The best to communicate anger

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What do you do?

Electrical engineering (MSEE) for the transportation industry. I am also an honorably-discharged military veteran, a father of three, and have been married to the same woman for about a quarter-century.

What do you do?

Fnord scares the crap out of me. I think it's the cape. I would say it goes a long way towards discouraging bullies.

I don't know ... those two yellow eyes staring at me from the tall grass kinda give me the creeps!

Good. I was hoping to have that effect.

what i gave is a general paradigm for assertive communication. i agree that a different approach might need to be taken with bullies than with a friend.

Summer:
I have been in situations where people talk about things I either have no interest in or I little knowledge of. Sometimes I have to let them finish, because if I try to interject with a question it may just take away from the conversation. Often I would do something else if the group is talking about something I have no interest in, or try to strike up a conversation with someone else. As much as it would annoy me, I cannot monopolize the topic of conversation. The right thing for people to do is try to include me in the conversation by trying to explain what they are talking about but often people don't.

I am currently employed at a major university where I am a research and project assistant which is very related to my associates degree in psychology. I am also going to school at that university and doing a major in physics with a concentration on astronomy.

I want to become a professor

If you only have an associate's, doesn't it require at least a master's and possibly a doctorate to become a professor? I think that's at least four additional years of full-time schooling for a master's, and six for a doctorate. That would take me forever.

I'd be going to school for twelve years.

In order to be a tenured professor these days, one pretty much has to have a doctorate.

Adjunct instructors, though, sometimes have Masters, sometimes have doctorates. Mostly doctorates, though.

This is especially true within the Applied Sciences.

Right now I have a two year but I am doing my undergrad and grad school. After all this is a university.

Guys, lighten up!

She's in school and working toward her degree!

That's already far more than the majority of people on this website are doing with their lives.

She deserves our praise and support.

I agree....it's much much better than having people sit on their butts all day.

All I was stating was what is required to be a professor.

Sorry, it wasn't meant to be a criticism. I was just saying that that's a whole lot of schooling for someone that age.

I have an associate's, and am working toward my second, but there is no way I could survive that much schooling. I think it takes guts to try to take on all of that. I do not possess those guts, lol. Or I'd go to school to be a physician's assistant, or for neuroscience, or something else in the medical/biological science field that's worth doing.

But I can only go to school half time while working at the same time, and I have a kid. So that's entirely too much time for me.

Good for you, Summer_Twilight; I think you'll probably do great

Thank you Fnord