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[bakaknight]

Considering changing this username to something involving the word 'Flip', for reasons which only people who have actually known my real name would get. I don't feel like a 'my real name', but I do feel like a 'Flip'.

Currently Betaing: catherinehaines' The Circled Green - or as I like to think of it, that book with the stalker and the bells (this sentence will

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[kimboosan]

I truly detest that whole mentality that believes anyone who hasn't found employment "simply hasn't tried hard enough." The assumption that you have not tried a certain thing is just another way of implying that you are either lazy or stupid or both. *HATES* I would like to kick such people in the shins on your behalf. :<

[bakaknight]

I appreciate the sentiments of the people making them (unless they're being blatantly snooty about it), really, I do. But it's still a neato way to tick me off.
Not to mention that they're all ideas which worked - thirty years ago, when they were looking for their first job stacking supermarket shelves at night while attending Uni in the daytime. I'm looking for something which is a little more in the realms of fulltime, with brains involved.

[kimboosan]

It's nice that people try to help, I agree - but I've always found two important principles to doing that, which few people seem to follow:
1. Ask the person what they have already done;
2. Ask the person IF they want advice. (and don't take it personally if they don't!)

The whole "oh, since you haven't achieved your goal must mean you need my help" is simply condescending and rude, IMHO. Sorry you have to deal with it.

And good point, too, about the fact that what worked 30 (or 20, or hell, 10) years ago in their particular situation does not apply to you, today. Times have changed, folks. *shakes head*

[bakaknight]

Ah, but if I get the 'what have you already done' question, I start to respond, and then usually get cut off and it's into 'when I was your age I was doing---'

Asking if I want advice is apparently never going to happen. If I didn't want advice, then CLEARLY I wouldn't still be unemployed. And so on and so forth.

Also: Check your email.

[shadowedkit]

I hate that part of the year, and I don't deal with anywhere of the social circle that your parents deal with. (Being a student for so many years means they think you are dole bludger too.) I also hate, as kiboosan says above that you not having a job is simply that you haven't tried hard enough -- and nothing to do with that you know, high unemployment rate + everyone trying hard enough = people not always getting jobs. I'm sorry they get helpful :(

It took me to sound your name out to get Flip. I like it :D

(What tea?)

[bakaknight]

(Adore Tea tea. Escaped the house to a non-Japanese-geisha-teahouse with a friend and had tea and pancakes. And then spent a little less than $6 on different tea samples to use with my teaduck.)

[earthscorch]

Oh boy! Stalkers and bells! Two of my favorite things!

I'm very interested in what you do with yourself! That sucks about the religion thing. What deity do you believe in, if that's not too personal a question? :)

Keep on keepin' on!

[bakaknight]

Atheist is the simplest option to put down in conversations and census forms. I choose to believe there isn't one/many.

Mostly though, I choose to believe that if there's a higher power, it would think that what many humans do in the name of Organised Religion is completely abhorrent. If it doesn't think so, then clearly it believes too much of its own press and really isn't anything which should be worshiped anyway.

[earthscorch]

Sounds agnostic to me! My friend is just like you. I'm a plain old aethiest, not believing in any higher power, but I think pretty much every philosophy or religion -- and, really, are those too things so different? -- has something to contribute, or at least can give food for thought.

You should go back and read my entries for the last month or two... I think I wrote something about feminism in there! ;)

[bakaknight]

I'll be sure to check your entries!

Atheist is, I suppose, the easiest to explain. But Agnostic isn't quite right. The bit about the 'if there's a higher power' may be more about my issues with organised religion.

Which I will not be going into on this entry. Maybe later.

[catherinehaines]

I'm using LibreOffice, actually. Which is an OpenOffice fork thing - much the same as OO but less bloated.

[bakaknight]

Ahhh. I was going to say - I don't recall having those kinds of problems and issues with the comments in the margins before.

Haven't been on all day; been having guests all day.

[catherinehaines]

Have guests here too - will be free on Thursday.