E.g. having a university degree is "overqualified" for a barista job.
I spent my first three years out of college working as a backup cook for a restaurant. Why? I skipped high school and went into college, getting a college degree without getting a high school or G.E.D. diploma. Most entry-level employers focused on the high school diploma and refused to hire me even though I had a college degree. I didn't start my technical career until a roommate's company hired me on as an "intern" because they didn't have the budget to hire a full-time staffer. With the economy in the Great Recession crapper, I know a lot of "overqualified" baristas.
The construction trades are facing a critical shortage of electricians, plumbers and whatever else, as foreign workers had left the country after the Great Recession and older workers are retiring.
I got into electronics as a teenager and even took a few courses in college, but I never got far with it. Didn't have the information and money to get beyond the basics. Fast forward 30 years, the Internet has plenty of information and as senior I.T. technician I got plenty of money. I'm fiddling around with 555 timer circuits and looking up designs for a TTL computer in. Rather than buying a handful of parts from Radio Shack (back then) I'm ordering lots of 100 from Jameco to build up my parts inventory.
My mother brawled with 19 other mothers for a Cabbage Patch doll at a Toy "R" Us store in the early 1980's. Don't remember if she used her brass knuckles that she kept in her purse. We were the first one out of the store and she told my father to floor it when we got into the car. A half-dozen cop cars blared pass us as we got on the street and down the block. Made the local and national news that night.
I wait a few hours after the stores are opened to see human nature at its best. My father and I in 2005 arrived at Wal-Mart at 6:30AM to find 16 police cars surrounding the store. A riot broke out over a low-priced HDTV that the store only had three in stock. Things looked pretty normal inside except for the police officers patrolling the store. I'm always amused to find HDTV boxes out in the parking lot, as people buy big ass HDTVs to put into their small ass SUVs and try to figure out how to get them home.
Doom came out in 1993. My roommate gave me his old IBM AT (286) and bought a 386 with a whooping 4MB of RAM and an VGA video card to play the game. That started the race to upgrade to ever powerful computers to play the next-gen video game.
My late father had to get laser surgery for his eyes since Costco and/or Wal-Mart no longer carried the thick bottle glass glasses he had since the 1950's. That corrected his far sight vision. Still needed reading glasses that he bought from the drug store.
I think the label printer database was RBASE. The only person who knew how to tweak it was the Japanese exchange student who worked in the warehouse for a few years.
Although the Records & Admission office at my local community college have updated PCs, each PC had a terminal emulator and a 9600 baud serial link to the mainframe computer.
The IBM XT was nine years old when I started work in Spring 1992, running an 8088 processor. The 286, 386 and 486 processors were on the market, and the Pentium was on the horizon. By prevailing CPU standards, it was ancient.
When I worked at the college bookstore warehouse in the early 1990's, we had an ancient IBM XT computer with dual 5.25" drives, an amber monitor and a dot matrix printer for printing shipping labels. It did that one job exceptionally well. I wouldn't be surprised if it still working there today.
If the government didn't know about you before, they will after you get hired for a government job. My two-hour background interview lasted four hours because I had to list every I.T. contract job I did since the Great Recession. Security folks frown on the practice of having two jobs at the same time, say a weekday job and a weekend job, which I had to do after being out of work for two years and filing for chapter seven bankruptcy. Living in the same studio apartment for ten years was another flag, as that was inconsistent with being unemployed for two years and filing for chapter seven bankruptcy. We went back and forth on those two points. And then Chinese hackers stole my background file along with millions of other government employees.
When Windows NT ruled the roost, the admin password was "hockey" at several Silicon Valley companies I worked at. I guess the administrators were San Jose Shark fans. If the admin password wasn't "hockey," it was almost always "password."
Barack Obama is the first president in more than five decades to win at least 51 percent of the national popular vote twice, according to a revised vote count in New York eight weeks after the Nov. 6 election.
