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Post by merton on Dec 1, 2008 3:28:53 GMT
I've got a 3.389 gpa (hopefully a 3.5 in a few weeks). I'm an art major. I will hold a Bachelors degree of Arts and Performance in a couple weeks. My sense of design is apparently good. I can use photoshop at a moderate level. I can type at least 30 wpm and know how to use MS word. I deserve a job! I demand $40,000 a year plus health care! Now dammit! Give me my god damned job!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2008 3:38:09 GMT
Well start looking, and put applications in for interviews. You will be in the REAL world soon!
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Post by merton on Dec 1, 2008 3:54:08 GMT
that's what i'm doing. i don't think the real world wants anything to do with me.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Dec 1, 2008 9:31:41 GMT
You are born then you die. During that time you have to make things happen yourself, unfortunately nobody will hand it to you on a plate.... if you want a job you have to go looking for one and you have to sell yourself to the employer, he won't come looking for you Merton.
In the real word 30wpm is feck all and most computer literate people can fart about with photoshop.... this is not a passport to $40K I'm afraid, if it were I'd be doing it myself mate. Get your arse out there and get real (even if that means starting off flipping burgers in burger king) once you get a bit of work experience under your belt you may be in a better position to demand $40K..... remember, the world does not owe you a living, it's up to you to make it for yourself.
Good luck.
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Post by rickcr42 on Dec 1, 2008 15:55:11 GMT
No one "deserves" shit.If you want something you have to work for it asnd that is life in a nutshell. When you are trying to sell yourself,and be sure dude,you are when applying for work,you need to think about the package,the presentation,you need to make the prosp[ective employer WANT YOU over any and all others after the very same job but man,I gotta tell you.If you think you can step right in and DEMAND a top salary right out of the gate without paying ANY dues as if you are owed something you have no shot and especially so in shrinking job market where you need to tale what you get then work hard at putting yourself in a position of value to the company at which time they will WANT TO pay you or they know they will lose you to someone else you now having actual job experience to add to your resume' No free rides,no short cuts,no instant fame,no "you deserve this just for being born" but WORKWelcome to the real world of adult life
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Post by merton on Dec 2, 2008 1:13:09 GMT
i have two interviews! one with new york life and one with a bail bonds company! i'm quite excited! and you two obviously did not understand the tone of my post at all. this is the bitching area. so, ima gonna do some bitchin! and since when is $40,000 a top salary? and no, i've been trying my school's website, yahoo jobs (they're all scams), job fox, kelly, workintexas.org or gov or whatever....
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Post by rickcr42 on Dec 2, 2008 3:00:44 GMT
depends on local
Around here it would mean getting a second job or stuggle to survive but in some areas,upstate NY,Rural Vermont,parts of the carolinas etc. enough to not only survive but actually live large,Simple economics man,if the salaries in the area are high so too then is the cost of living but if the area is generally depressed then the cost of living is cheap so the trick is to meet the standards of the community rather than place a one size fits dollar amount
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Post by merton on Dec 2, 2008 4:20:28 GMT
what level do you think dallas tx area would set that at?
and mike, you work? i thought you just ran around fartin about with vacations and moping.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Dec 2, 2008 11:45:45 GMT
what level do you think dallas tx area would set that at? and mike, you work? i thought you just ran around fartin about with vacations and moping. No I don't work. I live free, get free holidays, eat free, get free clothes and have a money tree in my back garden.... doesn't everybody live like that? ;D
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Post by merton on Dec 2, 2008 14:19:20 GMT
if you work, then how do you take 6 weeks off to go partying down in wales?
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Post by bullpup on Dec 2, 2008 17:14:06 GMT
So Merton over the last 3 or 4 years of your degree course what did you envisage doing when you qualified?
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Post by rickcr42 on Dec 2, 2008 18:15:54 GMT
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Post by merton on Dec 3, 2008 1:19:08 GMT
So Merton over the last 3 or 4 years of your degree course what did you envisage doing when you qualified? some sort of office work for 30 or 40 thousand a year. there are jobs like that. they're just in other states. also, i didn't really have anything to lose by not going to school, plus my only interests were making art and physics. i sucked at physics and apparently would be in a situation very similar to this even with a bachelors of physics. so, you see, i'm screwed.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Dec 3, 2008 15:18:29 GMT
I haven't partied in 25 years man so am making up for lost time Have you heard of computers MERTON? They are quite amazing things you know....... you can use them wherever you are
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Post by merton on Dec 3, 2008 21:52:36 GMT
i can't. mines all big and heavy.
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Post by merton on Dec 4, 2008 2:35:35 GMT
the bail bonds one was today. it was just a preliminary interview apparently. it was rather depressing. all they could tell me is that they pay no one less than $8 and that it's a 24/7 operation so i might have to work some nights. that would be bad as i'd have no way to get there.
the ny life interview is on friday.
i've contacted the air force to see if i can get in again. i wanted to go in as an officer but i'd have to wait til august apparently for a chance at that. so, i'm going to see if i can go the enlisted route and transfer over after about a year, less if i can get it waived. i hope i can get in. i get to talk to the sargeant tomorrow.
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Post by robertkd on Dec 4, 2008 4:27:29 GMT
I'd be kinda expecting the bail bonds job to be a little depressing, on the bright side good luck with tomorrows interview, as for the airforce what would youe core specialization be??
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Post by merton on Dec 4, 2008 4:52:32 GMT
i have no idea yet. i fear they won't let me in as i tried this before and got an entry level seperation.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2008 4:53:35 GMT
Painting the aircraft tyres ?
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Post by merton on Dec 4, 2008 4:54:30 GMT
have the magpies been pecking you in the head?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2008 6:26:56 GMT
No, but they might peck you in the head while you are painting the aircraft tyres with Tyre Black ! Seems to me that you don't exactly have suitable qualifications for most defence force jobs.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Dec 4, 2008 10:20:46 GMT
MERTON on the front line clad in spandex....... enough to make ANY enemy run for cover
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Post by robertkd on Dec 4, 2008 12:21:06 GMT
Hey Merton, who gets to paint all those funky designs on the planes and missiles?? mmmm just a thought
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Post by rickcr42 on Dec 4, 2008 22:01:33 GMT
Maybe if it is kevlar reinforced around the more tender areas then painted a nice O.D. Green but then THIS would never fly in the military no matter how you dress : Military FREE CHOICE is where you are told to do a thing and your choices are : 1-Do it and shut the fk up ;D 2-Don't do it,bitch about how you don't have to then go to jail Choice works in a democracy (though where you would actually find one thewse days beats the shit out of me) or if it is YOU in charge but in the military it is not only a dictatorship but one with a chain of command with the top being pretty mch to do what they please as long as they don't piss off any of the "rights" groups then whith each rung below having less and less say so until you get to "E-Nothing",the new recruit who will TRULY come to know the why of the saying "shit runs downhill and you are at the bottom baby"
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Post by merton on Dec 5, 2008 3:42:34 GMT
i was born to be screwed wasn't i?
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