Originally Posted by Trotskilicious (Post 4036934)

to be perfectly honest i do kind of wish my life was a comedy with a happy ending but it's probably more like death

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious (Post 4036936)

i think that's a really funny joke also and it would ice every room from here to tahiti

Originally Posted by Order 66 (Post 4036939)

scot baio AND willie aames.. cant go wrong with that

Originally Posted by slunken (Post 4036919)

TROTS get me a job where you work and we can live together

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious (Post 4036958)

I only send in mine with PDF

Originally Posted by pavementtune (Post 4036965)

Hitting a 7-year-old was a low point but there are so many, no idea how you guys can pick out just one.

Originally Posted by Banana (Post 4036775)

2010 into 2011 was a pretty low time. Graduated college which I wasn't at all looking forward to or ready for especially since the economy was full on in it's collapse at that point. I was living with my serious gf at the time. Could not find a job for the life of me, couldn't even get a job at a retail store. This caused huge tension and trouble in the relationship and it boiled over to me breaking up with her in July, going home for what was to be a couple of days to cool off and ultimately I decided I didn't want to end it. She had other plans and did want to end it. Tried for a few months to get back together and moved back home to let her have her space at our apartment all the while helping pay all the bills. She kept stringing me along for basically that reason until she out of nowhere to me started dating someone whom until that point I had considered a friend. That crushed me. I was on the lease so I had to keep paying my rent until the end the lease which made it hurt all the more. They eventually got married.

I had a job though which was nice. But I was living at home and it was in a field I had no desire to be in. I eventually got laid off from that job in early 2011 but quickly wound up in another job in the same field since I had license and what not but I had absolutely no desire to be working there or doing that work. I was miserable at the job and eventually got laid off from that job in July bringing me full circle to the year before. So that was not a fun 12 months.


Went to Alaska for a couple of weeks after that at the end of July and when I got back I had unemployment to refresh myself with before grabbing a new job and getting a place to start 2012. 2012 was probably one of my favorite years of life thus far so that was a nice rebound year that I needed.

Originally Posted by Shallowed (Post 4036974)

How long ago was that? What were the circumstances?

Originally Posted by slunken (Post 4036922)

it would be like a funny 80s coming of age movie

Originally Posted by Banana (Post 4036841)

One of my best friends lives out there. At the time he was living on this families "farm" about 40 minutes north of Fairbanks. It wasn't really a farm just their house and two cabins on a huge amount of land at the base of a large hill/small mountain. Only the house had some electric but nothing really besides lights, a fridge, and a radio to play npr. No running water. That's the true roughing it way of life especially there where it gets so cold and dark in the winter.

But that farm was basically just our base. Drove all around the state. Worked our way down to Valdez and back and then to some other places as well stopping at any given mountain along the way that looked like fun to climb/hike and camping out on it. That whole state is absolutely gorgeous. So devoid of people too. Fairbanks is the second largest "city" in the state and it was a just a large spread out town with hardly anyone filling it except for the eskimos/natives stumbling around drunk 24/7 on the sidewalks. You get out of there and you don't see anyone except for Denali and other extremely rare towns.

Originally Posted by pavementtune (Post 4036980)

Ages ago, I was 17. Yet I never forgot it, guilty conscience or something.

I was her "babysitter", picking her up etc. We were at their indoor pool and she kept asking about my belly piercing. I explained it all to her, how it's done, if it hurts, blabla. Then she went "can I touch it" I said sure, just don't twist it.

Her little hand moves forward, and with one grab she rips it out. The whole thing, straight, skin and all. I slapped her within a second. Yea. Low point.

Originally Posted by Starla (Post 4036988)

I've been to Anchorage and Nome... have some family in Nome. I didn't like the vibe in Anchorage. I'm liking the looks of Juneau... it's a tourist town, small, you can't just drive in... it has mountains, snow, and water. I kind of want to be alone, yet I don't. The past four years has proven to be a test for me. I found out that I definitely don't want to go back to Ca again. I need to be where things move slower. I like how winter does that up here, but the summers are still calm enough to enjoy with minimal tourism.

Denali is incredible.

Originally Posted by slunken (Post 4036964)

i've seen some places (big companies) with online applications processes only accepting a resume as a word doc its infuriating

Originally Posted by Trotskilicious (Post 4037009)

i have also seen this and it's extremely dumb. like you can't open a PDF are you fuckin with me