Ziegenbartami wrote:

Rosalind wrote:

Right now, you need a couple of years experience to be able to get a job stacking shelves. Im not even joking. People can afford to demand a year or two experience in EVERY field, leaving uni graduates out the loop. I graduated last summer and I haven't been able to get a job so much as pulling a pint or cleaning a floor. It is getting better, but that doesn't help me much now.

That's what I found out this past summer. I don't have any work experience, because I never needed to work during high school, and now that I actually need a summer job, it's almost impossible to get one. Even the local grocery store didn't call after I turned in my application. Hopefully it'll be better this summer

I can't imagine never have working in high school. I've had jobs since I was 16.

Edit: Which now that I think of it, all of my jobs have been in this decade:

McDonalds
Burger King
Offset Paperback (a printing factory which prints 50% of all the U.S. paperback books)
A Community Assistant in college (Resident Assistant)
Worked for a field stone and quarry company stacking field stone and then moved to the quarry splitting and stacking stone
Worked for a contractor doing everything from building stone walls, stone patios to decks
Worked at my father's tire shop spending most of my time changing and repairing tractor trailer tires
Worked at a truck accessories shop which installed all sorts of after market parts onto trucks and cars
Worked in a KANE warehouse, packaging products from P&G (paper towels, diapers, etc)
And now working as a delivery driver for a wholesale tire company

Geez, just exactly how many history/ex-history students do we have in this group anyway? I have a degree as well.

I wonder what the correlation to metal is?

Abominog wrote:

Geez, just exactly how many history/ex-history students do we have in this group anyway? I have a degree as well.

I wonder what the correlation to metal is?

You're a historian too
Radddd.

Abominog wrote:

Geez, just exactly how many history/ex-history students do we have in this group anyway? I have a degree as well.

I wonder what the correlation to metal is?

I'm planning to major in history/archaeology too and hopefully work in Europe someday.

I've got a few years before college but I really want to go for a degree in Biomedical Engineering or some other type of technology engineering field, anything but civil but I'd have no problem with that either.

Abominog wrote:

Geez, just exactly how many history/ex-history students do we have in this group anyway?

*Raises hand* I'm a German major, too.

The closest I have come to a degree is the deodorant by the same name.

Ziegenbartami wrote:

Abominog wrote:

Geez, just exactly how many history/ex-history students do we have in this group anyway?

*Raises hand* I'm a German major, too.

I'm probably adding history or German as a second major because when I tell people I'm a philosophy major they laugh and say I will never get a job.

Another history major here as well.

Sign of the Black Mark wrote:

Ziegenbartami wrote:

Abominog wrote:

Geez, just exactly how many history/ex-history students do we have in this group anyway?

*Raises hand* I'm a German major, too.

I'm probably adding history or German as a second major because when I tell people I'm a philosophy major they laugh and say I will never get a job.

My high school philosophy teacher told us this joke in class once: What's the first question a philosophy major asks at his job? 'Would you like fries with that?'

Ziegenbartami wrote:

Sign of the Black Mark wrote:

Ziegenbartami wrote:

Abominog wrote:

Geez, just exactly how many history/ex-history students do we have in this group anyway?

*Raises hand* I'm a German major, too.

I'm probably adding history or German as a second major because when I tell people I'm a philosophy major they laugh and say I will never get a job.

My high school philosophy teacher told us this joke in class once: What's the first question a philosophy major asks at his job? 'Would you like fries with that?'

What's the difference between a philosophy degree and a large pizza? Someone with a large pizza can feed their family.

Pretty much the only thing you can really do as a philosophy major is become a philosophy professor. Which is what I actually want to do, so it works out.

So yeah, as far as the topic of this thread goes, I'm only 19 so obviously the past ten years has been important. I started the decade pessimistic and cynical about the world and I am ending it pessimistic and cynical about the world for completely different reasons. But I started getting into music, which is god because ten years ago I hadn't really been exposed to much music and I really didn't like anything i had heard. Hopefully the next decade will be better though.

My mom wanted me to major in history. I'm doing a Mass Communications degree though, with the media.

So...back on topic?

Alright, I'll have a go at this.

I began this decade at the age of 13, so obviously a lot of shit has gone down in my life. Realising my mother's alcoholism, and trying and failing to help her. Having a minor problem with substances myself, and (thank fuck) nipping that in the bud early on. Passing my driving test at the age of 20, and leaving home the same year. Gaining masses of weight, then losing it again (still not where I want to be though) Enduring 6 months of living with a guy I wanted to kill. Having left home, realising my stepmother isn't so much of a cunt after all. My confidence with the opposite sex has also been corroded away to almost nothing, due to years of let-downs and rejection. Boo fucking hoo.

But I guess the biggest thing is my outlook on life. I began this decade with the same questions of myself I'll end it with. I still have no fucking clue what my "calling" is, what I want for myself or whether selling my soul working in a job I hate (for the last 5 years, no less) really is the best I can hope for. At 23 I'm still finding myself, and finding out new things about how I think regularly. I don't know, I guess I'm hoping I'll find someone/something that'll kickstart everything and get it all to make sense. Maybe the next decade will bear fruit.

Adothorr wrote:

Abominog wrote:

Geez, just exactly how many history/ex-history students do we have in this group anyway? I have a degree as well.

I wonder what the correlation to metal is?

I'm planning to major in history/archaeology too and hopefully work in Europe someday.

I'm a History/Anthro double major
THis board rocks <3

I remember being more confused by 9/11 than anything. I simply couldn't fathom why anyone would do such a thing at the time, and not until after my first year in college (i.e. last year) did I realize that the United States is responsible for most of the animosity toward it in the Third World, and that we should simply stop fucking around in other nations' affairs.

