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• kinda...got a job as a sysadmin, but my major was communication (speech). kinda hard to not get a job wh... : epit
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  no infact i'm night stocking. i need the money ok! i have a degree in history. : kingfish
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    I had a history prof once, and he was very wise. He said "History degrees are good for three things. 1.... : PantherX
    • and making turn based wargames. : noven
    • well you could also get a history degree then goto grad school : headache
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      i'll give you number three, hopefully in a few months. : kingfish
      • 3 si wargames, refer to above : noven
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  no, i graduated with a degree is computer science in december 2001 from usc and couldnt find a single job... : diarrhea
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    holy shit my bro got a comp sci degree from uc santa cruz, got his job sort of around the same time, may... : headache
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      Salt, Wound. Bad form. : PantherX
      • crap. yeah. oops. sorry I'm such an asshole. fuck I'm going to bed before I say something else dumb : headache
    • well, money doesn't matter to me. my brother just finished his residency as a doctor and will be making $... : diarrhea
• Just got my Juris Doctorate in May. Still no Jobby Job. DAMN NEW ECONOMY. : cwlc98
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  I was just lucky.. CS degree, graduated in Jan, got a job in Mar... Game developer : TPSReport
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    cool. What role, what company? If you don't want to share that, what genre and how big is the company? : darweidu
    • programmer, company's pretty small, about 20 people? We do mainly console sports titles. : TPSReport
• still looking for a job! : ghost in my shell
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  Yes, I graduated from Hamburger U, top of the class. I make the bestest burgers and Ronald McDonald touc... : [andromeda]
  • that is why he is always grinning that big shoe freak! : lacker
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    Raped by a clown! : Crimsonbeak
    • cantsleepclownswilleatme : filthysock
• got a job during last year at uni, been working for 2 1/2 years now. Just quit to start my own business d... : filthysock
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  5 months.. and not in the field of my degree : Wolfanoz
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    I can teach how you how to build better burgers. If you've got the 100% beef, I've got the tomatoes. Ho... : [andromeda]
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      O_O : Wolfanoz
      • Aces. : [andromeda]
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      the word innuendo is innuendo : goatsecxy
      • I am now excited! : Wolfanoz
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      I don't trust your buns :( : [Zoesch^2]
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        You can trust mine *wink* : Wolfanoz
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          Are they hot??? : [Zoesch^2]
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            and cross? : goatsecxy
            • OMG EVAL! I CANT GET THAT SONG OUT OF MY HEAD : Wolfanoz
    • damn you, now i havet to change my pants : nyranger66
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  I have a bachelor of medical science, majoring in cardiovascular physiology and topographical anatomy, an... : infidel
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    Got an illustration degree, sat around and played video games and did shitjobs for a year and a half; got... : haikeebah!
    • stoobie me no use reply button rite. ungh. : haikeebah!
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      so you're a tracer? :) jk : filthysock
      • fuckin tracer...heh : Bob Jones
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  Psych degree salesman for retailer(Future shop, ugh)-->lasted 3 days Bum-->4 months at parent's house : indeego
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    what kind of training was required for the IT desk & Lan tech jobs? surely they didn't hire you based upo... : Furious George
    • Actually it came in handy, just having a college degree. This was during the .com boom and they were hir... : indeego
• yes, had the job before I got out of school even, as a developer/application-admin at a telecom company a... : jimmy-buffett
• No. I have a communication degree (emphesis in advertising) with a minor in graphic design. I am a Res... : -=fatman=-
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  i had two offers before i was done with my final semester, in my field. : jedi_27
  • yet you don't tell us what field that was. must be waste management : napoleon1066

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• I ask almost that same question when interviewing people. People also tend to get really stressed out by... : Andy Hanson
• my website prolly : kenmis
• Sadly, I'd have to say my website. Looking at it from that POV, I really haven't done much with my life.... : PantherX
• realdoll : radicus
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  For me, I would say its the conviction and discipline. I just up and decided what I wanted to do and did ... : haiku
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    I wanna meet you some day, mr.guy. It's hard to tell if you're being a pretentious ween or if you're just... : darweidu
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      Nah the cockyness is just an act. If i was really that full of myself, it wouldn't have taken me 5 months... : haiku
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        You probably saw this question coming, but what happened when you were 19? : darweidu
        • I got punched. Really, really, really, really hard. By a big 6'3 270lb black guy named Mike Williams. ... : haiku
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        Sometimes I see some of what I want myself to be in you. It sounds gay and trite but I look at you a... : male/grunt
