What ` s going to help me from being in the lower class?

@Irishk,

Canada wasn't stupid enough to take over Iraq.

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@Irishk,

Canada has weathered the economic storm quite well. Banks there did not get hurt too badly by investing in risky stuff. In addition, if you as as a home buyer couldn't come up with a 25% down payment, you had to buy an insurance policy protecting the bank from your defaulting.

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@Cycloptichorn,

Cycloptichorn wrote:

TuringEquivalent wrote:

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Will the ruling majority's smell be so bad, that we cannot resist it?

Cycloptichorn

This is not about smelling rich peoples` ass, moron.
It is about the middle class in America without any sense of job security anymore.

I would advise that you check your ******* typing in the original post before referring to others as a moron; the irony meter doesn't like being driven past the chart's limits.

Cycloptichorn

O.. no, i miss spelled a ******* word. What is ironic is that this is so important to you, and it must because you are confused by it. Is this not evidence that you are ******* stupid?

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@realjohnboy,

the banks here are under greater restrictions than your banks, canada tried to get the g8 folks to follow their lead rather than the bank tax that the EU countries were suggesting

no canadian bank or financial institution needed or asked for any kind of financial bailout

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@TuringEquivalent,

you didn't confuse cyclo, he's just ******* with you, move on

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@Irishk,

No, making fun of the idea that everyone in Canada is waiting with open arms for anyone that might not fit in in the lower 48.

As for their banking and mortgage systems, I recently post a link to a WSJ article entitled Canada: Land of the Free by Mary Anastasia O'Grady. It sounded like a very respectable system.

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@TuringEquivalent,

TuringEquivalent wrote:

Cycloptichorn wrote:

TuringEquivalent wrote:

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Will the ruling majority's smell be so bad, that we cannot resist it?

Cycloptichorn

This is not about smelling rich peoples` ass, moron.
It is about the middle class in America without any sense of job security anymore.

I would advise that you check your ******* typing in the original post before referring to others as a moron; the irony meter doesn't like being driven past the chart's limits.

Cycloptichorn

O.. no, i miss spelled a ******* word. What is ironic is that this is so important to you, and it must because you are confused by it. Is this not evidence that you are ******* stupid?

We don't want you up here so don't bother applying. You definitely wouldn't fit in. And you miss spelled another word. Did you say you were a lawyer or want to become one? Details, man, details are very important. I predict problems in your future.

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@Mame,

Mame wrote:

TuringEquivalent wrote:

Cycloptichorn wrote:

TuringEquivalent wrote:

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Will the ruling majority's smell be so bad, that we cannot resist it?

Cycloptichorn

This is not about smelling rich peoples` ass, moron.
It is about the middle class in America without any sense of job security anymore.

I would advise that you check your ******* typing in the original post before referring to others as a moron; the irony meter doesn't like being driven past the chart's limits.

Cycloptichorn

O.. no, i miss spelled a ******* word. What is ironic is that this is so important to you, and it must because you are confused by it. Is this not evidence that you are ******* stupid?

We don't want you up here so don't bother applying. You definitely wouldn't fit in. And you miss spelled another word. Did you say you were a lawyer or want to become one? Details, man, details are very important. I predict problems in your future.

Go **** yourself. That is how i spell "miss spelled", so **** you.
With my gpa, and school reputation, i can go anywhere i please, you ************.

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@TuringEquivalent,

I give you the gpa. Is is probably higher than the iq, and though you may have one of the better schools in town, West Jesus, TN ain't quite IV League.

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@TuringEquivalent,

TuringEquivalent wrote:

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Will the ruling majority's smell be so bad, that we cannot resist it?

Cycloptichorn

This is not about smelling rich peoples` ass, moron.
It is about the middle class in America without any sense of job security anymore.

So Joe, what makes you think you should have "job security"? You special or something?

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@roger,

roger wrote:

I give you the gpa. Is is probably higher than the iq, and though you may have one of the better schools in town, West Jesus, TN ain't quite IV League.

Must be some redneck town you are from...

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@Miller,

Miller wrote:

TuringEquivalent wrote:

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Will the ruling majority's smell be so bad, that we cannot resist it?

Cycloptichorn

This is not about smelling rich peoples` ass, moron.
It is about the middle class in America without any sense of job security anymore.

So Joe, what makes you think you should have "job security"? You special or something?

