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I used to always get drowsy to the point of hallucinations at three o clock every school day, but thankfully that has past. I must have looked like a stoner or something....
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I hallucinate randomly and fall asleep randomly but those two things are unrelated. And both are irritating. ~_~
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Sometimes late at night I hallucinate, but I think that's something to do with transition into the different sleeping stages. Once I thought I saw a huntsman crawl under my pillow, but it was green.
That reminds, has anyone here ever tried lucid dreaming? I'm currently obssesed with it, but have only managed it once or twice (and then the effects were minimal) |
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I just do something part-time for the time being.
Even that is exhausting for me. |
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I think some people fail to understand that a job's a job. You get the same thing from working regardless of what you do; money. People got to do what they got to do to make a living and provide for their families, which I think is remarkable and highly admirable and respectful.
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I don't really see the point of interviews. They don't display the potential of the employees, from what I can tell. I wish I could just say "Look, I think interviews are pointless, but if you give me the chance to do the job, I'll cast aside all of your doubts of me as an employee." Because really, most people doubt me, but once I get a chance, I tend to prove them wrong. In fact, proving people wrong and making them look a fool is such a motivator for me. So if someone tells me I can't do something, I'm going to do it and I'm going to do it better than I would if I didn't get told that at all. You know?
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I hate interviews as well. I apply for so many jobs and never get so much as a call, they just dont even want to interview me. Its getting so frustrating.
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I don't really see the point of an interview too. But I'm pretty sure it's just to see how you react in a conversation, and apply your social skills.
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I'm frustrated because the job I want over the summer hires pretty much solely on interviews but they have their big interviewing day while I'm at school. Last year I emailed them and asked them if there was anything I could do and they never replied. This time I've called them but they haven't called back yet. ;x I'll give them till Friday and call again since I just called today. I WON'T LET THIS GO
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Ive even called places Ive applied to, and get replies that they havent looked at my application or are not hiring. This gets me really down.
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Carvel (ice cream store) was the only place that got back to me for an interview. I thought I did pretty damn well but never did get a call back. >:
but yeaaah this summer I need to either take classes or work. It'll probably be the former though ;_; |
I hate jobs that have you interview. I lack a lot of confidence when it's just me and a resume.
I guess it's partly because I know there's probably another applicant who is way better than me, or who wants the job more. I'm glad i'm going into into a field that requires a portfolio and not just a resume/yourself, because really it's the portfolio that does all the talking in that interview. Most people think anything art related for a job is just silly and not reliable, but honestly if you have a impressive portfolio it's not as a tough as people think. |
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I don't need to do jobs during the summer holidays. Instead, I have to do buttloads of 'holiday homework' which is equivalent to 9 hours of work 7 days a week.
I don't know how it works in other countries, but the last time I visited America people told me they didn't have anything known as holiday homework which they have to do over the summer. >_>;; |
Some schools have summer reading, where they require you to read 1-5 books over the summer and write reports on them, and some of my AP classes had a lot of summer homework that everyone crammed into the last week of summer, but every other class summer was free. I'm in college anyway though, which I don't think ever has that kind of thing since you don't register for classes until close to the end of the semester before it which gets rid of it entirely for spring semester classes if that makes sense lol.
I just need a job desperately. If this doesn't work I may end up working with my mom but that's a 2.5 hour bus ride to get there when she can't drive me which will be miserable. :( |
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The homework is more like divided for each subject. Create a whole model, or create a file, maybe even give us some stuff that forces us to go outside. It's really crappy and whole lotta work though. But it does end up being counted towards the final grade ;____; Last year I managed to escape though, because of a workshop I participated in. It was a massive relief, and in the end I was left with more free time than I could handle. But it was during the summer that I became active in PC d: |
/me thankfully has a nice job. :x
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Give me your job Live. :(
I have a nice job now but it doesn't pay much and ends when school does. |
We aren't allowed to work here anyways lol. Even part time jobs, iirc. It's against the law for anybody under 18 to work.
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I'm planning on applying for a job that I'm somewhat certain I'll get. I have experience working at CVS, and the stores are enough alike to really set me apart from most of the other candidates that would probably apply there. But it's a part time job, and with my experience with part time jobs, relying on getting hours isn't very good for you, so in order to keep myself busy, I'm going to be volunteering at the library and Habitat for Humanity. Admittedly, I'm really only doing that to make references and pad my resume for the future. I think I'll change my intents after a while of volunteer work, though. Those are the only places I know around here that accepts volunteer service, but I'm sure there's plenty more. I'll probably look around for an additional part time job as well.
