Just kind of make me give up on humanity

like today i was reading one related to getting a job in another place and this "Social Media Intern" was telling me that i should start 'developing your social network' before you move, often by looking up people that went to college with you on facebook and fucking LinkedIn (which i think is hands down one of the worst social media sites on the internet). I skimmed the article but it reads like most of this shit does, "friends" are commodities you acquire to help you "get ahead" and "climb the ladder" and fucking etc

in the glorious communist republic of trotskyland there will be no social media it will be OUTLAWED and instead, you will need to "network" with your friends at the Local Pub or the Taco Distribution Agency

I'd be rioting for this

http://idealistcareers.org/how-to-build-a-network-in-a-new-city-before-you-move/

here it is

i hate every word in it

it’s essential to start building your new network before you move. Any introduction can be incredibly helpful; you can get advice on your sector’s local who’s-who, company connections, or just suggestions on the best bookstores in town.

Get to know your new city (and limit burnout) by quickly getting into some routine. Grab your laptop and do your cover letters at a coworking space or cafe on a regular schedule

YES GO HANG OUT IN A GODDAMN CAFE WITH YOUR FUCKING LAPTOP

What other pearls of wisdom does this unpaid intern have for us?

By putting some work in early, you’ll be meeting new people and making the most of your new home as soon as the landing gears are down. Here are a few other resources to help you with networking and moving:

What to say when you email a complete stranger
Moving? 5 tips to build your network in a new city
Location, location, location: What should you consider before moving for a job?
Reaching out without creeping out: Your 101 guide to building your network online

What to say when you email a complete stranger

:rofl:

basically she's telling us the way to be successful in contemporary america is to work all the goddamn time, approach every social contact as some kind of stepping stone or contact for better jobs and job prospects (as opposed to smoking dope and playing street fighter) and she apparently doesn't see what's wrong with that because she was raised on ronald reagan and watered down ayn rand

i seriously have no hope for this country. i see or hear people quote goddamn Gandhi re: "be the change you want to see in the world" and i want to punch them in the throat

To stay on top of meetings and events, make a separate calendar (Or at least a color code) for your move-related activities. Whenever you schedule coffee or a Skype session with someone, add an event. If using Google Calendar or another service that allows, invite them to it, with a message to remind who you are and what you talked about.

SERIOUSLY DO PEOPLE FUCKING DO THIS, IS THAT WHAT THESE ASSHOLES ARE DOING AT STARBUCKS ON THEIR GODDAMN COMPUTERS

i mean i just want a fair living wage, you guys can work all the time to land the job of your dreams where you're working every minute of the day because you've been conditioned to it and you're the only kind of worker that people reward for anything in the current job economy BECAUSE THEY ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF YOUR MANIACAL WORKAHOLIC LIFESTYLE

i was talking to this guy at a bar the other night, he's a great guy seriously one of the best dudes but he's talking about how for his work he's going out and getting "face time" and "networking" and this that and the other thing (in austin this means getting drunk with professionals, near as I can figure). Also, with your free time you should be working at learning new software and job related activities and I'm just like

what the fuck. my parents never did this shit.

That's ridiculous, I'm out on the streets

"Aspiring Urbanist"

i just want to vomit until i drop dead

i'm pretty angry right now about my student loans

also i'd like to seek asylum in australia or britain or something because i hate this country and everything it stands for

and it stands for FUCKING LIES ABOUT FREEDOM WRITTEN BY SLAVE HOLDERS AND OBSCENELY RICH PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT TO PAY TAXES TO THE CROWN WHO FUCKING ENABLED THEM TO COLONIZE AND GET RICH OFF OF THE EXTINCTION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

i mean to be honest. that stupid dickhead racist rancher is a microcosm of the founders of america.

the government gave me this land and cattle
so i don't owe them SHIT

yeah i dont get the use everyone as a tool to make yourself more money/get a better job/etc

i mean relationships shouldn't be based on that shit. if i had to look at every new person i met as a networking opportunity i would kill myself.

if you have to send someone information on their google calender to remind them that you talked and what was so important about it IT WASNT IMPORTANT AND HE DOESNT CARE AND NEITHER DO YOU REALLY YOU JUST WANT TO MILK HIS COCK SO SOMEONE ELSE WILL MILK YOURS

unfortunately this kind of thing is being rewarded now. these are the new professionals of our generation, the ones who use people like commodities and are obsessive workaholics. ultimately they will make a modest salary that is still well below the adjusted-for-inflation average of american workers.

