Callech's Type Thread

Tell me about yourself.

What do you study or do for a living? How did you come to do that? What do you like or dislike about it?
Right now I study automation, a part of applied control theory used to create autonomous systems in industrial applications. Looked at curriculum and it suited me it’s basically mechanical engineering + emphasis on control theory + processor programing + industrial control.
What are your values, and why?
Honesty and to some extent humility but this one is rather that someone doesn’t think too much of him-/her- self, hate shady dealings, hidden animosity and self-entitlement, seen and dealt with enough of that.
What else do you do on a daily basis? What are your interests and hobbies? Why do you do them?
As of hobbies: scale models, metalworking, HEMA, music (playing an instrument and using software for producing). Metalworking makes something solid to look at or touch or something, making scale models is quite tedious work that takes most of my attention from what I’m surrounded with. Also model rockets, thou right now I’m occupied with creating an actual full profile of high-altitude sounding rocket.
Describe your relations with family and friends. What do you like and dislike about them?
Family: bad, parenting done wrong, they were never home and all cash went into their little business, lots of angst from that, and it’s just about my parents.
Friends: Fine, nothing to like/dislike in particular.
What do you look for in friends? In romantic relationships?
For friendship someone would have to save my ass from a really messed situation, easier option is through martial training, it’s nice when someone has similar cause view or approach as I do. As for relationships I don’t know, someone should appreciate and account for efforts I put in it
What conflicts have you encountered recently with other people? Why did they happen? Which kinds seem to happen on a regular basis?
Nothing big recently.
How would your friends describe you?
They wouldn’t, or I don’t know.
What do people generally see as your strengths? What do you like about yourself?
Don’t know, people generally try to diminish my presence or feel threatened for some reason so it’s hard to tell, also I don’t show any side of me
What are your weaknesses? What criticism do you often face from others? What do you dislike about yourself?
To voice my thoughts. That it’s hard to get what I mean if stuff is more complex or abstract, had problems with narrowing my semantics and stuff.
In what areas of life can you manage well on your own? In what areas of your life would you like help?
Every important part is perfectly covered aside from emotions and what comes with that relations, heard I can come as coarse.
What things do you find to be a chore? What things do you enjoy more than others?
Nothing that particularly got stuck in my mind
What goals, aspirations, or plans do you have for the future? How did you come to have them?
Plans: Get somewhere nice to have some rest get rid of annoyances in life. Aspirations? I don’t even have dreams at night.
If you had enough money to live comfortably for the rest of your life without working, what would you do with your time?
Probably got somewhere quiet surrounded by woods and indulge myself in stuff I enjoy like walking, some sport, fishing, looking for interesting rocks and minerals and mapping surroundings.
What traits do you find endearing that others might dislike? What traits are considered positive/neutral by others but tend to annoy you?
Hard to say/don’t really want to share.
What kinds of things do you do to manage and/or beautify your environment (your room, your house, etc.)? What do you think of daily chores?
Organize my stuff and try to put it so it’s easy to clean everything later, daily chores are a must it might sound bad but it seriously is a must at least for me if I want to recuperate properly.
How do you behave around strangers?
Just like I normally do.
How do you react to conflict? What do you do if somebody insults or attacks you?
Just try to end it quickly and decisively, details depend on what kind of conflict. Insults just show how immature the whole stuff is, attacks get some thought-out counters.
What is one common misconception that people have? Explain why it is wrong.
That statistics if fraudulent. First it’s just a tool. Tool for assessing if hypothesis is correct, if experiment accounted enough factors, if correlation is strong and so on. And this is just one part of how scientific method is bad. I also saw that method is epistemologically unsound. Well, this is one I’ve seen the most of.
What did you do last Friday?
Been at work, done some welding, went home, got some rest, went for a stroll, chilled at the stream. Nothing special.
What is your biggest accomplishment?
That depends on definition. I once designed liquid fueled engine with active cooling cycle that would work, but no one got interested and it finally got lost with a hdd failure.
What is something you regret?
I don’t regret anything.
Who do you admire, and why?
Never found anyone worth admiring or I quickly found out there is nothing special about anyone. Some ideas are worthwhile.
What's been on your mind? Has anything been worrying or concerning you? What problems have you encountered lately?
