What do you do?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:33 pm

He might be fucking with ye.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:34 pm

My life just changed..Again.
Things So Far:

Got a degree in Illustration. Couldn't find a job.
Got a degree in Elementary Education. Can't find a teaching job in the middle of the school year. (Current)
Got a JOB in insurance (Starting Monday). They're putting me through school to be a licensed/certified Insurance Agent.

In other words, I couldn't find jobs doing the things I really enjoy, so now I'm back in school to do something where I can make a shit-ton more money and become a partner in my dad's firm.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:39 pm

Insurance man? Dear God...
I mean, really. Is that what you want to do? I understand money is money and it never smells like shit, but selling insurance? Are you planning to go back to teaching in the future, perhaps?

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:43 pm

you should go and volunteer in asia to teach people how to tok.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:45 pm

It's a family thing. My dad owns a company, my mom works for another company...And we live like kings..So working in insurance (at the same company both my parents originally started working for about 25 years ago) for a while is a pretty tight idea.

I do not plan to stick with it for long: just until I get a job teaching. I've got a few interviews (starting next month) lined up with school districts across the US, so the insurance thing is just to pay the bills until I find the job I actually want...

Plus...Having 2 degrees, and being a licensed insurance agent...Man..That's pretty good for someone my age...Adds a lot to the ole' resume, too.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:47 pm

Megatron wrote:you should go and volunteer in asia to teach people how to tok.

I had a job with Asia ESL, the major company that imports English speaking educators. I was going to be teaching in S. Korea....But my woman doesn't like that idea, so I didn't take the job. It was a pretty awesome dealio. $2000US a month, didn't have to pay for the house, food, transportation, bills...Katie didn't want to move there, so I'm still in the US looking for a job.

Aneurysm · Post by **Aneurysm** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 11:19 pm

ExtremeRyno wrote:And we live like kings.

I thought you and your family were white trash living in the ghetto ?

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 2:17 am

I didn't say rich kings...Kings of the trailer park...Duh.

boywoos · Post by **boywoos** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:26 am

How old are you Ryno?

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:32 am

23...If you're wondering why I live with my parents..Well..I went to a college within walking distance from their house...So why bother living in dorms and wasting money.

boywoos · Post by **boywoos** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:58 am

It's just that in the UK you'd have to be at least 24 years old to have two degrees and that's if you're born early in the academic year.

Did you go to clown college or can you do two degrees at once in the states?

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 5:17 am

I went to a 4 year for a year, got bored, went to a 2 year, got a degree, went back to 4 year because I couldn't find a job, and got a new degree.

I think it is entirely possible to get 2 4year degrees at the same time..Depends on how much effort you feel like putting in.

Subhuman · Post by **Subhuman** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 6:22 am

Maybe it's your drinking problem. Alcohol burns your brain cells.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 7:25 am

Kashluk wrote:Insurance man? Dear God...
I mean, really. Is that what you want to do? I understand money is money and it never smells like shit, but selling insurance? Are you planning to go back to teaching in the future, perhaps?

I think the teaching is at least as bad, and they pay you less. As a teacher I'd probably ripped the little sons-of-bitches skulls from their spines and toss them away laughing after a week.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 3:46 pm

Hm... back here in Finland there's a new program where you can get two degrees before you hit 20. Woot O.o I've enrolled. I'm going to be both a graduated system designer and an undergraduate (ready for uni) at the age of 19

Then six long years in the uni and I'll be ready for something?

the guardian · Post by **the guardian** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:11 pm

Ready for mediocrity, yes.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:27 pm

Propably. Unless I hit the parliament. Woo! Kashluk, the queen of Finland (not Tom).

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:37 pm

congratulations for your 2 degrees in politics and philosophy LOL

im thinking of being a soldier boi but being a medic because all the other jobs suck a bit and the human body is a bit like mixed up wires with the meat counter tipped into it.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 4:39 pm

Well, it's not really politics and philosophy, it's more like this and that ...

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Fri Dec 31, 2004 5:05 pm

Megatron, if you just want a decent job you can do every day and get paid well for it, get some sort of technician's degree (should be something like three years) and get some blue collar job with the government. If it's a union job, you're going to get a good, easy job with not very much work and it will be impossible--and I mean completely impossible--to get fired. I mean stuff like garbageman or just being one of those invisible men who drive around the city putting up signs and laying down bits of asphalt and junk. Once you're in a job like that, they can never get you out no matter how incompetent and stupid you might be.