NeuroTypical

I got a degree in finance, and work in a high-tech company that designs cool things. We're currently helping to invent G6 telecom standards and quantum technology. I add numbers together and help folks spend money.

Human effort in order to provide the necessities of life, ain't going away any time soon. Fleeting dreams of idealistic people with little life experience notwithstanding. My opinion is unless you are one of the tiny fraction of ppl wealthy enough to not need to work, you might as well get used to the notion that you'll be working most of your life. And if you are in that lucky class, you'll probably chose to work at something. Might as well make the best of it. Find a career you enjoy, or are good at. Find places where you like who you work with.

Oof. It was up a few weeks ago. It might be the last of it's kind, but it's not the last pony radio station. http://ponyvillelive.com/ still has 11 active channels (hopefully Russian Pony Radio can come back - it was fine until Ukraine etc started).

The fandom may be waning, but I'm incredibly grateful Ponyville live is still host to around a dozen still-broadcasting radio stations! This place has been my go-to at work, once a month, for a decade. I have a long, boring excel spreadsheet task that takes much effort once a month. I deck out on a sofa at work, and bounce around the different stations with my ear buds as I grind the numbers. Even after they sent me home for COVID, I kept it up in my basement.

I'm very patriotic, in that I believe in the founding ideals of the U.S. I'm not impressed with politicians, and I'm very much opposed to the crushing size, meddling power, and too-broad scope of today's federal government. But I'm very patriotic.

RainbowMau, how old are you?

Yep, goat eyes are creepy. Horse eyes too. We used to have horses, they were cool. Our neighbors have goats, they're cool too. Creepy can be cool.

I guess the trixie hat counts.

Nobody there is interested in ponies except me. My boss was willing to entertain the issue for 5 minutes because they all welcome a break in the routine, and the group enjoys hearing fun and different things about our families. Something to understand about the corporate world - it's full of humans just like anywhere else. Even when your meeting involves big expensive projects and engineers in three different continents. I mean, if folks are having a problem believing that a group of managers and a bean counter get bored in their meetings too, I guess you will have a hard time believing it. Got no reason to make up some story, but it's not like people always tell the truth on the internet, so skepticism is understandable. If folks might be willing to ponify the picture anyway, I'd still be tickled all shades of pink.

Ok. I lost a bet with my daughter. The bet: Read a history book on the American revolution by a certain date. If she missed the date, she had to read a second book. If she completed the book in time, I would take ponies to work and show all my coworkers. So, here's me at work, (in the big important weekly staff meeting where decisions are made impacting million dollar budgets and a hundred employees), displaying ponies to my professional corporate coworkers. I didn't get fired, so I guess the obvious next step is to have teh interwebs ponify the heck out of this image. Here's the first submission - a quick sketch from a brony who will be posting a cleaned up version to her DeviantART account later. So who's up for a brief challenge? Please ponify my picture and post it in this thread. All levels of talent and detail welcome. Heck, any form of media or art is welcome. If you want to add cutie marks, this is a high-tech group of mechanical and electrical engineers who have progressed into management. We make oscilloscopes and logic analyzers and whatnot - basically big boxes of technology that we sell to other companies who make technology, so they can use our stuff to test their stuff. So these guys would have ohms and electrical symbols and whatnot for cutie marks. I'm the bean counter of the group, a process guy who watches budgets. The more boring the cutie mark the better. Go forth and create, ya bunch of creative creating bronies!

Here's my bathroom remodel project. Complete with wub machine - at least until the sink is finished. What do y'all think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ph_0Ia3SMo

So, let me make sure I've got this right. You think your mom saw you not sitting there crying and showing lots of emotion, got upset, and asked you 'do you care' with a biting tone? And it's the biting tone, and maybe the false assumption she was making, that is giving you pain and anger? Because if that's what you're saying, then your reaction is pretty darn understandable. Not everybody immediately has an immediate outward reaction to hearing horrible news like a relative is dying. It would be nice if your mom understood that. Maybe point her here? Kidshealth.org - What is grief?

Ok - first try on this thread. Eyes are hard. Sorry, I don't know how to do the spoilers thing. [edit - figured it out!] Me draw ponies? That's unpossible!

Yay! I'm not the only one who read The Shining waaaay too early in life! My parents used to go out for an evening, they'd come back to find I had turned every single light, radio, and tv on in the entire house. I was terribly afraid of the dark for a long time. 30 years later, I'm explaining to my young daughter about facing fears one night. I tell her this story, and then I open a door into a dark bedroom and slowly back into it. It still gives me the heebeedee-de-jeebeedies. Yeah, as far as scars go, this one sure isn't in the same ballpark with serious scars we humans can give each other or ourselves. But y'all asked, so there you go.

I would dream that I'm posting on mlpforums. I would create posters in my dream, who believe they are real people. They'd be all postin' stuff about ponyville and flying and their experiences and stuff. (psych)

On the home page, it tells me: When I click on the Life Advice forum, it tells me: Am I doing something wrong?