AMA wish list! I'd really like to hear from...

Boards.ie: Niamh

Things have quietened down in the AMA forum of late and we'd like to get things back up and running. Personally I love the AMAs and always enjoy them no matter what the subject is. I think there are a lot of you who love reading them and asking questions too. I've collated a list (posted below) of the types of people/professions that people have mentioned here and in other forums that they would like to hear from. I've left out any that we've already covered. Let me know if any of these appeal to you and if you have any other suggestions, please post them here too and we'll see what people would really like to read about and do our best to organise them.

You can see a list of previous AMAs here.

If one of the suggestions applies to you, get in touch!
You can fill in this form to apply, or PM or email me niamh@boards.ie to find out more.

Thanks all!

Boards.ie: Niamh

• Circus Performer
• Homeless worker
• Athlete training for world event
• Lotto Winner
• Zookeeper
• TD
• Game developer
• Boards staff
• Irish Soccer player
• Irish Rugby player
  
• Pilot
• Small business owner, e.g. artisan business
  
• Hotelier
• Restaurant owner
• RNLI crew member, Mountain Rescue crew member
• Lighthouse keeper
• Aid worker
• Taxi driver
• Puppeteer
• Professional Actor
• Professional Writer
• Professional Dancer
• Professional Musician
  
• Urban explorer
• Astrophysicist
  
• Bus driver
• League of Ireland player
• Flight attendant
• Poet
• Publican
• Psychologist
• Creche worker
• Train driver
• Personal trainer
• Wheelchair user
• GAA player
• Car salesman
• Muslim
• Survivor of...crash, bomb, major incident
• Prisoner/Ex-prisoner
• Paedophile
• Ice cream man
• Event worker
• Drug dealer
• Senior civil servant
• North Korean citizen
• Foreign Legion
• Former Lord Mayor of any city
• Tabloid editor or journalist
• Someone who has lived alone on an island.
• Nun
• Member of the Real IRA
• Dark web expert
• Professional Songwriter
• Mod on boards
• Pimp
• UFC Fighter
• A self made Millionair / Billionair
• Movie Director
• Homeless Person or ex homeless person
• Animal rescue worker
• Professional poker player
• Sound effects editor
• Foley Artist

Muahahaha

Would love to hear from an astronaut, or someone who works in the European Space Agency

eviltwin

A priest
Transgender person
Someone who has done time in prison
Social worker
Religious extremists, someone who thinks society should closely follow bible teaching
Extreme feminist
Male chauvinist
Adult with ASD

Shadow1983

An air steward with Ryanair / Aer Lingus

A lotto winner would be interesting alright. Someone who won major money.

Drumpot

Anonymous politician. Only way you could get the real truth....

MysticMonk

A long term drug addict

Nokia6230i

Someone who's blind; I can think of someone I might suggest do one but they're working 9-5 M-F which might pose an issue?

Plenty questions I have about how they receive the awkward/stupid/ignorant (whether deliberate or accidental!) questions from us "seeing" folks and the obstacles they've faced depending on whether blind from birth or when they went blind (gradually, overnight, in an accident etc.).

How Irish society treats 'em officially and unofficially socially, in the workplace etc. regarding adaptations, whether they feel like they've been had financially by ne'er do wells on the street etc.

Pet peeve of mine's the cars parked half up on/half off of paths and blocking buggies/prams/wheelchairs but if you're blind and have the stick it's as serious an issue and also if you've the guide dog.

5rtytry56

Somebody who does his own IT equipment repairs, and tries to get the most out of his aging IT gear;

Anybody who unashamedly part of the "Culturally Curious" market audience.

Anybody brave enough to declare that they don't "follow the crowd" as a millienial, generation x, generation y, whatever.

Hollister11

I'm a final year computer science student.

I'd love to do one if the interest is there.

JCX BXC

Boards.ie management!

Victor

JCX BXC wrote: »

Boards.ie management!

And/or staff.

Boards.ie: Niamh

Thanks for the new suggestions folks. We've had a few new applications now that are for some of the types of people you've suggested, we will get them going asap (one at a time)

Keep the suggestions and the applications coming!

@eviltwin you suggested a trangender person, we had one with a transgender woman which is here if you'd like to have a read.

indeq

Put a notice on every forum, it was mentioned before and you never did it.

Tom Mann Centuria

I'd love to hear from a long term rereg troll, to try and understand the motivation for wasting hours upon hours of their lives over the years, for posts that last a few minutes at most.

scudzilla

Wouldn't mind hearing from that brasser again

JimmyMcGill

scudzilla wrote: »

Wouldn't mind hearing from that brasser again

She deserves more respect than that. That was a brilliant AMA.

CPTM

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

I'd love to hear from a long term rereg troll, to try and understand the motivation for wasting hours upon hours of their lives over the years, for posts that last a few minutes at most.