the rest of us get called lazy and left by the roadside with enormous student debt and a big middle finger from the general public

leastways that's how i feel

am i doing it right

unfortunately this kind of thing is being rewarded now. these are the new professionals of our generation, the ones who use people like commodities and are obsessive workaholics. the rest of us get called lazy and left by the roadside with enormous student debt and a big middle finger from the general public

fuck that shit completely. i might become a workaholic at some level, but it wont be to advance my career or whatever bullshit. it would be to help others. and i feel like shit if i use someone as a commodity. fuck. that.

if you have to send someone information on their google calender to remind them that you talked and what was so important about it IT WASNT IMPORTANT AND HE DOESNT CARE AND NEITHER DO YOU REALLY YOU JUST WANT TO MILK HIS COCK SO SOMEONE ELSE WILL MILK YOURS

she seems like that kind of goddamn asshole who thinks it's appropriate to send reminder emails and call people to remind them about things

i say she because the tiny photo is very small and it could just be a tiny ginger man but andy mcdowell is def a woman and maybe her parents REALLY LIKED groundhog day

here's something to enrage you, from those GODDAMN PINKOS over at Mother Jones:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speedup-americans-working-harder-charts

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here's the chart that makes me want to immigrate

Increase in real value of the minimum wage since 1990: 21%

Increase in cost of living since 1990: 67%

One year's earnings at the minimum wage: $15,080

Income required for a single worker to have real economic security: $30,000

i dunno if 30,000 would do it for me, i'm still making well below that with ACS screwing me out of 2.5 hours a week.

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So this is what people must mean by a job when they tell me to stop being such a bum, get off the dole and get a job. It sounds euphoric.

i spend like 4-5k a year just on therapy/psychiatry/meds/etc, so that cuts a big part out of my income. shit thats a lot of fucking money. but without therapy i'd be insane and probably dead

so i think i made like 22k? last year but really after all that it's 17-18k. def dont have economic security.

really i made much less than that but im on a govt disability to work program so thats what i made with that program plus working 30ish hours a week and going to school

this is one of the best goddamn articles i've read in years

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/07/moaning-moguls

essentially the thesis is that the rich hate the poor now and try to deny them social services and destroy unions and cut their wages et al because communism is dead and they do not fear organized proletarian outrage

so they suck all the profit out of the economy, give us nothing in return and tell us that we should have worked harder

they give loans out to people who can't pay them, sell a bunch of houses and when that bubble pops they get bailed out by the government, face no real pentalty, give themselves raises and then in a few years make more money then they ever did

and probably about 50% of the public thinks this is fair

im going to have to start taking out loans in the next year or two. really gotta start going for those scholarships hardcore.

This is 4u Troots

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im going to have to start taking out loans in the next year or two. really gotta start going for those scholarships hardcore.

seriously don't bother

"uh oh. something's wrong..."

Previously, he has said that it might be good to raise income taxes on the poor so they had “skin in the game,” and that proposals to repeal the carried-interest tax loophole—from which he personally benefits—were akin to the German invasion of Poland.

:hurl:

seriously don't bother

should i just try to move up in publix? in 10 years i'd be making 6 figures but id be working at a grocery store 60 hours a week for the rest of my life.

im gonna try the college thing.

That's not the attitude an aspiring urbanist should have!

it's incredible how there's a significant number of the disenfranchised and economically downtrodden who are supporting people like that to continue to ass rape the labor in this country

should i just try to move up in publix? in 10 years i'd be making 6 figures but id be working at a grocery store 60 hours a week for the rest of my life.

im gonna try the college thing.

either way you're going to be working 60 hours a week

maybe but at least it could be a helping profession

i bet somebody will just tell us that we're lazy and we either need better jobs or need to take a second one and this is a bunch of bourgeois whining

to be perfectly frank it's definitely bourgeois whining. ultimately when my parents drop dead i'm going to end up with two lots in austin that could conceivably be worth upwards of 300k dollars. I mean unless this place turns into detroit by 2024

i dont think my parents have any money. they did at one point but *insert who fucked over who here*.

my dad did okay. he has some freelance work he does but that's because he's a real miser and he never thinks he has enough money for retirement even though my mother insists that they do, and tells me they have quite a bit to leave to me as well. that's nice, and something the truly poor do not have and i am fortunate in that

but he didn't work 60 hours a week to get here. middle class, financially secure even if he pretends we're 60 seconds away from wearing oak barrels and begging for spare change. he works extra now, not very much, just to increase his pile. that's what extra work should be, it shouldn't be to get to the very barest middle class salary like it seems to be these days, it should be for extra. but i guess that ship sailed and we're waiting for the miracle to come.

