Prs to be making me less broke? Financial Follies

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Fair enough, but I think that idea can be taken a bit far.

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I feel like this sentence explains a lot.

Of course you "think that idea" can be taken too far. But the fact is, you haven't "acted on that idea" to any degree, let alone too far. So how do you know anything about it, anyway?

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Well, I haven't eaten a monkey-[censored] sandwich today. Nonetheless, I'm pretty sure that this is an experience I want to avoid. Imagination - a powerful, efficient, useful tool!

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Okay, I am now convinced that if you are as smart as you claim to be, then you deliberately miss the point when people tell you something you don't want to hear.

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Sorry Anacardo, can't take credit for that gimmick. It did make me briefly consider making an "AnacarD'oh" account to post in every thread that makes people go

[El Diablo]

Cardo,

"Well, I haven't eaten a monkey-[censored] sandwich today."

Sure, that's all clever and stuff, but here's the thing:

If you bitched about being hungry all the time, someone might suggest that you eat something. You could then counter that you don't like eating. And then they could say, yeah but really dude, you gotta eat. And then you could say, OK fine, but you can take that idea a bit far. And then they could say, whatever dude, you gotta eat something so STFU and eat. And then you could say that you haven't eaten a monkey-[censored] sandwich today. Which you would think is real clever, but you'd still be hungry.

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i once heard a saying that really smart people dont have to go around telling you that they are really smart. that is something that a [censored] idiot would do. i think ray zee or gandhi said that.

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i once heard a saying that really smart people dont have to go around telling you that they are really smart. that is something that a [censored] idiot would do. i think ray zee or gandhi said that.

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Yeah, I find it pretty true that if people have to tell you something about themselves, it's because they believe it to be true, but they can't show it to you.

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i think ray zee or gandhi said that.

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Same thing really.

[xxThe_Lebowskixx]

i wouldnt be surprised to see his face on CNN one of these days for shooting up an office because they rejected his job application or murdering an ex-girl friend's family. he seems completely dellusional in this thread.

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i wouldnt be surprised to see his face on CNN one of these days for shooting up an office because they rejected his job application or murdering an ex-girl friend's family. he seems completely dellusional in this thread.

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No he doesn't. He's just looking for answers. Most people don't even do that, so I'll give him kudos for that. I'm just glad that internet message boards didn't exist when I was going through the same thing.

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you seriously need to ask some big questions about your life. Why on earth do you just want to float by? It's time to grow up and think about getting a career. try monster.com too. I mean if you haven't even done that, then you don't really want to solve anything and just want some pity.

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Are you always condescending and pessimistic?

[cjmewett]

'Cardo --

First, notes on tone and unsubstantiated claims:

I'm not a particularly practical man when it comes to education or livelihood. That said, I acknowledge that a college education -- as a practical matter -- is useful only for the marketable skills and/or the free pass to non-backbreaking work that it imparts.

Genius is irrelevant to this conversation (as you yourself have noted), so you'd be well-served not to fly off the handle when people refuse to acknowledge yours without evident justification. When you say that you and Einstein are the same -- whatever the legitimacy of your claim -- you invite mockery and further demonstrate a manifest inability to distinguish life-altering, historic greatness from outside-the-norm smarts. Your "top five" claim in particular simply makes most people want to punch you in the face, and then force feed you art or literature or music that is demonstrative of real genius.

You contend that those who haven't met you can't legitimately dismiss your intelligence or self-awareness. How then can you claim uniqueness when you haven't met the vast majority of people whose intelligence and self-awareness you presume to dismiss?

[As an aside: Have you read Kundera's Testaments Betrayed? It has next to nothing to do with this thread, but I'm just curious.]

Now, to the matter at hand:

1) I was a history major, like you underwhelmed by the prospects of graduate education in that discipline. It's been said already in this thread, but you don't have to get a grad degree in history.

I went to graduate school overseas, paid a paltry $6k, and basically got to study and write about whateverTF I wanted. Teach English, learn another language, get laid a lot, profit. This requires minimal startup capital.

2) Home Depot is decent work for a shift job, and if I remember correctly pays moderately well for that sort of work. Seems to align with your doing-something-with-your-hands preference, though I'm sure there's an unavoidable customer service element.

3) I spent a year and a half after grad school caddying at a high-end golf club. (I don't know if you have any particular interest in golf; it helped that I love it.) I got to work outside, for the most part when I wanted to, met occasionally interesting and always very rich people, and got to hobnob and shock people with my education. It's good work.