Prs to be making me less broke? Financial Follies

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LOL awesome. I'm glad it came around to that. So get off your ass and get one, and worry about all the fancy conditions later. You only want it for a few months to scrape up a bankroll, it sounds like. So just WTF do it. If you don't intend to keep it, it doesn't matter much what it is, only what it makes. People put up with federal pound me in the ass prison for 30 years. You can put up with some jackass boss for three months.

[kyleb]

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Let's face it - if you were smart, you wouldn't need to make this post.

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As someone who has dealt with depression/whatever issues, I would categorically disagree with this statement. Distorted reality seems like reality all the same sometimes... unless of course you are defining smart to include this level of intellect.

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I have also dealt with depression and related issues, and yes, I include emotional awareness as part of general intellect.

I am firmly in the camp of application being worth 9/10ths of "intelligence." The notion that there are geniuses who simply don't live up to their potential is ridiculous; those people are idiots, not sob stories.

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Well then we'd have to discount people like Socrates, who would stand still all day in the rain thinking, and Einstein, who couldn't remember his own address or phone number, and bought one identical set of shirts and pants which he repeated throughout the week because his mind apparently couldn't handle matching his clothes.

In practical terms, it seems clear that genius can be fairly useless. Look at idiot savants. How many rain mans can really keep it together well enough to earn their way through life winning at blackjack? That more rounded sorts of genius might not live up to their potential seems fairly likely, judging by the history of geniuses -- many of whom had bizarre, unbalanced, and sometimes disappointing lives. And those are just the ones we've heard about, which is necessarily(if you buy my argument) just a sliver of the potential ones out there.

And look how much luck plays a part. One of the most interesting mathematicians of this century was an impoverished Indian. What if he had been sent out to scratch up moss from rocks to feed his family instead of being channeled into the expression of his genius? We'll never have any way of knowing how many geniuses are throttled in their cradles, undernourished into normalcy or retardation, terrorized into obliviousness, or discouraged into any number of mental maladies or dead ends. Luck plays a discouragingly terrible part in life. I'm glad I live here rather than so many other places.

I agree in giving emotional intelligence the credit it is due. In practical terms, it can be one of the most valuable intelligences there is.

[Anacardo]

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LOL awesome. I'm glad it came around to that. So get off your ass and get one, and worry about all the fancy conditions later. You only want it for a few months to scrape up a bankroll, it sounds like. So just WTF do it. If you don't intend to keep it, it doesn't matter much what it is, only what it makes. People put up with federal pound me in the ass prison for 30 years. You can put up with some jackass boss for three months.

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WHOWHATWHEREWHENWHY.

I made this thread because I don't know [censored]-all about employment. I don't even know where to find information. And the simple act of writing a resume, as though I had enough to fill a Chinese fortune cookie, makes me want to start smashing windows. How do you think I got mixed up in professional poker, of all things? They don't want you to tell them that your greatest flaws are overconfidence and 'pushing yourself too hard.' They just want your goddamn money.

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You've gotten suggestions here. Plenty would be fine; pick one. Mulling and grousing over it won't make it any clearer. Find out by testing the waters. You can't acquire knowledge of what will work for you on a forum. You have to just live your life. Trip report?

P.S.: I think the bartender idea is a particularly good one, as is any that involves money under the table. The money these guys can make more or less tax free in a few hours is pretty depraved. And you say you're good with people, so .... And it's not like you have to really sell booze anyway. It sells itself. Being a character isn't necessarily a deficit in that job, either. I don't know what the heck I would do in Texas besides drink, anyway.

[KotOD]

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WHY IS THIS THREAD ALL ABOUT ME BEING EMO.

I JUST WANTED A [censored] JOB.

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http://royalcaribbean.hire.com/jobli...playmode=81.-1

[adsman]

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I made this thread because I don't know [censored]-all about employment.

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Who ever does? Everyone who works has to have had a first job. My first job was cleaning an office block in the morning before school. I got up at 5am to do it, was finished by 7.30 and then school. I managed to do that for 4 years. Did the job suck? Not really. It was just something that I had to do if I wanted to go out with my friends, go to concerts etc.

Have I ever had problems finding work? No. Because I've never treated it as an intellectual excercise. Looking back, whenever I've needed a job I've just got up from bed and decided that I was going to find a job that day. It's the deciding part that blocks you. In these type of situations the criteria that I look for in a job is how much it pays. I work out how much I need, then I go and find a job that gives me that. If I don't like that job I look for another one while I'm still working the one I don't like.

That's all I have to add really.

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But what's an accurate estimate of the future?

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Ask a weatherman.

[kurosh]

you are a F A G. stop being such a whiny emo pussy

[edfurlong]

How about teaching english another country? I don't know the specifics, but I'm pretty sure any college graduate could hook it up and you'd probably have a good time.