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Your greatest achievement

KingOfFairview · 2013-07-07 20:44:07

Excepting raising children, what was your greatest achievement?

07-07-2013 8:44pm

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Excepting raising children, what was your greatest achievement?

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#2 07-07-2013 8:46pm

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What's yours?

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#3 07-07-2013 8:48pm

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King Fairview wrote: »

Excepting raising children,?

Being a part of creating them

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#4 07-07-2013 8:49pm

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KingOfFairview wrote: »

Excepting raising children

That's okay because I haven't raised any children.

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#5 07-07-2013 8:51pm

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Rene Eager Quarrel wrote: »

That's okay because I haven't raised any children.

Those poor kids...

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#6 07-07-2013 8:53pm

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvAbhExY

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#7 07-07-2013 8:55pm

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This thread has not gone to plan so far id say

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#8 07-07-2013 8:55pm

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How did I know the first post and next ones would be kid related. Yawn.

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#9 07-07-2013 8:57pm

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Infiltrated a teenage disco. Winning!

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#10 07-07-2013 8:58pm

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On boards? Gonna go with this being removed.

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#11 07-07-2013 8:58pm

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#12 07-07-2013 9:01pm

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KingOfFairview wrote: »

what was your greatest achievement?

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

What's yours?

His was probably figuring out how to start this thread - it's not easy for the older generations to master the mouse and keyboard.

But it's not an achievement at all - this thread will be doomed to the remotest bowel's of boards in the not too distant future.

As for mine, well,...yeah...I need more time, is that alright?

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#13 07-07-2013 9:01pm

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#14 07-07-2013 9:03pm

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Delivered a product that pulled in €1m+ a year over many years in the firm I worked for

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#16 07-07-2013 9:05pm

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I made this bloke and his missus get up and leave the park.

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#17 07-07-2013 9:05pm

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A small one in this thread here, brought about through boards.

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#18 07-07-2013 9:10pm

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No Pants wrote: »

I made this bloke and his missus get up and leave the park.

I would leave too if I saw a bloke with no pants beside me

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#19 07-07-2013 9:15pm

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Nimrod 7 wrote: »

I would leave too if I saw a bloke with no pants beside me

I did ask to borrow his.

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#20 07-07-2013 9:54pm

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Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

What's yours?

I once started a thread that drew out some incredibly witty responses on a message forum...

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#21 07-07-2013 10:04pm

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#23 07-07-2013 10:26pm

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El Guapo! wrote: »

I invented the question mark.

Really?

Thanks!

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#24 07-07-2013 10:29pm

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El Guapo! wrote: »

I invented the question mark.

¿ Which one ?

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#25 07-07-2013 10:31pm

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Bruthal wrote: »

A small one in this thread here, brought about through boards.

Faith in humanity restored. Well done.

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#27 07-07-2013 10:56pm

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Nimrod 7 wrote: »

¿ Which one ?

Both.

The first one is for Australians.

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#28 07-07-2013 11:13pm

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#29 07-07-2013 11:32pm

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keith16 wrote: »

I once kicked a ball into a big net, except there was a lot of people trying to prevent me from doing so.

Such was the skill and almost surreal perfection of my kick, the net exploded on impact.

Get off the internet now

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#30 07-07-2013 11:44pm

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I've had so many greatest achievements that it's impossible to list them all. My most recent one (yesterday) was returning my PS3 from the dead after it YLODed.

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A song I co-wrote and performed was played on radio.

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Winning a scholarship from my school to go to college and being the first person ever in my family to actually go to college, and making my parents proud from that

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The Rumours album.

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MickFleetwood wrote: »

The Rumours album.

*cough*Albatross*cough*

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The Backwards Man wrote: »

*cough*Albatross*cough*

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#39 08-07-2013 1:46am

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MickFleetwood wrote: »

Such a chilled out song.

Always reminds me of Bryan Adams for some reason.

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#40 08-07-2013 3:28am

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I haven't made any serious attempt to kill myself yet. I think that's about as much as I'll ever achieve.

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#41 08-07-2013 3:31am

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I used my general laziness to develop ways to automate stuff in my old job as a hedge fund accountant so i could sit on boards.ie for longer.. Got caught using boards.ie a ridiculous amount in an internal audit and was the bad egg of the entire Ireland operation because everyone started to get monitored. Really bad buzz cause about 300 people were pretty annoyed at me. They just refused to believe that I was very quick at my job and left boards.ie open all day in the background checking in every 20/30 mins or so.

Anyways, after that horrific downfall, my nerdy IT ways to automate stuff started to leak out and I ended up training other managers/staff and developing specific processes for various types of funds. The lowly 21 year old in an office of mostly 30+ year olds on video conference.
An example would be a job only my team manager was really good enough to do and it was about a three day complicated manual job for her once a month. I reduced it to about one hour with zero potential for errors. She didn't have to waste her time on it anymore and that one process is definitely my greatest achievement. Took me quite a while to get it perfect but completely worth it cause I didn't let it impact my immediate responsibilities.

I ended up saving that company hundreds or even thousands of man hours a few months after nearly getting fired.. I was going to be promoted to senior because of it and then left for Asia and Australia cause I was one of only two people who went for the first round of voluntary redundancies.

Goes to show.. Use your other skills and think outside the box wherever you work. I nailed that job by being the only accountant with a nerdy lazy IT side.

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