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Post by PotterLog on Feb 5, 2008 13:02:49 GMT
I've been offered some work that would be really good for my career and my CV, and would be great for my professional development. It's also pretty well-paid.
BUT it's on Saturdays between March and June!! I live away so don't go to the games but I always listen to them online and that's my matchday experience. If I take the job I could miss the run-in (including any potential play-off games) of a truly historic season!
Aaaaarrrghh what do I do???
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Post by vodkastoke on Feb 5, 2008 13:05:08 GMT
Have you got kids? Mortgage?
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Feb 5, 2008 13:07:28 GMT
Become a professional footballer and sign a contract with Stoke, the pay's probably better AND you get to take part in the run in, not just observe it!
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Post by PotterLog on Feb 5, 2008 13:15:28 GMT
No kids, no mortgage. I'll get by without the cash.
Nice idea Boother. Anyone got TP's email address? I'll drop him my CV.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2008 13:18:24 GMT
If it helps your career then go for it. The beauty of supporting a football club is it's like a family or a good friend, you might not see each other for a few months but you pick up like you've never been away........
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Feb 5, 2008 13:18:27 GMT
waterywelshtart666@yahoo.com
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Post by y_oh_y_delilah on Feb 5, 2008 13:24:13 GMT
Sorry mate, but you've just got to go to work and further yourself.
Let's put it this way, you never know what a bit of extra may lead to and maybe in the future you'll be watching the game in the best seats or even from the Directors Box.
Although I try like mad to avoid it, once in a blue moon I have to be away on business when Stoke are playing, but just console yourself with the fact that that there will soon be another match.
........tough choice all the same!!
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Post by vodkastoke on Feb 5, 2008 13:25:13 GMT
No kids, no mortgage. I'll get by without the cash. quote] Stoke it is then, although there is always the danger Stoke will let you down  |
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Feb 5, 2008 13:28:48 GMT
Well this is the first season in six that I haven't been going regularly and as luck would have it, it looks like we're going to get promoted. Then next season I won't see us, and we'll stay up. Then the season after we'll still be in the Prem and get relegated, so when I do manage to next get a ST, we'll be back in the CCC.  |
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Post by jpm64 on Feb 5, 2008 13:44:07 GMT
Prestwich Spot on mate  In fact I like your response so much I have exalted you  |
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Post by mark71 on Feb 5, 2008 14:03:42 GMT
During the Macari era we played Leyton Orient away in the Auto Windscreens cup thing on a Tuesday night. I just had to be at the game but couldn't get time off, I decided to ring in sick but if I rang in for the Tuesday they'd think it was sus so I'll have 3 or 4 days off to make it look more creditable.
Needless to say they saw straight through it and sacked me for gross misconduct.
We won that game and then went on to lift the cup. I went to every game that year.
So my advice to you is fuck work and enjoy your football. jobs come and go but Stoke City is forever.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2008 14:05:57 GMT
jpm64, you're too kind. Have some back....... |
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Post by neutron1 on Feb 5, 2008 14:06:56 GMT
No disrespect to Mark71scfc, but do yourself a favour and don't listen to him.
Career has to be put ahead of the Potters, it's a no-brainer.
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Feb 5, 2008 14:07:59 GMT
They wanted me to work on a Saturday once when Stoke were playing so I cried like a little girl for two whole hours until they finally got sick of it and asked somebody else. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2008 14:15:52 GMT
Sometimes reading this site makes me want to cry.
How can you compare listening to Stoke on the fucking radio to getting a decent living\job?
Watching the majority of Stoke games is about as entertaining as watching a porno full of fat ginger people so god knows what listening to it on the radio is like?