Once that happens, I'll be happy and busy until I can go back to school and get an on-campus job. |
Good luck with that, Nick! I hate having to apply formally for stuff like that lol. Uni was annoying enough so I'd hate to have to do it for a job too. Shame that's exactly what I'm gonna have to do when I get to said uni, haha.
I've got a job working in a guitar shop whenever I'm not busy with school. It's so flexible I can just come and go as I want more or less, haha. And I ref football matches sometimes too but I've been doing that less lately. School and health's been busy taking everything over lol. |
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Why not me, god? Why not me? |
Nah seriously I got so lucky lol. I've been playing for... nearly 11 years now? And always being going to that shop regularly, so the staff there already know me fairly well and get that, at the time of applying, I was just a 16 year old with no money looking for a job between school hours. It's a pretty big shop but not some huge chain or anything so it was easy for them to be relaxed about when I come and go I guess, haha.
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All the employees at the Gamestop up the street know me well, but every time I applied they never hired me. Figured they would have hired me since I wasn't just some stranger looking for a job, rather a regular customer. Also, that's cool you've been playing guitar that long. :O |
Never work at a GameStop. I've lived and learned from game developers and spoke to many people that worked at GS, and both groups agree that working at a game store can be awful.
Anyway, I understand why people would interview you. I wouldn't interview you so much for an answer as much as to analyze you clearly and decide who's a better worker. Because resumes lie. A lot. |
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I could take up a job...but that would screw up my study habits even more. :(
*Sigh* |
I think the same could be said about my study habits. Though not having a job also screws up my study habits.
Either way, my study habits are suffering. :| But yeah, jobs are exhausting. Back when I worked at a pharmacy it would exhaust and depress the hell out of me, despite being a fun job where I got to meet loads of people. Once you get out it feels like there's not enough time left to do the things you need/want to do and relax at the same time. |
The only jobs I ever held were through the university... if you don't like being awoken at any and all hours of the night and/or dealing with rampant stupidity and drunkenness, do NOT become a Resident Assistant. Such things are all part of the job description, and oh the stories I could tell if they wouldn't get me infracted.
Yes, those crazy freshman guys do some pretty sketchy things, and my fellow RAs and I always had to clean up the mess. Current job situation: Lots of job rejections, only one interview since the new year and that ended up being a sales/commission job I ended up not wanting anyway. |
Resident Assistant sounds awful.
I don't understand why some people go to college and just completely devolve from human into ape. I get the whole "freedom" thing, but does that mean you need to.... well... stuff all over the place? Personally I hate hearing crazy college stories. It makes me worry about whether or not my ex-girlfriend is OK. I'm sure she's sick of me checking in on her. x[ Oh hey alright I slept in and missed my doctors appointment. That's neat. |
My job told me today that if I kept working over the summer on making a mobile app for them that they'd still pay me. :))) That's nice! Plus I have a few options that I'm working on as a real summer job, and my boyfriend is going to visit me at home right after school ends, life is goooooood.
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I'm still trying to find a job. Maybe I'd have better success working during the summer when I'd be free the entire week.
I've had no success trying to find a job when I can only work a possible 4 days a week. |
IT GOT COLD AGAIN WHY GOD WHY
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No, Live. Do not direct the DCC back into weather talk. Bad Live.
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I'm hopefully gonna work at the same place one of my good friend works at, haven't seen her in a while too so that would be really cool.
And yes it's gonna get colder again here too, next week ;; ok adding something else here to DERAIL WEATHER so uhh it's a toystore so it oughta be fun!?!? |
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Every time you post something weather related, it's usually what the weather's like here. As for a summer job, i'm taking care of yards. GETTIN BUFF, GETTIN TAN. Jersey shore maaaaan. Everything I just said was a mistake. |
IT'S COLD HERE TOO. It was like high 20s last week and today it was -5. ;___;[/could not resist commenting on weather]
I would love to work at a toy shop for discounts but I don't think I could deal with the inevitable children who'd be in there all the time. xD; |
I'd love to work in a toy store... for like a day. After that it'll probably become like any other retail job.
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Hahah I did some work experience there once and it was neat to get all the stuff that couldn't be sold anymore or to be able to reserve things, and there's a game section too and would sometimes get discounts on that etc, but yeah it's true that in the end it's not very different from any other retail job. But the environment probably does make it more enjoyable, though that's just personal preference I guess. And I didn't really mind the kids actually! It was fun to be able to help them and see them walk out happy with something haha.