"be the change you want to see in the world"

so i should suicide bomb a bank or what, i don't get it

am i to be a labor leader who gets shot by omega concern

my mom stopped selling her soul to her work. she was working as a buyer for the OR at a hospital and doing the job of three people. she had what she calls a "nervous breakdown" and stopped working there and started working at Costco and getting some kind of early retirement (she is 64. wait what, when did she turn 64? WHAT THE FUCK). she's much saner now. only

i think my brain really has not processed that they are over 61. my dad is almost 66.

i talk about this all the time in therapy etc but it just now hit me for some reason.

there is a very good chance one of them will die in the next 10 years.

my dad is very overweight and a diabetic who doesnt take his meds and is a gambling addict

my mom is generally neurotic and has smoked for 50 years and refuses to go to doctors. she has never had a mammogram. breast cancer and ovarian cancer run in her family.

out of all of my peer group i know THREE MEN who actually have professional jobs and are financially secure

and they are in their mid 60s, WHEN THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN

out of all of my peer group i know THREE MEN who actually have professional jobs and are financially secure

i dont think i know anyone in my peer group who is. i have a friend D and my sister C who are both on their way to PhDs. C has it pretty much set for her in music therapy and D is the smartest motherfucker ever and is an editor of a textbook on reniassance literature and teaching Shakespeare to lit majors

since his disertation takes forever (450+ pages) it will be a while. but he is getting paid to not teach next semester and just to work on his dissertation and personal projects. same $ as if he were teaching, except he gets to live down here with his family for 5 months and do whatever he wants, basically.

he's so smart he couldn't do anything but stumble into success though.

they sound like people who work all the time

I love you and your anger.

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This only proves it trickles down! Lower taxes now plz.

Out of all the batshit I was raised with, my parents did a pretty good job of instilling the importance of family/personal time and I never got the feeling that WORK WORK WORK was important to a good life.

Sure they didn't plan for the future and are now feeling the pinch but they know how to how shall I say, "adjust expectations".

Dad's got some kind of inheritance coming when his mom dies although he doesn't know how much because he never knew his parents' financial situation ever. Could not tell you how much they ever made because that was never ever discussed in his household.

Oh, and also to start an IRA, that was always preached to us. Started on like two years ago but by the time I cash out, we'll all be dead and the dollar will be worthless. Holler at ya boi.

Yeah the world is going to be over in 50 years. Don't know why people insist on bringing children into it.

Kids are terrible

Kids now will get to see the apocalypse. In a sense, I'm jealous.

You fools seem to forget the price white children command in certain markets.

So i have an idea fpr a movie called KILO after the ghostface joint, and it will be the story of a dude who decides to start selling cocaine for the Texas Syndicate and gets in way over his head. Along the way there will be many diatribes similar to the ones above.

I consistently by a win $2,000 per week for life scratch off.

So that's my plan. I got $20 on it last week.

I forgot to mention that the protagonist of KILO is trying to pay off his student loans.

they sound like people who work all the time

yeah i suppose. but they are in grad school. and my friend fucking loves what he does and gets a lot out of it

i mean if i have to work hard might as well be doing something that helps people and that i like to do, right?

I guess, the LSWs ive talked to sound less than fufilled. More like overworked, underpaid, and ineffective.

yes that is a danger. i dont plan on being a social worker. i want to have more flexibility. im not even sure i want to do therapy, especially not traditional therapy. im thinking of working in corrections. but that's a long way away, who knows. research would be cool too. i dont know if i will have my own stuff mastered enough to really do one on one therapy with someone else.

the therapists i've known in hospitals (as a patient) were mostly jaded and ineffective but the ones in outpatient settings seem to do better. there is a high burnout rate.

Well i dunno why youre asking me, i visualize total annihilation

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