LISTEN, me and chap are supposed to be collaborating but he has vanished into the vast void that I assume only Hugs has a map of.

everyone keeps falling into that damned void.

We need to come up with a scheme to get people pack into the game again. I'm spending two, maybe three hours a week writing posts and somehow I've become the most active poster. And that's an hour or two where I'm doing other computer shit so I don't have full attention on it.

The above post appeared in my notifications but I don't see it mentioning my username so that's odd.

The above post appeared in my notifications but I don't see it mentioning my username so that's odd.

the gods, they uh, they want you to post

LISTEN, me and chap are supposed to be collaborating but he has vanished into the vast void that I assume only Hugs has a map of.

That or our schedules are wildly different.

Chapa's Irish and his internet is a potato router so he can be unreliable.

LISTEN, me and chap are supposed to be collaborating but he has vanished into the vast void that I assume only Hugs has a map of.

That or our schedules are wildly different.

They are extremely different. I've been bogged with work and school recently but my schedule is pretty free until Wednesday. We'll figure something out.

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They are extremely different. I've been bogged with work and school recently but my schedule is pretty free until Wednesday. We'll figure something out.

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot roger that

I am here once again and I won't leave for good this time. Since I got my high school degree, I am a free man until I go to community college.

I really need to finish up with my introduction, it has been a long time since I stopped writing it.

until I go to community college.

Pull part-time like me and you have nothing but time.

I've thus far skipped two semesters due to my own negligence which I've filled with either considerable work, or considerable jacking off. Depending on season and if anyone responded to my applications (which they didn't, until early-mid spring).

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Pull part-time like me and you have nothing but time.

I probably should have done that. Not like graduating ever did much for me.

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Pull part-time like me and you have nothing but time.

I've thus far skipped two semesters due to my own negligence which I've filled with either considerable work, or considerable jacking off. Depending on season and if anyone responded to my applications (which they didn't, until early-mid spring).

That's what I planning, besides getting a job at Walmart or somewhere in my town. I want to live on my own or with a friend someday, which requires money to pay the rent and other important things.

Also, I just got Wargame: European Escalation. So, I need to try this game out before getting Red Dragon.

So this summer I'm doing my regular job on top of a second part-time job, the freelance gig I do, three online classes for school, and a RP I want to do on this site (although that's not looking like it'll go anywhere so I can scratch that off the list). So yeah, I will do my best to economize my time for PoW writing.

So this summer I'm doing my regular job on top of a second part-time job, the freelance gig I do, three online classes for school, and a RP I want to do on this site (although that's not looking like it'll go anywhere so I can scratch that off the list). So yeah, I will do my best to economize my time for PoW writing.

I think as Vilage told me he sets aside three hours a week for PoW writing.

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I probably should have done that. Not like graduating ever did much for me.

Besides the whole job market thing and economic situation potentially awaiting me, this has served me well since I've had to pay out-of-pocket for most of my school career so I ended up paying for as many classes as I can afford and I can do.

As it turns out, going into college with the same mentality as I had in high-school did not work and I got a rude awakening when my financial aid was revoked.

I can get it again, but I need to change my degree program and re-fill FAFSA with muh new work info.

As it turns out, going into college with the same mentality as I had in high-school did not work and I got a rude awakening when my financial aid was revoked.

You fuckers kid me about being old, but I think the nearly ten years I spent between high school and college helped me out a lot. I sure as shit wouldn't have lasted if I went straight from high school like I had intended way back in the summer of 2006.

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You fuckers kid me about being old, but I think the nearly ten years I spent between high school and college helped me out a lot. I sure as shit wouldn't have lasted if I went straight from high school like I had intended way back in the summer of 2006.

I went in because I had no other plan.

I think looking back I would have rather had more plans presented to me, or I had been more prepared. Really I wish more had happened. But as far as higher education was going everyone in the schools and around me was pushing for immediate college or university enrollment.

As it turns out, going into college with the same mentality as I had in high-school did not work and I got a rude awakening when my financial aid was revoked.

The crazy thing is, I got good grades in college. It was actually sort of strange, I was basically self educated after about 11 years old (that's a story of its own) and got a GED when I was 16, but grades was never an issue. I didn't even really have to study much except for math, though even that is partly because math grades hang so heavy on turning in homework.

