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

  • 21-08-2017 3:01pm
    #1
    Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Employee Posts: 12,597 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Boards.ie Community Manager


    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
    Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Employee Posts: 12,597 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Community Manager


    • 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
    Muahahaha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,688 ✭✭✭✭Muahahaha


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


  • #4
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #5
    Shadow1983
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭Shadow1983


    An air steward with Ryanair / Aer Lingus


  • #6
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


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


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  • #7
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


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


  • #8
    MysticMonk
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 903 ✭✭✭MysticMonk


    A long term drug addict


  • #9
    Nokia6230i
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭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.


  • #10
    5rtytry56
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭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.


  • #11
    Hollister11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Hollister11


    I'm a final year computer science student.

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


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  • #12
    JCX BXC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,227 ✭✭✭✭JCX BXC


    Boards.ie management!


  • #13
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,490 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    JCX BXC wrote: »
    Boards.ie management!
    And/or staff.


  • #14
    Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Employee Posts: 12,597 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Community Manager


    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
    indeq
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 48 ✭indeq


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


  • #16
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,067 ✭✭✭✭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.

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



  • #17
    scudzilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,943 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    Wouldn't mind hearing from that brasser again


  • #18
    JimmyMcGill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭JimmyMcGill


    scudzilla wrote: »
    Wouldn't mind hearing from that brasser again

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


  • #19
    CPTM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭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.:)


  • #20
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    9or10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #22
    Gaspode
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Regional North Mods, Regional West Moderators, Regional South East Moderators, Regional North East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 8,037 CMod ✭✭✭✭Gaspode


    Someone who advocates for immigrants.


  • #23
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,688 ✭✭✭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.


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


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


  • #25
    uck51js9zml2yt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #26
    billy the squid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #27
    Orwellmerchant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭Orwellmerchant


    I would like to hear from a terminally ill patient


  • #28
    major bill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,421 ✭✭✭major bill


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


  • #29
    StripedBoxers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭StripedBoxers


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


  • #30
    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    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
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,522 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #32
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    A sex addict.

    The 'other woman'.

    AMA with Aonghus.

    To thine own self be true



  • #33
    Phoenix Wright
    Closed Accounts Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Phoenix Wright


    A research psychologist


  • #34
    Foweva Awone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭Foweva Awone


    A counsellor/psychotherapist

    A novelist

    A beautician


  • #35
    StripedBoxers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭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 :o


  • #36
    Shadow1983
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #37
    Heighway61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,972 ✭✭✭Heighway61


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


  • #38
    TrustedApple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,678 ✭✭✭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.


  • #39
    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


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

    Provided we don't get a Walter Mitty type.


  • #40
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,490 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    Nokia6230i
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,861 ✭✭✭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! :)


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  • #42
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,885 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


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


  • #43
    spaceHopper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,028 ✭✭✭spaceHopper


    An ex-TD


  • #44
    mahamageehad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭mahamageehad


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


  • #45
    Orwellmerchant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,003 ✭✭✭Orwellmerchant


    A North Korean defector


  • #46
    Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Employee Posts: 12,597 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Community Manager


    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.

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  • #47
    Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Employee Posts: 12,597 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Niamh
    Boards.ie Community Manager


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

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  • #48
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    French Foreign Legionnaire


  • #49
    addicted to caffeine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,517 ✭✭✭addicted to caffeine


    Someone who gets migraines


  • #50
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


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


  • #51
    loup
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭loup


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


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