Reply With QuoteThe CIA confiscates everything that's interesting and locks it away in Warehouse 13
Sheesh they make a killing as long as they are not afraid of snakes or nazis.Originally Posted by The Mad Monk
"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter
The CIA confiscates everything that's interesting and locks it away in Warehouse 13
The wild places are gone.
Nowadays there are far more Indys than Arks, and those left out are doomed to odd jobs and "contract archeology" where they serve to check off a box so the construction company can get to work.
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
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We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced these murderers. - Martin Luther King Jr. Eulogy for the Martyred Children (1963)
I know they lie about teaching. Not about getting a job, but how bad it sucks.
We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced these murderers. - Martin Luther King Jr. Eulogy for the Martyred Children (1963)
Hahaha.I am in awe of what a shitty poster you are. Kidicious at least has the excuse that he's stupid - you, on the other hand, are just incredibly lazy. Every argument you make boils down to "I'm right because I am channeling the collective wisdom of a million Quebecois"
Your post just amounted to me like "writing can be a hobby just fine".
OK, sure.
Some people might have other reasons to study creative writing. Access to detailed critiques from professors, networking, meeting guest writers, forcing yourself to write in different genres, the general college experience. I just don't care that you think people are stupid for leading their lives according to diverse motivations.
"The boastful seeks the company of parasites." (Spinoza)
I was a high school drop out and have failed out of community college twice.I have a Masters in U.S. History and I vacuum carpet for a cleaning company.
And Im making at least 4 times the amount you do per year.
America, **** yeah.
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'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburger
Maybe there's anti-gay prejudicial hiring in Iowa?
"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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"Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead
My career goal was/is full-time community college teaching. That's what I wanted to do, when I graduated with my piece of toilet paper degree.
This is where an awesome Mark Twain quote would be, but Apolyton says it would be too many lines. :(
What school did you go to?
"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
Impressive. I failed out of community college twice (third time's the charm!) but at least I have a high school diploma. And I'm guessing I make half of what you do.
If somebody's intention is to go into debt in order to acquire a worthless degree, then more power to them. If somebody's intention is to go into debt in order to acquire the skills to become a best-selling author, then they're stupid. I suspect that the latter motivation is far more prevalent than the former motivation.
Everyone is.
Read a survey the other day: 90% of 16yo high school students think they'll be earning $100k or more by the time they're 30.
"The boastful seeks the company of parasites." (Spinoza)
I would've said the same thing, and I'd have been right, too.
At 16, I gave myself 50/50 odds of being either a rich and famous novelist or a crazy beggar living on the street by 30. I was extraordinarily wrong on both counts.
So far everything has played out in my life pretty close to how I expected. Of course I'm easily the youngest person here
If there is no sound in space, how come you can hear the lasers?
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16-year-olds are generally pretty stupid - they are extraordinarily confident in their wildly inaccurate future predictions
They do kind of spin things like if you do well in school, graduate from college, etc. you'll have a good life. That education opens up all doors. I think that was very much true for our parents and grandparents but the message hasn't been updated.
It's not the kids. It's what the kids are being told.
"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
Things might have been different at your elite high school, but at my public high school they told us the median incomes for college graduates with various majors, and the BS's almost always won over the BA's. Only an idiot would look at that data and still predict that they'd be making 100K per year by the age of 30 with a literature degree.
Eastern Illinois University. When I chose to go to EIU, I originally thought I wanted to pursue a PhD in History and pursue a career in teaching at a four-year college or university. So I chose to go with a program that includes completing a thesis.
But, about halfway through my final semester I changed my mind and decided not to go on for the PhD and I became interested in possibly teaching at a community college somewhere. The problem is, is that the program I have completed and graduated from at EIU was for research-oriented graduate students who planned to become university professors. I'm interested in community college teaching, but I never took any courses in teaching methodology because the program was not meant for planning for a career in community college teaching.
Right now, all I have to show for, is a year and half experience in community college teaching as an adjunct with no positive letter of recommendation and starting in October, I'll be teaching a US History class online for a college. I hope to do well enough then, to get a letter of recommendation that I can use when I resume searching for and applying for community college teaching positions.
This is where an awesome Mark Twain quote would be, but Apolyton says it would be too many lines. :(
You went to the same school as Tony Romo.
How did you get no positive letter of recommendation? Dude, you need to go all in if your degree is not doing you any favors. You got to do better than that. I got fired at Wells Fargo for cursing but my old boss said she'd give me a letter of recommendation if I ever needed it. You have to do better next time.
"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
Those numbers are just averages. There are some people who make a lot of money with a BA degree.
We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced these murderers. - Martin Luther King Jr. Eulogy for the Martyred Children (1963)
Thanks for your terrible contribution to the thread
You must not understand it's importance. Anyone who picks a major based on some average number isn't thinking right.
We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced these murderers. - Martin Luther King Jr. Eulogy for the Martyred Children (1963)
On average the contributions to this thread are terrible. Some people make a terrific contribution to the thread.Thanks for your terrible contribution to the thread
"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
“In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter
Depends on what their intentions are when choosing a major. If their intention is to graduate and then acquire a low-paying job that's related to their major, or a moderately-paying job that's unrelated to their major, then they are right to dismiss salary data. If on the other hand their intention is to graduate and get rich even though their major has a low median income, then they're even dumber than people who play the lottery - a lottery player gambles a few bucks in order to get rich, while the clueless liberal arts major gambles thousands of dollars in order to get rich.
Umm no. Salaries for those with BS degrees aren't that much higher. In most cases the difference is 1k per year.
We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced these murderers. - Martin Luther King Jr. Eulogy for the Martyred Children (1963)
You are lying, again
You know who else was a liar? Stalin-Hitler-Tamerlane.
So you are suggesting that everyone get a degree in petroleum engineering? That's the worst advice I've ever heard. I take it that you don't know that some options offer either a BA or a BS. Typically the BS only tends to pay 1k or so more.
We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced these murderers. - Martin Luther King Jr. Eulogy for the Martyred Children (1963)
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