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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#167151: Jan 17th 2017 at 3:14:43 PM

Bachelor's of Arts, set to graduate with a Master's in Public Administration in October.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#167152: Jan 17th 2017 at 3:15:50 PM

"For some reason, the left has become so hateful"

The sad part is that I understand why someone would say this, but the thing that they're missing if this was true, that hatred didn't just spawn out of nowhere.

When you get dumpstered over and over again by your politicians, law enforcement, the lawmakers, and even your fellow citizens, intentionally or otherwise, are you supposed to be some sort of Jesus figure who doesn't hold any resentment or dislike for the systems and people who continuously belittle you and deny your humanity, subtly or overtly?

It's not a reasonable thing to ask from anyone. There are legitimately spiteful and hateful elements on the left who go far beyond what is decent or acceptable, and they should be reprimanded and disavowed, but you have to go one step further and ask yourself what led to the creation of these people in the first place.

Hatred spawns more hatred.

Wildcard Since: Jun, 2012
#167153: Jan 17th 2017 at 3:18:16 PM

I'd understand more if modern day Republican politicians stopped being 80s kid show villains.

@Person Turning 26: Maybe you can get medicaid if you don't manage to find a full time job right away. Assuming Trump doesn't cut that off too.

edited 17th Jan '17 3:19:49 PM by Wildcard

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#167154: Jan 17th 2017 at 3:28:05 PM

Wait I thought you had a Degree in International Relations?

I spent the last four years studying for a Degree in IR and did very well with my marks, I didn't succeed though due to personal issues. I technically have a Diploma though, which I stand is better for someone who wants to be a diplomat. tongue I also have a job that pays the rent, pays the bills and leaves me money to pay off debt and have some luxuries.

I'm actually at work right now. tongue

edited 17th Jan '17 3:28:59 PM by Silasw

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#167155: Jan 17th 2017 at 3:30:48 PM

Trump is apparently afraid to leave his tacky apartment.

You know, I've heard people say that Trump never wanted to be president, and I disagreed because I figured he was too stupid and selfish to know what being president actually meant. And now here he is, hiding in his room. Or maybe that's what he's always done, and no one ever cared before.

ViperMagnum357 Since: Mar, 2012
#167156: Jan 17th 2017 at 3:33:09 PM

My degree is a Bachelor of Science, and I have not been able to find steady work in the 7 years since. I have been shoestring to shoestring, mostly with seasonal work, and I do not anticipate that changing under Trump.

DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#167157: Jan 17th 2017 at 3:43:26 PM

[up][up] Maybe he just realized how hated he currently is, and doesn't want to face the angry mobs that will be protesting him for (potentially) Years.

carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#167158: Jan 17th 2017 at 3:45:14 PM

@college, 3 years so.. . sorta? Got an associates when it became clear I couldn't afford the rest of it.

IFwanderer use political terms to describe, not insult from Earth Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
use political terms to describe, not insult
#167159: Jan 17th 2017 at 3:45:46 PM

Since everyone's talking about their degrees, well, from what I gather Argentine degrees don't quite match 1:1 with those in the US, according to Wikipedia it's more or less equal to a Master's degree, my field of study is divided between literature and linguistics. (In case anyone's asking, yes, Argentina really needs a serious education reform, if only there was a functional economy...).

And I'm in my second year right now.

edited 17th Jan '17 3:46:19 PM by IFwanderer

1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV
CenturyEye Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign? from I don't know where the Yith sent me this time... Since: Jan, 2017 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
Tell Me, Have You Seen the Yellow Sign?
#167160: Jan 17th 2017 at 3:54:15 PM

Master's of Public Administration and Juris Doctorate in December and Bachelor of Science in Public Management and Policy Before that.

  • Note 01: job not included, guaranteed, nor even seriously facilitated. I'm still clawing at the market for that part.
  • Note 02: Because I could conceivably help run a department or get one out of legal trouble does not mean I can speak to political strategy. Those are the the MPP guys. (I could still tell you how many ways those bills form earlier to interfere in administration could implode).

