I try what I can. Sometimes I'm sick of working and feeling like I'm not getting anything. I really just want to stick to the social life due I have don't have much of one.
Failure "All the cool kids are doing it."
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I'm trying not to vent copious amounts of hatred in your general direction because you're only stating facts, but all that just killed me inside, what kind of world do we live in where hard, honest work doesn't pay off and earn us what we should be entitled to, whereas smooth-talking fuckskulls who've done shit all with their life snap up all the best jobs, even when they're utterly undeserving...geldonyetich said:
I hate the job market, I vote we build a Rapture-esq city underwater, a utopia where hard work pays off and we get what we rightfully earn. You know, just without the mind altering drug treatments.
Yeah, Fully half my graduating class had grades that were technical failures, but the curve boosted them up. Of the whole class of 120, 12 went on to university, every last one of them in my circle of friends. What pisses me off the most is that most of those idiots come from fairly wealthy parents and so won't be totally shafted without education.
3.5 GPA?Poomanchu745 said:
I may have the numbers wrong, but I though my class's average was about 20...
(Grade 9 accelerate, by the way)
Although this sounds like an utterly pointless new phenomenon; (I never experienced it, everyone in my school was an overachiever, driven to near insanity by an overbearing school system that either made you a genius or a psycho) I'm more interested in this idea that the cool kids in school will go on to become the burger flippers in Wendy's etc.
That's an image from television, put together by high school nerds who like to think their enemies never amounted to anything. Confidence, which the jocks you despise so much exhibit by the bucketload, is a key factor in getting any job which requires an interview, and any good job requires an interview. Intelligent kids bullied every day of their life have lower self-esteem, even if they don't realise, and so come across as self-deprecating, which employers shy away from.
They might not have the uber grades you do, but the jocks are not going to fail at life, and you won't suddenly hit a point where you accelerate past everyone you knew in school.
Thankfully though, by the time you hit the point where any of this means anything, if you're still in that close contact with people from high school, you're probably living in the past anyway.
That's an image from television, put together by high school nerds who like to think their enemies never amounted to anything. Confidence, which the jocks you despise so much exhibit by the bucketload, is a key factor in getting any job which requires an interview, and any good job requires an interview. Intelligent kids bullied every day of their life have lower self-esteem, even if they don't realise, and so come across as self-deprecating, which employers shy away from.
They might not have the uber grades you do, but the jocks are not going to fail at life, and you won't suddenly hit a point where you accelerate past everyone you knew in school.
Thankfully though, by the time you hit the point where any of this means anything, if you're still in that close contact with people from high school, you're probably living in the past anyway.
Um im not sure where you go to school but its out of a 4. So if you got straight As you would have a 4.PoisonUnagi said:
Or you could do as I do - look into the possibility of self-employment. Unjobbing, as we're referring to it these days.Angelo Credo said:
[Really, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense that those of us with skills are beating down a path to the door of those who seek only to exploit us. It used to be that there were a lot more people who were self-employed than working for big companies. When the transition happened, this is when the schmoozers were empowered.]
That works too, less of a hassle to pull off for starters, however, I fear I may experience some difficulty in self-employing myself as a criminal profiler.geldonyetich said:
Well...being in asia, most of us are not THAT extreme, but there will always be asshole though.
Me personally am sickened, mainly due to the fact i am studying 'till midnight or something while these ASSHOLES spend their time jacking of or something.
God i hate those people....
Me personally am sickened, mainly due to the fact i am studying 'till midnight or something while these ASSHOLES spend their time jacking of or something.
God i hate those people....
sign me up!Angelo Credo said:
OT: yeah, this shit happens at my school, too. Hopefully they'll get shot in a gun-fight or something ('cause we all know that's how sh!t gets done IN THA STREETZ!) or OD on some sort of drug... I forsee several outcomes for them that end in death or homelessness.
I guess what I'm trying to say is not to let those tards bother you too much.
Hmm, well I do foresee some difficulty in the matter, but I suppose it's worth looking in to if I want any real chance of a fairly secure job, looks like I need to do a bit of brushing up on my research, thanks, I feel there may be hope for my future yet.geldonyetich said:
It was always like this - today it's "cool kids", in 19th century it was children of aristocrats. Only difference now is that you see more of 'em, because there's less division between social classes.
And honestly, i don't know what to do with it. Maybe you should just ignore them, get all the education you can, and then become a freelancer or open your own company rather than seek employment in big ones? That's what i'm planning to do, anyways.
And honestly, i don't know what to do with it. Maybe you should just ignore them, get all the education you can, and then become a freelancer or open your own company rather than seek employment in big ones? That's what i'm planning to do, anyways.
Of course, another thing you could do is just get good at schmoozing. It's somewhat dishonest to manipulate others, but if it's that or the underside of a bridge, perhaps it's for the best. Besides, beating the schmoozers at their own game may well be poetic justice. You become a mighty antibody for stupidity by masterminding it.Angelo Credo said:
Because there are no guarantees in this world and because you're only young once. I'm 27 and I'm just now finishing up my associates. I left high school at 17 and finished in night school. From 17 to 23 I did nothing but have lots of interesting and stimulating experiences, i.e. fun. Good times. Bad times. While they were not what you might think as "educational," they were things that put me far ahead of most other students in terms of practical, real world experience.Angelo Credo said:
I value the experiences more than any amount of money I would have made being a mindless zombie, perpetually propelled from institutional experience to the next, for the sake of money and the notion of happiness that comes in a total package.
Read Player Piano.
In terms of my principles, I don't think I could happily manipulate people, I'm aware of the fact that life ain't all sunshine and rainbows, painfully aware of that, I know that sometimes you've got to manipulate others to get ahead, but I'd rather not do it unless absolutely necessary or there are no other alternatives. I figure if I can get through my education, get my degree and get a job off of the way I present myself in an interview, my education and my CV, then brilliant, but if all that fails, then I've not got much choice, manipulation ahoy.geldonyetich said:
Though the idea of poetic justice is one that appeals to me...Hmmm...