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Well, I don't actually like kids so I imagine that has something to do with it. xD;
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Imma smack you toujours. >:D I'm in Ohio, Cello |
Oh okay hahah well yeah I like kids up til a certain age probably lol. And babies are v cute so.
And I want to go to Cali real bad >:C |
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I want to move there so bad when I graduate. Seeing as i'm currently on the east coast, it sucks because I wouldn't be able to see my family without travelling a great distance if I were to move all the way to the west coast. But whatever man, awesome beaches > Family. Kidding, of course... but the sad thing is i'm almost not kidding. |
I did some work experience at Toys R' Us a good number of years back. It was OK but pretty boring. Stacking shelves, lifting boxes in the warehouse and other such tasks.
I am on and off with kids. It depends really. I sometimes teach the younger kids at the dojo I train at and they are fine. They listen to me and try their best to follow my instructions. But then you have troublemakers who I would like to squeeze the life out of. |
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I mainly like Napa for the nature/weather there and the abundance of wine. I'm a country guy, so that's probably why Napa appeals to me so much. :P
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I don't think I could survive in California. :P I hate any kind of hot weather. I imagine if I was living there year round, I'd really only be okay in northern Cali and by then it's just like "why are you even living here".
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I want visit California one day. Partly (mostly) for Disneyland, but also I want to tour Napa and wine country. LA I don't think I'd like, it just seems... tacky. I'd do a day trip of Hollywood and what not, but the rest of the time I'd be elsewhere. Maybe. I'd want to go to the beach.
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California does sound like a good place to visit. A relative of mine lived there but I never got to visit him and see the place... sad, lol.
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I've never been out there before. I do have relatives who live in the San Francisco area, but they kinda seem "out of it" a lot, lol. I only see them when they come visit us, which thankfully isn't too often. They're just kinda... odd.
I'd like to head out there to visit, not sure about settling there full time, though. |
Ughhhh I wanna go to San Diego again. I probably will when Anime Expo rolls around but then I'll be in LA and in a convention most of the time and not just enjoying California. ;;
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Are we talking about the cold? Random... it got cold here on Long Island yesterday... but that was due to the wind. It was chilly today to but it's usually chilly in March here so I'm used to it.
...I got interested in the anime Another a few weeks ago. I really like it. |
NO WEATHER IS BANNED FROM THIS THREAD
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Speaking of Anime, that's another cool thing about being in California (in my opinion anyways) seeing as you're so close to Japan it'd probably cost less/be faster to travel there for vacation as opposed to travelling to there from the east coast.
Hnng I need to go to Japan. I yearn for it. EDIT: Bwahaha! The title of the thread has been changed to something weather related! |
It's still ridiculously expensive. XD
I imagine for anime fans that a trip to Japan is like a pilgrimage that everyone has to make once in their lives. |
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And I live pretty close to Japan, but the flights are still darn expensive xD And I don't follow anime anyways so the only reason I'd go to Japan is to get my hand on all the new electronics. |
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Hail's still my favorite kind weather tho. |
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Yeah it does get rather harsh sometimes but I have walked up to 3 miles to get to school in the morning while it hailed on rare occasions last year and I figured if I can survive that I can pretty much handle nearly anything else the weather up here has to offer me. Besides forest fires and hurricanes of course. |
For the first time in months it's been unusually hot & sunny here, can't really complain though!
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>That title = lol.
I've always wanted to go to Japan since I love anime so much. But I live too far away from Japan so it would take forever to get there by airplane. =\ But, I'll keep dreaming of going to Japan until I can actually go. |
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And I used to want to go to Japan very bad, and I still want to go but I would totally die in their humid climate. |
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Plus for vegetarians Japan and China are not really good places lol. |
The only reason I'd want to go to Japan is for the anime :P If I got a high enough paying job I'd definitely try to make it over there for a week or two... Japan's definitely on my bucket list.
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I wish Japanese was something I wanted to put real effort into learning, because if I did it would make a lot of things a lot easier. But it's so hard to learn languages.
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If I'd been given an opportunity, I'd have definitely picked Chinese/Japanese as a language over French or Spanish. d:
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Japanese is so hard. D:
I've tried learning it several times, but it's so easy to forget after not practicing it on a regular basis. Probably just has something to do with me being not-smart... On a separate note, I like how whenever someone makes a post, everybody and their mother gathers into the section. :P Spoiler:
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Same here actually. But Spanish is kinda you know...more practical
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I speak French... kind of. I've been learning it since I was nine and although I would consider myself pretty proficient, I wouldn't go so far as to call myself fluent just yet. Even though I've been taking French this year, my spoken French is pretty rusty haha.
