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Chill
Calgary25993 Posts
On October 29 2011 00:08 Titorelli wrote: Wow I could never work for an oil company. They're - or rather you're  - raping our mother earth pretty hard. I'd rather earn less money and be happy with myself.LOL | ||
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Titorelli
2492 Posts
I was serious | ||
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Nereites
Canada102 Posts
That makes it even more of an LOL then Edit: Might as well answer the question of the thread I am geologist working for an oil and gas company. It is a great job. The best part of it is where we drill wells and rape mother Earth. Nothin like slamming a drill bit in the ground, and then producing oil and gas, which are, I don't know, pretty essential for manufacturing a lot of products in this world. | ||
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Chill
Calgary25993 Posts
So am I you dummy. You have no idea where I work or what our practices are. | ||
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Titorelli
2492 Posts
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Smoot
United States128 Posts
I think its interesting that so many people are against things that create the luxuries in their life. Oil isn't just gasoline in your car. Petroleum is used in EVERY modern manufacturing process known to man. Maybe it is because I work as an engineer, but I don't think folks really know where things come from. Anyway, you can live without it I'm sure. But when you do, be sure to write a 'Walden Pond' version of the experience. @ The OP I graduated High school with a 2.0? I was super bored and paid no interest in my classes. Joined the military for 5 years working on aircraft. I decided I couldn't really start a family being deployed every 6 months so I got out after my 5th year. Afterward I went to college for mechanical engineering. Finding out how things work really interested me and I enjoy what I do. I wanted to illustrate that I was "bottom of the barrel" in high school with those grades. Your grades and high school career do not show your intelligence or even what you are capable of so don't use it as a measure in your life for anything. My high school GPA was 2.0, I graduated with my associates Magna Cum Laude and finished my degree at university with a 3.6 GPA. If you do go to college I would suggest going for something that is worth paying 50 grand for. Personally I would never go without knowing what I was going to do, but some folks go for the experience. I paid my own way (years in the military = GI bill) and I saved money/worked while gong). But I would never go in debt for it. | ||
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Chill
Calgary25993 Posts
On October 29 2011 01:07 Titorelli wrote: I am not blaming you guys let alone accusing you of anything. I just said it wouldnt be something for _me_. No need to get insulting.... You just said I'm personally raping the Earth, while not knowing what products I'm shipping, whether I'm upstream, midstream or downstream, or even what part of the world I'm doing it in you dummy. That was an hour ago. | ||
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laguu
Finland278 Posts
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Capt.Awesome
United Kingdom7 Posts
"They're - or rather you're - raping our mother earth pretty hard." Your reflecting a very personal opinion on alot of people in a industry with no idea of the reality of the situation. | ||
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Chaves
Brazil315 Posts
If you have enough support and dont need to work and study at same time, look arround, seach a LOT visit places, its important know what kinda of place you ll work, and if you ll like it or not, there is a lot of sh1t that you need to get information about to make a rly good decision! GL! | ||
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jayman
United States78 Posts
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udai
United States68 Posts
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udai
United States68 Posts
On October 28 2011 23:04 SolidGasPro wrote: "Rich Dad Poor Dad" and "The Secret" are works that I don't like even the slightest. While I don't even have to defend my hate for "The Secret" (if you believe positive brain energy turns into matter, you're not in my league of intelligence :D ), let me give more reasoning for "Rich Dad Poor Dad": My roommate is a big Kiyosaki fan, he even bought the game "Cash Flow" that should teach you how to be a millionaire. It's somewhat like monopoly, and there are like 3 ways to make money: 1. Take a loan to buy property and repay loan from the rent of that property (Inapplicable in my country, loan payments are twice the amount of monthly rent.) 2. Own a business that repays your investment in 1-2 years and never goes bankrupt with steady income (Who would sell you such a business? Market will stay the same? You spend no time to manage it ? Or you gonna build it? Game doesn't teach you that!) 3. Buy stocks for price X, and in game you know that price will be rotating to X/2, X, 2X, 4X (that's 0 risk and you'll always win on that if you aren't retarded, that's not how real stock market works )"Rich Dad Poor Dad" has one clear message - "Don't be afraid of failure in business." My roommate took a 20K euros loan and boldly invested in some food retail idea and lost everything and now owes a lot of money. We're no longer roommates as he can't pay rent, he moved back with his parents! He can't take a second loan, failures can be fatal, you know P.S. As for me, I'm a flash game developer, soon switching to iPhone as well, here are some of my works http://ozdy.newgrounds.com/flash/ He is implying that you build the business. The business model he is promoting creates businesses that replicate and reproduce by making it possible for a new hire to promote out in a year or less. Usually they work in direct sales. But anyways if you promote out enough new owners you can have enough income to step away from your promoting office. Then do the other two. | ||
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LeWoVoc
United States15 Posts
College turned out to be a repeat of high school, save for the fact that few professors cared whether or not you were in class and the school was determined to squeeze every last penny out of you. Between the pathetic education methods and standards and the money-grabbing nature of modern college, I VERY sadly determined it wasn't for me. Everyone's heard the old saying "Soon you're going to need a degree to work at McDonalds." Sure, it's slightly hyperbolic, but there's a truth to it. What people fail to do, once they've reached this conclusion, is make the obvious next step: This means your degree is becoming worthless. Imagine the process of some kid fresh out of high school putting himself in debt for the next 20 years so he can place himself firmly in the same economic position he was before he entered! Long story short, I dropped out, decided to go full time playing music. I make a decent living now, and I've never been happier. A (rough draft) sample of my stuff. | ||
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zerglingrodeo
United States910 Posts
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VPVash
United States139 Posts
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Carnagath
230 Posts
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positron.
634 Posts
On October 29 2011 05:24 Carnagath wrote: Final year of law school. I know that's some sort of running joke around here, but yeah, that's what I'm doing. Unfortunately, all the classes have gone from "very hard" to "fuck me, studying is not enough, I need to start praying". It doesn't help that I also hate the subject matter with passion. I just want to get it over with, get a job doing trivial stuff at someone else's office for mediocre pay and start writing, which is my real wish and only talent. It was a relatively safe choice in an unsafe world and it nearly destroyed my soul in the process, but at least it will be over soon. Did you have to take out loan for Law school? If your passion is writing might as well do anything while you write. You didn't have to go through Law school for that. | ||
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horsman
Canada45 Posts
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Zurles
United Kingdom1659 Posts
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