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College, degrees, and jobs, oh my!
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RE: College, degrees, and jobs, oh my!
May 24, 2018 at 11:52 am (This post was last modified: May 24, 2018 at 11:56 am by Minimalist.)
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RE: College, degrees, and jobs, oh my!
May 24, 2018 at 1:38 pm (This post was last modified: May 24, 2018 at 1:39 pm by Fidel_Castronaut.)
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RE: College, degrees, and jobs, oh my!
May 24, 2018 at 10:22 pm
(May 24, 2018 at 2:07 am)Tiberius Wrote:
(May 24, 2018 at 12:36 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Jobs are for suckers who waste their lives making other people rich. Seasonal work or contract work only!

Thats 8 years of debt. I mean basically 8 years of forced labor to get a 4 year degree. It's a sad standard we have when that can be considered a success.

What forced labor? I went to university in the UK. I didn’t have to start paying back my loan until I earned £15k a year, and the repayment is based on your income. Interest was 0.9% originally, I think it’s 1.15% now.

I think it’s a success. I don’t think I’d be in the position I am today, at the salary I’m at, if I’d joined the workforce straight out of school.

Sometimes I forget how, for lack of a better word, square, most people on here are.
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RE: College, degrees, and jobs, oh my!
May 24, 2018 at 10:41 pm
I pride myself on a well maintained facade of conformity, personally, lol.  Wink
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: College, degrees, and jobs, oh my!
May 24, 2018 at 10:49 pm
(May 24, 2018 at 10:41 pm)Khemikal Wrote: I pride myself on a well maintained facade of conformity, personally, lol.  Wink

I always try my best to not conform. Why else would I have gotten a lip piercing at the age of 36?
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RE: College, degrees, and jobs, oh my!
May 24, 2018 at 11:08 pm (This post was last modified: May 24, 2018 at 11:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
See...no tats, only one piercing and only a few people would ever see it before I got rid of it.  Well maintained.

I do agree with cap, though, about seasonal and contract work, and that 8 years of debt for a four year degree (though it works out to a lifetime of debt in the us for most) is essentially subjecting yourself to forced labor. My lifes work is going to be the construction of a ridiculous techno commune exclusively for members of my own family, lol. When the day after tommorrow comes, imma be like "fuck yall, got mine". Im sort of a long term non loony doomsday prepper..you know?

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I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: College, degrees, and jobs, oh my!
May 24, 2018 at 11:09 pm
I have a tat.
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RE: College, degrees, and jobs, oh my!
May 24, 2018 at 11:20 pm (This post was last modified: May 24, 2018 at 11:22 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
In my native corner of redneckistan, tats are a liability, we call them identifying marks.  They really cut into your earning potential. Perhaps moreso than lacking a college degree. Wink
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: College, degrees, and jobs, oh my!
May 25, 2018 at 3:53 am
I proudly have four of them
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RE: College, degrees, and jobs, oh my!
May 25, 2018 at 4:10 am (This post was last modified: May 25, 2018 at 4:11 am by ignoramus.)
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