Haha, yes, but they would probably end up trolling. They can't help it.:)

eviltwin

I'd love to hear from someone living in emergency accommodation or a survivor of a mother and baby home, would also love to hear from an adoptee and a birth mother whose child was adopted.

9or10

JimmyMcGill wrote: »

She deserves more respect than that. That was a brilliant AMA.

Agreed. As did the Traveller Girl which was another good one.

Gaspode

Someone who advocates for immigrants.

Day Lewin

I'd love to hear from someone in the recycling business.
Nobody seems to know what actually happens to stuff we throw in recycling bins.
How much gets recycled? how much discarded? Where does it go, what is it used for?
All the paper I have carefully separated, clean and dry for recycling, where is it now?

All that, for real.

Get Scanlas to do an AMA. I want to know what his story is

uck51js9zml2yt

Drumpot wrote: »

Anonymous politician. Only way you could get the real truth....

It wouldn't work, they are born to lie. It's in their genes.:D

billy the squid

Nokia6230i wrote: »

Someone who's blind; I can think of someone I might suggest do one but they're working 9-5 M-F which might pose an issue?

Plenty questions I have about how they receive the awkward/stupid/ignorant (whether deliberate or accidental!) questions from us "seeing" folks and the obstacles they've faced depending on whether blind from birth or when they went blind (gradually, overnight, in an accident etc.).

How Irish society treats 'em officially and unofficially socially, in the workplace etc. regarding adaptations, whether they feel like they've been had financially by ne'er do wells on the street etc.

Pet peeve of mine's the cars parked half up on/half off of paths and blocking buggies/prams/wheelchairs but if you're blind and have the stick it's as serious an issue and also if you've the guide dog.

I am legally blind. Im also former boards.ie moderator and a parent. Other things about me i left everything behind in limerick to be with my own family in cork. I will do this AMA if you like

Orwellmerchant

I would like to hear from a terminally ill patient

major bill

Football that went to England at an early age and came back home!

StripedBoxers

I'd love to hear from a student doctor or nurse.

Foweva Awone

StripedBoxers wrote: »

I'd love to hear from a student doctor or nurse.

Or a GP! Or a surgeon or a midwife.

Cookie_Monster

StripedBoxers wrote: »

I'd love to hear from a student doctor or nurse.

junior doctor
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057645241

ED Nurse
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057528082

Pallative Care Nurse
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057502615

Vet Nurse
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057462130

Nurse
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057399902

Foweva Awone wrote:

Or a GP! Or a surgeon or a midwife.

Midwife
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057361124

Purple Mountain

A sex addict.

The 'other woman'.

AMA with Aonghus.

Phoenix Wright

A research psychologist

Foweva Awone

A counsellor/psychotherapist

A novelist

A beautician

StripedBoxers

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

junior doctor
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057645241

ED Nurse
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057528082

Pallative Care Nurse
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057502615

Vet Nurse
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057462130

Nurse
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057399902


Midwife
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057361124

Thank you, I should have specified that I meant students who are currently studying medicine/nursing rather than those who are qualified

Shadow1983

Loving the AMA with the ex-prisoner, would love to read one from a female ex-prisoner to see the comparisons / differences between the two prisons.

Heighway61

Somebody who's had a near-death experience. The trauma/hospital scenario with the tunnel, light, meeting deceased relative(s) or deity.

TrustedApple

Would anyone like to talk to someone who has deslexa and explain what it's like to live as someone who can't really spell sound out letters and words and have issues with grammar?.

As i see here on boards people don't seem to understand what deslexa is and what it's like to live with it. So I would love to do the Q and A with people and explain more about it.

Pat Mustard

I'd be interested to see an AMA with a functioning psychopath.

Provided we don't get a Walter Mitty type.

Victor

Pat Mustard wrote: »

I'd be interested to see an AMA with a functioning psychopath.

Provided we don't get a Walter Mitty type.

There may be an overlap.

Nokia6230i

A Porn Star!

An Irish Porn Star.

Male + Female.

Or others involved in the industry here.

Pure fascinated & have loads of questions about it.

Mon Boards; make it happen please!

PTH2009

A former intercounty GAA player
A Roadie from a well known rock band

spaceHopper

An ex-TD

mahamageehad

Astronaut.
AI developer.
Mainstream journalist.
+1 for ex-TD.

Orwellmerchant

A North Korean defector

Boards.ie: Niamh

Thanks for all the suggestions, this is great - keep them coming! We have so many interesting people who are users of ths site but sometimes until you see in black and white that someone thinks your profession/experience is interesting, you might not bother to apply - this thread is helping people see what others find interesting.

Boards.ie: Niamh

I'm adding funeral director/undertaker to the list, I think that'd be quite interesting.

lazybones32

French Foreign Legionnaire

addicted to caffeine

Someone who gets migraines

Drumpot

Somebody working in a hospital where part of your job is preparing relatives for really bad news...

loup

Someone based in North Korea although might not be possible given their censorship. South Korea?