Shitty entry level positions tend to lead to shitty careers. You're constantly going for the goal of getting a less shitty job, but once you get there your realize that the higher jobs are shitty too. Just do what you want to do, and then figure out a way to make money from it. Quit waiting around for someone to give you permission to do it, and do it on your own.
Did you know that often schools only teach students what is required to pass the tests, and much of that is forgotten during school vacations, not to mention after several years of being out of school?
Just the day before yesterday I was behind someone in a checkout line that didn't have enough to pay their bill on their debit card. So the cashier and the lady were trying to work out how much would be remaining after the amount on the debit card was used. After several minutes of both of then failing to figure it out, and the customer just handing the cashier some money (though not enough to cover the whole bill) they called over a manager, who showed the cashier that if she charged the debit card first it would show her the remaining amount. So then they counted how much money the customer had handed the cashier... and both tried to work out how much more was needed. After a minute the manager figured out how to type the amount into the register and be told the remaining bill.
I'm not saying cashiers don't know basic math, but quite a few of them would not be able to do their job without a register or at least a calculator.
Homeless doesn't necessarily mean poor, and poor certainly doesn't necessarily mean homeless. Also, homeless people may not have internet access in their homes (since they don't have one) but they often do have access.
Have you ever been poor? I have. I've been both "living in the ghetto, but have food, water and shelter" poor - which is the kind of poor most Americans are, since the government gives free food, water and shelter to anyone that is truly poor and chooses to take it. I have also been "not knowing if I'm going to have food and water that day, not knowing if I'm going to have shelter or sleep outside that night" poor.
Internet access was vital to surviving and getting out of the latter situation. Being that kind of poor was quite similar to what he described. I had to find places to get food and water, places that provided shelter, places that would let me take a shower so I could go to a job interview, etc. It was my only way of communicating with friends and associates that weren't within shouting distance, which was important to survival in many ways (emails that said "x place is giving out free food/water till 1" were lifesavers a few times). The internet was the only way I managed to find a job, since by the time it was in the newspaper - if it ever was - it was already too late for me to have a chance.
To be honest, I don't know if it is possible to survive that kind of poor in the US (I have only been poor in the US - all over it, though - and Japan, but even in Japan surviving was much different and could easily be done without internet access) with no internet access whatsoever anymore. All the homeless and that type of poor people I have ever met in the US have had internet access in some form. It's certainly possible to survive the "living in the ghetto on welfare" type of poor, but it's extremely difficult if not impossible to ever get out of that without internet access.
I think that instead of spending money on outdated, often wrong textbooks for public school students, we should instead spend that money on getting at least them internet access.
My local library has paper forms, but good luck to someone that isn't smart enough to earn $25 a month to pay for the internet on figuring out those instructions. I consider myself pretty intelligent, but I still need a computer to help me through filling out those crazy forms and checking for errors.
"The local library has plenty of current books that are not available free online" Where do you live? My local library may have current fiction books, but their nonfiction books are mostly outdated, and even with the current ones all the information in them was already free online by the time they books were printed.
"Simple, they panic. I know everyone on here thinks they are far too smart, and this could never happen to them, but it can. When your car starts accelerating wildly, your brain goes into 'I am about to be killed' mode. You do not think, you react. Your instincts take over. If you are an experienced driver, your only instinct is 'mash the brakes as hard as possible'. When that doesn't work, you get even more panicky. Now your instincts are 'curl up and hope for the best'."
Now I'm not sure why you have turned this into an argument, but I have no desire to continue it...
"With so many women being stalking targets this does not seem reasonable to me." Oh that poor, poor woman! We can not stand for this injustice against a woman! I mean, come on, she has a vagina! There must be something we can do!!
So if I can't say how people will react to situations, why can you say how people will react and what their instincts will be?
I would say my knowledge of vehicles probably isn't as good as his, since males in general usually have better knowledge of them than I do. But as for my driving skills and emergency training, well, that guy died, and I haven't yet, so... shrug. I'm a pilot, though, so okay, maybe that's why I react to emergencies in the way I do. Perhaps we should give all drivers emergency training.
I've been in several (let's call them) car incidents, in all of them I did what I was taught to do (or just randomly read about, in a couple of them) first and panicked afterward. I don't go into "I'm about to be killed" mode, I go into "React to the situation" mode and think about the fact that I could have been killed later. If few people have this ability, I'm a lot more afraid to share the road now.
