I've decided to delve into the risky ForEx market. For those that don't know, ForEx is the buying and selling of different world currencies, plus Gold and Silver. It can be incredibly lucrative, but it also carries alot of risk. The good news is that with our country's current situation, it's pretty easy to predict the direction that the US dollar will take vs. more...
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So I got a good job offer down at the coast. It's literally within minutes of an apartment that Rikki and I looked at last year, which is about 5 minutes outside of downtown Portsmouth - a town with actual culture and history and goings-on. It's right on our favorite bike route, Route 1A, which also happens to be a great driving road. Rent is...
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Money sucks. Period. It seems that every single time that you're starting to get ahead and things are going to stabilize, something comes up that throws everything to hell again. I'm sick of being fucking poor living paycheck to paycheck, hoping that at the end of the month we'll have enough money left to buy food for a few weeks.
I need a new job....
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I need a new job....
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Called up DWC today, told the registrar that I want to re-enroll, she said "ok, no problem", and 10 minutes later I have a reentry form that I need to fill out and that's that. Could it possibly be any easier? Now I need to figure out how I'm going to pay for this, figure out where I'm going to live, and find work in...
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I'm having a hard time deciding if I hate my job, of if I hate my career. Thankfully, I'm only 20 so it's kinda easy to switch, but I think I need to work someplace else before I make that decision. I made the horrible mistake of parusing Monster.com last night and playing with the salary wizard, and it turns out that my flight instructors...
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I finally got that damned credit problem with yamaha straightened out...the one where they said that they reposessed my motorcycle and all. I call them up, and this is pretty much how it went (the second time, the first woman thought I was some scumbag and didn't want to help or talk to me)
Me: Hello, I'm calling regarding an error on my credit report...
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Me: Hello, I'm calling regarding an error on my credit report...
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THANK GOD that's over. 3 days worth of 10 hour days working were destroyed in less than 5 hours...I figure that the Thanksgiving Buffet took up about 450 man-hours...and it took less than 5 hours worth of people to eat. Not a single thank you from the management...all I heard was bitching because I came in at my scheduled time on wendsday to spend time...
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salieri:
Somebody please explain to me (in a civilized way - not rip me a new one) how the iraqis not cleaning their streets and hosing people on rents is our fault?
Seriously? Did you read -any- of the article?
Day three of the season. *farting noise*. It was 40 degrees and misting, dirt patches were starting to appear, and my Einey-Meiney-Miney-Mo selection of gear led me to bring the Teles to the mountain today. So I rented some tele boots, grabbed my free ticket, and took four bunny-hill runs. I'm starting to get the hang of this skiing thing I think, I'm able to...
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Day two of the season was excellent. I rented some tele boots this morning and took out my teles for the first time, and I'm happy to report that there were no falls, just gobs and gobs of horrible skiing. I think I made two tele turns in about an hour, but that's not bad for not having a lesson and just being out there...
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Today is indeed a good day. The ski area where I work across the street opened a real trail today, meaning that my snowboarding season has officially begun. 9:00 this morning I was sitting on the chairlift, feeding my addicition. And I've determined that it really is an addiction, because I was absolutley fucking EXHAUSTED after two runs, and was going to leave because I...
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let me know if you want to go on a ride- I'm here in Po-town, slinging hash and riding bikes and wishing I was a pirate instead.
I've noticed the same thing. More in the army than in any other branch, I think it's because the army has very lax standard as to who they'll take, as opposed to the Marine Corps (HS diploma required - 16 weeks (?) intensive training to weed out the ones that just want to kill), the Navy (HS Diploma Req, interpersonal skills needed), and the Air Force (HS Diploma req, generally techy-type jobs)....the army will take High school dropouts that can *mostly* read, as long as they can shoot reasonably well.
I had been thinking very seriously up until gaining admissions to law school (and I'm still thinking about it once I graduate) about joining the Marines (now obviously as part of the JAG Corp), but I was told that I couldn't because I have tattoos on my arms even though I graduated from one of the top 50 universities in the world (and from the top 3 program for my studies). Was I being bullshitted? Or are there some serious double standards going on here?