Good money in HVAC and Welding… especially if youre on the gulf coast. :tup:
Yea except I live in the east coast(?) of USA, am unemployed, unoccupied and wasting time as a now 20 year old man.
scored in the top 6% of the country in national tests scores.(the one you take after the 8th grade for high school placement…whatever its called since there’s more than one and some differ state to state)
took the De La Salle Institute for gifted children in NYC test…failed it.
Took the Regis high school for geniuses admission test…passed it.
IQ test scored me at 150
Scored a 800 on my SATs. Math part fucked me up. should have left the entire math section totally blank to score higher.
i swear, i sincerely think i have a version of dyslexia but regarding math/numbers.
my reading/vocab is my strength.
had a 12th grade reading comprehension in the 6th grade.
i once read the entire novel Of Mice And Men front to back in less than 3 hours. Not speed reading mind you.
er…after graduating high school, after being accepted to Columbia and NYU pretty much every prestigious university in the country was asking me to enroll in their school.
went to Pratt Institute based on grades, i had no art portfolio. i should mention i never did homework or studied after the 2nd grade. hated school. whatever.
Studied Fine Arts at Pratt till i dropped out in my sophomore year.
Painted till mid 20s when i came down with Hashimoto’s disease, and due to mismanagement/malpractice by multiple doctors in multiple hospitals…it escalated into hypoadrenalism & hypogonadism along with the hypothyroidism.
This also led to brain damage from lack of sufficient life sustaining hormones and it affected my capacities.
i don’t feel any dumber, per say…in that i don’t feel slowed down regarding problem solving skills, but my short term memory and concentration was greatly affected.
For instance there was a time when i couldn’t remember how to spell simple two syllable words. Like the word disease for example.
i still have trouble spelling words,…even though i was going to be sent to the national spelling bee back in grade school.
the only reason i didn’t go represent my school is because i intentionally fucked up some words to intentionally fail the test.
i didn’t want to get considered a geek. i was too busy trying to get with the girls.
let’s be for real.
Anyway.
So, now…
i haven’t been able to work since my mid 20s, been on disability since…i can’t go over 12 hours of being awake or my adrenal disease kicks in and my blood pressure drops to the dangerous point where my respiration/lungs stop functioning due to low aldosterone…and because of this i’m still living in my mom’s apartment in the South Bronx projects at age 41.
i was considered brilliant by most people who knew me.
maybe i was.
doesn’t matter.
because i made THE dumbest mistake anyone could ever make in this world.
i got sick in America.
with its broken, dysfunctional, inept, barbaric, uncivilized health care system which makes your health condition worse instead of better.
And that…
was the end of that.
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What made me stopped pursuing it was breathing in freon while I was assisting my squad leader on an uparmored humvee when I was in Iraq. It sucked the air out of my lungs and made me sick as fuck with the most brutal head ache I’ve ever gotten. Made me never to want to be in that situation ever again. But, it was a freak incident and probably doesn’t happen often to those that work in that field. I’ll be looking into similar work as being an office jockey at this time is mind numbing and my coworkers are a giant buzz kill.
How exactly are we defining education here then? Academic achievements and degrees from universities are the only things that matter?
How are you not employed with a welding certificate???
LMAO who is going to pay somebody just to think? You have to have some type of mechanical/manual skill nearly all of the time. (Educational background is B.Sc in Chemistry). There are plenty of people who went straight through certificate programs that make more than you because skilled labor is at a premium right now. Because everybody wants a desk job, but nobody wants to do what is required to get the desk job.
I get paid to think tho…
I think about offers and tactics. then I transfer my thoughts to my minions from philipines and they rank my sites and generate the $. I pay the managers 8% of the profit which is fucking generous as fucc.
Yea considering my job pays 55 bucks an hour to IT systems analysts with 2 year tech diplomas, my diploma makes 39 bucks an hour.
Fuck 4 year degrees lol
Bach in Computers after fluking out due to losing my brother and working full time at Game stop. Finally got my act together got my Associates then went for Bachelors. Currently working a field engineer job as my real first time experience in IT. Feel i need to get more certs to make a move for more money or get another gig.
is this canadian dollars?
This is SRK; you know we only accept one currency 'round these parts.
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I’m paid to think. I then pay other people to put that in action. I thought all bosses did that.
Bullshit motherfucker
P.s. I work at a state run mental hospital
I was a freelance web designer (I still do the odd job) but I’m introverted so I’ve always struggled marketing myself. With no savings, no pension at the age of 30 I had to call it quits, got my masters and joined the rat race.
Indeed. That’s 42 USD an hour. Still no joke.
They have their charm. My dad was teaching Physics at high school at that time, so I had the incitement. Problem was I had no idea that the stuff we’d learn in the last high school year were 10 times more extensive and difficult than the…casual stuff we learned in previous classes.
I was 17 at that time and I managed to last 4 months. Even went to cram school and began reading from August. I lasted till Christmans. Probably mind reached a threshold. Was not cut for this, wasting so much time and energy for the most trivial stuff. It was the love for video games that motivated me to choose this course in high school, aiming for Computer Science, had I passed the national exams.
Ever since I prefer to be a player rather than a developer
I thought I killed you.
almost, I’m still alive and kicking 
started taking art classes after HS. realized shit was a joke. also took an illustration class at CAD. got a little certificate in that which has served me zero use in life. now that im starting work on my graphic novel i kinda wish i had some knowledge of marketing. ill google some shit
Just went to a job fair and focused on trade booths, the amount of money that can be made is no joke. Made my automotive gig look like some entry job for kids. Will be going in balls deep next week to start my path of steak and lobster dinners