I understand that completely, but it makes absolutely no sense in a society where results aren't always dependent on attendance, and the majority of work and schoolwork can be done just the same remotely. For some reason we still act like we're in the factory working days, where production would go down if workers weren't in attendance, instead of the computer age we are actually in, where letting sick people work/learn from home would make "production" go up.
I have 4 kids, and I have never had it recommended to me, as an adult, that I get the TDAP. And they are told "if they've never had one" - are they told they need to have one if they haven't had one in the past few years?
Whooping cough is often seen in infants too young to safely get the vaccine, because it wears off. So adults get whooping cough, and then give it to the infants. So why aren't we vaccinating the adults instead? Maybe it isn't safe to vaccinate a pregnant or breastfeeding person, but if all the adults around her are vaccinated, it will stop spreading. Another way to help would be to stay home when sick, keep your kids home when they are sick, and keep your kids away from sick people. I would say this is more caused by lack of doing those things than by lack of vaccination.
Why doesn't the convenience store accept your card? Because they would have to pay fees if they did, they would have to get card readers and set up a system to connect them to the network, etc. The natives are used to and comfortable with using cash, it isn't worth it to make things slightly more convenient for just you. Why don't Japanese companies accept your card? They would have to pay a fee, have a contract with the credit card company, and have a fraud prevention method in place. Amazon already has these things, so it is no additional effort. Go back to wherever you came from if that's so much better, gaijin.
Saying "it is wrong" is not a valid reason when many people do not think it is wrong. Who would be stupid enough to give $20,000 to someone without seeing the car they will be buying first? Who would use a doctor without other former patients saying he is legit? If people are this stupid, they probably shouldn't be left to make decisions with such large amounts of money anyway. How about we educate people, and stop them from being so stupid, rather than making laws to protect them and allow them to keep their stupidity?
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Shitty entry level positions tend to lead to shitty careers. You're constantly going for the goal of getting a less shitty job, but once you get there your realize that the higher jobs are shitty too. Just do what you want to do, and then figure out a way to make money from it. Quit waiting around for someone to give you permission to do it, and do it on your own.
There are plenty of non-shitty ways to make money in America.
Did you know that often schools only teach students what is required to pass the tests, and much of that is forgotten during school vacations, not to mention after several years of being out of school?
Just the day before yesterday I was behind someone in a checkout line that didn't have enough to pay their bill on their debit card. So the cashier and the lady were trying to work out how much would be remaining after the amount on the debit card was used. After several minutes of both of then failing to figure it out, and the customer just handing the cashier some money (though not enough to cover the whole bill) they called over a manager, who showed the cashier that if she charged the debit card first it would show her the remaining amount. So then they counted how much money the customer had handed the cashier... and both tried to work out how much more was needed. After a minute the manager figured out how to type the amount into the register and be told the remaining bill.
I'm not saying cashiers don't know basic math, but quite a few of them would not be able to do their job without a register or at least a calculator.
Why do we fight so hard to keep/return the shitty jobs?
Of SYNTHETIC hormones.
It's $1.78 at Sams Club here, and there's no tax on food. I'm in northwest Indiana, near the boarder to Chicago.
Homeless doesn't necessarily mean poor, and poor certainly doesn't necessarily mean homeless. Also, homeless people may not have internet access in their homes (since they don't have one) but they often do have access.
Because that's a society that is set up to survive without the internet. The US is not really set up that way anymore.
He'd probably just be drinking whatever water he could find, not realizing it wasn't safe.
Have you ever been poor? I have. I've been both "living in the ghetto, but have food, water and shelter" poor - which is the kind of poor most Americans are, since the government gives free food, water and shelter to anyone that is truly poor and chooses to take it. I have also been "not knowing if I'm going to have food and water that day, not knowing if I'm going to have shelter or sleep outside that night" poor.
Internet access was vital to surviving and getting out of the latter situation. Being that kind of poor was quite similar to what he described. I had to find places to get food and water, places that provided shelter, places that would let me take a shower so I could go to a job interview, etc. It was my only way of communicating with friends and associates that weren't within shouting distance, which was important to survival in many ways (emails that said "x place is giving out free food/water till 1" were lifesavers a few times). The internet was the only way I managed to find a job, since by the time it was in the newspaper - if it ever was - it was already too late for me to have a chance.
