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I'd rather have a thread like that than someone who obsesses whether they should pause the rerun of Saved By The Bell they are watching or not when the phone rigns, because it might be someone calling to alk about a job. Or asking which way to button their shirt before an interview. Or complaining that their attempt to defraud the State of an extra week of unemployment didn't work and they ahve no money, so they can't buy groceries. You're how old?
I am wide-eyed reading this stuff in here! TV Guy is freaking hilarious! Sugarpop! haha! But seriouly, this back and forth is kinda sad with everyone trying to prove themself one way or another - someone is better at this or that, someone has more money (your exchange value under capitalism is no flattering way to equalize yourself or prove yourself better!!), someone has better contacts, etc etc.
Lets face it, there are different "types" of people out there. there are the uber-together types who have done everything right since the minute they exited the tunnel, those who have kissed the right amount of arse and benefited from it, those who are socially advanced and have enough contacts to make a Paris Hilton's cell phone look bad, those who just know how to network like mad men and are in tune with all the hip blog 'n social media wares to invent and peddle. Then there are those who just got a job when they were young and had enough sense and stamine to stay put long enough to move up that link chain of pay raises and job titles. There are also folks who much like myself got a prestigious degree from a froo froo college in Nothing and the worthlessness of that piece of paper rivals the modern day in print newspaper. About ten plus years later than I should, I am trying to figure out how to start over and do something sensible if not a bit dull to me. Those of us who lucked out and landed that swanky "IT" "it" job and those of us who frittered around half our adult lives and having nothing to show for nothing at 35 are all in the same boat really: the human boat. Lets lend each other our ears and fill our hearts with compassion instead of adding more negativity and division to this already barren landscape of modern post industrial life. Good luck to everyone including myself!!!
I guess compared to your miserable existance, I am living pretty large. Drank a nice bottle of Champagne from my wine collection which is worth more than you make in a year last night with dinner, headed up your way tonight to spend the weekend--I need to meet with my CPA to determine the tax implications of an investment into a business that we're considering. We'd be creating three new jobs in the next six months or so if we do this, sorry no openings for people named Solomon, because well, I just don't like the name.
We have reservations at the Pluckemin Inn tomorrow night, have you eaten there? Oh wait, of course not, it costs a bit more than a box of Fruit Loops.
Did I tell you I just bought a new car? So my son is driving my old one, I've got a new one, and then there's also the Roadster in the garage that I only drive now and then. Oh wait, you don't have any cars, do you? Sorry, not giving you one of the THREE I own. And no loans on them, either.
And while I'm up north I think I'll stop into the Verizon store in the Short Hills Mall and look at trading in my old Blackberry for a new Storm. Oh, sorry, you don't have a cell phone either.
And I've got a guy coming next week to give me an estimate on painting the outside of my house. It's a custom built 4/3 with a three car garage. Oh sorry, I forgot, you're renting a a studio apartment in central Philthadelphia, and with your current career track, that's about as good as it's ever going to get.
Um, so what do you have other than $600 in the bank, a low level social services job with no advancement potential, and a bunch of VHS copies of Brady Bunch reruns?
Lets face it, there are different "types" of people out there. there are the uber-together types who have done everything right since the minute they exited the tunnel, those who have kissed the right amount of arse and benefited from it, those who are socially advanced and have enough contacts to make a Paris Hilton's cell phone look bad, those who just know how to network like mad men and are in tune with all the hip blog 'n social media wares to invent and peddle. Then there are those who just got a job when they were young and had enough sense and stamine to stay put long enough to move up that link chain of pay raises and job titles. There are also folks who much like myself got a prestigious degree from a froo froo college in Nothing and the worthlessness of that piece of paper rivals the modern day in print newspaper.
I'd rather buy the homeless guy on the corner a cup of coffee, and I'm sure he'd offer more interesting conversation.
TVSG did the inviting ... he would buy you the cup of coffee!
Ah to be a fly on the wall if THAT coffee klatch ever happened!
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