Cancer Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 I am tired of being sick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 I am tired of being sick. I know the feeling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 No more money from unemployment. If I don't get a job soon, I'm going to default on my debts. ... Well, crap on a stick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 No more money from unemployment. I am hoping for some elaboration on this point. What kind of career are you looking for? Besides kicking people in the head I mean. Those jobs are hard to come by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 I really don't know anymore. I've been looking for something outside of education. Except that I've been in education for so long, nobody in another field is taking me seriously. I may just have to go back to teaching, which I never really enjoyed. Another 20 years of being miserable at my job. Maybe I'll see if the 7-11 down the street is hiring. If nothing else, The commute won't be too bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 18, 2014 Report Share Posted December 18, 2014 Education should be relatively easy to transfer out of, if you look for trainer positions in various industries. I mean, that would still be teaching but you'd inadvertently learn about something else that you might be able to move to after a few years. Otherwise, you write well and I assume you speak well if you did twenty years in a classroom. Sales? Marketing? Tour guide? Technical writing? Journalist? Warrior poet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Maybe, but no contacts in most of those fields. Still, I hadn't considered those positions, so thanks for the suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 ... Warrior poet. My guidance councilor never mentioned that career. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Not much call for those nowadays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Standards are falling everywhere. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 No more skalds in Scandanavia? My favorite warrior poet VV tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Everyone is into rap music these days. No, not really -- actual folk music is alive and well. Friend A. took a sabbatical from med school to learn folk dance and playing the keyed fiddle by ear. But my generation was the last one to experience the draft, so nowadays soldiering is an out-and-out job. There are probably some people who have the souls of poets in that line of work, but they mostly are very practical-minded folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Glad to hear folk music is doing well there. I can't stand rap; more of an opera guy myself. I tried to learn how to play the fiddle by ear once. I almost went deaf in the attempt. Pariah and L. Marcus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 19, 2014 Report Share Posted December 19, 2014 Usually one plays the fiddle with one's hands. I like rap. I like opera. I don't like bad rap, or bad opera. I detest the rap that the neighbor five doors down plays in his subwoofer-equipped SUV. But mainly, I'm a metalhead. L. Marcus and Cancer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 20, 2014 Report Share Posted December 20, 2014 My formative years was spent listening to hair rock, then thrash metal, then Seattle rock. My life has an electric guitar theme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 25, 2014 Report Share Posted December 25, 2014 What's the use? I'm never in a good mood this time of year. Definitely not feeling it this time. I won't even pretend otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 25, 2014 Report Share Posted December 25, 2014 First Christmas without Mom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 25, 2014 Report Share Posted December 25, 2014 Sorry to hear that, Cancer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 Yeah that one is tough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 29, 2014 Report Share Posted December 29, 2014 Red Ring of Death, is it? Nerts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 A friend invited me to go bowling today but I had to pass because I hardly slept last night. Damn you, insomnia! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 A friend invited me to go bowling today but I had to pass because I hardly slept last night. Damn you, insomnia! God knows I've missed so many workouts because of insomnia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 "Like private parts to the gods are we -- they play with us for their sport!" aylwin13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Some days, I can't even get out of bed without everything being effed up from the get go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 2, 2015 Report Share Posted January 2, 2015 So there is apparently a "Non Drunk Drivers cause more accidents than drunk Drivers" email making the rounds, it's got Budweiser's logo on it but I doubt the brewing company would actually support this kind of aggressive "humor." It was forwarded to my father and he passed it along to the family mailing list. This is the man who spent 4 years in prison due to an auto accident in which he ran into a tree and his then girlfriend died. They were both sloshed. He doesn't drink all the time but when he does he gets drunk. Log-man eventually talked me out of the profanity laced response I'd crafted but, here's a rule I have. If 100% of the fatal auto accidents you've been involved with were alcohol related you don't get to make Drunk Driving jokes, you self-unaware cocksplash. This made me too mad. I'm starting to wonder if I have the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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