Way too damn old.
23 - no one liked me…
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Did you still act like you were in freshman year?
I am constantly reminded that knowledge isn’t free. We live in a world where everything could be so so so much better if information were shared, instead it is locked up and sold as a product. So to answer the question, every single day, I’m still hopeful that a positive change could happen.
Don’t be a doormat, but be nice and take a little time to be a bro at work. I’ve been given many great opportunities because I tried to be nice. As long as you’re competent and you care, you don’t even need to be competitive.
I think I was 17 or 18.
Oh, way too young. Grade school. I didn’t give up on the nice part, but I realized that extra work got a brief notice - and you constantly had to apply more effort to get that notice, the rest of the time you were the same as anyone else. So why work extra all the time for little reward? Guess I’m not very approval- or reward-driven.
Been in union gigs for decades now. You do your work, do it right because that’s what you do, and you get paid pretty well. Generally nobody’s in your business offering or retracting rewards based on how they feel about you or your work.
29
Well, my original plan was “time to go to college now, this should be just as easy as school was up until senior year, but I was just coasting and certainly that won’t be a sign of things to come”
Narrator: it was
I thought I learned it in the army. Then I thought I learned it in college. Then the VA actually taught me the lesson.
Voice Acting?
Veterans Administration in the US. Government body that oversees benefits such as health care that are guaranteed to veterans of the military.
Why can’t goverment provide health care to everyone? US manages to be worse than Russia.
Something about bootstraps and individualism or whatever. Go, 'murica!
Oh I wish, My DnD group would be a lot livelier! No, that’s the Department of Veteran’s Affairs. Where any sense of self importance goes to die.
I teach for a living, yet I never learn.
FWIW, I had educators who were quite direct about their opinion of the job.
Oh I love the teaching, it’s the crap around it that bugs me. The hard work is all the paperwork that no-one ever reads - “write only documents” as my father used to call them.
Not yet. I’m still a college student and need good employer letters of recommendation.
My plan is when I graduate is get offers from a bunch of companies, and then start a bidding war among them.
A bidding war for a fresh grad? I have some bad news for you…
Spill the beans. I didn’t know I was this naive.
Generally first grads aren’t worth much. I have trained a lot of interns and no exaggeration I can put out easily 8x as much work as they can. It isn’t magic, it is just experience. Additionally whenever a fresh grad is hired, in what I have seen, there were a dozen or so candidates just as qualified.
I have been doing my line of work for 15 years and I am not confident I would be able to win a bidding war.
You’ll be lucky if you don’t have to make applying for jobs in your field your full-time, unpaid job. If moving back in with your parents isn’t an option you’ll need several roommates while you work for $10-18 an hour at your other full time job depending on your location. This all assumes US.
Funnily enough, I was well aware of this while I was young, and planning on not participating and dying young. Somehow I still got suckered in for 10 years of service before I woke up again.
Oh I figured that shit out in 3rd grade.
Not sure of the exact age, but around 2 years from when I started working.