But I come from poor folk where all my life the people surrounding me saw a college degree as sort of a magical thing. There aren't many college educated people in my family; the few with Bachelors Degrees besides myself mostly got them when they were in their forties, otherwise it's all high-school degrees, trade school certificates, and two year degrees. So where I screwed up wasn't grades, that was easy. It was making some sort of concessions to actually turn the degree into a career. After all, the working class poor folk mythos is that you get a college degree of any sort and shit is taken care of. Of course, I also started college in 2007, so my college career happens to match up with the recession in an ugly way. But all the networking and internship stuff? Didn't think it was pertinent.

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The crazy thing is, I got good grades in college. It was actually sort of strange, I was basically self educated after about 11 years old (that's a story of its own) and got a GED when I was 16, but grades was never an issue. I didn't even really have to study much except for math, though even that is partly because math grades hang so heavy on turning in homework.

But I come from poor folk where all my life the people surrounding me saw a college degree as sort of a magical thing. There aren't many college educated people in my family; the few with Bachelors Degrees besides myself mostly got them when they were in their forties, otherwise it's all high-school degrees, trade school certificates, and two year degrees. So where I screwed up wasn't grades, that was easy. It was making some sort of concessions to actually turn the degree into a career. After all, the working class poor folk mythos is that you get a college degree of any sort and shit is taken care of. Of course, I also started college in 2007, so my college career happens to match up with the recession in an ugly way. But all the networking and internship stuff? Didn't think it was pertinent.

And without trying to sound insulting I don't think a degree in psychology was the best course of action from a market standpoint.

Then again I don't know where I'll be with this slow-ass hopes or claims I'm studying graphic design for advertising when it comes to it. I may still be in the low side of service sector.

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And without trying to sound insulting I don't think a degree in psychology was the best course of action from a market standpoint.

Oh no, I absolutely agree. That was a product of my stupid assumption that I needed to keep my options open and that getting too specific a degree would be a bad idea. Realistically the opposite is true. One of the problems with our education system, albeit it is a minor one, is that you are sort of pointed in the direction of generalized degrees. Hell, you see that with people who get Math Degrees or Biology degrees, where they assume it is a difficult sciency subject so there will be jobs a-plenty, but the reality is they are too general for a job market that rewards specialization. Yet for whatever reason there isn't much of a structure in our education system to point people toward career based programs. I had some excuse because I started school before the recession, but even now you talk to kids and their college plans are very often pretty generalized.

I don't think there is an academic degree though where the degree is in itself the key to success. You might be able to enter a career program that'll do something on its own, but with degrees it seems like it has to be part of a larger career plan. Hell, the advice i've given people since has been to the tune of "Fuck college, go to technical school or get a certificate in something."

As for Graphic Design... I can't help but think that's one of those things that'll be automated soon. Weird thing to say, but all you got to do is near-automate copy for advertising firms and that job scatters. That's going to be the big problem going forward; what careers won't be automated, what careers will be flooded as automation takes hold, and what (if any) careers will survive or thrive in a post-automation world? Either way, I don't expect the 21st century to be as economically stable as the 20th was, and I suspect most people are going to be stuck thinking on their toes.

Looking through the wiki and apparently the US has control over Cuba? I wasn't aware of that. That gives me some ideas.

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And without trying to sound insulting I don't think a degree in psychology was the best course of action from a market standpoint.

In all honesty, I think its quite short-sighted to do any non-STEM subject in university AND expect a good job afterwards. I'm planning on doing History and a language in university not for the job prospects but because I'd rather spend my early 20's farting around Europe, doing something I find interesting than studying a subject I detest just for a decent job afterwards (that'd I'd be unlikely to get in Ireland regardless).

I'm not disparaging graphic design or psychology, they can be good stepping stones to get into good fields if you know the right people. Any form of degree looks better on a CV than a "I flunked out of Maths in University because I was shit at it."

By the time we're all dead and gone, I reckon most of the western world will have lower working hours, higher wages and legal retirement ages dropping into the 50's, so it all really doesn't matter in the long run.