How can I get people to read my blog?

[Kuciwalker]

(like laughing at someone's college education)

This is just like the time you tried to convince Imran you'd be a better lawyer than I because your dad managed to make it a through a halfway decent law school. Do you even think about the implications of your arguments?

[Kuciwalker]

I'm a bit disgusted that others have joined in these personal attacks on curtis. As much as people may dislike his beliefs or believe him a joke, that does not excuse mockery of curtis the individual.

Yes it does. He, like you, believes things that are completely absurd and retreats into ill-thought-out personal attacks (e.g. "I could make more money than you, KH!") when his folly is demonstrated.

[Kuciwalker]

AS, do you even read curtis' posts?

And can you go into one thread without bragging about your paycheck? I went to a much better school than you did, one that churns out Wall Street stiffs. Had it been my goal, I'd be rolling in money right now, and within a couple of years I'd be on my way to seven figures. You'd be under my paygrade pretty damn soon.

[Kuciwalker]

I'm a bit disgusted that others have joined in these personal attacks on curtis. As much as people may dislike his beliefs or believe him a joke, that does not excuse mockery of curtis the individual.

Yes it does. He, like you, believes things that are completely absurd and retreats into ill-thought-out personal attacks (e.g. "I could make more money than you, KH!") when his folly is demonstrated.

Also, to reiterate: he's a freaking Nazi!

[Kuciwalker]

Somewhere along the line, both KH and Kuci lost all humility

I'm far humbler than you ever were

[Dinner]

Jesus, Kuci... Six posts in a row?

[Kuciwalker]

Multiquoting requires more effort.

[Dinner]

Sorry I never made it to your thing there. I found the PM in my inbox months later - I thought you'd just forgotten to send it or something.

No worries. I think we ended up getting **** faced and walking the one block to the beach.

[Dinner]

By the way, the reason I brag about my paycheque is to stick my dick in the eye of every douche who thinks that volunteering to go kill foreigners at relatively low risk to himself should be the ambition of every human being.

In reality, I contribute far more to the defence of the United States than you ever will.

Everyone should go kill foreigners at least once in their life. It's a character building experience.

[Elok]

Well, from someone who's more or less separate from this whole fray: Curtis has some eccentric viewpoints that seem based more on a flowery view of the past, acquired by reading, than on actual experience with human beings. AFAICT he is merely naively romantic rather than an actual fascist bastard. Of course, if an actual charismatic fascist leader were to appear, he could probably snap up Curtis's support, but that's hypothetical. I suspect he'd get disillusioned and leave before the body count reached triple digits.

And in any case Curtis's support wouldn't work too well, since he's not the best at communicating his message. Really, I'm not trying to slam you, Curtis, but people are in fact capable of reading books these days. They demonstrate this ability by READING BOOKS! Not extremely long internet posts by people they don't know, books that they buy or borrow with the intention of reading. If you want, by all means keep trying the "complain at people until they change to suit my wishes" approach, but I'm telling you, it isn't going to work. The internet is Darwinian--adapt or perish.

With all that said, he's ultimately harmless, and until you yell at him polite--and genuinely polite, not in that sideways-while-I-pull-out-my-knife BK way. Certainly he's not as evil, or as Nazi, as Hera is/was, depending on whether this "return to God" thing of his is sincere and whether it changed his curious ideas about race.

[Al B. Sure!]

I work as a quant, ****. And I'm not the world' leading economic expert; I simply know enough economics to hold my own against, for example, a relatively intelligent econ undergrad.

I think you're giving econ undergrads a little too much credit. For one, most of them were piss poor at math even by my low standards. The finance kids were always leagues ahead of the econ students in the econ classes (in fact, my econometrics class had about two econ majors and the rest were finance).

Secondly, and bear with me because this may help you understand where I'm coming from with the whole job thing, believe it or not, I wowed everyone in almost all my classes in college. With the notable exception of statistics, I was leagues ahead of my peers in every subject, whether it be international monetary economics or African-American philosophy.

Twice in economics classes (in econometrics and in either intermediate macro- or micro-economic analysis), the professor said the class did badly on a test with an average score of something retarded like a 65 and had to be given a generous curve except for one student who managed to score in the high 90's... I get my test back and it's me. Twice this happened.

