A good example of what's wrong with kids these days...

[^_^ 5,021]

No, your point was that kids who get parental assistance don't take a job out of college and wait for "the perfect offer". You're wrong about that, generally speaking.

[IndigoSkies 168]

Why not continue looking for more suitable work and adjust some claims (and make money) in the meantime?

Maybe it's hard to look for another suitable jobs while working full time at a job which pays $40,000 (US.) You don't expect to be just let out for 3, 4 hours every so often so you can go interview at another job. Trust me engineering and other science related jobs require longs and many interviews. For one jobs, a scientist can abe expected to interviewed many times. I was. And by a panel. Panel interviews are sucha ######. Each person tries to one up another in coming up with most absurd question to ask. To sum up what I want to say, you can't properly look for another job while working full time at a decent job.

Also, this kid can afford to deny this offer. If he couldn't, he would've jumped on the offer. I knew I would've.

[^_^ 5,021]

Maybe it's hard to look for another suitable jobs while working full time at a job which pays $40,000 (US.) You don't expect to be just let out for 3, 4 hours every so often so you can go interview at another job. Trust me engineering and other science related jobs require longs and many interviews. For one jobs, a scientist can abe expected to interviewed many times. I was. And by a panel. Panel interviews are sucha ######. Each person tries to one up another in coming up with most absurd question to ask. To sum up what I want to say, you can't properly look for another job while working full time at a decent job.

If that was so difficult, people would never be able to change jobs. You sound like you're either lazy or you don't conserve your PTOs.

[slim 1,514]

No, your point was that kids who get parental assistance don't take a job out of college and wait for "the perfect offer". You're wrong about that, generally speaking.

That was not my point. My point had nothing to do with kids, but with their parents' perceptions of why the situation was such. My point is entirely that the parents enabled their childrens' "objectionable" behavior.

Also, this kid can afford to deny this offer. If he couldn't, he would've jumped on the offer. I knew I would've.

My point is concurrent with this statement. The parents have enabled this kid to deny the offer. The kid didn't take the job because he could afford not to and that wasn't because he worked so hard to get through college, it was because his parents enabled him to be in that position.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

my parents helped pay for my education but also expected me to contribute. They cut me off from any assistance at all pretty much right after graduation and while I still had a significant amount of college debt. Really, it was the best thing they could do for me - it was hard at first but I learned a lot about living within my means and financial responsibility in the following years. I also graduated in the middle of a recession and did a few crappy jobs in order to get by - I am certain this has helped me much more in my career than if I sat around waiting for the "right offer"

[IndigoSkies 168]

If that was so difficult, people would never be able to change jobs. You sound like you're either lazy or you don't conserve your PTOs.

You know me so well. -rolls eyes-

[KaiserD 12]

My Commodore 64 raised me, therefore I have decided I am in the Commodore Generation. The first thing I ever wrote "typed" was Load "*" 8,1

*happy sigh*

You know they don't make stuff like they used to. You could drop one of these things down a flight of stairs and they'd still be in perfect working order.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

*happy sigh*

You know they don't make stuff like they used to. You could drop one of these things down a flight of stairs and they'd still be in perfect working order.

I guess, but when I took my first commodore apart (it died it 87ish, so we got another) I think the motherboard was basically cardboard with parts glued to it and wrapped in aluminum foil lol.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

Sousuke - I could be mistaken but I think having meaningful memories of commodore computers and the 80s takes you firmly outside of generation y and into x

[chri'stina 190]

But he was born in 81 according to his VJ profile! That's even younger than me! But my family didn't own a computer til the year 2000. lol. I could only access them at friends' houses or somewhere else. So I am lost on this Commodore stuff!

Edited July 8, 2010 by chri'stina

[Marilyn. 340]

But he was born in 81 according to his VJ profile! That's even younger than me! But my family didn't own a computer til the year 2000. lol. I could only access them at friends' houses or somewhere else. So I am lost on this Commodore stuff!

that sounds like our family.. I think we got our first computer in 1990 but it was a Comordore 64 that a family friend donated to us.. our family didn't get a more modern computer with internet until about 2001.. lol

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

We had the brown version of the C64 from 82-87ish. Then in 87 my dad bought a newer 64 that was white. Then he got a 386 in 1991. That's when my life entered the dark age of technology, because that was it until 99.

[KaiserD 12]

Not a Spectrum in sight

[LaL 418]

I started with a commodore vic 20 and upgraded to a 64. good times with funny programmings.