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yyler

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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #20 on: April 20, 2009, 11:40:00 AM »

I am a librarian.  If you want an easy job, well-paying job, you've hit fucking jackpot.
Why would Nor never mention that you're a librarian to me? Huh.

Anyway I don't know if I am going to do that, or be an archivist, or a metadata architect or whatever. "Metadata architect" seems like a person who controls reality, and that's why I am interested.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #21 on: April 20, 2009, 11:41:42 AM »

Librarian pays well? :o
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #22 on: April 20, 2009, 11:42:22 AM »

Hopefully that debt was not wasted on a useless degree - that's not a snide comment, I really do hope your degree can be used. If it galls to be in debt, it's even more galling if "IT WAS ALL FOR NOTHING!".


define useless

use⋅less   /ˈyuslɪs/  Show Spelled Pronunciation [yoos-lis]  Show IPA
–adjective 1. of no use; not serving the purpose or any purpose; unavailing or futile: It is useless to reason with him.
2. without useful qualities; of no practical good: a useless person; a useless gadget.  


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Origin:
1585–95; use + -less

Related forms:

use⋅less⋅ly, adverb
use⋅less⋅ness, noun


Synonyms:
1. fruitless, profitless, valueless, worthless, inutile. Useless, futile, ineffectual, vain refer to that which is unavailing. That is useless which is unavailing because of the circumstances of the case or some inherent defect: It is useless to cry over spilt milk. Futile suggests wasted effort and complete failure to attain a desired end: All attempts were futile. That which is ineffectual weakly applies energy in an ill-advised way and does not produce a desired effect: an ineffectual effort. That which is vain is fruitless or hopeless even after all possible effort: It is vain to keep on hoping. 2. unserviceable, unusable.


Antonyms:
1. effective.

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I am intrigued by this apparent philosophy that people are entitled to like their jobs.

You folks sure love reading implications into my posts that I didn't put there.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #23 on: April 20, 2009, 11:43:19 AM »

lol
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #24 on: April 20, 2009, 11:47:20 AM »

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hide in corners of cities with other elves and type illicit things to each other.

I found a bug where most of the girl elves are actually guys

can I get a hotfix pls? i would like not having to wait five months for the next patch i mean you hotfixed warlocks
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #25 on: April 20, 2009, 11:49:56 AM »

<-- nothing

Incorrect.  You are a student seeking a computer science related degree.  You are a creative and talented individual whose potential has yet to be seen by a suitable programming team.  When you finish college, get super hyped about your first job, then absolutely hate it 3 months in, then you can claim that you are nothing.  (Then shop for a better job on lunch breaks and quit the crap job.)

Protip: Don't work for military contractors unless you can stomach amazing amounts of BS.  The good news is there is usually documentation.  The documentation is also cursed.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #26 on: April 20, 2009, 11:51:51 AM »

Librarian pays well? :o

I make $62k/year, with benefits and 401k-matching bringing compensation to around 80.  It's not CRAZY, but like I said, it's 9 to 5 and it's easy.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #27 on: April 20, 2009, 11:53:38 AM »

I don't even care about the money. I just want to be a sexy librarian.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #28 on: April 20, 2009, 11:54:51 AM »

I don't even care about the money.

lol
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #29 on: April 20, 2009, 11:56:07 AM »

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hide in corners of cities with other elves and type illicit things to each other.

I found a bug where most of the girl elves are actually guys

can I get a hotfix pls? i would like not having to wait five months for the next patch i mean you hotfixed warlocks

the best part is that a chinese company actually did try to hotfix this in their game
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #30 on: April 20, 2009, 11:57:54 AM »

Wasn't Ragnarok Online like that?  Like, it predetermined male or female avatars based on your account info or at the very least forced all of your alts to be of one sex?
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #31 on: April 20, 2009, 12:00:58 PM »

I take bunches of classes, go to work, plan my wedding, try to find time to hang out with my friends but fail, and spend not-nearly-enough time with my fiancee. Oh, and I stay up too late playing videogames because I usually don't have any time to play them during the day.