I've had professors laud me in class to other students. I've had professors speak to me in private and ask me if I would be interested in switching majors to their fields. I've had professors say in front of the class that my work (on a presentation, for example), exceeds what their own MBA and MS students are capable of and joke that I could probably teach the class better than them.

I'm not kidding or exaggerating. I'm still embarrassed by the whole thing and it got very old by my senior year to the point where I was selected to be part of no more than 10 people out of the entire graduating business class to partake in a business policy competition with vp's of major corporations as the judges.

I actually didn't go to my graduation and was told by those who went that my name was called repeatedly for various honors. Maybe I was just the tallest midget but whatever.


The reason why I'm bringing this up is not to brag or to make you think Temple produces retards but to show why my complete and abject failure in getting a job in the industry has been so inexplicable to me.

All of my peers have had NO PROBLEM getting jobs in the industry. They literally applied to one place, got an interview, and got the job. Just like that they work for JPM, MS, GS, Deutsche Bank, etc.

Yet I never even get interviews. Not just to those major firms but even with small local companies. Vanguard gave me a phone interview and nothing more and that was the only one.

If I got interviews and they didn't want me, well that's on me. But when they don't even consider me for an interview or even a phone interview, I have to wonder what's going on. I feel as though I'm more of an asset than my education would indicate yet I never got the opportunity to show that through an interview, while my peers did.

I actually went so far as to re-establish contact with my mother as she worked in the industry as a broker. She didn't understand my difficulty and even brought up studies that show a systematic avoidance by HR staff of people with Islamic names.

I didn't want to think it as possible at the time and I still have strong doubts but I have no explanation.

I can't re-iterate it enough... I'm not saying an interview with GS, but not even an interview for an entry-level underwriter position at PNC bank or something? I get an interview and I don't get the job, fine. But that has never happened. When you don't even get a call that's when I'm wondering what's going on?

[Kuciwalker]

Conditionally on the veracity of all that stuff, your resume and interview skills must be horrible.

[Al B. Sure!]

Well, from someone who's more or less separate from this whole fray: Curtis has some eccentric viewpoints that seem based more on a flowery view of the past, acquired by reading, than on actual experience with human beings. AFAICT he is merely naively romantic rather than an actual fascist bastard. Of course, if an actual charismatic fascist leader were to appear, he could probably snap up Curtis's support, but that's hypothetical. I suspect he'd get disillusioned and leave before the body count reached triple digits.

And in any case Curtis's support wouldn't work too well, since he's not the best at communicating his message. Really, I'm not trying to slam you, Curtis, but people are in fact capable of reading books these days. They demonstrate this ability by READING BOOKS! Not extremely long internet posts by people they don't know, books that they buy or borrow with the intention of reading. If you want, by all means keep trying the "complain at people until they change to suit my wishes" approach, but I'm telling you, it isn't going to work. The internet is Darwinian--adapt or perish.

With all that said, he's ultimately harmless, and until you yell at him polite--and genuinely polite, not in that sideways-while-I-pull-out-my-knife BK way. Certainly he's not as evil, or as Nazi, as Hera is/was, depending on whether this "return to God" thing of his is sincere and whether it changed his curious ideas about race.

I honestly can see where curtis is coming from. I agree with the spirit of most of his ideas (except for the Christian nonsense) and anyone here who remembers my posts from my childhood would probably agree.

I'm actually a little surprised that no one thought he was my DL, especially since he showed knowledge of long-time posters which is usually the mark of a DL.

[Kuciwalker]

I agree with the spirit of most of his ideas

WTF. You also think we desperately need to have more farmers and more people working in the factories so we can make more tanks, planes, and artillery? WTF?

[Al B. Sure!]

Conditionally on the veracity of all that stuff, your resume and interview skills must be horrible.

Well that's the thing... my interview skills aren't relevant because I never get the interview! It's all on my resume which I have posted here and I have worked on to change but I highly doubt my resume was that terrible especially since I took a resume writing class and I've seen what other business undergrads are capable of producing for resumes (which aren't pretty).

I think a lack of internships screwed me immensely. I couldn't afford to take an unpaid or even a low paid internship because I needed steady income so I worked two food service manager jobs (which, honestly, isn't even terrible for a college student; students usually are the servers/waiters/burger flippers, at least I shot into managerial jobs). What that means is I never got my foot into the door in the industry or could show that a financial/accounting/insurance/etc. firm had been willing to take me up. I think that may have been a big deal but I can't believe it would still be haunting me years later.