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Hey, not having a job is mega difficult. Can't do anything, always wondering, broke.

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So get a job ;) I see plenty of "now hiring" signs on a daily basis.

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I just got one, hah, I was sticking up for Swifty!

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LOL nice! What did you end up with?

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I'm a mover again until I find a better job (or dare I say a career?). But whatever the job, it sure is nice to have money coming in.

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i will admit i was in awe of your car. my dog was more than happy to take advantage of your shade and was digging your car as well.

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Just getting any old job isn't always as easy as it sounds. Shit, I was on unemployment most of the summer mostly because there is NO carpenter jobs out there right now. But, I still looked and ended up turning down quite a few jobs just because I made more money on unemployment than I did working, didn't make any sense to work more 100% more hours to make 30% less money, especially with a child on the way.

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This whole "job" thing is a double edged sword, you have the people that actually want to work but don't have the knowledge/education or the communicational skills to obtain even the simplest of jobs; then you have the other people whom have the knowledge/education and the communicational skills to get jobs and they are just too fucking proud or lazy to start out beneathe where they think they should be.

I have fired many people that are over joyed to be on unemployment, and won't work for the whole 18 months they can get it, it's only when they can't afford to put $5 in gas in their cars that they will go out and try to get a job. It's pathetic really. Then I have the 1% that sends me reference letters the next week after getting let go asking for my reference to help them get a job. 9 times out of 10 I give them a good recommendation, because most of them are good people and workers, but have a hard time with policies and procedures or call ins.

From my readings of Swifty talking about work over the last few years it seems as if he wants a high paying job that he likes, that he has a good amount of time off to do fun things, and then isn't very hard or stressful. I could be way off but I think that is why he gets crap sometimes. Who knows. Everybody is different from each other so I don't really pay too much attention.

But as was said above, even with this economy there are jobs out there, you just have to be on top of your game and be ready to go in and look an employer in the eye and tell them how you can both benefit from you getting hired. I know those are things I look for when hiring people, 50% background/education & 50% character/personality.

Sorry for the off topic.

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I think everyone wants THAT job. lol. Most of us give up some or all of it for the money. I like the car and my other toys.

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Exactly, we'd all love that.

Thing is, you can't do nothing and expect to get there or fuck up, get fired for it, and expect to keep a job.

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Your right Cher, that is kind of of what I was trying to say too.

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You sound like the type of boss I never want to have.

I "actually want to work" and I have a college degree in an area that I feel could help many types of businesses. Manual labor is not the cat's meow, but I'm doing it to make some money. I'm not "too fucking proud or lazy to start out beneath where [I] think [I] should be." Maybe you are talking about a different sort of individual, but someone who's graduated with a 4 year degree or higher has already proven they have what it takes to get a big task done. They have a right to feel like they should be placed above the janitors when they look for a job.

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I'm just going to leave this here:

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...Untitled-1.jpg

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^^ HAHAHAHAHAHA That's fucking great!

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Unreal.

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I think you have to be willing to take a step back when you change jobs. A lot of people will never step back despite the fact that some of their salary may have been due to seniority and not skill. As someone with (almost) a masters degree in management, I can see things from both sides.

When I went to my new employer I was straight-up and said I'd take up to a 10% cut but would expect a good 1 yr review. They ended up offering me only 5% less (presumably because they liked my attitude) and after 18 months I'm now back to where I was. 5 or 10% pay cuts are obviously easier to deal with at 80k than 35k but the same principle applies.

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I'm gay and I even find that ghey. I totally need to friend him, though, because my friends are not that funny.

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Allegedly his account got hacked or something. Whatever, I got some comic relief out of it.

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Swifty threads deliver.
Sucks that his account was hacked though, and that he has to wait a week to defend himself... again.

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This brightened my day...hahahahahaha, true or not, it is still hilarious.

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Always do!

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Exactly my point, maybe I didn't make it clear enough for some people. People with degrees often think they are entitiled to the best jobs and sometimes will not step below the threshold of what they have pictured in their minds.

Roll back a number of years we didn't have this problem because most kids would come right out of school and land a good job in their field no problem, its a different time now, you have to have more than a piece of paper showing you learned something.

Andrew, if that sort of reality would make you not want to work for someone like me you have a long road ahead of you, the job market isn't getting any easier and it's that type of attitude that would make or break you in this economy while looking for work.

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His account wasnt hacked, im pretty sure of that.

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That Facebook status update is pretty typical of Swifty so I highly doubt his account was hacked.

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Swifty just PM'd some mods reminding us about the 'no bashing threads' rule. I then went back and read through this thread and decided that this thread is almost the opposite of a bashing thread, its filled with mostly good comments with some light (and deserved) rib-jabbing.

Anyways, please keep all comments 'above the belt' and if you have a reason to love swifty, please post it here.

I love swifty because he bought me some hot dog buns once. We've been friends ever since.

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Oh, I also love swifty from these pictures:

http://www.scheides.com/albums/28thb...1938.sized.jpg

http://www.scheides.com/albums/28thb...1940.sized.jpg

Legendary.

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You know how the saying goes: You don't get a round mouth like that from eating square meals ;)

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lmao

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Above the belt man, not on it!

It's all fun and games till someone gets hurt. Sticks and stones might brake bones, but tons pilled on will eventually kill you. Lets try and keep it to every other comment being a shot at Swifty instead of every comment shot being a shot at Swifty.

I've been on the receiving end of continuous (mild) bashing, eventually people can convince you that your are a worthless piece of shit. Lay off.

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That's a good one, Brandon, I'll have to remember that one.