Nothing worth noticing.
What are your religious or spiritual beliefs and why do you hold them?
I don’t have any since ever, I never was religious or spiritual. Don’t know why, it never influenced me, nothing got me hooked, even started to wonder if it has something to do with my inability to have dreams or my rather realistic imagination if I have one.
What are your political beliefs, and why? To what extent do you care about politics?
Nothing that I would crystalize into beliefs and nothing I would share with anyone. Only to that it’s not going to interfere with my life and make it worse in any way.
Would you ever be interested in starting a business? Why or why not? What role would you play in it? What kind of business would it be?
I think I wouldn’t be, not after what I have witnessed when my father had his own go at it.
What kind of work environment do you prefer? What do you look for in a job?
Spacious, with calm colors, no posters or any motivational stuff, heck nothing unnecessary on walls whatsoever just paint, switches and windows/doors. Place to do my tasks with no interference from anyone. That it pays adequately for the skills required and that it’s nothing past agreement and if the job is something I can do without complications.
What is or was your favorite school subject and why?
Chemistry, math, physics. Never cared why.
How do you approach responsibility? What do you tend to expect of others?
Responsibilities exist for a reason. It’s hard to explain my view on that matter. Mankind is not mature enough to leave it free for anything. I expect that if someone fucked up, they clean it up without hiding it for someone else to find out.
Where did you go on your most recent vacation? What did you do there? How did you like it and why?
I wouldn’t name it vacation but I went for a few days off back in April in another city. Went for some adventuring with friends who live there. We went off the tracks and had few canals to cross as we were heading back. I went frontline for quickly assessing the situation even got to build a made-up crossing out of anything we could get hands on. It was fun, we even got with some loot.
What were you like as a kid? How have you changed since you were a child?
I was rowdy and bossy, now I’m more toned and calm but as I hear I still have that dominant, threatening presence also it’s really hard to get anything about me.
What was your high school experience like?
Rather unpleasant, kids weren’t eager to learn anything, making noise all the time. Made me mad, I wanted to get me a calm place far from my family to get some rest, well no rest for me.
Talk about a significant event from your life.
When I was about 7 I had unpleasant realization, I heard that phrase that death is going asleep forever, and my sleep routine looks like: fall asleep-(null)-wake up, connecting both to make a realization: there is nothing after death, people believe in afterlife as coping mechanism. It grounded me in here and now approach to life and ambivalence toward religions and people involved in them.
Do you like kids? Why or why not?
They’re fine but often too noisy if there is too many of them in one place.
If you were to raise a child, what would be your main concerns, what measures would you take, and why?
Don’t know.
Ever feel stuck in a rut? If yes, describe the causes and your reaction to it.
Nope, I just get into doing something else or take a total break from it.
How do you see other people as a whole? What do you consider a prevalent social problem? Name one.
As a whole rather badly, power struggle for the sake of power, pushing economy to crashes if these are social ones.
What do you do if you're not getting what you want? What approach do you use?
Depends on level of want and level of not getting that thing. If it was something I wanted very much and someone was withholding it from me, if it was one of a kind thing, then something like that: bargain->persuasion->intimidation->threat->brute force (might get less before brute force if I already know talking would be a pain)
Are you comfortable taking leadership roles? In what areas? Why or why not?
It happens spontaneously that I end up leading some group, I only find it uncomfortable if someone is outwardly hostile, and only for the sake of showing off.
How often do you get angry? What kinds of things make you angry?
It’s hard to happen, I mostly get upset when there happens a misunderstanding because some data was hidden on purpose or someone puts too many words in a sentence,
What is the best thing that happened to you during the past week?
Nothing in particular.
What is the worst thing that happened to you during the past week?
Nothing in particular.
What is the purpose of life? What do you find personally meaningful in life?
If there was any. Everyone is making their own purpose, some even try to persuade that theirs is the most valid. I find it nice when someone is trying to further our understanding of how everything around and in us works, or making that more understandable to human brain.
What is the most interesting place you have been, and why?
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How do you dress or manage your appearance?
I like simple clothes, not colorful, mostly gray, light blue and black without any useless additions.
Do you like surprises?
Not really but they won’t get me mad.
Is there anything else important about you that we should know?