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You're not falling behind me! You'll still be younger than I was when I didn't go

But seriously I'm so jelous of those guys who started university when they were 17.I get paid a lot and I still live paycheque to paycheque. If you don't want to, you need megabucks. If you don't want to be living paycheque to paycheque, you need enough money to pay for food/car/insurance/kids/rent or mortgage and still have enough left over to build up a good investment portfolio. That's not easy to do. I sure as hell can't. My goal is to just pay off my credit cards.

Oh and if you don't want to live paycheque to paycheque don't go on international holidays. That's spending a huge amount of money that could be invested. Yes I know it's been said that girls expect you to have a good job and good money and yada yada yada but no one has yet mentioned that girls expect you to be well traveled. When you date, you'll meet young women who have traveled to lots of different countries and they'll expect you to do the same.

I've even dated girls who made plans with me to go on holiday. Fortunately these plans never came to fruition but I think it's a dreadful burden to place on someone, when you plan a holiday for you and your partner and in doing so you expect your partner to pay thousands of dollars to go on a holiday every year. That could be the majority of his disposable income per year.

I think it's madness to spend an entire year's disposable ncome on something that lasts a week. I'd rather have a bit of spending money every week of the year than blow it all on a week in Bali. I'd rather save for something permanent and lasting than save for a trip to Japan.Yeah, the only thing worse than being uneducated and unemployed is being very educated and unemployed. It must really suck to spend four years getting a degree in civil engineering and then end up working some menial job. At least I'll never share that fate.Why is school free and university isn't? I've heard people say that their taxes shouldn't have to pay for your university, yet they still paid for your schooling so what's the diff?

As I said in the past they had apprenticeships and other forms of on the job training. Nowadays instead of training, your employer expects you to get trained at university at your own expense. University is certainly less efficient than on the job training. On the job training can be extremely specific to your particular role but university is much more general. Some of the classes will be about things you'll never use, yet you still pay for them.

Companies want to save money, even at the cost of overall efficiency. They would prefere to save $10,000 training you, even if it meant making you pay $50,000 for your degree. If you have to spend a portion of your salary paying for something they could have provided you themselves, then in effect, they're paying you less than the award rate.If you tick the right boxes it's possible to get it over a thousand dollars per fortnight (tax free). I've done it myself.Yep, working your way through college leads to bad grades. In America, the poor have to do it, in Australia, the middle class have to do it. Partly because if you have middle class parents, you can't get youth allowance, yet that doesn't mean your parents are going to pay for everything for you (as Centrelink assumes middle class parents always do).Same.I tried that a few years ago. It didn't work.
I don't drive either. I sold my car because I wanted more money. It wasn't worth much but I'm saving a fortune on the running costs. Car or no, if you have a liscence, you can get to know young single women by helping them learn how to drive. That's what I'm doing with a particular young woman right now. She's very greatful yet it affords me the opportunity to talk to her for hours at a time and so get to know her better and get her more comfortable around me.

Talk is not cheap, talk is worth it's wait in gold. Talk is the method by which people bond. Apes bond by picking bugs of eachother's backs. Humans bond by exchanging information verbally. Same type of thing. Remember we are apes. We're not so smart, human thought patterns are quite limited.Feels. I didn't get a car or liscence until I was 19 and I didn't get my first job until I was 22 (even though my annoying cousins got their first job at 15) and I didn't move out of home until I was 25!Some students are just not suited to college so schools shouldn't push them into college as though it's a thing that everyone must do. Some students don't have a chance at graduating college so for schools to push them into college is a waste of time. If you're not academically inclined, it doesn't mean you're stupid because there are other ways to learn. Our conformist society places far too much value on one particular style of learning that is not suited to everyone.

Hale Bopp is Kiwi...not a long trip for you.

O.o where ar they hiding.

Also haleboop is far too attractive for him plus from what I remember she'd not find him her type

Why aren't I her type?

If I remember right which I might not as it's been year or more
She liked more out going social attractive guys who are exciting

Thanks for the tips, RetroGamer.

I'd say I probably learn better by doing rather than just writing, but skill-wise I'm roughly equal at both.