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          I think we all have the potential to do anything in life; it just takes the motivation. God is that ev... : haiku
          • Right on. I wish there was some way of teaching people that they have the inherent ability to pursue exc... : male/grunt
• I'd have to say my artwork, or the large collection of little programs I've written. Or maybe some of my ... : darweidu
• I feel so uncreative and boring. I'm sorry. : Poor Yurik
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  sadly, I don't really have any achievements. I can play the drums pretty well, and I know my way around v... : slax0r
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    I did make up the word slax0r, if that counts for anything. : slax0r
    • family fued style Do we have slax0r? DING! : noven
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  I would say "There is no single tangible object, and no one single past achievment, and no one single pas... : Nullzero
  • "please hire me, I really need the money." : slax0r
  • Thats when you get drug tested. : haiku
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    "wagh wagh wagh I'm a failure." He was asking for one thing that stood out. Are you saying that nothin... : darweidu
    • not having created anything and being un-notable are two completely different things. : slax0r
    • Well, I took it to mean "What represents you?" Which is a silly question. As for "What is your mos... : Nullzero
• it would probably be the baked rigatoni with bolongnese meat sauce and bechamel sauce i made today. : kingfish
• Getting my work accepted by a gallery, and then people actually buying it. : Dreagon
• my erection : scharfschuetze
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  1)My Daughter 2)My music : [Zoesch^2]
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    Where can I find some of your music? : male/grunt
    • Screw that, where's your daughter? (lol, I had to) : PantherX
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  God I hate pseudo-philosophical questions. What's the point, really? /makes jack-off gesture ;) : keith
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    /keith renames to Holden Caulfield : keith
    • That's a madman joke. : The_Janitor
• My house, designed, built, painted, decorated, you name it, by me almost everything pure hand work. Well... : BigT
• My life. : plutonium245
• My gun . : wumpscut
• i'd probably show them my art school design portfolio that got me an unconditional place in the uni of my... : disembodied potato
• tell them about my suits of armor (its also a great way to tell them that im dedicated to work even if it... : TheTick
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  as a structural engineer, i have designed and supervised the construction of 3 bridges, 10 miles of highw... : Jerry C
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    but do they call me jerry C the engineer...nooooo : lacker
    • hahahahahahah : goatsecxy
• Duke of edunburughs award scheme if you are in a commonwealth nation : infidel
• My kids : x-eyd|mary
• www.lacker.org : lacker
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  Staying vegetarian. Something I said I would do and I have actually committed to it. : indeego
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    for how long ? : filthysock
    • It'll be about 8 years now. : indeego
  • .... and that's hard? :) : Sander Pilon
• i'd tell them about a copywrite that my boss stole from under me... : Hizzow
• My wedding ring. It might seem a little weird to view it this way, but one of the best things about bein... : jimmy-buffett
• I would ask them why they want to see my life's achievments. They should be focusing on their own...not m... : -=fatman=-
• Going to college eh? : awoihjaweohr
• um. ive paid for my car for 3 years straight and never missed a payment. *hangs head* : tomservo

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• "You know, I have one simple request, and that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to th... : {Venger}
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  "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all s... : vigilante
  • Marcel.......Proust? : J4NUS
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  "Master using it and you can have this" - Old Man, Legend of Zelda : slax0r
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    ↑ I like this post : Tissen
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      WTF where did that arrow come from? : Turd Ferguson
      • I ♥ Unicode : Tissen
• "No matter how you shake and how you dance, the last few drops go in your pants." -- Anon : male/grunt
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  http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=1073213 : moz
  • hehehehe : Turd Ferguson
• "Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." -Anon. : Magitek
• "elf shot the food" : Turd Ferguson
• Nevertheless, it moves. - Galileo : Dreagon
• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa : fsck
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  links: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/freedom.html http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/pol.htm http://everything2.co... : darweidu
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    text wave: ¸.·´¯`·.¸ copy and paste repeatedly as necces... : darweidu
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      Oh boy! No more mercy for that squashy thing under your skull! You can't ask that question here! This... : darweidu
      • bat country? was that duke? : ease_one
      • Six by nine. Forty-two. That's it. That's all there is. -- Douglas Adams "shit, i'm loving this. thi... : darweidu
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  Come get me tiger -Fat Mike http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=2833271 : [Zoesch^2]
  • Oh lordy lord. I thought it would be a different post that I know moz has bookmarked. : fat mike
• "God does not play dice" : warpdude
• Here I sit, broken-hearted Came to shit, but only farted : scharfschuetze
• "It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might... : vigilante
• "You take the good you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life" - Peter Gr... : haikeebah!