I took a Japanese class last year because I was genuinely interested in the language and it was fun to learn, but omg the kanji. It was also slightly awkward because I was literally the only person in the class who wasn't into anime (but what did I expect? lol). I'm not taking it anymore because I really don't see myself using it anywhere and because I need room for courses relevant to my major, but it was a pretty fun language to learn. But I do want to learn Spanish one day. It's such a lovely language, and it's very practical and useful in life. :D |
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I'm pretty good with languages actually, and it would be cool to speak something else but atm I'm too busy with German class at school haha, trying to learn another language between that would be too confusing.
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Originally, I had wanted Spanish, not French. Spanish imo is more practical. But because of a few broken promises by my school I was forced to take French. Oh well.
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I have never been good at speaking foreign languages. But that is OK. I know how to 'communicate' very well with a language everyone understands.
Pain. |
Some people can't feel pain.
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No like literally. Some people have no way to feel pain. It's really sad tbh, they have to be super super super careful with what they do because they wouldn't be able to feel it if they broke their arm for instance, even though using said broken arm would harm their body.
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WHOEVER TITLED THIS THREAD, GOOD FOR YOU. I LOVE THAT SHOW.
Anyway, moving on. I know Spanish is super practical, especially since I live in the United States and therefore, have quite a bit of people who speak it, but I just have no desire to D: I know some French and I can read and write Arabic and am in the process of learning words now so I can know what i'm reading and writing. I'd also love to learn German and Italian one day. I don't have room for languages in my schedule though -_- so I'll probably do some with my master's degree (if I'm ever lucky enough to get that). Speaking of pain, I'm SUCH A WUSS WHEN IT COMES TO PAIN. It's embarrassing to a point :| |
My pain threshold and tolerance is pretty high actually!! But iirc in general girls have them higher than mans.
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I don't think I could get myself to learn another language, it just takes a lot of time and overcoming the fear of sounding completely ridiculous or not understanding anybody in a regular chat took me enough of an effort already to start with a third one XD
Plus I think that speaking Spanish and English (okay, and some Catalan) will be enough for me. |
I think a lot of people need to work on mastering English before they go trying fancy other languages :P
(no-one here, just in general) |
I speak a little bit of french but not enough to consider myself anywhere near fluent lol.
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I've been learning Spanish for about three years now. Granted, the stuff they're teaching us this year is practically the same as last year, but I've still learned a fair amount.
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I tried learning Spanish before but... well, you see where this is going when I said "tried." It wasn't hard but I can never be forced to learn something. |
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Pain is not only physical. People can be wounded emotionally too. So unless these people are completely devoid of emotion, they can be hurt. All too easily. Humans are so fragile after all. |
Yeah that's the problem with learning a language on your own without a teacher there who speaks it fluently...you could be pronouncing things wrong the entire time and not really know that you are, lol.
Edit: Lol Drakow you don't speak the language of emotional pain. |
I really wanna learn a new language, I have to take one next year I believe in highschool. I really want to learn Japanese, I got My Japanese Coach when it came out but besides knowing the names of the days and colors it never really helped me xD
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The exception would be my high school French teacher >_> in spite of being fluent, she was incapable of teaching the language to my class. 90% of us hated the class and never really got anywhere near fluent. The 10% that did were just great with languages. Like, if you asked a 2nd year French student of hers to "speak some French" we would say "....ummm....J'aime bien le chocolat....?". It was awful.
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Does your school actually offer Japanese? Mine did but only 2 years and I didn't know of any other school that did, haha. I feel like most schools have like French, Spanish, Italian, and then some oddball language. In my first high school this was sign language and in my second it was Japanese. xD
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Successful communication is transferring intention between one person to another. If I want to hurt someone emotionally I can.
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I can read the language fluently, though I take a little time to interpret the meaning. Have to agree though, some of the words make your tongue do the tango. Which is strangely pleasing.. |
Whatever you say Drakow. I'm sure you can.
Arabic is pretty when I see it written but I don't think I could ever learn it, haha. |
I am glad you understand.
Even with a teacher, I could not get to grips with French while at school. |
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I'm pretty content with the fact that I can speak English fluently, German is going ALRIGHT I guess hahah, but I don't plan on continuing that when I'm off school. |
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