I just had an exam over the internet. I was to translate a text from japanese to swedish and answer a bunch of questions within an hour. All was fine untill the second that I'm pressing the send-button to submit my answers to my teacher. Yes, at the exact second I press the button, my internet bails out on me. I have a few minutes to spare so I quickly restart my computer. Doesn't help. I slip the text file over to my USB memory stick, quickly run over to my mother's computer, start it up and her internet access is also down. I then fail my exam, and no teacher in his right mind will ever believe me.
Now, yesterday I talked more to the guy who wanted to start a business together with me. He offered to put me on payroll if/when I want to quit school. (For reasons too long to explain) I said that I'd rather finish my class first, and declined getting any money until december. Maybe I should rethink that. I barely take the time to study these days anyway, and I'll be failing three of four exams this week (not as bad as it sounds, this education won't give me a job anyway, and I can't continue studying next term).
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Oct '07
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Nov '07
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College is over-hyped, I'm sorry I went. On the other hand, working for others is also over-hyped, and I don't want to do that again either. The second is probably slightly superior, but I think eventually you should aim to own your own business rather than working on a payroll, if only because there's more of an incentive to do your best when you don't have a steady paycheck.
You young kids with your romantic ideas! :P
Nov '07
21
According to our profiles I'm 4 years older than you :P
Nov '07
21
According to our profiles I'm 4 years older than you :P
I think you were looking at his brownie points. He's 34. ;)
Nov '07
21
According to our profiles I'm 4 years older than you :P
Well not quite - but still not a young buck ;)! My apologies!
Nov '07
21
Ah, my mistake. It's good to see GM users who are older than me actually.
What are brownie points?
Anyway, it might be idealistic, yeah. But it still seems that all the people that 'settle down' in a normal job don't seem to do anything that impressive with their life (as a general rule, there are exceptions), and that the largest achievements tend to come from people who don't work for anyone else. Of course there are problems with it, 90% of businesses failing in the first year and all that (although on the other hand 90% of new employees are also fired in the first year I believe).
What are brownie points?
Anyway, it might be idealistic, yeah. But it still seems that all the people that 'settle down' in a normal job don't seem to do anything that impressive with their life (as a general rule, there are exceptions), and that the largest achievements tend to come from people who don't work for anyone else. Of course there are problems with it, 90% of businesses failing in the first year and all that (although on the other hand 90% of new employees are also fired in the first year I believe).
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