• "Ein volk Ein Reich Ein Furher" - NAZI poster "One world One Internet One Program" - Internet Expl... : scharfschuetze
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  "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." --Albert Einstein "When the s... : MathFreak
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    maths suck ! END OF DISCUSSION : rookieone
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      Incorrect. Math rules. : MathFreak
      • math is the one true science, as it exists without man. : NexusOne
  • that Heinlein quote is great. =) : ostrichboy
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  "An apology to the devil, after all we've only heard one side the story." : disembodied potato
  • I asked a priest how he could be so sure he was working on the right side when he only heard one side of ... : Sebastian Sylvan
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  Weed will get you thru times of no money better than money will get you thru times of no weed. - The Unkn... : haikeebah!
  • "I'm sure you can imagine it's an unimaginable honor to live here." -George W. Bush : swampnutz
• All the tears that were wept All the friendships that were swept Was it worth it, Was it swell Only ti... : wumpscut
• How does the dalai lama meditate after eating lentils? : infidel
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  "Everybody Wang Chung tonight." : [andromeda]
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    I dont get it.. : infidel
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      When you do get it, your mind's eye can see far-off places with funny names, and you can order the univer... : [andromeda]
      • can I have the universe on an extracrispy base, with extra cheese and no anchovies?? : infidel
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      You're from the wrong decade... let's do a check on you: Do you: 1)Think Big hair is cool 2)Roll u... : [Zoesch^2]
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        5)Think that leopard skin-like jackets with big shoulder pads are the bomb WTF are you talking about b... : Toraz Chryx
        • Only if you like Def Leppard : [Zoesch^2]
      • Oh. My. God. I said yes to all of them (of course the hair thing has passed as well as the leopard skin t... : -=fatman=-
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  "Life is short, live it up." -Nikita Khruschev : the archvile
  • "Life is too short." - Too Short : Degenerate
• "Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs" George Bernard Shaw : Tissen
• "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor ... : x-eyd|mary
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  "Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs" George Bernard Shaw : Tissen
  • How the hell?!? : Tissen
• "And they will go out and look upon the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; their worm will not... : infidel
• Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, A... : hanfeitzu
• "Don't worry, it'll fit." The Giver to Goatse : x-eyd|mary
• '' If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment. '' : filthysock
• Without change, something inside us sleeps and seldom awakens - Duke Leto Atreides Know that humans ar... : YoYo
• "Having no limitation as Limitation" - Bruce Lee : mp7rox
• "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Benjamin Franklin : jimmy-buffett
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  "You got to play a hundred and fifty games a year, so pick your spots. You can miss two games a month; so... : -=fatman=-
  • That is quite good : YoYo
• "If this country is worth saving, it's worth saving at a profit." : UtilityMaximizer
• "i'll fuck you till you love me, faggot" - mike tyson : nurall
• "If you shake it more than once, you're playing with it" -My Father : Wolfanoz
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  "True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever ... : -=fatman=-
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    Interesting Rush lyrics on the subject of the first quote: NOBODY'S HERO I knew he was different, i... : UtilityMaximizer
    • Yep. I think this is what Ashe was talking about. This kind of herosim that he was talking about. Basi... : -=fatman=-
    • I love that fucking song : YoYo
• "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting over dinner." : UtilityMaximizer
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  Life is nasty, brutish, and short. - Thomas Hobbes. : evil-cow
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    I think this one requires some context. Hobbes said that life was solitary, nasty, brutish, and short in... : UtilityMaximizer
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      :( my law teacher told us that there was more to it, but that was the basic idea behind it. : evil-cow
      • By "that was the basic idea", do you mean what I said, or what you said? I'd be concerned about the qual... : UtilityMaximizer
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  'Life is like a penis, the more you mess with it, the harder it gets.' - Anonymus Shacker. : evil-cow
  • Hah : {Venger}
  • "...if it gets too hard, fuck it." : MuaaSan
• "there is no ball slapping there, just alot of frottage" -darkling www.shacknews.com/funk.y?id=3552539... : {Venger}
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  'The measure of a civilization is how they treat their criminals' - Fyoder Doestevski : evil-cow
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    I never really got this quote. Is he really saying that the only way to compare civilizations is how the... : UtilityMaximizer
    • basically what he means is, that if you treat your cirminals like shit, , dont give them second chances, ... : evil-cow
• "Aveil's about a foot shorter than me, and she squeals whenever I do it." -geedeck : {Venger}
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  "If World War III is fought with nuclear weapons, World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones" ... : Omaha
  • something like that anyway : Morgin