I'mma have no teeth within 20 years according to my dentist, but I feel a bit too odd giving head to hip forums members.
No. I dream about that sometimes and Im told that its because I feel self conscious about my teeth. Sometimes I daydream about getting them pulled and getting dentures. God only knows what I NIGHTdream about my teeth. But I do remember some dreams where I would wipe my face with my hand and come out with a handful of teeth. its weird.
Hah, that is totally my dream and I daydreamed about dentures as well. I'm glad that someone else is like that too. And I too am really self-conscious about my teeth, actually I hate them.
I must say I find these comments disheartening. Where's the compassion? Not for me, nor for you, but for others. I think we all need to take a look at ourselves and start taking life seriously (as opposed to acting seriously) if we want the world to change from the terrible state it is in now.
If you have a way of supporting yourself instead of working than fuck getting a job. But if you have no means of supporting yourself then you should probably go out and find some way to earn cash. In most cases this means getting a job. If you do not get a job you become a burden on someone else and that is simply unfair. By turning down a job you may be denying a employer the best worker for his money, is this fair?
Says the guy from up on his high horse. Pot. Kettle. Black. I'll just continue saying what I feel, thanks anyway.
I did suggest the alternative, which was to get a job helping people. You didn't respond cause your arguments kinda dumb. Call me crazy, but I find a nurse a lot more compassionate than a dude who stays home hoping someone else get's that nursing job they thought about going to school for.
Okay let's look at this alternative: I compete for a job helping people with my motive for doing this my own self-gain; 20 other people lose a job opportunity. The problem remains and nothing changes. If my real motive was helping others, then I would give the job to another so that they may enjoy it and feed themselves, or at least discuss with them who is in the best situation to take the job with regard to qualifications but physical and emotional needs in life, and act accordingly. I can't see how this is less compassionate than taking the job. One action is completely self-motivated, the other with regard to consequences and the larger scheme of things. You may all be too immature on the evolutionary scale to consider others equal to yourself but that doesn't mean others aren't.
yes, we're all crazy. trying to measure real things with artificial constructs. if someone wants me to have a job, they can just give me one or shut up about it. its not about anybody owing anybody anything. nobody 'owes' anybody anything. its about the kind of world we all have to live in. the loss of freedom is the price of trying to impress each other.
Bad news...there are lots of jobs that nobody wants, you can get one of those. If you take a job doing migrant farm work, no one else will be out of a job because there aren't enough farm workers (been there, done that). On the other hand, you can join the military; they take anyone that's qualified and you can learn a skill that you can use later to do things to help others if that's what you want. There are a lot of jobs that require special skills; lots of people want them but can't do them, e.g. basketball player. Should you feel guilty that you can do a job that others can't? I just went through this. I'm a technical writer. My only real preparation has been years of addiction to reading; I read anything available, and have three or four books going at any one time. I thought technical writing was really easy, but the ten or so people that we've tried out since I started couldn't seem to get the hang of it. The last guy was in his 60s and has probably read more widely than me. But, he wouldn't read the customer's requirements, he wouldn't edit raw data provided by the techies, and at one point he told me that our perfect roles were me doing all the rough writing and him polishing my work. He was supposed to work for me. He told a colleague that it doesn't matter what you do at work each day as long as you do something, because they'll pay you anyway. Letting him go was tough because I saw his potential and I had this niggling feeling that it was my fault the guy wouldn't have a job. Grownups learn to get over it. People are infinitiely adaptable, and if someone wants to work they can make the changes necessary to get a particular job. I have no degree, spent most of my life in the military, but I am the person I created, and I'm good at my job because I try to be (or have tricked everyone else into thinking I am). Omar
I didn't realise this was Nazi Germany. What's wrong with discussing opinion without putting people down? Just because your beliefs are different doesn't mean you shouldn't be tolerant to others. Thought that was the point of a forum? My bad. Keep the peace? If I'm on a high horse, then you're on a high horse and he's on a high horse aswell. So you can point that...
Walsh, so what if you're simply more capable than your competition at a charity, and you get another few homes built. Or in the case of Nurses, their simply aren't enough, so no harm there. Ultimately, most of life is a struggle to survive. Not taking part in that isn't beneficial, if your contribution to society outweighs your cost, and I still think the reason jobs specifically was brought up here is the sign of someone who doesn't want to work. Rule one of internet discussions: compare your opponent to Hitler.
