Well there is the main character from halo for the Xbox. Nintendo still has mario but he looks better and better though still keeping the cartoonish older generation fans.
Playstation doesnt realy have one though. Personaly when I think Playstation I think GTA and metal gear but none are true mascots
I dont think people are depressed from the job itself but who they work for and what exactly they do. I work on some programming and find it fun, however when Im doing a job that is so pethetic and so boring trying to dot all the Is and cross all the Ts its just a pain in the ass. Though I dont get paid as much I find it much more enjoying to repair and help people with their problems. I still program some and may go back some day when I need the money but I know along with all the other cubicle gimps out there around the world unless you are one of those 80+ hours a week and loving it people it will not really progress much farther. I program on my own in my own time for fun when it gets boring I stop and do something else. Helping those people who dont know where to find the "any key" on a keyboard is much more enjoyable.
Working in any enviroment where the world seems to be on your sholders is to much for most people. Find a local small job and work for them. Sure that job could go under but so could a big buisness where suddently 300 programmers are all looking for work.
I am one of those Depressed overworked IT people who would rather lay down and die than finish the project but still finishes the project in the hopes it will be his last. Not everyone was made for the IT stuff and being paid less for working on a computer than for laying concrete does help put things in prospective.
Every job has to work hard to get anywhere big. Some more than others. In construction you work hard every day in programming you have impossible deadlines to work hard to meet in medical you work to never make mistakes. everything has its downside for what it is. People burn out because they only want the glammer not the actual work. If you dont like your job quit and get another but dont expect them to throw money at you simply for showing up. Thats not how it works, atleast not for most people.
To be rich in money you must sacrifice your time. To be rich in life you must sacrifice your money. To be rich in everything you must win the lottery.
-- Another burnout
some of the things you say are somewhat true. The americans are nolonger go getters and there are many people who do have fake or mis diagnosed illnesses. These people do deserved to be flamed. For example there are people I know who do use illnesses to get out of work who they do not have.
HOWEVER!
These illnesses are true. There are people who suffer from them.
Taking time off for dislexia is pointless. It is not something that can make you stop working for a day. It is a condition where your eyes see things differently than other people some of the time. You think differently even though you know exactly what you are wanting to say or type the order somehow gets mixed up. My brother is a dislexic and I am one somewhat but not nearly as bad. He can read and do everything just fine. It is not something you need to take off work for. It is not an acceptable excuse. Having dislexia is more of something you if you have it simply have to watch out for. Typing things backwords or concentrating a little bit harder on reading. It is nothing that is fake but it is not something that will make you miss work.
Your post however said it was for her kid. These days people have test and all the other BS to do to have the disease to be proofed. Its stupid to me to have to prove this is what is wrong, then to be stuffed into some "special" class that has no point in it. It is something you must learn to deal with on your own and maby with the help of an outside course from school not pulling you out of the normal courses to go to it.
I could do this realy for just about every disease you listed but instead Id like to ask you to do something Anonymous Coward. From what you have said, this is only a quick diagnosis but still I think it may be wise to follow up on it.
If you think that you are special and everything thats wrong with everyone is simply because they arnt as good or as perfect as you you might have a superiority complex which is one of the possible outcomes of schizophrenia. You will probably think this is just another man made disease but if you honestly look into it schizophrenics have a highly different brain chemistry than the "average" person. Most schizophrenics do not require / get diagnosed for medications early but it can and usually does progress as you age.
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Well there is the main character from halo for the Xbox. Nintendo still has mario but he looks better and better though still keeping the cartoonish older generation fans.
Playstation doesnt realy have one though. Personaly when I think Playstation I think GTA and metal gear but none are true mascots
15 years from now at your local KFC... Hi, yes I would like to order 1 bucket of Extra crispy Super Chicken
I dont think people are depressed from the job itself but who they work for and what exactly they do. I work on some programming and find it fun, however when Im doing a job that is so pethetic and so boring trying to dot all the Is and cross all the Ts its just a pain in the ass. Though I dont get paid as much I find it much more enjoying to repair and help people with their problems. I still program some and may go back some day when I need the money but I know along with all the other cubicle gimps out there around the world unless you are one of those 80+ hours a week and loving it people it will not really progress much farther. I program on my own in my own time for fun when it gets boring I stop and do something else. Helping those people who dont know where to find the "any key" on a keyboard is much more enjoyable.
Working in any enviroment where the world seems to be on your sholders is to much for most people. Find a local small job and work for them. Sure that job could go under but so could a big buisness where suddently 300 programmers are all looking for work.
I am one of those Depressed overworked IT people who would rather lay down and die than finish the project but still finishes the project in the hopes it will be his last. Not everyone was made for the IT stuff and being paid less for working on a computer than for laying concrete does help put things in prospective.
Every job has to work hard to get anywhere big. Some more than others. In construction you work hard every day in programming you have impossible deadlines to work hard to meet in medical you work to never make mistakes. everything has its downside for what it is. People burn out because they only want the glammer not the actual work. If you dont like your job quit and get another but dont expect them to throw money at you simply for showing up. Thats not how it works, atleast not for most people.
To be rich in money you must sacrifice your time.
To be rich in life you must sacrifice your money.
To be rich in everything you must win the lottery.
-- Another burnout
umm...
some of the things you say are somewhat true. The americans are nolonger go getters and there are many people who do have fake or mis diagnosed illnesses. These people do deserved to be flamed. For example there are people I know who do use illnesses to get out of work who they do not have.
HOWEVER!
These illnesses are true. There are people who suffer from them.
Taking time off for dislexia is pointless. It is not something that can make you stop working for a day. It is a condition where your eyes see things differently than other people some of the time. You think differently even though you know exactly what you are wanting to say or type the order somehow gets mixed up. My brother is a dislexic and I am one somewhat but not nearly as bad. He can read and do everything just fine. It is not something you need to take off work for. It is not an acceptable excuse. Having dislexia is more of something you if you have it simply have to watch out for. Typing things backwords or concentrating a little bit harder on reading. It is nothing that is fake but it is not something that will make you miss work.
Your post however said it was for her kid. These days people have test and all the other BS to do to have the disease to be proofed. Its stupid to me to have to prove this is what is wrong, then to be stuffed into some "special" class that has no point in it. It is something you must learn to deal with on your own and maby with the help of an outside course from school not pulling you out of the normal courses to go to it.
I could do this realy for just about every disease you listed but instead Id like to ask you to do something Anonymous Coward. From what you have said, this is only a quick diagnosis but still I think it may be wise to follow up on it.
If you think that you are special and everything thats wrong with everyone is simply because they arnt as good or as perfect as you you might have a superiority complex which is one of the possible outcomes of schizophrenia. You will probably think this is just another man made disease but if you honestly look into it schizophrenics have a highly different brain chemistry than the "average" person. Most schizophrenics do not require / get diagnosed for medications early but it can and usually does progress as you age.