I'm only able to work at my job during school semesters, which means that during the few weeks before and after summer school I'll actually get a vacation, but I've been so busy lately that I'm going to feel like a lazy jerk for not doing anything important.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #32 on: April 20, 2009, 12:02:48 PM »

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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #33 on: April 20, 2009, 12:03:06 PM »

That isn't really that much considering (and I am saying this completely without any sort of self-promotion at all) my qualifications, but again easy etc.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #34 on: April 20, 2009, 12:04:13 PM »

I am currently ten months into a fifteen-month hiatus from studies, during which time I am living frugally off a portion of my savings, and from family, who wished me to make up for the fact that I moved out at sixteen. Every day is a vacation~

Grad school begins in the fall, and sometime sooner than that I will have to do something about my employment status.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #35 on: April 20, 2009, 12:04:59 PM »

Wasn't Ragnarok Online like that?  Like, it predetermined male or female avatars based on your account info or at the very least forced all of your alts to be of one sex?

No idea, but the MMO I was referring to (forgot which one) decided they were going to require anyone who created a female character to send in an actual photo of themselves, holding up their ID, to verify their gender.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #36 on: April 20, 2009, 12:06:08 PM »

Oh, so all the female players created male characters, then?
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #37 on: April 20, 2009, 12:13:05 PM »

Don't you have a law degree, Paco?
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #38 on: April 20, 2009, 12:15:51 PM »

Yes, and a Master's in Library and Information Science. Anyone with a law degree from either a 1) top tier, or 2) regionally influential school, as well as a Master's of some sort emphasizing interest and expertise in a particular area, should not be making less than $100k (current market excepted) unless they either made a conscious decision to take a lower-paying job for some other reason, or just fucked up somewhere.

That being said, for legal reference specifically I am well-paid enough to not mention it to the people with whom I interned during my Master's.
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Re: What the Fuck Do you People DO all day?
« Reply #39 on: April 20, 2009, 12:30:22 PM »


use⋅less   /ˈyuslɪs/  Show Spelled Pronunciation [yoos-lis]  Show IPA
–adjective 1. of no use; not serving the purpose or any purpose; unavailing or futile: It is useless to reason with him.
2. without useful qualities; of no practical good: a useless person; a useless gadget. 


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Origin:
1585–95; use + -less

Related forms:

use⋅less⋅ly, adverb
use⋅less⋅ness, noun


Synonyms:
1. fruitless, profitless, valueless, worthless, inutile. Useless, futile, ineffectual, vain refer to that which is unavailing. That is useless which is unavailing because of the circumstances of the case or some inherent defect: It is useless to cry over spilt milk. Futile suggests wasted effort and complete failure to attain a desired end: All attempts were futile. That which is ineffectual weakly applies energy in an ill-advised way and does not produce a desired effect: an ineffectual effort. That which is vain is fruitless or hopeless even after all possible effort: It is vain to keep on hoping. 2. unserviceable, unusable.


Antonyms:
1. effective.

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I am intrigued by this apparent philosophy that people are entitled to like their jobs.

You folks sure love reading implications into my posts that I didn't put there.

ok sir then how is "continuing to collect a paycheck rather than starve for a dream that does not actually exist" not a plan

Okay, well, here I will read my own experience into things, you are free to explain how your case may or may not be different, because there is no way I am going to claim that I am the norm.

I make no claim to being one of those witty "intelligent slackers" (imo, laziness is a form of stupidity), but I sure do get bored easily. I know that no matter how easy a job is, sooner or later I will get myself fired by slouching my way out the door (I usually quit, so as to leave on good terms, though at Virgin, the workplace was so toxic I took pride in getting myself fired). I usually push the hell out of my assigned boundaries, by taling to people I'm not suppposed to talk to, helping people I'm not supposed to help and learning all kinds of things I'm not supposed to learn, and generally pretending that I have a whole hell of a lot more authority than I do on paper (this is not altruism, merely the product of frustration and curiosity).

When I say 'useless' I mean, 'having no lasting benefit to distinguish it from any other degree'. Which is to say yeah you're supposed to learn a lot of 'life lessons' at university, etc., but you can learn those at any post-secondary institution, taking any degree. Hell, many people learn those lessons better by NOT being in school. If the degree does not provide you either the certification or skills to allow you to do a job that is either lucrative or satisfying (maybe even both), if it could have been swapped for any other degree with the same effect on your life, then it was by and large, useless.

If you are fine with your current career track, then so be it. But there is a difference between acknowledging that you will not attain the dreams of your childhood and 'settling for less'.

EDIT (5 new posts, etc): Based on your last two posts, I wouldn't call your degree useless. Underutilized, perhaps, but not useless. And underutilization is something that is largely a matter of the opinion of the degree holder.
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