Obama is the first president to achieve the 51 percent mark in two elections since Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, who did it in 1952 and 1956, and the first Democrat to do so since Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four consecutive White House races. Roosevelt received 53.4 percent of the vote -- his lowest -- in his last race in 1944.
As an I.T. support contractor for the last ten years, my contracts prohibits me from working overtime. I'm only allowed to work from Monday through Friday, during regular business hours. Which is fine with me.
No, they just have to stop trying to pull right to the history that never was, and gradually those of us on the right side of democrat will gradually shift to the left side of republican.
Moderates are not welcomed by the Republican Party, but they are welcomed by the Democratic Party. After being a Republican for 25 years, I switched parties and embraced my inner RINO and embraced reality.
generally feel more comfortable with democrat social policies, even if they don't trust their financial policy
Never mind that a two-term Republican president cratered the economy and a two-term Democrat president presided over a seven-year bull market run on Wall Street.I expect things to get better under President Hillary.
The Republican Party needs younger voters more than the Democratic Party does, as conservative voters are dying off at a faster rate than liberal voters.
By combining presidential election exit polls with mortality rates per age group from the U.S. Census Bureau, I calculated that, of the 61 million who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012, about 2.75 million will be dead by the 2016 election. President Barack Obama's voters, of course, will have died too — about 2.3 million of the 66 million who voted for the president won't make it to 2016 either. That leaves a big gap in between, a difference of roughly 453,000 in favor of the Democrats.
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E.g. having a university degree is "overqualified" for a barista job.
I spent my first three years out of college working as a backup cook for a restaurant. Why? I skipped high school and went into college, getting a college degree without getting a high school or G.E.D. diploma. Most entry-level employers focused on the high school diploma and refused to hire me even though I had a college degree. I didn't start my technical career until a roommate's company hired me on as an "intern" because they didn't have the budget to hire a full-time staffer. With the economy in the Great Recession crapper, I know a lot of "overqualified" baristas.
The construction trades are facing a critical shortage of electricians, plumbers and whatever else, as foreign workers had left the country after the Great Recession and older workers are retiring.
Or global warming spikes the temperature upward for a day and the trees dump their pollen in ecstasy.
Scientists from MIT say it conceptually resembles a shrinking bull's eye, incrementally narrowing down on its target.
Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes#Dichotomy_paradox
I got into electronics as a teenager and even took a few courses in college, but I never got far with it. Didn't have the information and money to get beyond the basics. Fast forward 30 years, the Internet has plenty of information and as senior I.T. technician I got plenty of money. I'm fiddling around with 555 timer circuits and looking up designs for a TTL computer in. Rather than buying a handful of parts from Radio Shack (back then) I'm ordering lots of 100 from Jameco to build up my parts inventory.
My mother brawled with 19 other mothers for a Cabbage Patch doll at a Toy "R" Us store in the early 1980's. Don't remember if she used her brass knuckles that she kept in her purse. We were the first one out of the store and she told my father to floor it when we got into the car. A half-dozen cop cars blared pass us as we got on the street and down the block. Made the local and national news that night.
Found out later from a neighbor the wait to check out was nearly an hour
Check out was nearly an hour at Fry's?! That's fast! Two to three hours is the norm after the store opens.
I wait a few hours after the stores are opened to see human nature at its best. My father and I in 2005 arrived at Wal-Mart at 6:30AM to find 16 police cars surrounding the store. A riot broke out over a low-priced HDTV that the store only had three in stock. Things looked pretty normal inside except for the police officers patrolling the store. I'm always amused to find HDTV boxes out in the parking lot, as people buy big ass HDTVs to put into their small ass SUVs and try to figure out how to get them home.
Doom came out in 1993. My roommate gave me his old IBM AT (286) and bought a 386 with a whooping 4MB of RAM and an VGA video card to play the game. That started the race to upgrade to ever powerful computers to play the next-gen video game.
