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Same here. Unless you have a profession, everyone assumes you don't have a legitimate job. These same people usually have received family support and some kind of scholarly funding to achieve their own professions, though, so who cares what they think.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
Same here. Unless you have a profession, everyone assumes you don't have a legitimate job. These same people usually have received family support and some kind of scholarly funding to achieve their own professions, though, so who cares what they think.

Do you plan on teaching history at a school or university level?

And I agree with most of what you said above.

I mean I have "scholarly funding" that is paying my undergraduate costs (and thereby helping me achieve my future profession), but it is something that I (luckily) earned from whatever crap I did in high school. If I didn't have that, my parents would pay as much as they could and I'd probably have to take a loan.

Originally posted by Dr McBeefington
The next 10+ years is the best time to work for yourself as jobs are scarce and are not being created and you're left with unmanageable debt after "higher learning".

Well, reports are saying more physicians are needed in the future as there will be a larger older population.

But yeah, with good fortune, if I get into medical school, I'm going to be 250,000 dollars in debt when I graduate if I don't receive a scholarship. 😕

Originally posted by Korto Vos
Do you plan on teaching history at a school or university level?

And I agree with most of what you said above.

I mean I have "scholarly funding" that is paying my undergraduate costs (and thereby helping me achieve my future profession), but it is something that I (luckily) earned from whatever crap I did in high school. If I didn't have that, my parents would pay as much as they could and I'd probably have to take a loan.

High school and college level. History is a subject which, IMO, requires a foundation of learning to appreciate. I know that I didn't appreciate it until I was at least in 9th grade.

This year is the first and hopefully last I require a loan. I used to pay for it out of pocket before.

The next 10+ years is the best time to work for yourself as jobs are scarce and are not being created and you're left with unmanageable debt after "higher learning".

Sure, there aren't a multitude of entry-level manufacturing jobs or stable big corporation jobs that don't have sales/marketing backgrounds, but there are jobs if you look. The medical field is one; entertainment is another that's clearly growing.

And teachers will always be in demand. If not in a big city, then a smaller one.

Does anyone have a megavideo key? I'm getting a "You have watched 72 minutes" message on a 45 minute video.

Ludicrous.

Megavideo is wicked evil. Use a proxy? I dunno if that works or not.

Originally posted by Stealth Moose
Be careful with that trap. I fell into it for five years. I'm just now getting back in college. Had I been able to stay, I'd be teaching full time already.

It's hard to pass up the cash though. Got my first job last year and I'm making 16 bucks an hour with benefits (before anyone loses their shit over the figure, keep in that mind that the high wage is off-set by the fact that San Francisco is one of the most expensive cities to live in in the world).

It's a weird little conundrum, where I don't have enough money to pay the bills and for school at the same time without working, but by working I dun have enough hours in the day for school.

Mehhhh. /rant

Originally posted by RE: Blaxican
Ugh. Tell me about it.

It's hard to pass up the cash though. Got my first job last year and I'm making 16 bucks an hour with benefits (before anyone loses their shit over the figure, keep in that mind that the high wage is off-set by the fact that San Francisco is one of the most expensive cities to live in in the world).

It's a weird little conundrum, where I don't have enough money to pay the bills and for school at the same time without working, but by working I dun have enough hours in the day for school.

Mehhhh. /rant

Yeah, I love it. And you end up sacrificing sleep hours so time to unwind, hang out, or otherwise be nonproductive. So it's lose-lose-lose.

America really needs to better protect worker's rights and enforce reasonable salaries and 35 hour work-weeks. The only ones who benefit from the current system are predators who rely on others to draw profit.

Originally posted by Zampanó
Does anyone have a megavideo key? I'm getting a "You have watched 72 minutes" message on a 45 minute video.

Ludicrous.

www.demonoid.com

www.phazeddl.com

Familiarize yourself with downloadable content.

Is this going to get me kicked out of university if I use their connection?

Additionally, how likely am I to infect myself with malware?

Originally posted by Zampanó
Is this going to get me kicked out of university if I use their connection?

Additionally, how likely am I to infect myself with malware?

You're not on phazeddl and no, they're not going to monitor your connection unless you're downloading 25 gigs of something.

I'm reading through some of myGideon's posts and I've come to the conclusion that Ihe was a complete and utter douche.

Why did none of you tell mehim? 😬

cough

Originally posted by Turr_Phennir
I'm reading through some of myGideon's posts and I've come to the conclusion that Ihe was a complete and utter douche.

Why did none of you tell mehim? 😬

It's okay, I feel the same way when I read my posts back when I joined. I was pretty brash and cocky (though I was friendly!) and slightly immature, but that was because I was a kid. I definitely wouldn't say some of the stuff I did before.

Once a douche is NOT always a douche.

Nah, he's still a douche.

Totally a douche. Or a deuce. That's it: he's our little deuce coupe.

In TOR the Jedi Kngiht's story is so meh, so unBioWare like that I'm taking a break. I bought Deus Ex: HR. Do I really need to know the previous two games before playing it? Or is a wikipedia summary enough because I'm lost at the opening cutscene...