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01 Nov 2024, 10:38 pm

Fifth grade math teacher's Facebook said that he set 22 high school swim records. That's like one record every three meets. How the f**k is that possible? Maybe he was the only one on the team

Mister JT. 38 years old. He said he used to be a professional hockey player but the NHL doesn't list him. He was nice and I loved him.

According to his Facebook he went skydiving for the first time. He's retired. I couldn't believe he wrote he didn't have a relationship. With his personality you would imagine he could date anyone he wanted.

Becoming a professional hockey player takes a lot of time money and energy. According to the Internet, his parents were a fifth grade teacher and an industrial engineer. How did they afford to send him to travel ice hockey?

I went ice skating a couple of times and I still have no idea how to ice skate

I just feel so not self actualized s**t

Deprived

And now I am 41 working in manual labor. Pretty soon I will be too physically weak to do it and then made redundant

s**t I am jealous because of never got a chance to chase my childhood dreams

But what the f**k ever s**t

"Life" goes on

I am just a failure but there are plenty of failures in the solar system and not many people are successful

Plenty of factors determine the outcome: health, longevity, social networking , efficiency, intelligence, economics discrimination. "You can do anything you set your mind to" sounds good but it implies that when someone fails, it's because they didn't set their mind to it. But not everyone has the same amount of potential or the same situation.


Sunk costs

Personal opportunity costs

Effort justification



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02 Nov 2024, 7:00 am

shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
Fifth grade math teacher's Facebook said that he set 22 high school swim records. That's like one record every three meets. How the f**k is that possible? Maybe he was the only one on the team

Mister JT. 38 years old. He said he used to be a professional hockey player but the NHL doesn't list him. He was nice and I loved him.

According to his Facebook he went skydiving for the first time. He's retired. I couldn't believe he wrote he didn't have a relationship. With his personality you would imagine he could date anyone he wanted.

Becoming a professional hockey player takes a lot of time money and energy. According to the Internet, his parents were a fifth grade teacher and an industrial engineer. How did they afford to send him to travel ice hockey?

I went ice skating a couple of times and I still have no idea how to ice skate

I just feel so not self actualized s**t

Deprived

And now I am 41 working in manual labor. Pretty soon I will be too physically weak to do it and then made redundant

s**t I am jealous because of never got a chance to chase my childhood dreams

But what the f**k ever s**t

"Life" goes on

I am just a failure but there are plenty of failures in the solar system and not many people are successful

Plenty of factors determine the outcome: health, longevity, social networking , efficiency, intelligence, economics discrimination. "You can do anything you set your mind to" sounds good but it implies that when someone fails, it's because they didn't set their mind to it. But not everyone has the same amount of potential or the same situation.


Sunk costs

Personal opportunity costs

Effort justification


As for 22 high school records in swimming, it is possible to set more than one per meet, because many things are measured and recorded, not just one thing.

As for your being a failure, that is a matter of perspective, you are judging yourself in relation to others, but are others all equals, or is it possible that they have certain advantages or luck? Perhaps you are too harsh on yourself, that seems to be the case.

My favorite saying is that "In death, all are equal." So, it is something that I look forward to, equality with Shakespeare and equality with Einstein. And those names, too, will one day be forgotten, as difficult as that may be, to believe today.

How many people do we remember from 5,000 years ago? A couple of Egytian Pharoahs?

How many people do we remember from 50,000 years ago?

And further back, there is "Lucy." That is all...


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02 Nov 2024, 2:51 pm

shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
Mister JT. 38 years old. He said he used to be a professional hockey player but the NHL doesn't list him. He was nice and I loved him.
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Becoming a professional hockey player takes a lot of time money and energy. According to the Internet, his parents were a fifth grade teacher and an industrial engineer. How did they afford to send him to travel ice hockey?


Being a professional hockey player doesn't mean one has made it into the NHL.

There's also the ECHL and AHL which both serve as farm leagues to the NHL.
There's also the SPHL and FPHL which don't have a relationship with the NHL.

There's also a multitude of overseas pro and semi-pro leagues.

In the US kids who are on a career path towards pro hockey generally end up playing in the (Tier 1) USHL. USHL teams cover player expenses.

Some American kids end up playing in the CHL (made up of the WHL, OHL and QMJHL), although playing in that league means they receive a stipend, although this also leaves them ineligible to play NCAA hockey.

Either way, this greatly reduces costs for the parents because the kids are already having their costs covered.

Young American players who end up in Tier 2 or Tier 3 have higher expenses, but those are generally considered lower skill leagues compared to Tier 1, so most of those kids aren't likely to make it into serious professional play.


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02 Nov 2024, 5:41 pm

shortfatbalduglyman wrote:
Fifth grade math teacher's Facebook . . .

Link, please?


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21 Nov 2024, 11:28 pm

i just feel like i never got a chance to "be all you can be".

my (now dead) old man and old woman were a warehouse worker and preschool teacher. he had an associate's in history and an associates (not bachelor's) in electrical engineering (from a different country). she had a bachelor's in liberal arts. i didn't have any interaction with any STEM professionals, with the exception of my doctors, dentists, and job shadow day. my "parents" expected me to be in STEM and s**t. my local public high school had 10 percent math proficiency or something like that. my "parents" made me memorize between 10 and 20 SAT words per day, in the summer, between third and seventh grades, and between 10 and 20 SAT words per week, in the school year, between third and seventh grades. they made me take the SAT in seventh grade. then ninth, tenth, tenth, and twelfth. my sister is four years older than me. my "parents" kept asking "your sister is so smart. why are you not like that?". my sister used to be a medical doctor (she is not working right now). but intelligence is "nature versus nurture" and i do not think it was reasonable to expect STEM professionals to come out of the K-12 public schools that I attended. (although some graduates, such as my sister, got STEM advanced degrees).

but what the flying f**k ever s**t.

i'm 41 years old and that is too late for a quarter life crisis. too late for a midlife crisis.

plenty of people hate their jobs. plenty of people are bad at their jobs. plenty of jobs are bad for your health. some 18 year old high school graduates join the Infantry. so what? "life" goes on and on and on and on.

s**t.

i just feel like i never got a chance to chase the professions (or even hobbies) that i wanted.

a couple days ago, i was looking @ my fifth grade teacher's facebook. she has (had) at least two daughters and at least two of them are schoolteachers. one of her daughters is married to another teacher and they work at the same school. according to the internet, her daughter earns $90 000 year as a 3rd grade teacher and she's worked there for 16 years. maybe i should've been a schoolteacher. but my old woman was a schoolteacher and she had the nerve to make me do a lot of her work for her. and it made me not wanna be a schoolteacher. but at least schoolteacher is better than Home Depot associate, after adjusting for $$$$.

s**t.

zero occupational prospects

got no future