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

Boards.ie: Niamh · 2017-08-21 14:01:06

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…

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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!

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#2 21-08-2017 3:01pm
Boards.ie: Niamh

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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

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#3 26-08-2017 4:35pm

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

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#4 26-08-2017 4:43pm

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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

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#5 26-08-2017 5:17pm

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An air steward with Ryanair / Aer Lingus

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#6 26-08-2017 9:53pm

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

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#7 26-08-2017 9:57pm

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

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#8 26-08-2017 10:05pm

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A long term drug addict

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#9 27-08-2017 8:30pm

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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.

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#10 28-08-2017 1:25pm

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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.

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#11 28-08-2017 2:32pm

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I'm a final year computer science student.

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

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#12 28-08-2017 3:47pm

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Boards.ie management!

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#13 28-08-2017 3:49pm

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JCX BXC wrote: »

Boards.ie management!

And/or staff.

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#14 29-08-2017 11:58am

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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.

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#15 29-08-2017 7:54pm

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

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#16 29-08-2017 7:56pm

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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.

Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.

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#17 29-08-2017 7:57pm

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Wouldn't mind hearing from that brasser again

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#18 29-08-2017 7:59pm

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scudzilla wrote: »

Wouldn't mind hearing from that brasser again

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

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#19 30-08-2017 12:57pm

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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.:)

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#20 30-08-2017 8:46pm

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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.

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#21 30-08-2017 9:04pm

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JimmyMcGill wrote: »

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

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

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#22 31-08-2017 12:49pm

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Someone who advocates for immigrants.

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#23 31-08-2017 5:39pm

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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.

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#24 01-09-2017 1:10pm

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

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#25 01-09-2017 9:00pm

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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

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#26 02-09-2017 12:20am

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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

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#27 07-09-2017 11:07am

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I would like to hear from a terminally ill patient

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#28 07-09-2017 4:18pm

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

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#29 07-09-2017 11:01pm

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

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#30 08-09-2017 1:29am

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StripedBoxers wrote: »

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

Or a GP! Or a surgeon or a midwife.

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#31 08-09-2017 3:49am

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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

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