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I really enjoyed the LOTR movies*, but I have avoided both Hobbit movies so far.
* Particularly because Tom Bombadill (  ) is absent. Also because we get to see those self-righteous elves get slaughtered.
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I hadn't read the book in many a year but saw the first part the other day and also thought it sucked and thought I should go back and read the book again because a lot of it didn't look at all familiar. I won't be watching the rest of it me thinks!
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I had mixed feelings with the first movie too. Yet it's a matter of perspective. Peter Jackson is telling the story not only from Bilbo's View, but from his story telling. "There and back again" is in fact the book Bilbo has written himself over the years. So the movie is trying to convey what Bilbo has experienced. (Not only "facts" but also his feelings etc.)
I noted this best when the mountain giants clashed together. Only then did I realize: This is not just a reenactment of some story, but it's how Bilbo had felt and is telling his story after his journey.
Considering that: I have to say the film was nice enough for a Tolkien fan like me  And I'm going to see the 2nd part today 
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I think the main problem with me not liking it was that I didn't think that the character that played Bilbo was very good. He doesn't become the character like the character that played in LOTRs. He just didn't make it beleivable...if that makes any sense.
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Got the first movie as a present, now I do not follow movies in general so was upset to find the movie end in the middle of the story. I gave up on movies matching books so thought the first movie was not too bad. However, I do not think I will be seeing the second and third as it was not that good!
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poor little you.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I believe that's "Sir Peter" to you, lowly peasant. 
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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Not sure why you needed to wait for film two of The Hobbit - Radagast's bunny sled did it for me in film one. 
That said, at least it's not yet another shouty guns-n-ammo-n-testosterone chest-beater, or a schmaltzy Hollywood Xmas puke-fest.
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The bit of spam earlier got me thinking: what keeps you stuck at your job? Is it a good environment? Interesting work? A golden fish hook (lots of benefits that you can't seem to abandon)? Mortgage and/or alimony? Three children heading to college? How long have you been at your current position, and what would entice you away to a different one?
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Gregory.Gadow wrote: what keeps you stuck at your job?
I enjoy it.
Gregory.Gadow wrote: what would entice you away to a different one?
Quality tester at the Playboy club?
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Into every life a little rain must fall...and at least it isn't VB written by a student 
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LOL! Nice and true !!!
Fortēs fortūna adjuvat.
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I wouldn't say I was stuck in my career, but if the right opportunity were to come my way, I would possibly consider switching.
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Well, I'm not stuck. In fact, quite the opposite, as consulting tends to be a financial rollercoaster. Right now, I'm sitting in a lovely cafe in Great Barrington, MA working on stuff. I work at home, make my own hours, and it's a great environment. While the financial stuff can be really stressful, I've decided to take the standpoint that I'm not willing to compromise, no matter what happens, for the kind of crap work environments I've experienced. Sure, Google and Facebook do look like great places to work, and I would actually work for Google (but Facebook? ugh, I do have a sense of ethics) and even CP looks like a nice place to work. So they are out there, and I should qualify my prior statement that almost all places where I would have to commute to are not places I would want to subject myself to, nor do I think any human being should be subjected to.
Call me arrogant or not, but I think we've compromised far too much.
Marc
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Hear hear!
Why spend 2 hours a day travelling to somewhere you don't want to be, surrounded by people you don't consider real friends, wearing clothes that you don't actually want to?
All you get is stressed out, strung out, and frustrated by the other commuters. You get home, and it's too late to do much by the time you have unwound enough to go to bed ready for the next day of the same. And a large chunk of your wages goes in paying for all this! 
Sod that. Life is too important to waste on things you don't want to do every day. OK, what I do has dull patches - coding is like that - but the balance I have is about right, I think.
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+5 for the correct use of Hear! Hear! (I loathe seeing it written as here here!"
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I'm here for 1 reason only... to support my family. The money in software makes that easy.
If I didn't have that responsibility? I'd go into the Christian ministry. Probably as either a missionary or pastor.
But for now... I have a career and maybe in the future when the kids are out the door, opportunities will arrise. Until then, I just volunteer where and when I can, keeping myself ready.
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I am paid enough, work close to where I live, do different things each day, run my own department as I see fit, answer only to the MD and FD, have 99% autonomy, like the people I work with, and am completely satisfied with my output.
I would only leave for a much bigger salary or to be a test pilot for Slumberland.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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It's simple. I applied for the job and was unlucky enough to get it. And then to my big surprise, I noticed that to maintain the living standards I had become accustomed to, I had to go back the day after as well. And the day after... etc.
Why does it have to be so hard when all I really want is to get a fat paycheck but not have to show up for work??? 
Nah, I'm just kidding, I really enjoy my work. I have good colleagues, a good boss, reasonably few demands to produce anything at all and I work only 5 minutes away from my home.
Only thing that could be better is the pay, but if I were to take another job with higher pay, I would have to weigh it off against the travel time and be damned sure it was worth it.
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I work to ssupport my family, without a doubt. I have been fortunate to be where I am. I can honestly say I get paid to play, surf the internet, drink coffee and try out cool new stuff. (Granted what spins my wheels may be different from other people…) 
I’ve been with my company for 13 years, 7 years as a software engineer (Although I have been programming all 13 years). My manager at the time told ma that since I was spending a good deal of my time programming that I should be in programming so I was promoted. I stay because of what my company does, we design and manufacture medical devices that save and improve people’s lives.
To entice me away would be to do a tour to open for a band like AC/DC, Aerosmith, Foo Fighters or something like that. Otherwise early retirement would work too.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Stuck in my career or stuck at my current location?
The career, I actively chose; I tasted programming in the early '80s, decided I very much enjoyed it and never looked back.
Places of employment:
food manufacturing facility working on plant automation for almost 13 years; very much enjoyed the work; left when the company restructed and I lost my job
from there, moved to take a job at a paper manufacturing facility doing much of the same work I had done previously; same platform, language, tools, etc.
left that job after almost 13 years when recruited to work with a data collection platform that had woven itself into my career over the last 20 years; LOVE my job!
Why do I stay? In order of importance:
1. LOVE the environment
2. great people
3. great pay
4. didn't have to move; almost same commute length in a different direction
5. ability to work from home as needed
What would entice me away?
I have no intentions of leaving anytime soon. The platform developer has a user's conference every year. I attended it in April with my wife. When she spoke to other spouses and said who she was, they said, "My husband knows of your husband and wants to talk to him!" My wife's words, "I didn't know I was married to the Forrest Gump of <platform>"
While I could probably work directly for the company, that would entail leaving the people I enjoy working with along with moving. So, no, I think I'm here for the long haul...
Tim
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I'm in software because I couldn't find an interesting job in geology (which is my degree and what I guess I actually want to do), and it's a hobby skill I'd developed over many years. I'm in this particular company because it's a good place to work – everyone here is highly skilled, intelligent and receives proper training so on the work side it's very productive and satisfying (a problem at my previous job); the pay is decent, though I'm sure I could get more elsewhere, which is nice after doing some self-employed consulting where money is always a worry in the medium and long term; I've moved so that I'm a 5 minute cycle away from work and I'd have to do that again if I moved to a company in a different town, so I'd have to be sure it was much better; and the people here are mostly fun to be with and there's a good sports and social scene as well.
Money doesn't really come into it for me beyond 'having some', I've never been materialistic and as I'm single my discretionary expenses are very small. So to entice me away from here you'd have to offer me a more interesting job or a significantly better working atmosphere and environment ... which is quite difficult to imagine in software, really.
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I blame my manager(s).
I'm stuck...very stuck.
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