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I work in financial advertising, and I specifically do social media marketing. So, if you've read my political-satire, you can say it's all quite... ironic Cry (you can also say the frustration was channeled from a certain place). 

Well, you know the expression, "write what you know."
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Originally posted by Christobelle Christobelle wrote:

I used to be a family lawyer until arthritis knocked me for a six and as it has taken complete hold of me, I'm no longer able to work. 

These days, writing is a way for me to escape; when I'm writing I enter a new world, and can become the character. I'm extremely restricted in what I can do in reality, yet in my stories I can walk again, run, fly even, there are quite literally no boundaries and no limitations. 

Even though I'm not 'published' yet (that's my goal for this year, to have my first book published), I now classify myself as an author. So I guess that's my day job Smile 
So sorry about the arthritis. My mom and grandmother had really bad arthritis. So wonderful that you have writing. And your work is lovely. You are right to call yourself a writer! Good luck with the goal. Look forward to hearing in some post down the line where to find your book!
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I work as an elite escort with a service that caters to discriminating
women where discretion is everything.
Really?!!! Ok, that's interesting! Also explains your name.. Wink
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I worked in the restaurant industry for over 2 decades in every front of the house position - server, bartender, host. I spent the last 10 years of that career working at a 3 star Michelin restaurant in Manhattan. Love the industry but wanted 9 to 5. Now I'm in HR for a Japanese trading company. 
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Originally posted by pennypeaches pennypeaches wrote:

Originally posted by MsTrillian MsTrillian wrote:

Originally posted by pennypeaches pennypeaches wrote:

I manage a mushroom substrate and spawn production company. We make our own supplemented growing medium, inoculate it with spawn we've created from tissue samples, incubate for the proper amount of time, then send "blocks" out to customers all over the US and Canada who grow and harvest gourmet mushrooms. 

How many times would a block provide harvests? Do they need to be in a specific room temperature, can you go grow multiple mushroom types in the same block? 

Most blocks from farms I work with will produce at least twice- the yield is always a little smaller with each fruiting, and take a little longer, but as long as it doesn't dry out you should be able to get at least two. Our record for a home-grower local to us is 8 harvests on a lions mane block; she was likely getting like 1/4lb toward the end, but it was more of a game at that point to see how long she could keep it going LOL We do 10lb blocks (home go kits usually come in two sizes, either a 4-5lb block or a 8-10lb block) that produce somewhere around 1.5-2lbs of mushrooms on a first harvest, though I have seen closer to 3lbs on some.

Commercial growers will get really specific with temps, humidity, and CO2 levels, but most people should be able to grow mushrooms right on their kitchen counters- standard room temperature, somewhere around 68-72F is fine for most species. Ideally it would be a little cooler, like 60-68F, but that's hard to do at home and that's ok.

Each block is going to produce one type of mushroom. If you were to inoculate the blocks with two different types of spawn, the strains would likely fight each other with the stronger mycelium winning control over the substrate (hmmmmm, there may be a story somewhere in that scenario).

Cool, I always wondered if I could do this and be a little project for my little girl. Thank you for explaining all this to me. Mushroom project coming up. 😊 haha! Is the story titled Zombie Mushrooms? 


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Originally posted by spilledink spilledink wrote:

Originally posted by MsTrillian MsTrillian wrote:

Originally posted by benjboyle benjboyle wrote:

Information Systems manager with a background in database and software development. 


Oh hello fellow IT human. I’m a software delivery manager. But if you asked my daughter what I really do she’ll say: Mommy, types and talks a lot in meetings. 


When I used to work nights and returned to college, I always worried my son would tell his teachers I sleep all day.

Did you try glamourising your job? Maybe say you were up all night helping Batman? Or you were Santa’s helper making all the toys? It can backfire though. I was working as IT support for NGO and said we are helping the poor and she ended up saying we are poor and before you know it the school was asking if we were ok. 😂
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Originally posted by MsTrillian MsTrillian wrote:

Originally posted by spilledink spilledink wrote:

Originally posted by MsTrillian MsTrillian wrote:

Originally posted by benjboyle benjboyle wrote:

Information Systems manager with a background in database and software development. 


Oh hello fellow IT human. I’m a software delivery manager. But if you asked my daughter what I really do she’ll say: Mommy, types and talks a lot in meetings. 


When I used to work nights and returned to college, I always worried my son would tell his teachers I sleep all day.

Did you try glamourising your job? Maybe say you were up all night helping Batman? Or you were Santa’s helper making all the toys? It can backfire though. I was working as IT support for NGO and said we are helping the poor and she ended up saying we are poor and before you know it the school was asking if we were ok. 😂


My wife filled out a questionnaire at work and they asked "Do you feel safe at home?"  She wrote "No". 

English isn't her first language, and she didn't realize she just announced to the world that she's in a physically or emotionally abusive relationship until I explained it to her.

I kept expecting to get a visit, but...not so much.  Apparently the object of the exercise was more about filling out the form than actually helping anyone.
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Originally posted by Christobelle Christobelle wrote:

I used to be a family lawyer until arthritis knocked me for a six and as it has taken complete hold of me, I'm no longer able to work. 

These days, writing is a way for me to escape; when I'm writing I enter a new world, and can become the character. I'm extremely restricted in what I can do in reality, yet in my stories I can walk again, run, fly even, there are quite literally no boundaries and no limitations. 

Even though I'm not 'published' yet (that's my goal for this year, to have my first book published), I now classify myself as an author. So I guess that's my day job Smile 

I'm sorry to hear about the arthritis. Writing can be a wonderful escape sometimes.

Also, you have nothing but my utmost respect for having been a family lawyer. When I was at uni, I thought I might want to do family law. Then I did some mini-pupillages and work experience and couldn't fathom how anyone could stand it. What really summed it up for me was seeing two lawyers negotiating a divorce and childcare access when the lawyer I was shadowing asked the other to get his client to give ours visitation over Christmas and was asked for a justification, my lawyer's response was to explain, then say, "Also, I'm going to eat my own head if they don't stop bickering about this.". Anyone who can put up with that is astonishing in my book.


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