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« on: February 23, 2011, 08:35:48 pm »
Do you guys use Reddit? It seems like a thing you would all like. The basic concept is that you can subscribe or unsubscribe to various topics, and then you vote submissions up or down.

I took the liberty of finding a few sub-reddits certain of you might find interesting:

http://www.reddit.com/r/reloading
http://www.reddit.com/r/hunting/
http://www.reddit.com/r/guns

http://www.reddit.com/r/Drugs
http://www.reddit.com/r/trees
http://www.reddit.com/r/woahdude

http://www.reddit.com/r/Cooking
http://www.reddit.com/r/triangle
http://www.reddit.com/r/food
http://www.reddit.com/r/autism
http://www.reddit.com/r/Frugal (this one is great)
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming
http://www.reddit.com/r/geek
http://www.reddit.com/r/gonewild (please?)

http://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames

http://www.reddit.com/r/lostgeneration (really depressing. Actually, no one should read this.)

http://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated (this one is kind of awesome for everyone)

The trick is to find these weirdo sub-reddits, and unsubscribe from the ones that make you want to gouge your eyes out (atheism, politics, etc). Lately I am really into ones that are for specific memes (f7u12, adviceanimals). There are lots of cool music ones that no one ever posts on.

Sorry if you are not one of the people I stereotyped and picked subreddits for. Take solace in the fact that that means I do not stereotype you, I guess.
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Re: Reddit
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2011, 05:24:31 am »
Thanks for not stereotyping me!

/Sobs

Blocked at work, anyway.
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Re: Reddit
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2011, 12:59:43 pm »
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Re: Reddit
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2011, 02:37:48 pm »
Quote from: wombat on February 24, 2011, 12:59:43 pm
Some of those people are mean to my pug!
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/fpz0y/dont_worry_theyre_faux/

Fuck 'em, then - I got no time for that shit.
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Re: Reddit
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2011, 11:25:13 pm »
The lost generation one needs more publicity. In a country where people are given months of unemployment support, the newly graduated are told to go fuck themselves.
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« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2011, 12:48:15 am »
sometimes I feel bad about how I am working at a grocery store, and then I think about how many of my friends do not have jobs/are not even looking for jobs.
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« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2011, 01:40:01 pm »
The current generation of college-and-recently-graduated people is two-thirds of the target market for my new blog project. (The other third are Gen Xers looking for a career change.) I did an interview on Wednesday that made me think of Dan at one point. He said,

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Don't go work at a grocer, don't work at the YMCA, find out what kind of work you're interested in and go get an internship. That's how you're gonna figure out if you're really gonna like it. Even if you're not getting paid, you're there to figure out, "Is this what I wanna do for the rest of my life." The kids at [college] who did the best were the ones who knew what they wanted to do and had done the research, and they hit the ground running.

I thought, that's good advice if you can get an internship, or if you've got it narrowed down to a handful of fields, but if you've got bills to pay, that's not going to work. But then, he was specifically addressing younger folks, high school age or just out of school. The interview subject is also named Dan(ny). He was talking about how when he was in high school and college, he lifeguarded for, like, five summers in a row because it was fun. So that's really not Inev's situation at all.

Still thought it was interesting to think about, though, coming from a 35 year old man, how it would sound to someone just out of college who is lucky to be working anywhere at all.
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Re: Reddit
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2011, 03:58:40 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on February 25, 2011, 12:48:15 am
sometimes I feel bad about how I am working at a grocery store, and then I think about how many of my friends do not have jobs/are not even looking for jobs.