Um... dude? You are aware that it's 2015 now, right? The "early" 1990s were about 25 years ago.
You are a fsking moron.
FTFY - Thank you for noticing my misbegotten youth.
I for one welcome our new GOTO overlords!
My late father had to get laser surgery for his eyes since Costco and/or Wal-Mart no longer carried the thick bottle glass glasses he had since the 1950's. That corrected his far sight vision. Still needed reading glasses that he bought from the drug store.
I think the label printer database was RBASE. The only person who knew how to tweak it was the Japanese exchange student who worked in the warehouse for a few years.
Although the Records & Admission office at my local community college have updated PCs, each PC had a terminal emulator and a 9600 baud serial link to the mainframe computer.
The IBM XT was nine years old when I started work in Spring 1992, running an 8088 processor. The 286, 386 and 486 processors were on the market, and the Pentium was on the horizon. By prevailing CPU standards, it was ancient.
When I worked at the college bookstore warehouse in the early 1990's, we had an ancient IBM XT computer with dual 5.25" drives, an amber monitor and a dot matrix printer for printing shipping labels. It did that one job exceptionally well. I wouldn't be surprised if it still working there today.
If the government didn't know about you before, they will after you get hired for a government job. My two-hour background interview lasted four hours because I had to list every I.T. contract job I did since the Great Recession. Security folks frown on the practice of having two jobs at the same time, say a weekday job and a weekend job, which I had to do after being out of work for two years and filing for chapter seven bankruptcy. Living in the same studio apartment for ten years was another flag, as that was inconsistent with being unemployed for two years and filing for chapter seven bankruptcy. We went back and forth on those two points. And then Chinese hackers stole my background file along with millions of other government employees.
One person at a stoplight that turns on to the freeway entrance ramp made $85 per hour.
Some of those street corners can be very lucrative. A newspaper survey found an intersection in San Francisco that made $85 per hour.
My contract is black-and-white with no grey areas. If I worked overtime without authorization, I will get fired.
When Windows NT ruled the roost, the admin password was "hockey" at several Silicon Valley companies I worked at. I guess the administrators were San Jose Shark fans. If the admin password wasn't "hockey," it was almost always "password."
I got something even more funnier:
Barack Obama is the first president in more than five decades to win at least 51 percent of the national popular vote twice, according to a revised vote count in New York eight weeks after the Nov. 6 election.
Obama is the first president to achieve the 51 percent mark in two elections since Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, who did it in 1952 and 1956, and the first Democrat to do so since Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four consecutive White House races. Roosevelt received 53.4 percent of the vote -- his lowest -- in his last race in 1944.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-03/final-tally-shows-obama-first-since-56-to-win-51-twice
As an I.T. support contractor for the last ten years, my contracts prohibits me from working overtime. I'm only allowed to work from Monday through Friday, during regular business hours. Which is fine with me.
No, they just have to stop trying to pull right to the history that never was, and gradually those of us on the right side of democrat will gradually shift to the left side of republican.
Moderates are not welcomed by the Republican Party, but they are welcomed by the Democratic Party. After being a Republican for 25 years, I switched parties and embraced my inner RINO and embraced reality.
generally feel more comfortable with democrat social policies, even if they don't trust their financial policy
Never mind that a two-term Republican president cratered the economy and a two-term Democrat president presided over a seven-year bull market run on Wall Street.I expect things to get better under President Hillary.
The Republican Party needs younger voters more than the Democratic Party does, as conservative voters are dying off at a faster rate than liberal voters.
By combining presidential election exit polls with mortality rates per age group from the U.S. Census Bureau, I calculated that, of the 61 million who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012, about 2.75 million will be dead by the 2016 election. President Barack Obama's voters, of course, will have died too — about 2.3 million of the 66 million who voted for the president won't make it to 2016 either. That leaves a big gap in between, a difference of roughly 453,000 in favor of the Democrats.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/the-gop-is-dying-off-literally-118035