Unlike 99% of the population, i plan for my future, and am determined to make something of myself.

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@TuringEquivalent,

Ah, but that is where you are wrong. I went to the monthly introductory lecture for the now defunct Radcliffe Employment Services back in either 90 or 91. A group of at least 20 women were present. At least one said that she had a doctorate in a field that no longer exists. No one asked her what the field was and she wasn't forth coming.

WHile I do not believe in college as career training, I did minor in journalism in order to have an entree into the world of work. That was before internships. I applied for a position with the wire services a week before one of the majors went on strike. I followed it with myself and when I reached the office, the receptionist's phone was ringing off the hook. She went to get the folder of applications, which was very thick. The neatly stapled resumes fell all over the floor as two phone calls came in. I revived my plans immediately.

Today, we have many career training degrees. There is a master's degree in teaching English as a Second Language. As a colleague of mine said, ESL instruction used to be grammar and it worked better. When I was certified to teach (1969-71),all one needed was a 23 hour sequence of education courses with a prereq of psych 101. There wasn't even a school of education: education was a division within the College of Liberal Arts, just as political science and English were divisions. Today's prospective teachers are involved in a ridiculous amount of inconsequential work. Then fully half of them do not participate in the teacher application process which they find demeaning. (It is demeaning.)

There are so many MBA programs that the degree is even more absurd than ever. There are also master's degree programs in "higher education." Here, I have to quote Jack Paar: I kid you not. Taught through the School of Education, the program seems to mix business and education. Really?

The point is that more and more people are signing up for more and more specialty fields and learning less and less. They think they are preparing for careers, but think of the woman with a doctorate in an extinct field.

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Anyone who does not train themselves for a global economy is foolish.

The day of the 30 year 'career' in something like the auto industry is past.

Prepare to get trained and then be re-trained about 5 times in your lifetime.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd go into import/export business. India and China are going to be huge customers for US made goods.

There are also many service industries that will never be replaced by computers, including computer repair businesses.

Got to think outside of the box.

Who promised things would alway stay the same?

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@PUNKEY,

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Prepare to get trained and then be re-trained about 5 times in your lifetime.

You know, a great deal of lip service is devoted to that, but, the truth of the matter is that resumes and applicants are screened by low level people without training or imaginations or by computers in larger entities, making flexibility a fiction.

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@TuringEquivalent,

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Unlike 99% of the population, i plan for my future, and am determined to make something of myself.

I see, unlike 42% of the population, you believe in making up percentages.

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I've seen numerous career paths come and go. In the 70's many of my friends trained for graphic arts careers using things like press type (Lettraset anyone?), paste up and hand drawn story boards. Some girls in my high school still thought they would end up in a secretarial pool because bosses didn't type and someone had to create all those letters and legal documents over and over. Somewhere around 1983 a whole new world opened up with programs like WordPerfect, Pagemaker and Quark. I once had a temp job typing spreadsheets on an IBM Selectric, next year I was asked if I ever heard of Lotus 1 2 3. Whoever thought of being a Webmaster before the 1990's? The world just keeps moving. I would suggest the Darwinian model of career placement and be prepared to change and adapt.

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@plainoldme,

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, the truth of the matter is that resumes and applicants are screened by low level people without training or imaginations or by computers in larger entities, making flexibility a fiction

no, the truth of the matter is that increasingly they are screened by computer using keywords, and only a small fraction ever get in front of a human.

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@hawkeye10,

Hmm. I said that. I also heard a friend tell me about the absolute dingbat who read her resume at a company to which she had applied.

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@Green Witch,

Green Witch wrote:

I've seen numerous career paths come and go. In the 70's many of my friends trained for graphic arts careers using things like press type (Lettraset anyone?), paste up and hand drawn story boards. Some girls in my high school still thought they would end up in a secretarial pool because bosses didn't type and someone had to create all those letters and legal documents over and over. Somewhere around 1983 a whole new world opened up with programs like WordPerfect, Pagemaker and Quark. I once had a temp job typing spreadsheets on an IBM Selectric, next year I was asked if I ever heard of Lotus 1 2 3. Whoever thought of being a Webmaster before the 1990's? The world just keeps moving. I would suggest the Darwinian model of career placement and be prepared to change and adapt.

IBM selectric is an excellent typewriter and I still have one. Just in case my computer ever decides to bite the dust. By the way, all law firms and banks still use typewriters.

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