Is it too late for anyone to live a half-good life in the US

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08 Jul 2014, 7:20 pm

I feel like especially after the financial crisis hit us, we lost all hope that there is love in the world at all and we have no chance at living a good life because of our world threats and economic turmoil. What should I do to cope?



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08 Jul 2014, 7:32 pm

K_Kelly wrote:
I feel like especially after the financial crisis hit us, we lost all hope that there is love in the world at all and we have no chance at living a good life because of our world threats and economic turmoil. What should I do to cope?


Move to a better country.



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08 Jul 2014, 8:51 pm

In many ways it's never been better. What are you talking about?



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08 Jul 2014, 9:15 pm

It feels as if I'm being told I can't live life at all because of tight money and because I am under 30.



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08 Jul 2014, 10:53 pm

K_Kelly wrote:
It feels as if I'm being told I can't live life at all because of tight money and because I am under 30.


To start with, disconnect yourself from the MSM. The interests of media conglomerates are not your interests.They will only manipulate you into serving whatever their business agenda happens to be.



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09 Jul 2014, 6:54 am

Things are indeed tough, and for most, the "best days" are long gone for a few generations. The prosperity and opportunity we take for granted today were never the norm, but a wave of productivity not seen in many generations.

Success and prosperity (today) lie in finding opportunities OUTSIDE the box of what we are being told are the traditional paths. A lot of NTs aren't finding it, so it's going to be some work for find innovative ways to get ahead in the emerging world order.

Take heart that you are not alone and that there are more and more resources for "like minded" people who know the current paradigm is broken and not coming back anytime soon...so you might find help with innovating.



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09 Jul 2014, 7:25 am

Where I work, we are always looking to hire electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering grads.

I would recommend a getting a M.S. in electrical engineering.


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09 Jul 2014, 7:53 am

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Where I work, we are always looking to hire electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering grads.

I would recommend a getting a M.S. in electrical engineering.


Where do you work?? I know a guy with a BSME who has about 8 years experience with HVAC-R design. He passed the PE exam last year. He needs a new job. His current office seems to be suffering from gross mismanagement. If you're in the Pittsburgh PA area, I just might drop you his resume.

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A half-good life in America is still very possible.

You just might have to redefine what "a half-good life" is. It no longer means a great job with excellent benefits, a pension, and an ample salary. It no longer means a nice house and a newer car and cool toys. The post-WWII "American Dream" is, to be frank, deader than dogshit..

As someone else has said, it was a historical anomaly anyway.

There are all kinds of other ways to live a "half-good life." The first thing you have to do is figure out what "a half-good life" means to you.


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09 Jul 2014, 8:40 am

K_Kelly wrote:
I feel like especially after the financial crisis hit us, we lost all hope that there is love in the world at all and we have no chance at living a good life because of our world threats and economic turmoil. What should I do to cope?

You must live in a particularly financially hard hit part of the country. Things arent at their best now but to ask if it's too late for anyone to live a half-good life in the US makes me wonder from what perspective you're asking this.


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09 Jul 2014, 10:51 am

Of course you can have a half-good life. Just don't get greedy and want a whole-good one; that was a limited-time offer for the Baby Boomers.



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09 Jul 2014, 11:52 am

Yes, the American dream is dead, like a derelict warehouse.

I give it another thirty years, the USA will be an economic dustbowl of a country. On par with an eastern european state of today.

If you want good life you chase the Chinese monkey tail

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmANxHJ6s9M[/youtube]

america buy disproportionate foam hand that proclaim "we big number 2" :lol:


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09 Jul 2014, 11:52 am

"Of course you can have a half-good life. Just don't get greedy and want a whole-good one; that was a limited-time offer for the Baby Boomers."

Beg to differ slightly.

If you were a "boomer" you may also have been treated to a free trip to Vietnam.

Educational assistance didn't begin until 1965 and wasn't effective until later,
after many boomers could no longer participate.

The grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence.



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09 Jul 2014, 11:54 am

LoveNotHate wrote:

I would recommend a getting a M.S. in electrical engineering.


and learn mandarin


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09 Jul 2014, 1:13 pm

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Where do you work?? I know a guy with a BSME who has about 8 years experience with HVAC-R design. He passed the PE exam last year. He needs a new job. His current office seems to be suffering from gross mismanagement. If you're in the Pittsburgh PA area, I just might drop you his resume.

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Sorry, I work for an agency of the US government. My agency doesn't hire anyone. Hiring is done by a separate agency, OPM.


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09 Jul 2014, 1:40 pm

thomas81 wrote:
america buy disproportionate foam hand that proclaim "we big number 2" :lol:


America has the world "Jedi mind tricked" into thinking it will repay its debts. The reality is we expect counties to keep absorbing our debts and stacking Treasury paper in their vaults forever.

THESE ARE NOT THE DEADBEATS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR
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However, we have the battleships with guided missiles, nukes, and have shown we don't respect sovereign borders, or bother to ask the Security Council for permission. So, for someone to unseat America it will take some balls.


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09 Jul 2014, 7:52 pm

I don't like to define a "good life" to mean prosperity, but for the sake of this thread I will. I live a pretty darn good life in the US.