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Feb 5, 2008 14:17:16 GMT
a porno full of fat ginger people Ilford Dave's a pornstar?!?  ;D |
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Post by PotterLog on Feb 5, 2008 14:19:02 GMT
Sometimes reading this site makes me want to cry. How can you compare listening to Stoke on the fucking radio to getting a decent living\job? Watching the majority of Stoke games is about as entertaining as watching a porno full of fat ginger people so god knows what listening to it on the radio is like? Well, it's like listening to a porno full of fat ginger people. |
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Post by Chunky Lover! on Feb 5, 2008 14:33:43 GMT
If its only short term and is likely to improve career opportunities etc then I would work. I currently work a fair few saturdays and it does annoy me. I still get to as many games as possible.
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Post by tazi on Feb 5, 2008 14:39:28 GMT
I've been offered some work that would be really good for my career and my CV, and would be great for my professional development. It's also pretty well-paid.
BUT it's on Saturdays between March and June!! I live away so don't go to the games but I always listen to them online and that's my matchday experience. If I take the job I could miss the run-in (including any potential play-off games) of a truly historic season!
Aaaaarrrghh what do???
With the money you're about to earn, then maybe theres technology out there that you could travel around with enabling you to still listen online. Quite frankly if you cannot attend games in the past anyway then it aint such a big loss, so go for the job.
PS. I would go for the job anyway.
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Post by A-teen_six_T3 on Feb 5, 2008 14:40:25 GMT
I have had various jobs over pat 5 yers, and for all i have requested (told them) i need saturdays off. Stoke comes before anything!
But saying that if your matchday experience is the radio just take some headphones and listen to it via ya phone or a portable radio thing!
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Post by PotterLog on Feb 5, 2008 14:47:47 GMT
I have had various jobs over pat 5 yers, and for all i have requested (told them) i need saturdays off. Stoke comes before anything! But saying that if your matchday experience is the radio just take some headphones and listen to it via ya phone or a portable radio thing! It's a nice idea but the work is running a training course - not sure I could quite get away with that... ;D |
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Post by tazi on Feb 5, 2008 14:56:04 GMT
It's a nice idea but the work is running a training course - not sure I could quite get away with that...
Sorted then.....Just tell e'm all to "fuck off down the match."
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Post by PotterLog on Feb 5, 2008 15:03:18 GMT
It's a nice idea but the work is running a training course - not sure I could quite get away with that... Sorted then.....Just tell e'm all to "fuck off the match." Maybe a two-hour test. In silence. Every week. |
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Post by tazi on Feb 5, 2008 15:07:12 GMT
Exactly ;D
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Post by potters 22 on Feb 5, 2008 15:25:44 GMT
You are jokin right?
If you actually attended the matches id say well its a tough call, but too only listen on the bloody radio? and your in 2 minds?
Work it is then!
I go to the matches therefore id turn saturday afternoon work flatly down! Stoke is 1st,but if i only listened on radio wouldnt bother me really,cos what you gonna miss? nige getting players names wrong?,or team names wrong? or score wrong?
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Post by PotterLog on Feb 5, 2008 15:28:04 GMT
You are jokin right? If you actually attended the matches id say well its a tough call, but too only listen on the bloody radio? and your in 2 minds? Work it is then! I go to the matches therefore id turn saturday afternoon work flatly down! Stoke is 1st,but if i only listened on radio wouldnt bother me really,cos what you gonna miss? nige getting players names wrong?,or team names wrong? or score wrong? Yeah but you take what you can get potters. I don't have the option of going to games, so listening is my going, if you see what I mean. I'm sure the other exiles know what I mean. |
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Post by potters 22 on Feb 5, 2008 15:31:02 GMT
where u live potterlog?
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Post by PotterLog on Feb 5, 2008 15:40:06 GMT
Chile.
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Post by Stick It On Cort's Head on Feb 5, 2008 15:43:47 GMT
Go with your HEAD, NOT your HEART. |
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Post by mermaidsal on Feb 5, 2008 15:53:11 GMT
I'd normally say always listen to your heart, not your head because your heart's right 90% of the time, but if career is the big thing for you and you're in a lifetime job you believe in then I agree with all the sensible people. |
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