To be honest, I don't know if it is possible to survive that kind of poor in the US (I have only been poor in the US - all over it, though - and Japan, but even in Japan surviving was much different and could easily be done without internet access) with no internet access whatsoever anymore. All the homeless and that type of poor people I have ever met in the US have had internet access in some form. It's certainly possible to survive the "living in the ghetto on welfare" type of poor, but it's extremely difficult if not impossible to ever get out of that without internet access.
I think that instead of spending money on outdated, often wrong textbooks for public school students, we should instead spend that money on getting at least them internet access.
Heat isn't needed for survival either. I've lived in the northern US without it.
My local library has paper forms, but good luck to someone that isn't smart enough to earn $25 a month to pay for the internet on figuring out those instructions. I consider myself pretty intelligent, but I still need a computer to help me through filling out those crazy forms and checking for errors.
"The local library has plenty of current books that are not available free online" Where do you live? My local library may have current fiction books, but their nonfiction books are mostly outdated, and even with the current ones all the information in them was already free online by the time they books were printed.
"Simple, they panic. I know everyone on here thinks they are far too smart, and this could never happen to them, but it can. When your car starts accelerating wildly, your brain goes into 'I am about to be killed' mode. You do not think, you react. Your instincts take over. If you are an experienced driver, your only instinct is 'mash the brakes as hard as possible'. When that doesn't work, you get even more panicky. Now your instincts are 'curl up and hope for the best'."
Now I'm not sure why you have turned this into an argument, but I have no desire to continue it...
"With so many women being stalking targets this does not seem reasonable to me." Oh that poor, poor woman! We can not stand for this injustice against a woman! I mean, come on, she has a vagina! There must be something we can do!!
So if I can't say how people will react to situations, why can you say how people will react and what their instincts will be?
I would say my knowledge of vehicles probably isn't as good as his, since males in general usually have better knowledge of them than I do. But as for my driving skills and emergency training, well, that guy died, and I haven't yet, so... shrug. I'm a pilot, though, so okay, maybe that's why I react to emergencies in the way I do. Perhaps we should give all drivers emergency training.
just make a throttle that doesn't become stuck or jammed?
I've been in several (let's call them) car incidents, in all of them I did what I was taught to do (or just randomly read about, in a couple of them) first and panicked afterward. I don't go into "I'm about to be killed" mode, I go into "React to the situation" mode and think about the fact that I could have been killed later. If few people have this ability, I'm a lot more afraid to share the road now.
I understand that completely, but it makes absolutely no sense in a society where results aren't always dependent on attendance, and the majority of work and schoolwork can be done just the same remotely. For some reason we still act like we're in the factory working days, where production would go down if workers weren't in attendance, instead of the computer age we are actually in, where letting sick people work/learn from home would make "production" go up.
I have 4 kids, and I have never had it recommended to me, as an adult, that I get the TDAP. And they are told "if they've never had one" - are they told they need to have one if they haven't had one in the past few years?
Whooping cough is often seen in infants too young to safely get the vaccine, because it wears off. So adults get whooping cough, and then give it to the infants. So why aren't we vaccinating the adults instead? Maybe it isn't safe to vaccinate a pregnant or breastfeeding person, but if all the adults around her are vaccinated, it will stop spreading. Another way to help would be to stay home when sick, keep your kids home when they are sick, and keep your kids away from sick people. I would say this is more caused by lack of doing those things than by lack of vaccination.
Why doesn't the convenience store accept your card? Because they would have to pay fees if they did, they would have to get card readers and set up a system to connect them to the network, etc. The natives are used to and comfortable with using cash, it isn't worth it to make things slightly more convenient for just you. Why don't Japanese companies accept your card? They would have to pay a fee, have a contract with the credit card company, and have a fraud prevention method in place. Amazon already has these things, so it is no additional effort. Go back to wherever you came from if that's so much better, gaijin.
Why would you want to stay at a job where your aren't wanted, anyway?
Saying "it is wrong" is not a valid reason when many people do not think it is wrong. Who would be stupid enough to give $20,000 to someone without seeing the car they will be buying first? Who would use a doctor without other former patients saying he is legit? If people are this stupid, they probably shouldn't be left to make decisions with such large amounts of money anyway. How about we educate people, and stop them from being so stupid, rather than making laws to protect them and allow them to keep their stupidity?