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Post by jdfranchise on Feb 24, 2016 18:31:50 GMT -5
You're gonna say that around an English teacher? You gonna try telling me you don't hate classes sometimes? You teach in high school. That's the pits even if you like what you do. While I work my tuition off at my college in their writing lab, I'm a TA at the community college I first attended, helping the professor who mentored me. So I help when needed and occasionally teach a lesson if she has a meeting (department head) so she doesn't have to cancel. I like it, and that's what I want to do, it can still be the pits if you have bunghole students who are not there to learn, only because mom or dad made them go if they wanted to keep living under their roof. And what makes it worse is she does blue book essay exams and she has me look over them and give her what I would award the student grade wise and this current semester is brutal because literally no one's paying attention so half of them are failing. Someone on one tried explaining in their own way that slavery and indentured servitude weren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be now. Was in her office and put my head in my hands and she asked how bad it was and I handed it to her and she wasn't sure if she wanted to scream, laugh or cry. It's a cruel world for educators. It is a cruel world for educators, and the sad part is that it's going to get worse. I'll preface by saying that I enjoy what I do. I enjoy teaching writing and good literature, plus I think literacy is an essential part of the skillset everyone needs to have success in life. Are there students that are a chore to teach? Absolutely, you are not going to get any disagreement from me there. But I'll never let them know that. There are some students out there that are so entitled because No Child Left Behind basically ensures that they will pass. And those who teach in college can blame high school teachers, but it starts way earlier than that at the fundamental level. Kids are not being taught basic social or academic skills, and they come in behind the curve while acting like the idiots they glorify on TV. Here's the difference though, college is a privilege that many have to pay for and professors can fail you if you do not meet the requirements. Public school teachers are handcuffed by policies put in place at the state and national level, so we are limited what we can do because our society feels the need to baby them coming up. And there's my soapbox.
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Feb 24, 2016 20:51:09 GMT -5
Of course a private university education is futile if you go and get a masters in something inane like Mediterranean Oceanography like half the schlups are doing these days. I've got me a two year degree from a public little community college in a nothing city in a nothing state and I've been working in my field ever since. I feel ya regarding grad school for off the wall things that have very little career opportunities. At least a masters in history, with a teaching certificate allows me to consider education lower than the collegiate level should I not be able to find an adjunct position somewhere right out of the gate. But you're an accountant right? Most people need some sort of accountant at some point in their life. Perhaps not as in demand as nursing or whatever, but hey, maybe some corrupt Wall Street corporation will pay you a nice penny to do their books. I'm not having any issues in the working world (short of working with class act morons). I deliberately chose accounting as my major due to the growth in jobs. You have to understand, the workforce in this field is considerably older, and they're retiring in greater numbers due to either advances in technology they don't want to get on board with, or the billion and one changes to their every day work life, thank you very much Enron/Tyco/Sarbanes-Oxley. I came in at a choice moment in the field - I'm young (by their standards, f*ck you), handsome, know my way around a computer, and best of all, my knowledge is current. I'm the wave of the future, baby!
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Post by bad guy™ on Feb 24, 2016 20:53:48 GMT -5
I feel ya regarding grad school for off the wall things that have very little career opportunities. At least a masters in history, with a teaching certificate allows me to consider education lower than the collegiate level should I not be able to find an adjunct position somewhere right out of the gate. But you're an accountant right? Most people need some sort of accountant at some point in their life. Perhaps not as in demand as nursing or whatever, but hey, maybe some corrupt Wall Street corporation will pay you a nice penny to do their books. I'm not having any issues in the working world (short of working with class act morons). I deliberately chose accounting as my major due to the growth in jobs. You have to understand, the workforce in this field is considerably older, and they're retiring in greater numbers due to either advances in technology they don't want to get on board with, or the billion and one changes to their every day work life, thank you very much Enron/Tyco/Sarbanes-Oxley. I came in at a choice moment in the field - I'm young (by their standards, f*ck you), handsome, know my way around a computer, and best of all, my knowledge is current. I'm the wave of the future, baby! So at what point do you become obsolete to the next wave? Shelf life of a modern, non-Wall Street/Forbes accountant?
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Feb 24, 2016 21:01:59 GMT -5
I'm not having any issues in the working world (short of working with class act morons). I deliberately chose accounting as my major due to the growth in jobs. You have to understand, the workforce in this field is considerably older, and they're retiring in greater numbers due to either advances in technology they don't want to get on board with, or the billion and one changes to their every day work life, thank you very much Enron/Tyco/Sarbanes-Oxley. I came in at a choice moment in the field - I'm young (by their standards, f*ck you), handsome, know my way around a computer, and best of all, my knowledge is current. I'm the wave of the future, baby! So at what point do you become obsolete to the next wave? Shelf life of a modern, non-Wall Street/Forbes accountant? Me specifically? Never. I'm part of a new generation willing to adapt to new technologies and try new things. Average shelf life at my company is ~25-30 years. We've got a board with people's tenures starting at 5 and working up incrementally.