I supported the Iraq War at first, believing the reports of WMDs and that Hussein was an all-around bad guy and deserved to be removed from power. That didn't change much until 2007, when I read an essay by a German author about Germany's opposition to the war and the immorality of preemptive war in general.

Coinciding with this was my political transformation from an arch-conservative to a libertarian minarchist/borderline anarchist. This has produced problems of its own, namely that as a history major everyone expects me to become a teacher or work for the government; I've always abhorred the thought of becoming a teacher, and now I refuse to work for the government as well, leaving me with very few career options when I graduate from college in two and a half years. I know a Norwegian guy through Facebook who's a gunsmith's apprentice; I think that would be an awesome job, and now wish I had taken some shop classes in high school. Being an intellectual isn't all it's cracked up to be.

One of the best things that happened during the last ten years is going to Germany from July 2007 to July 2008 as an exchange student after graduating from high school in '07. I won a scholarship from the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange program that paid for all expenses (except for spending money of course) to attend a German high school for a year, and it was a great experience. I met tons of cool people, both Germans and other exchange students. Being exposed to German culture also helped pull me out of my Amero-centric worldview, for which I am grateful. Though I'm not sure that I would like to move there, I'd definitely like to have a career which would allow me to visit Germany frequently.

That's about all the comes to mind at the moment.

Ziegenbartami wrote:

That didn't change much until 2007, when I read an essay by a German author about Germany's opposition to the war and the immorality of preemptive war in general.

When it was considered, the US sought approval from the UN. Despite being VETO'd by a number of countries (France and Russia I think, as well as Germany), as well as getting a maximum of 4 votes for support with the majority abstaining (nine are needed before action can be continued), they continued regardless. Now if you guys had just bloody gone and invaded, there probably wouldn't be half as much animosity in the direction of the US from Europe over the situation. It was the blatant disrespectful 'lets throw our weight around' type attitude that pissed people off. Not that I'm saying the UK was much better; we weren't exactly far behind.

Rosalind wrote:

Ziegenbartami wrote:

That didn't change much until 2007, when I read an essay by a German author about Germany's opposition to the war and the immorality of preemptive war in general.

When it was considered, the US sought approval from the UN. Despite being VETO'd by a number of countries (France and Russia I think, as well as Germany), as well as getting a maximum of 4 votes for support with the majority abstaining (nine are needed before action can be continued), they continued regardless. Now if you guys had just bloody gone and invaded, there probably wouldn't be half as much animosity in the direction of the US from Europe over the situation. It was the blatant disrespectful 'lets throw our weight around' type attitude that pissed people off. Not that I'm saying the UK was much better; we weren't exactly far behind.

We're all just a bunch of wankers.

LegionOvDoom wrote:

Rosalind wrote:

Ziegenbartami wrote:

That didn't change much until 2007, when I read an essay by a German author about Germany's opposition to the war and the immorality of preemptive war in general.

When it was considered, the US sought approval from the UN. Despite being VETO'd by a number of countries (France and Russia I think, as well as Germany), as well as getting a maximum of 4 votes for support with the majority abstaining (nine are needed before action can be continued), they continued regardless. Now if you guys had just bloody gone and invaded, there probably wouldn't be half as much animosity in the direction of the US from Europe over the situation. It was the blatant disrespectful 'lets throw our weight around' type attitude that pissed people off. Not that I'm saying the UK was much better; we weren't exactly far behind.

We're all just a bunch of wankers.

We were wankers too at the time, but our prime minister at the time really really loved Bush.

Peter wrote:

LegionOvDoom wrote:

Rosalind wrote:

Ziegenbartami wrote:

That didn't change much until 2007, when I read an essay by a German author about Germany's opposition to the war and the immorality of preemptive war in general.

When it was considered, the US sought approval from the UN. Despite being VETO'd by a number of countries (France and Russia I think, as well as Germany), as well as getting a maximum of 4 votes for support with the majority abstaining (nine are needed before action can be continued), they continued regardless. Now if you guys had just bloody gone and invaded, there probably wouldn't be half as much animosity in the direction of the US from Europe over the situation. It was the blatant disrespectful 'lets throw our weight around' type attitude that pissed people off. Not that I'm saying the UK was much better; we weren't exactly far behind.

We're all just a bunch of wankers.

We were wankers too at the time, but our prime minister at the time really really loved Bush.

Yeah. Lot's of people loved Bush for some awful reason.

About Time I participated in this. Hmm, the last decade is nearly as far as my memory can reach; I mean I'am almost 18 so the last 10 years were pretty much everything. The most important things that come to mind are, I was in a relation with this girl I loved that lasted for about 4 years, the girl was as good as it gets, she was so decent that throughout our long relationship, we never went out on a date, not even once, we only met at school, never outside. Sadly, things ended earlier this year, by me actually, for the life of me I cant figure what went wrong. I still think of her till this day...I also joined the faculty of engineering this year, my first year at college, and I fucking hate my college, it's do damn hard, they weight us with subjects, exams and all are difficult, engineering is shit. Last but not least, I joined Lifer at the begining of this year, glad to say it's doubled my collection over 10 times as big as it were, broadened my horizons to new and great music, and I've made many friends doing so.

You were in a relationship but never met outside of school? That sounds both weird and pretty sucky tbh.

Oh, and you cant double something to ten times your collection. 2x =/= 10x

Rosalind wrote:

You were in a relationship but never met outside of school? That sounds both weird and pretty sucky tbh.

Oh, and you cant double something to ten times your collection. 2x =/= 10x

Agreed, but as I've said, she was too decent..That was one of the reasons I got fed up in the end though, I missed her so badly, we spent months not seeing each other.

Oh, fuck you Thomas, I forgot know the English to that one , i think it's something like "ten times as bigger" ?