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    6 days ago

    Don’t wory, I got this

    ehm

    “There are people who have it worse than you”

    Hope this helps

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        When I was in my early 20s I was near tears in my doctors office telling her that the health issues I was dealing with were ruining my quality of life and that I was so exhausted and in so much pain all the time that all I could do was go to work and come home and go straight to bed and had been like that for months. I was near suicidal and extremely depressed. She said “stop being dramatic, you could have cancer”.

    • I got kicked out of my in-laws for yelling at my spouse s sister for saying this.

      My response was “What the fuck did you just say to her? Other people have it much BETTER than you do so why the fuck are you acting so fucking happy? That’s how fucking stupid you sound.”

      For context, she had spent the entire 7 hours she had been awake sitting in a hot tub drinking wine and tequila instead of being a parent, and basically dumped all the responsibilities for the children of the day onto the only othertwo adults present, one of whom was having a panic attack. I was les than happy when I showed up after work to pick my spouse up and walked into chaos and her sobbingand hyperventilating in the bathroom.

      My In laws are terrible people.

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    My mother has somehow never held down an actual full time job, but has a house.

    I have routinely worked 60, 80, 100 hour weeks much of my life. I sleep on the floor in a studio apartment.

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      “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

  • Gates9@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Lotta educated and unemployed people walking around, I wonder what they might get up to if the price of food and fuel goes up much more?

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      Nothing, the American populace is incapable of rebellion without bourgeois leadership telling them to rebel. Until the ruling class is splintered enough that a rebellious faction is willing to take the risk in recruiting the working class while somehow avoiding class consciousness, the US populace would never dare to go against its owners

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        They already took that risk on January 6th. The main splinters are the liberal owners and the fascist usurpers.

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    5 days ago

    Understood. Most of my time was with large companies where lots of people want to move up the ladder. Still very team oriented but also tried to stand out to get up a few rungs. Always willing to help out, jumping in where applicable to help solve problems that aren’t in my area, sticking around during disasters etc etc

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        Yeah, but that only proves to an employer that you’re able to learn. Once you get in the door then you have to climb and compete

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          In order to climb and compete you need to be able to learn first or have already learned what to do. With an education you have already learned some of what you will need to know and have proven you will be able to learn the rest. Someone without an education will have to start from zero. Not to mention an education teaches you have to work with people and within teams.

          Having an education shows that you are can work within a given system to meet your goals and achieve more than others who aren’t willing to put in that kind of work. You are coming in with an advantage that someone without doesn’t have.

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            Very true but you can still succeed without education if you’re willing to put in the time and effort. I’ve had a few different successful careers over my life and none of them were related to my little education. In my experience critical thinking and social skills play the biggest role

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        That’s all right. You don’t need an education to get a good job. You just need a skill that’s in demand. Time to become an expert in something you enjoy.

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      Totally depends on who’s painting the collage. Some are quite well done.

      One’s best bet though, is to attend college and not chance bad painting.

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      Ok we can have the homeschooled surgeon operate on you. Don’t worry, he got his certificate online.

      Higher education is absolutely necessary for certain fields. The cost and number of different degrees is where the scam is.

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      I like to imagine all of the down votes are specifically because you wrote “collage” instead of “College” in your statement… (a bit of irony in that’n.) And so the people with Art degrees are FUMING about their love of a good collage.

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      It is but learning is not. I don’t get all the down votes though. Must be a lot of professors in the crowd. Maybe self interest. Gotta believe in the lie you know like a good salesperson. Welcome to the down vote party.

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      5 days ago

      Indeed, the act of creating a new picture from components of other pictures, is fraud.

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      My life got significantly better from getting an education. I went from a job that pays $13 an hour to one that pays 85k a year with benefits after receiving my degree. Its not a scam at all.