  • Note 03: I demand to be called Magister-Doctor Centuryeye from December onwards! [lol] We are apparently in a comic series now, the dark lord has conquered the land, and doctors should not all be evil.

edited 17th Jan '17 3:56:23 PM by CenturyEye

Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#167161: Jan 17th 2017 at 3:59:49 PM

I completed high school and a year of college. I'm self-taught as a computer programmer and data analyst, and I more-or-less lucked into a quality temp-to-perm job about 16 years ago. Then I earned my way into a career on merit. I would be royally screwed if I lost my job.

edited 17th Jan '17 4:00:05 PM by Fighteer

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#167162: Jan 17th 2017 at 4:07:36 PM

Job seeking J.D. here.

On the topic of pardons/commutations I'm really hoping for a commutation for Rod Blagojevich. Seems ridiculous to me that he got such a long sentence for nonviolent crimes (which in some cases weren't necessarily crimes, just shady politicking). Also, is there anything Obama could do for that Gulen guy so Trump can't ship him off to Turkey?

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#167163: Jan 17th 2017 at 4:20:03 PM

We need a Class-B welder where I work, FYI...

This Space Intentionally Left Blank.
AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#167164: Jan 17th 2017 at 4:22:38 PM

Graduated in Computer Science this year, only to find out that not only I don't like the prospects of the work market but also the theoretical parts I was decent at either don't pay or has a rather high entrance barrier.

But at least my degree will allow me to do the admittance tests for the police forces.

Inter arma enim silent leges
CaptainCapsase from Orbiting Sagittarius A* Since: Jan, 2015
#167165: Jan 17th 2017 at 4:26:45 PM

I graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Molecular Biology, and have been looking for work for just short of a year with no real results. I intend to go back to graduate school and eventually get my PhD, but was hoping to gain work experience before doing that. I think my prospects are reasonably good over the next decade because biotechnology is expected to grow massively over the next few decades, but we'll have to see what happens.

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#167166: Jan 17th 2017 at 4:27:21 PM

Trump claims he doesn't like to tweet.

Do not obey in advance.
rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#167168: Jan 17th 2017 at 4:32:29 PM

I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History and am currently working on a Master's in History, this coming semester I'm actually starting my thesis. (Which is Cold War related, kinda funny considering how last year went.)

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#167169: Jan 17th 2017 at 4:37:23 PM

Fighteer you didn't get any certifications???

New Survey coming this weekend!
AmbarSonofDeshar Since: Jan, 2010
#167170: Jan 17th 2017 at 4:47:33 PM

Since we're doing this I am one thesis-defense away from my Master's and am in the process of applying for my PHD

edited 17th Jan '17 4:55:29 PM by AmbarSonofDeshar

Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#167171: Jan 17th 2017 at 4:52:27 PM

I finished high school, have stumbled through multiple majors but never graduated, and coupled with my unimpressive amount of work experience my prospects are rather dim. If my art career never takes off I'm pretty fucked, though I'll probably go back to school at some point anyways.

vandro Shop Owner from The little shop that wasn't Since: Jul, 2009
Shop Owner
#167172: Jan 17th 2017 at 5:07:42 PM

I am studying electromechanical engineering. Kept flunking for years tho.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#167173: Jan 17th 2017 at 5:34:46 PM

@Tactical: I never needed to. I study programming as a hobby, and I just happened to get a job where I could apply it to the work I was doing. Purest luck. But the rest was me very deliberately building a brand with my company (and its primary supplier), such that the latter offered me a position a few years later. I've been with the same overall business organization for sixteen years. I don't need to prove to them what I can do.

I'm sure I could get any number of certifications if I tried, and if the situation arises, I will most definitely do so.

Also, this "share your qualifications" thing is a tad off-topic.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#167174: Jan 17th 2017 at 5:51:41 PM

[up]Is there a better thread for it? Because if there is, then we just move this whole thing over there.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#167175: Jan 17th 2017 at 6:01:18 PM

I remember an old topic where people mentioned what they were studying or what qualifications they had. Can't remember the name of it though.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

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