Unpaid Leverages

[zealot]

I didn't purchase a paid account, nor have I spoken for the past month. Tsk tsk, I know. Good news is, I work at the San Mateo Daily Journal, and I have an interview for Sony in a week (game testing, or if you want to be professional, Quality Assurance Tester). I've been watching more movies than I can count (just saw Boondock Saints and The

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[ladencrown]

The novel idea sounds intriguing. Are we ever going to cowrite a book? Maybe when we're not busy . . . As a student at a technical school that trains you in the how to of machines (sort of), I can say that even then, you're not assured a job - you still have to excel in what you do. America, as a Commercialism, is not economically friendly to artists in most forms - porn and the offensive are the two exceptions. If you can learn to set aside your artistic integrity, and work for the proverbial McDonald's, your art will be widely accepted by the masses, at the expense of any future credibility. Choice: die, True to yourself, or live as a whore of the degenerate masses. Let us never be reduced to that.

[raccaldin36]

Hello. I am the much-absent Mike from Venura. I saw your name on Josh's journal and explored.

And I might point out there's a widespread devaluation of education, and an overall over-emphasis on goal completion. That, and education is more and more pathetic in general these days. I speak as an undergraduate who is taking too many classes for the sake of achieving a goal rather than to learn new information. My only consolation is that I DO learn something in every class... But that's an ability I feel isn't shared by most of my classmates.

And how are you?