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Forum: School and College Life Topic: I just tore up my degrees |
| JoeR43 |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2011, 5:51 am
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Replies: 91
Views: 18,069
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| I'm in a profession that attracts shy people, yet excelling requires that you be good with people. The person who can talk the client into believing he is the best CPA in the world will do better than than the one who actually is the best CPA in the world. Because regardless of how good your work i... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: I just tore up my degrees |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2011, 5:24 am
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Replies: 91
Views: 18,069
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| All I see is a privileged Republican in the making sharing his persecution fantasies. The glorification of blue collar work? Are you serious? More sh*****g on blue collar people. Great Fact: Most people 25 or older in this country don't have a bachelors degree. Most of those same people live well a... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: I just tore up my degrees |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2011, 5:00 am
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Replies: 91
Views: 18,069
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| This sounds really sad to destroy your own degree. There are a lot of videos on YouTube of people destroying their degrees (usually by burning them). Most people these days (like SadAspy and myself) end up wasting 4 or more years and thousands of dollars just to end up with nothing in return. I had... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Economics help |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2011, 3:58 am
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,350
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| Think of it this way. 1.05^30 = 4.322 100/4,322= $23.14 In other words, if you invested $23.14 into something, and let it sit there and make a constant 5% each year, you'd have $100 after 30. Or: Year 0: $23.14 Year 1: $23.14 * 1.05 Year 2: $23.14 * 1.05 * 1.05 = $23.14 * (1.05^2) Year n: $23.14 * (... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: University - did anyone struggle in their first term? |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2011, 3:53 am
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Replies: 18
Views: 3,446
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| It was okay, different from HS. You could go days at a time doing nothing but the motions through classes, then suddenly get a massive assignment dumped on you and panic. A lot of students struggle, not just AS positive ones, for that reason (the work you have first semester is often no harder than ... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Pursuing advanced studies while working |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2011, 3:49 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,427
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| Hi all, I'm looking into potentially furthering my education, but before I do, I wanted to see if any similar people wanted to weigh in. A little background: I turn 26 in march, and I earned my BS in Mathematical Sciences in 2008. Like a lot of people on the mild autism spectrum, I had some difficul... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Employers who hire people with Asperger's |
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Posted: 06 Sep 2011, 1:29 am
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Replies: 10
Views: 10,184
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| There's too many defeatism in this board. The AS community have a lot of strengths, too, and companies look for people who can own functions like we can. As an aggregate, no. They don't. The overwhelming majority of jobs in America are geared toward customer interaction and the fact is you cannot w... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Employers who hire people with Asperger's |
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Posted: 04 Sep 2011, 1:34 pm
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Replies: 10
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| Of course Microsoft and google have been proactive in hiring off the autism spectrum: those with AS are the exact types they want. Often experts in a few functional areas, and many (myself included) take a lot of pride in ensuring we perform well in these areas. What sounds like a PR outreach is rea... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: I've encountered Aspie discrimination.... |
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Posted: 31 Aug 2011, 1:10 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 3,900
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| You call this discrimination? You got asked for a 2nd interview. As someone who works in a mid-sized company, I know that personality matters. People with an attitude that doesn't mesh with the culture become distractions, and take away from others. Therefore, it is damn important for an interviewer... |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Shoot me, I'm not a team player |
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Posted: 29 Apr 2011, 1:20 am
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Replies: 11
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| If employees are pressuring other employees to enroll in a pyramid scheme, then why have you not reported this to HR? A credible company should want nothing to do w/ people who associate w/ this stuff. |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: bad day at work - need coping tips! |
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Posted: 28 Mar 2011, 12:40 am
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Replies: 12
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| I had a really bad day at work today. I work in a creche for teenage parents - very part-time because I wouldn't be able to cope with anything more. When the parents came to collect the children, one of the mother's started swearing at me, saying I hadn't looked after her child properly before stor... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Sending a nasty facebook message to teacher |
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Posted: 17 Mar 2011, 1:35 am
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Replies: 14
Views: 3,331
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| If this professor was as bad as you say, why even give them the opportunity to spin anything back at you? Instead of a nasty message on FB (which is something a 14 year old would do), send a formal complaint to the Dean, and perhaps encourage others that had significant issues w/ her to do likewise.... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Do you impulsively drop courses? |
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Posted: 12 Mar 2011, 12:10 am
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Replies: 13
Views: 3,727
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I never dropped a course in college.
With all the money I paid into classes, seemed like a waste to drop a course so that maybe you can get a B instead of a C the next time. |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: There's something wrong with my Pre-Algebra teacher.... |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 8:30 pm
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,483
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Some public service this teacher is providing the taxpayers.  |
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Forum: Work and finding a Job Topic: Google Adsense |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011, 3:06 am
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,174
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| Ten years ago you could make big money from Adsense. Like thousands of dollars a week. I got in towards the end of the gold rush. I used "black hat" techniques and automatic site building scripts to make hundreds of sites packed with keywords. I would buy hundreds of dot info domain names at a time... |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Grad school: affording and doing it while working |
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Posted: 07 Mar 2011, 3:04 am
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Replies: 1
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| Hi all, So I'm in a mini-dilemma: I really should be thinking about grad school. I've been at my current job as a Data Analyst for about a year, and have achieved good success (not great, but I think both employer and I are satisfied w/ the arrangement). Of course, being an entry level job, the mone... |
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