Which part do you feel bad about? You having a job? Or them not having jobs?
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Re: Reddit
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2011, 04:40:21 am »
mostly I feel bad about the part where my parents paid 200k for my college degree which I am not using.

but yeah, I am definitely pursuing internship/job/anything right now. Just not very hard, yet? I have a meeting with a guy who does what I want to do in a week, and the idea is to pick his brain about:
1. How did you get where you are? grad school/job experience/etc.
2. What are some other agencies in STL/other cities which do similar things?
3. Do you know of anyplace that might be looking for an intern, assistant, etc?
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Re: Reddit
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2011, 05:16:38 am »
Good plan. I wish I had taken more time off, or taken more time to get a plan together, instead of diving right in to a series of shit jobs just so I could buy dope.
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« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2011, 11:54:31 am »
Yeah I don't feel like Ash and JL grasp the full impact the recession has had on internship positions. "Get an internship in the job you want" is easier said than done. Keep in mind that the recent grads are competing for internships against people with actual experience who are out of the job. The employment market has yet to flush out the unemployed let alone the grad with no experience.   It used to be the case that a young go-getter could take an interview and explain their situation and desire. Today employers don't give a fuck and will gladly take the unemployed guy with a decade of experience over the recent grad.
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« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2011, 01:59:14 pm »
Quote from: theinevitable on February 26, 2011, 04:40:21 am
mostly I feel bad about the part where my parents paid 200k for my college degree which I am not using.

OK, I feel I have to stand up here for the value of a liberal arts education.

You didn't go to a trade school. Your degree is not something you will necessarily "use" in an obvious way. It has made you a more educated person and there is a value to that that will affect everything you do for the rest of your life, whether what you end up doing for money has to do with your college major or not. It has given you stuff in your head that no one can ever take away from you.

I know that maybe this sounds even more crazy in the current economy but I don't think that anyone can argue there is LESS need to be educated, thoughful, have a sense of perspective, etc, in a bad economy.





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« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2011, 02:08:38 pm »
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Yeah I don't feel like Ash and JL grasp the full impact the recession has had on internship positions. "Get an internship in the job you want" is easier said than done. Keep in mind that the recent grads are competing for internships against people with actual experience who are out of the job. The employment market has yet to flush out the unemployed let alone the grad with no experience.   It used to be the case that a young go-getter could take an interview and explain their situation and desire. Today employers don't give a fuck and will gladly take the unemployed guy with a decade of experience over the recent grad.

Is this really happening? I've read several news stories that says that employers don't want to hire unemployed people. I also see lots of internship ads that are specific about wanting students and recent grads. And as someone who strongly suspects she has been passed over for entry-level things because she wasn't the expected demographic, I would be interested to know what fields will take someone with ten years of experience for an internship.

You know, this whole "internship" business seems basically evil to me.  When I was getting out of college it was a lot less common - now it seems like you are almost expected to work for free for a while.  Which would definitely not have been an option for me, either while in college or after. What's going to happen to this country if poor kids not only can't afford college, but even if they get a scholarship, they can't get a foothold in their career if they can't afford to work for free?  JL's interviewee who's so cavalier about "even if you're not getting paid" is very disturbing to me.
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« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2011, 02:10:23 pm »
PS: I am speaking as someone who got into one of her many careers by having worked for free. I know that it works, I am not arguing with that. I'm bothered that it's becoming another thing that separates the haves from the have-nots and makes it harder to cross from the latter group into the former.
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Re: Reddit
« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2011, 04:18:46 pm »
Quote from: Asherdan on February 26, 2011, 04:09:27 pm
ALSO: This current generation ain't got nothing on the the dudes born in the 1890's. Now those fuckers got boned.

For those who don't want to look it up...they were of age for the Great Influenza and WWI, then prohibition. They got the Roaring Twenties but that gift was followed by the Great Depression, Hoovervilles, the beginning of the destruction of America, then WWII. Happy Generation!

So put the pity in your sock. Read my sig.


I hear a lot of this at work "hey, you think you have it bad? check these guys out, they totally got fucked, so shut your fuck*ng mouth and get back in the yoke"

I don't think it's necessarily about pity. It's ok to understand that things have been worse but why not try to make them better. I mean, that can be taken to whatever extreme you want to take it, right?

We all know you are a badass, Ash. We aren't all like you, and that's ok.
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