Also, when it comes to practical tasks, I can do them as long as they're not too high-pressure.

It just sets off my anxiety.

I don't actually work well under pressure, unfortunately, and apparently it's a skill near every job requires.

Also, I can not do anything too technical-related.

I only grew frustrated trying to learn ANYTHING computer related so that's out the window for me.

I could probably do decent at things like learning to fix a single car slowly or woodworks with the necessary safety equipment but also would need a VERY patient instructor who wouldn't get frustrated with me easily.

I've heard some special social worker programs and stuff like that for people with disabilities exists to learn this type of stuff, so It'd probably be best to just do some simple programs.

The idea of an apprenciteship or even a job that involves woodworks or mechanics sounds too high pressure for me, but it would be useful to learn the skill for the sake of having the skill, I guess..

What sly has said about his past jobs makes me think I can't do it. He said fixing the cars was high pressure and fast paced and he only got yelled at if he screwed up.

I also like the idea of taking classes to learn to cook and prepare food but, again, actually learning Hospitality classes which is supposed to teach you hands-on first-hand experience about working in restaurants and even having to do work experience as part of your study is too fast paced and high pressure.

So it's either most relaxed and slow paced jobs like computers are too difficult for me, and tasks I could learn to do like food preperation, woodworks, car mechanics etc. are all too fast paced nowadays and there's no room for slowness and patience.



One job I quite like the idea of is Cleaner/Janitor.

Slow paced, does not require too much technical knowledge, is physical and hands-on rather than sitting behind a desk typing or writing on paper, peaceful and quiet depending on your cleaning hours, etc.

But at the same time I care about my health and fitness a lot and I suspect janitors would be more likely to suffer from health problems due to constant exposure to bacteria and also constantly inhaling and using those strong chemicals they use to clean.

I wouldn't mind doing the job in short bursts though, like have job as a part-time cleaner for maybe 2 years then find something else.

Besides, we're in the technology age and soon enough even this job will be replaced, FFS there are robot cleaners in Japan and stuff already right now. Soon the job in its entirety will be obsolete.

Screw technology and our constant need to change and evolve it.

Times were simpler in the past regarding technology because technology evolved more slowly in the past.

Technologically there really is not that much difference from the 1600s to the 1900s.

Ever since the industrial revolution, sure life did become easier at first and we're now at a great time in history regarding technology, but our already existing tech is complete rubbish and instead of taking the time to perfect things, we have officially reached the point where technology '(d)evolves' and changes so fast everything is so buggy and lackluster designed for the sake of 'progress'.

I genuinely think the world would be a better place if the technology we reached about 2010-2012 was what we as a society decided to keep now and perfect and fix instead of just 'out with the old, in with the new(er crap)'.

We could have stopped there, perfect technology at the time, and then once ready to move on start making more innovative changes.

Think about how many things are actually more impractical or useless than the past.

They really don't make 'em like they use to.

Most 'new' inventions and designs nowadays are over-manufactured and mass-produced for the most returned money from their investment.

As we discussed in the past, I'm sure 'driverless cars' will be complete sh•té at first because they haven't taken time to truly perfect the bugs.

Yes, most companies do take some time to make sure the product is in half-decent testing order so that customers don't complain/sue/etc., but 80% A-Ok is not the same as 100%.

All you really need is at least 80% of your customers being satisfied with a product, and the general population is far too easily impressed.

Once you reach this point, you can pretty much get away with whatever the heck you want and the consumerist culture will eat it up, and the other 20% won't matter because, who gives a damn if they didn't like it? The majority do.

Anyway, unconventional or conventional methods, hm? Both it is!