But in all seriousness, Swifty's a good guy. The few times I've hung out with him, I've had good times. And I know what it's like, having had a bashing thread of my own, so I try to leave his threads alone most of the time, but that facebook status was too good to not post.

"You won't drink that entire two liter!" lol. I might have to make that a Cars and Coffee tradition...

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I think that is the first time I've ever made a jab towards Swifty on here in the how ever many years I've known him. And it was all in fun. C'mon how can you take a picture like that and expect no one to crack a joke at it. I'm pretty sure he knows I have no harsh feelings towards him.

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I've only been on the various Mitsu forums for a few weeks, since the Evo is my first Mitsu. As someone that has been on forums since you needed 2400 bps modems to get to them, I can tell you that I'm surprised by how great the forums have been. Even the national evolutionm.net board is surprisingly friendly.

Hate to say it, but I had a stereotypical image of what "car guys" would be like and I was very wrong. Welcome to 2009, huh?

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well, everyone knows that 08 Evo GSR's suck, but besides, that we're really nice.

And as for the attitude about jobs, My response to TheBlizzard was based on my opinion and my reaction to your comment, and the pretty negative vibe I got from it. I am just disappointed by how employers search for, interview, and hire new employees. Maybe it's because they never hired me and I resent them for that, but maybe there is something more to it. I have gotten the distinct impression that guys like me (mid 20's male with a degree in something other than finance, IT, or health care and "no experience") are looked over when looking for what many people might consider a normal job.

I just want to be able to afford my own house and a new car without borrowing a grip of money to do it.

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Affording a house by yourself, at this age, is not an easy thing when coming right out of college. I bought my house when I was just about to turn 24, but I had zero college debt (thanks military), and had money saved up as the military is basically a paying full time job, lived with and I happened upon a job with a LOT of travel that payed very well. I lived with my dad for awhile until I had even more money saved up. Then I got a houseNot the nicest house, but a house. And having a roommate makes a huge difference.

Part of me thinks back now, if I would have just stayed with my dad and saved up for a 2 more years (put aside the same amount of money I've been paying on my mortgage/property tax), and man, I'd have somewhere around 1/4 of my house paid off already...

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Yeah, I know where I'm at, but I just wish I was further along by now. I guess that's the entitlement dysfunction that's afflicting people like me. haha.

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If I'd done more research I would have gone with a 9. More mods at a better price and the factory warranty is pretty much worthless from what I've read. Que sera.

I work a dead-minimum of 60 hrs/week. Sure, I can post on this forum while "working" but I can't go hang out with friends right now. Why? I'm on call and have a 5-min maximum response time on emails from monitoring systems.

I haven't seen you say anything unreasonable. You just have to put yourself in the position of employers...they aren't going to pay you $1 more than they can hire somebody else at your same level of skill/knowledge for the same job. The number of cheapskates I've seen on the forums is amazing. I'll see you guys offer some dude 50% what he/she paid for a set of rims and not feel an ounce of guilt. You expect employers to do more for you? Dream on.

Why do I spent THOUSANDS of hours doing IT work and studying in my "spare" time? It pays and I can buy pretty much anything I want (I'm single. lol). Most of the whiners that I've met don't work 1/2 as many hours as I do...they didn't go to grad school...they dont' spend their free time studying to make more money.

Is that a "problem?" No, man. I've spent so much time on my career that I'm brain-fried. I spend a lot of time thinking that guys with a better life-balance made the right choice. The problem is that *you* aren't aware that you are doing the right thing. Money isn't "free."

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Some might argue that "money isn't everything." And you are in IT, one of the (many) areas I have not had any real experience in. If you are making 80k/year, then I would consider you to be pretty high up on the IT ladder, looking at that ladder from the ground. I am not saying I wouldn't put in the hours, I'm saying people don't even take that in to consideration when looking at resumes. They look at what you wrote down, not what kind of person or worker you are. I think of myself as a hard worker (much harder than many of my friends) and I put my full effort and ability forward when I do any job, but how do employers find that out? Definitely not by looking at a piece of paper. Yet that's how they judge a potential hire. Vicious cycle, I say!

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My comments were coming from my own experiences, things I look for when interviewing and hiring. And Andrew you are right, some of the ways employers hire is pure bullshit, but not all, just like some people with degrees will take a lower paying job in the hopes that they can work their way up and eventually get into the position they want, but not all. Keep working at it, keep a positive attitude, look employers in the eye and be honest when interviewing.

I myself work a ton of hours, and I get burnt out as well, but like Mlomker said, some people are just workaholics and have some drive to exceed even their own expectations, while some people are content to just make it by, both can be happy, but are doing totally different things. Do what makes you happy.

As far as Swifty goes, he posts crazy shit like that all the time on Facebook. It's not a new thing.

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Yeah that is the employers fault then, they should be looking a lot further than a piece of paper. I know first hand what this can do; I have hired people before that have the sickest resumes and background, most of them turn out to the self centered lazy piles of shit, when I went to some seminars and realized that there is a lot more to a person than what they can throw down on paper I started hiring people that not only can do the job, but are dependable, they have a high rate of productivity, and have a positive attitude. Those are the guys/girls I want working for me.

So if you are being overlooked and you have those qualities than in my opinion you don't want to work for them anyway, because in the end you are going to be disappointed. So I say fucke em, keep your head up and keep trying, resumes are only as good as the heart and attitude of the people writing them.

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Perhaps that is my problem then, is that I'm not conveying in my resume/c.v./cover letter what I can deliver. I'll just keep working on the whole thing till it goes my way, I guess.