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I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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Quoth XCashier View PostQFT. Wish there was a Sorting Hat back in grade school that would tell us what we'd do best at career-wise.
If you already had an idea of what you wanted to do at uni, she was apparently ok with getting you info. But if you were like me and didn't want to study for the sake of it, she was clueless.A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. - Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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Quoth Antisocial_Worker View PostGoing to school for that sort of thing really has a way of putting things into perspective and for messing the settings on your give-a-shitter all up. Once you see a few pictures confiscated in a child porn raid, it becomes extremely hard to care about some Cubic Zirconium member's stupid little problem that has them in a frothing rage.
Stuff to care about: Children who are victims of child porn.
Stuff not to care about: Some entitled ass CZ member's insignificant, petty problem.
Yeah, sounds about right to me.Skilled programmers aren't cheap. Cheap programmers aren't skilled.
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Quoth Blue Ginger View PostI would have settled for a vaguely interested careers counsellor. My high school one was so burnt out that her only suggestion to me was 'you'll figure it out.'
If you already had an idea of what you wanted to do at uni, she was apparently ok with getting you info. But if you were like me and didn't want to study for the sake of it, she was clueless.
1. Psychiatrist/Psychologist (I'd go back and forth)
2. Electrical Engineer
3. Architect
4. Physicist
I ended up being a software engineer.Skilled programmers aren't cheap. Cheap programmers aren't skilled.
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Mac Hall has some advice about retail work.
You're not ready for it
Expect unreasonable/incomprehensible orders and to get yelled at for not doing them right.
It will break you.PWNADE(TM) - Serve up a glass today! | PWNZER - An act of pwnage so awesome, it's like the victim got hit by a tank.
There are only Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because I choose to walk!
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