Bestow Your Wisdom Upon Me

[DriXnaK]

Well, this could very well be true. I've never actually compared my abilities to someone's before except maybe on a forum, and not in any specific area. Since I'm only going by my own speed and numbers, I could very well be inferior, and instead my perception of fast may in fact be slow for others. I'm sure there are people out there who could teach themselves something like reading and writing Japanese faster than what I did, and in fact, the norm may actually be faster than my own abilities allowed. Since I can't disprove this at the moment, I'll simply state that your comment is plausible. The same goes for how fast I learn things and how fast I read. Really, there's no way for me to perceive these as anything more than normal, or even below average without properly comparing it to others.

[DriXnaK]

Possibly, but I measure my abilities by total output. I have numbers and actual abilities to back up what I do.

[giblets]

Can I make a suggestion? Stick with tennis instruction and smoke pot. I think you overestimate yourself.

Oh and since you love reading, take a look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning...3Kruger_effect

[DriXnaK]

It was too late. What I really wanted to do was do copy writing for websites and stuff like that. I overestimated the appeal of the company I started on my resume. I knew that the degree would be useless, and I had always said that getting a degree gets you a cubicle and 30K a year, but I didn't think it was going to be this bad. Obviously if I could do it all over again I would have made very different decisions. I'm not out of the game yet though. I have an incredible memory and I've taught myself to speed read to a certain extent, so I can pick up things extremely quickly. I was on track before I stopped to teach myself to read and write Japanese in 1 year. I wasn't even aware of how much I could memorize until I memorized all the Japanese kanji in 3 months. The most words I memorized in one day was 200. The reality is that I had never been challenged academically before. Unfortunately, I became really ambitious far too late, and that issue lies solely on me. Tennis and this stupid marketing degree are the two biggest regrets in my life and I'm trying to make up for them right now.

[giblets]

When you realized your marketing degree was a waste of time, why didn't you switch majors?

[DriXnaK]

And? I'm not really interested in my GPA since I found the degree to be useless. It doesn't change the fact that you have a lower IQ than me and aren't on my level in so many different areas. You should just give up.

[Al B. Sure!]

Which I actually did during my time getting my marketing degree. If I didn't go to class, I did something else, usually teaching tennis since at that time I was working full time every day. Some instructors got pissed at me and demanded I show up for class. So, I did, and I sat in the front row ignoring them while I did nothing but write Kanji. I have so many stories from my time at school. I even got pulled out of class by security one time. I made absolute mockeries of everything my instructors wanted done, never once doing what they expected, but always fulfilling their pointless rubric requirements. It became amusing to me to see how far I could push the envelope. I got most of my instructors to admit that their course was pointless and not applicable to the real world. I even told my Marketing Management Problems professor up front that his course was a waste of my time and I'd rather spend it on something more useful. To which he replied that he was going to fail me from the course (before I ever even turned anything in) and that I should just drop the course.

The fact is that the traditional academic system is a scam and the people employed in it, at least in certain areas, are idiots. I took zeros on all my homework assignments, instead pulling out scores near perfect on the exams in order to keep my B. In most courses I walked in starting at a B and came out with the B. In one of my marketing courses I took zeros on 15% of my grade resulting in me being forced to pull out a 95% on the midterm and a 99% on the final in order to keep my B. The only way they could drop me below a B was to use things like "class participation" as part of my grade. In other words, subjective non-performance based grading. It's a joke.

Nice. And you're a B student. A real winner with the scarcely above 3.0 GPA!

[MRT144]

I guess I've mentioned it before.

And I started looking for jobs on the other side of the country a month before I quit my last job, and I landed the one and only job I applied for.

All of this talk about a hard job market is bull****. People just aren't doing the right things.

I wouldnt go that far. I know people with tons of experience and connections be hard up for a job. I also know a few people just leaving university that have had a hard time not just because of their own efforts but because of how ****ed up employers are in handling the amount of interest in the few positions out there. In the case of quite a few people they got laid off at PEAK earnings and now would have to swallow a 20% reduction in income for the next 5-10 years before contemplating retirement.

[Asher]

I'm not a big swinging dick like Asher.

Didn't you do porn?

I've been recruited for less money than I make now which makes me realize I got it good.

[DriXnaK]

We'll see. I'm learning programming languages as well so I'm keeping my bases covered. Plus I have other areas that I'm "learned" in. All I can do at this point is keep going and see how everything plays out. I'm versatile and I learn fast, so I'm confident I can deal with whatever ends up occurring.

[MRT144]

The problem is simple: most IT people are a dime a dozen.

This is the goddamn gospel right here. The game I'm currently playing is getting paid more than my peers for being heavily invested in the specifics of what we do. It'd take about 2-3 months to replace me, if that even, because I'm not doing anything extraordinary (Other than being great to work with). I'm not a big swinging dick like Asher. I've been recruited for less money than I make now which makes me realize I got it good.

[Asher]

I guess I've mentioned it before.

And I started looking for jobs on the other side of the country a month before I quit my last job, and I landed the one and only job I applied for.

All of this talk about a hard job market is bull****. People just aren't doing the right things.

[MRT144]

Want to guess how long I was unemployed for?

Two days.

[DriXnaK]

Well Asher thanks for the book recommendations, but you can go **** yourself now.

[Asher]

The fact that you have gayface stands in your favour. Men view feminine faces as more trustworthy, and since most people hiring are men, this is a benefit to you.