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19 Oct 2012, 2:02 pm

again_with_this wrote:
I don't have a proper diagnosis, but I feel the same way you do now.

Out of curiosity, what is your Myers-Briggs personality type? You can take an online test.


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19 Oct 2012, 2:47 pm

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Going to school and getting a job is pointless if it won't increase your happiness nor make you survive any better. A bachelors pretty much guarantees you the same pay as if you work in a damned warehouse nowadays

Going to school and getting a job is pointless only if you don't use your degree (or if your degree is in English literature or in some similar hipster major :)...no offense but that is true). Having a good degree should mean that you don't have to work in a damned warehouse.


Should and reality. I just talked to a guy who's daughter has a bachelors, she works for a design firm making....$15 an hour. With a bachelors. By comparison if I worked at NAPA auto parts warehouse, their max pay rate was $15 an hour and you'd get it after about 2 years working there, along with benefits.



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19 Oct 2012, 2:51 pm

For me life has no meaning. It is all about survival. If I could live it without doing what most people do, would be fine for me.
Even though I would like very much to travel and to visit different places and meet different people (and for this I need money, so yeah :roll: )


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19 Oct 2012, 3:43 pm

Bio_Info_Seeker wrote:
1000Knives wrote:
Going to school and getting a job is pointless if it won't increase your happiness nor make you survive any better. A bachelors pretty much guarantees you the same pay as if you work in a damned warehouse nowadays

Going to school and getting a job is pointless only if you don't use your degree (or if your degree is in English literature or in some similar hipster major :)...no offense but that is true). Having a good degree should mean that you don't have to work in a damned warehouse.


While it is true that the arts majors are more pointless than sciences majors (if that makes sense), some jobs simply require that you hold a degree, and it doesn't matter what it is. So not all hope is lost if you chose a dumb major like I did (anthropology)! That being said, I have a good job but I'm going back to school so I can get a better one. And this time, I'm choosing computer science. :lol: