BOP
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I'm apparently qualified to be POTUS, judging by the current standards.
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BOP
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I actually feel her pain. After getting out of the Navy, I applied to Jack-in-the-Box in Chula Vista, CA. It was literally a straight, down-hill run on a bicycle from my house on E. Palomar. I could be there in mere minutes.
One of the criteria was that one had to have a car - I saw that a lot on job applications at the time. I didn't have a car, and I had given my CB750 to a shipmate who was in desperate need.
I sat down with the manager, a Mexican-American guy, and that was one of the things I talked about. I said "I'm literally less than five minutes from here on a bicycle. 20 minutes if I walk."
He said "I never told you this, and I'll deny it to my dying day, but you're the wrong color to work here. You need more of a tan."
I was speechless. A Mexican guy telling me that unless I suddenly turned into a Mexican, I wasn't gonna get hired. That was in the mid-to-late '70s, I think.
But it was that way all over. The minimum wage jobs were all but closed off to you if you don't have the correct melanin quotient.
Plus, that hateful phrase that used to be all the rage may be making a silent comeback: "over-qualified."
BOP
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Drop them off from 10,000 feet. Without parachutes.
SamSpade
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Well this is going to sound strange but -
I chose a degree that I thought the prospects for a job were GOOD. Had I given NO consideration - I might have chosen Astronomy.
I looked into it. Paid well. DID need a PhD to really get a real job. BUT - there weren't a lot of positions TOTAL, much less available.
So -
I chose Nuclear Engineering.
Then Three Mile Island happened.
So I switched to Electrical Engineering.
(To be completely honest - what I really wanted to do was science WRITING. I love writing. Fairly evident. I love writing about everything, and at the time, I loved reading Carl Sagan as much as I loved reading sci-fi, but I knew I had zero gift for fiction. My Dad persuaded me otherwise, saying that job might be hard to make money at. Sagan said as much, too - he felt he got his niche due to a unique situation in society - one that wouldn't likely re-occur).
I do wonder if college students enter college never giving a thought to where they will work, where the jobs are and how competitive they will be - what kind of grades they will need to get them.
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Posted here because the 1st bit is the woman complaining about economics and affording life ....
Feminist BREAKS DOWN During COPING Session Attacking Men For Telling Her She Is Hitting The Wall!
Again linked into the part where she complains at 29 she is working 3 JOBS and still running up her credit cards every month
Wants to buy a house and have children, scrolling through her life, she seems to be living pretty cushy ... and has ' communists ' SIMP'ing for her
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Hey Kids, Have You Heard? It’s No Longer Cool To Be A Democrat
The signs are everywhere. The nation’s youth are waking up to the fact that the Democratic left – with its preening, humorless self-righteousness, its relentless judgmentalism, its mask-wearing Hamas-cheering campus-trashing college crybabies, its hypocritical pampered elites, and its octogenarian president who thinks he can buy young people off with abortions, dope, and bailouts – is totally uncool.
It’s about time. Now we just need a national anti-smoking-like campaign to sustain it.
There are so many recent moments showing this shift in attitude that it’s hard to narrow down the list. But here’s a sampling:
- A CNN poll found that 51% of 18-34-year-olds say they will vote for Donald Trump in November, compared with just 40% who say they will vote for Biden. That’s a stunning turnaround from four years ago.
- James Carville, that pugilistic former Clinton adviser posted a video in which he says: “It’s horrifying our numbers among younger voters, particularly younger blacks, younger Latinos … younger people of color. Particularly males. We’re not shedding them, they’re leaving in droves.” He later proceeded to mock these same voters, collectively calling those who won’t show up to vote Democratic “you little fu***ing 26-year-old.”
- New York Times correspondent Jennifer Medina says that the reason many young Latinos are leaving the Democratic plantation is that, while “many of these voters are the children of lifelong Democrats. They find Trump’s anti-establishment energy subversive and appealing.”
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Meanwhile, the college protests have succeeded only in making young leftists look like racist pansies who are trashing campuses to defend …. Hamas? A certified terrorist organization whose mission statement is to destroy Israel?
Young people can’t help but notice keffiyeh-wearing students – with the tacit approval of the kowtowing college administrators and the Democratic Party – engaging in nakedly antisemitic chants and even barring pro-Israel blacks from walking across campus.
Young people also have watched as the left turned on beloved liberal authors such as J.K. Rowling and popular liberal black comedians like Dave Chappelle because they won’t bend the knee to the radical transgender movement.
They’re hearing from comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld, who was himself recently harassed by Hamas-supporting leftists for being Jewish. He blames the death of comedy on “the extreme left, PC crap, & people worrying so much about offending other people.”
They’re noticing that once liberal favorites, Elon Musk and Bill Maher, to name a couple, have suddenly awakened to the insidiousness of today’s hard-left Democratic Party.
They’re watching the cowardice of the left, such as Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, who literally ran away from a reporter who asked him about the murder of a Chicago police officer.