming universe. Oh and it helps to be appreciate a whole bunch of stuff too like different art and visual styles, musical styles (Love those music blocks with their themed genres), comedic styles, literate styles etc., Oh yes, memes and some innuendo too :D 
    Posted 7 months ago by Bachjess♫♫♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Argggh forgot again

    @foolbunny *hugs* anc Cheers, Bachjess
    Posted 7 months ago by Bachjess♫♫♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Iam illterite
    Posted 7 months ago by Electric Wizard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ Ratbag: Ah Highgate, I sang with the New London Children's Choir that still practices in a church in Highgate I believe. And curiosity got the hold of me, I googled "Douglas Adams' Grave" and got this link: Ah what did I do before you, dear internet?

    http://www.flickfilosopher.com/blog/2009/02/021809douglas_adamss_grave.html#axzz1toJ2uyWJ

    Apparently someone reverentially left a towel there lol, the ultimate tribute :) Sigh, why didn't I look that up when I was there, would have loved to pay my respect that the great man.

    Do you play instruments and/or sing as well? As for me, I started off at 14 wanting to be an opera singer after falling in love with the voice of Sarah Brightman in Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera". Indeed, I had a teacher who thought that "O mio babbino Caro" from Puccini's Gianni Schicchi (grand Opera) was appropriate for an early teen and sadly I'm still undoing vocal issues from that one lol.

    When I was in King's College London (not to be confused with the internationally renowned Cambridge boys and men choir) , I was lucky enough to sing as a choral scholar for 3 years and our wonderful director David Trendall introduced me to the wealth of richness that was Renaissance music- I fell in love with Guerrero, Taverner, Fayrfax, Byrd, Rogier and Lobo to name a few- good thing too because that was our diet :) I found out that I had a true affinity with it because of my type of voice which is very vibrato free (wobbleless you might say). Polyphony was also my cup of tea given my love of complex interweaving parts and serenity :D Indeed my goal is to try and put together a double quartet of strong sight readers (who can sing the music with just one or two readings) to explore and perform this repertoire. Just need to find appropriate rehearsal space that won't violate noise ordinances :D

    Ah I remember this time. *hugs* and Cheers, Bachjess
    Posted 7 months ago by Bachjess♫♫♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @ elf Hmm now there's a conundrum: one who couldn't read wouldn't be able to write :)

    @Dreali I hear ya about teachers trying to force students into becoming opera singers. Sadly, many also speak of the "Evils" of being in choirs if one has solo aspirations, which is rubbish.
    After all, opera singers like world class instrumentalists will spend most of their working life (if lucky) in ensemble work of some kind. The Joshua Bells, Kathleen Battles and Pavorottis of the world are few and far between in terms of achieving solo fame. I too have very little acting experience and I suspect ability lol :D

    I will come back to this thread in a bit. Glitch is beckoning :D

    Cheers & *Hugs* Bachjess
    Posted 7 months ago by Bachjess♫♫♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, I've got a PhD in English Literature, so I guess that counts.
    Posted 7 months ago by Pippiwippins Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hey, you may be interested to know there's a group for academic Glitchen here:  www.glitch.com/groups/RHVBN...

    FWIW, my username is an (indirect) literary reference that nobody's picked up on yet.  :)
    Posted 7 months ago by Pale Queen Subscriber! | Permalink