Cars are very computerized now and becoming more so every year. They us a bus system now(one wire that transmits multiple signals) like you I'm terrible at electronics and there's a lot of techno information, wave forums, signals, how wiring works and more. It can take a lot of time and work to find a electronic problem on a car and they tend to be intermittent which is what's happening with my car. Then add all the specs for different parts you have to remember. Information overload I couldn't retain it all

Yeah it's really fast pace. People want to drop their car off and have the engine overhauled by time their 30mon lunch is over, they want the impossible. People don't want to go long without their cars. On top of that mechanics are paid based on flat rate which is to say it took this long to to do a task in a clean inviroment with new car, so that's how long you get paid for. If you go over it you lose money. The ones who make good money do so by being fast and doing multi tasking. Turning rotators for breaks while you doing an oil change on car 2, while replacing the fluid on car 3, while replacing the shocks on car 4 etc. I can't do that I get anxious, what if I forgot. I tend to double and triple check things, I was terrified I'd send a car out without putting oil back in it.
One truck came back cause I hadn't titghned the oil lug enoug, another I wasted oil on cause I didn't remove the old gasket on the filter the. There was the car I banged into the shop door. Tiny doors just barely big enough for a car and then you have to angle it as you enter.

I dont know how people do it it's a wonder more cars don't get damaged. They want you to pull it in proper mount the lift to it(if not you bend the frame of the car), lift it change the pile inspect everything on the car, lower it and have it back out all in under 10 minutes.takes few minutes just to run out to the car in the lot and bring it around to the door. And yes they yell out you, even when it wasn't your fault. I was told to do an oil change on a truck, I did. Turns out it wasn't in for an oil change. So they got s free one du to the service writer making a mistake.

Super stressful , messy, dangerous job. End of day most don't make enough , mean your talking 17 hour flat rate minus the thousands and thousands(most end up with 500,000 plus in tools not including the expensive tool chests) in tool costs. Anything besides s lift you need for a task is up to you to provide. You may end up buying a $200 tool you'll just use once. Don't worry the tool truck comes by once a week and they extend you a line of credit lol
Mos the people I bumped into from college moved on to other jobs. Some colleges i dont know about there, offer a basic class. How to change oil, check basic stuff everyone should learn about cars. Some things are nice to know if you can afford the tools. Like how to change brakes. Can save quite a bit of money

Thank you for describing what it is like.

See if it was a non-computerized car like in the old days, with at least 2hrs to do per car after I've spent some time training and learning how to, I could do something like that.

If there were more slow, quiet restaurants with less customers and slow business I could cook much better, but these are rare.

If woodwork type jobs also took things more slow, which I've noticed they don't either, I could possibly do that.

Too many jobs nowadays are fast and high pressure.

It was easier in the past when aspies had opportunity to do more low pressure jobs.

Things like lighthouse keeper, railroad track changing guy (as in you flick the switch when the train comes so it goes the right way), etc.

I think I'd be good at a factory job or packing job. I have higher attention to detail then a lot of people and am ok with doing same task over and over with music.

Quality control would been good job too maybe. There's very few such jobs in the us anymore

That's much better than my first job.

if only America were that generous to its 99% citizens.

Yeah....wouldn't that be swell?

Before I got my current job I was getting about double that. While unemployed I could get my own place without house mates.

If only my parents were farmers or auto mechanics.... then I would have been an Australian citizen by now, like my cousins.

When my uncles and aunts (mother's side) applied for immigration to Australia in the late 80s / early 90s they were all admitted, because they worked in farming/auto/handyman related industries.
My mother applied as a high school match teacher (in french language), she was the only one among her siblings who got rejected - normally math in french is useless in a rising commonwealth nation.

By comparison it's probably far better than your own country, but for all the negativity you speak towards western culture, would you really want to be a part of it?

The higher income and living standards would most definitely make it worth it. Maybe.

Or is it even harder in your home country because you're not as traditional as a lot of people there are?

There's a lot of racism here against 'the Muslims' which pretty much means anyone who looks even vaguely middle-eastern, no matter what your actual beliefs are or actual country of origin.

It's all based on visual appearance.

"All dem musleems are terrorists mayte who all is a part of ISIS and are nasty boat peeple who wanna come over 'ere and take all our jobs and take over the country mayte dem illegal immeegrants and da dumb govinmont wants too give all dem free jobs and houses for doin nothin when it cant even take care of its own bloody people mayte. F•çkíng oath, mayte!"



Even in 'liberal' and 'progressive' cities like Sydney there's been plenty of racial violence. Have your cousins ever told you of it?

Actually I criticized and talked negativity toward the eastern cultures by far more often.

When did talk negative about western culture in general?