Eighteen to twenty-somethings, get back to work!

I'll try for the discount because I can't find the computers in the Residence lounge anymore and the library closes at 5pm. And if I was to say be so unscrupulous I would try your other suggestion but of course I'm not

*taps nose*

Want to save money and still get shit? Here's an blog full of student discounts for college students.

Also I got a student Aid job finally. Wee.

Whoa what the shit when did I get a job wherein I'm apprenticed to a generic Asian Old Master who I have to call sir?

(he seems like a kinda cool guy though)

Congrats.

I'm gonna need my license in order to be able to get a job myself.

A license is very helpful, although I only live 1.3 miles from work and ride my bike to work a lot weather permitting.

It's sorta weird living in a place where most people would rather have bikes than cars, and yet more people have cars than bikes.

I like having a car though and enjoy going out with the fiance and doing things, but I also am an avid biker and the house I am renting is literally on the border of a park with a bike trail that pretty much runs the county so I am happy in both respects.

As of today, I've officially joined this club.

Happy Now-You-Can-Buy-Cigarettes Day!

EDIT: Well, in the US at least.

edited 26th Nov '14 8:41:13 AM by SolipSchism

Happy Birthday and welcome!

Also, how bad is it that I only discovered how to use a credit card for online purchases about a week ago?

Well, you can buy cigarettes outside the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Nebraska.

But other than that, you're good.

I live in the UK, but the same thing sort of applies (by that, I mean the minimum purchase age is 18, but the minimum smoking age is 16 in England and Wales).

Though I'm not going to bother with smoking.

I never plan to smoke. Cigarettes are gross.

Spoken like true Tropers.

I live near a den of smokers, but don't really have any interest.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Amen. As one of my cousins used to be a smoker and I hated whenever he smoked.

I do remember one of my grandpas handing six year old me a cig because I was curious. Immediately choked on that.

Cigarettes smell gross. I should not be on here as the rough draft of my 8 page paper (of which I have two pages done) is due tonight. Eh if I wanted a proper sleep schedule I wouldn't be in college, or something.

edited 28th Nov '14 7:48:17 PM by phantom1

You can't buy cigarettes at age 18 in Mississippi, Alabama, and Nebraska?

Also, cigarettes aren't TOTALLY gross. Only mostly. <_<

What's so ungross about them?

It's 19 in British Columbia (like drinking, gambling, getting married without parental permision, having your own bank account, having a debit card, being able to get a credit card (though you probably are in college and have no income so unless you have a job you shouldn't get one, but you can), being able to have your signature binding on contracts though you kind of can at 18,being able to truthfully say you are legally an adult, voting is 18 though) though 16 to smoke them.

edited 29th Nov '14 12:09:36 PM by phantom1

Mostly the fact that smokers these days are Acceptable Targets makes me confrontational towards militant anti-smokers.

Even when smokers are neurotically conscientious and courteous about it, and never smoke upwind of non-smokers, never disobey no smoking and/or "no smoking within 10 feet" signs, never litter, never smoke indoors so the smell doesn't get overly-ingrained in their clothing, and frequently wash their hands so the smell doesn't linger there either, people still treat them like lepers.

First, every nonsmoker on the planet seems to instinctively assume that all smokers are disgusting jerks that throw their cigarette butts just anywhere and blow smoke in peoples' faces, and scoff when people complain about the smell or even are allergic to it. Those people do exist, and they are not called "smokers", they are called "assholes".

Constantly and obsessively informing smokers that smoking is bad for you is the least of it, to say nothing of employment discrimination (which does happen, and is only prohibited in certain states in the US) or other verbal abuse. I shouldn't have to elaborate on that last; all you have to do is throw the words "I'm a smoker" into any halfway-relevant online conversation, sit back and watch the self-righteous hate and revulsion pour in. As if everyone doesn't have their own bad habits.

To my eyes, people who act like that are way more gross than smokers or cigarettes.

/Serial Tweaker Rant

edited 1st Dec '14 2:08:25 PM by SolipSchism

Eh, I don't like smoking.

Also, belated welcome to those who have turned 18 and left the kiddy pool

It's a strange feeling, having money. My father's birthday is coming up so I want to buy him something nice, and my sorta-stepsister's (NOT Becky, thank god, for those of you who were wondering) birthday was on Saturday and I want to get her something nice to apologise for having to miss it.

Though I am a little irked that he told me I had to be over 21 to cash checks on my own and manage my own account just so he could use my job money as leverage. He's an accountant and I'm usually gonna take his advice on this stuff anyway because he knows his shit, but not cool, Dad.

I do like my job though. It's a good job, and everyone is really nice, and the managers are actually competent and not petty (which from what I hear from my parents is actually pretty rare), and the air doesn't reek of despair like it does at Arby's. I went back to visit once (and pick up curly fries, say what you will about Arby's but at least they have that). Nobody was smiling, not even the fake kind, and the air was still greasy, and you could tell the head manager was in a bad mood.