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Feb 26, 2016 16:09:23 GMT -5
Someone here recently made a couple of posts asking to be put into a storyline. Who was that?
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Post by bad guy™ on Feb 26, 2016 16:21:23 GMT -5
Someone here recently made a couple of posts asking to be put into a storyline. Who was that? Bison. He's since been taken care of.
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Feb 26, 2016 16:31:55 GMT -5
Well, f*ck. Can you just pull your friendly strings and get me my dream "money where your mouth is" match then, bad guy™?
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Post by Markw on Feb 26, 2016 16:59:22 GMT -5
You looking for SuperBrawl SYE?
Edit: Sorry, didn't realise you were angling for something specific.
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Feb 26, 2016 17:00:34 GMT -5
GUYZ THE NEXT PPV IS IN BOSTON I MEAN COME ONNNN AMIRITE?!
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Post by bad guy™ on Feb 26, 2016 17:18:01 GMT -5
Well, f*ck. Can you just pull your friendly strings and get me my dream "money where your mouth is" match then, bad guy™? Sorry, I'm unavailable to kick your ass at SuperBrawl.
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Feb 26, 2016 17:26:53 GMT -5
Well, f*ck. Can you just pull your friendly strings and get me my dream "money where your mouth is" match then, bad guy™? Sorry, I'm unavailable to kick your ass at SuperBrawl. You know that's not the match I want.
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Post by eljefe on Feb 26, 2016 18:32:19 GMT -5
Since I missed this whole conversation because classes threw every assignment at me due on one day, I'm 20, working on my B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and I'm in the military, Air Force specifically. So, yeah, I don't understand your adult problems.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2016 19:00:10 GMT -5
Someone here recently made a couple of posts asking to be put into a storyline. Who was that? Bison. He's since been taken care of.
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Feb 26, 2016 20:37:58 GMT -5
So I don't know how many of you this applies to, but in the course of my writing process, I often brainstorm a bunch of techniques or references I'd like to try and incorporate into my work. A lot of these tend to be music based, as music has a tendency to be the source of much of my inspiration in a roundabout sort of way. I once framed an entire rp into sections using some of my favorite Boston based punk lyrics, did an entire scene that crescendoed with the opening lyrics of my own theme song, and once set an entire rp in the backseat of a car traveling through Seattle (which at least one long time prolific writer here cited years later as his favorite piece of mine, which was nice).
I still have a wealth of ideas I'd like to try and weasel in. Some are more difficult than others and can't just be slapped on to paper at will like most of my stuff - takes a bit of thought to figure out how to make it not come off kitschy. Before going the David Koresh route, I wanted to make Daniel Kirkbride a full blown scumbag televangelist in the vain of Benny Hinn or that Genesis video, but when I wrote the scene complete with his entourage of chorus singers and bodyguards it just came off stupid. A lot of things turn out that way, and so ideas that seem GREAT while I'm on the sh*tter or whatever tend to wind up getting flushed like the drizzling sh*ts that they are.
The point I'm trying to make is, for better or for worse, I've finally managed to work in deliberate, on the nose references to arias from at least two of my preferred Italian operas in my writing, which is an accomplishment that has been a long time coming for me.
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Post by bad guy™ on Feb 27, 2016 7:10:04 GMT -5
My SuperBrawl RP was based entirely around "Sleep" by My Chemical Romance. Know they're not everyone's jam, but it fit Malakai's story, someone ready to pass on but still has some last minute business to deal with.
When I have an RP due, the time leading up till I write a day or two before the show I'm constantly thinking about ideas and trying to tie the ones I like together in my head, to make them make sense on paper, so to say. A lot is with music. It's fun.
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Feb 27, 2016 15:19:05 GMT -5
So, last week, I bought a house. This is the second time I've done this, and so now we're going through the agonizing process of once more making numerous changes to make it "ours". Lots of painting, a little electrical work, but most importantly, this morning I spent thirty minutes installing a bidet on my toilet.
I'll be sure to report back with my harrowing tales of passing waste with the highest degree of cleanliness.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2016 20:41:20 GMT -5
This match is killing me.
Just about finished with the RP, though a heads up that I won't be able to partake in the next event due to me being on annual leave.
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Post by Deep Figure Value on Mar 2, 2016 9:01:55 GMT -5
I always get nervous when the deadline is this close and there isn't a single submission up yet.
As a housekeeping question: is it safe to assume that he commentary team will be Alecia Matthews and Daniel Knight for the foreseeable future?
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Post by Drakz on Mar 2, 2016 9:48:23 GMT -5
As a housekeeping question: is it safe to assume that he commentary team will be Alecia Matthews and Daniel Knight for the foreseeable future? Yeah man.
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Post by Cameron Stone on Mar 2, 2016 17:27:32 GMT -5
I'm curious to see where things land for me in regards to Superbrawl.
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