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Originally posted by AlmostGrown:
But no job = no experience in the field you're looking for. Now, I haven't read the entire series of posts by you so I don't know if you've attempted this or not, but you should be striving for ANY entry level job in your desired profession. Even if it is just being a file clerk or errand boy.

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I don't think there's any use here, guys. I already tried explaining similarly to him a week or two ago. He's pretty dead set on either working at one of three companies in the entire world, or not working at all. The only thing we can do is hope he gets extremely lucky or he neglected to tell us that his dad is the CEO of YUM brands or something.

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Wait...what?

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http://classic.magictraders.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/092287.html

http://www.channelfireball.com/home/magic-tv-top-8-of-the-week-sleeper-cards/

http://www.channelfireball.com/category/articles/tom-martell/

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What do I do? I can't really ignore it. Do I pull her aside and have some awkward conversation about facebook politics and employment?

I don't mind if its a colleague but when its someone who has power over me like she does, that's awkward. Especially since I regularly post the rudest, crudest crap on facebook and have no intention of changing.

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Some woman I barely know, would never hang out with, have nothing in common with, and is a manager at the company I work for and essentially controls my work schedule - she just sent me a friend request on facebook.

What do I do? I can't really ignore it. Do I pull her aside and have some awkward conversation about facebook politics and employment?

I don't mind if its a colleague but when its someone who has power over me like she does, that's awkward. Especially since I regularly post the rudest, crudest crap on facebook and have no intention of changing.

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I think FB has an option to basically friend someone but let them see nothing without defriending them. I can't find it right now, though.

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Originally posted by Bagbokk:I don't think there's any use here, guys. I already tried explaining similarly to him a week or two ago. He's pretty dead set on either working at one of three companies in the entire world, or not working at all. The only thing we can do is hope he gets extremely lucky or he neglected to tell us that his dad is the CEO of YUM brands or something. http://classic.magictraders.com/ubb/Forum3/HTML/092287.html I don't know who this guy is, but I'm not selling to him.

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Not to mention, there's no guarantee it's "the" Tom Martell. Sure, the gmail account says so, but... Yeah. Probably is though. *shrug*

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Jaz will vouch for him if you really want her to. But yes, i thought the same thing originally.

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Not to mention, there's no guarantee it's "the" Tom Martell. Sure, the gmail account says so, but... Yeah. Probably is though. *shrug*

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Originally posted by Tranderas:
I have enough money tucked away to wait it out awhile. I don't have the ability to deal with stress to work a job i hate just for the paycheck. I've been in school off and on since 2005 for the express purpose of not settling for whatever I can get, dammit.

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Tough ****. Grow the **** up, and get whatever help it is you need. Nobody is going to do that for you, and nobody here is interested in listening to you bitch about something you CAN learn to manage over time. You are starting to sound like ImOldGreg to me.

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Originally posted by JoshSherman:
Tough ****. Grow the **** up, and get whatever help it is you need. Nobody is going to do that for you, and nobody here is interested in listening to you bitch about something you CAN learn to manage over time. You are starting to sound like ImOldGreg to me.

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Originally posted by JoshSherman:Tough ****. Grow the **** up, and get whatever help it is you need. Nobody is going to do that for you, and nobody here is interested in listening to you bitch about something you CAN learn to manage over time. You are starting to sound like ImOldGreg to me.

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Originally posted by Tranderas:
I have enough money tucked away to wait it out awhile. I don't have the ability to deal with stress to work a job i hate just for the paycheck. I've been in school off and on since 2005 for the express purpose of not settling for whatever I can get, dammit.

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Tough ****. Grow the **** up, and get whatever help it is you need. Nobody is going to do that for you, and nobody here is interested in listening to you bitch about something you CAN learn to manage over time. You are starting to sound like ImOldGreg to me.

If I was ever going to become better able to manage the stress that drives my anxiety, it would have happened with joining a martial art and working out. It hasn't. It never will. I'm writing off the stress as an uncontrollable aspect of my life and moving on to try to control other aspects of it, like the environments in which I work. If I leave Saginaw for a job, it needs to be something that I'm not going to leave after a couple weeks. My Magic team has been expressing that they don't want me to leave, so I finally feel wanted here for the first time since I visited home while on break from culinary school in 2008. I've been talking to people looking for places to work around here. Excluding hospitals for anxiety reasons makes it hard to find work in my field around here, but I'm certain I could find something I wanted to do.

But a fight between me and Josh won't happen. It'd be like a nationally televised debate between Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell- it'd be a spectacle, and a lot of nasty words would get thrown back and forth, but in the end we're both too stubborn and bull-headed for any good to come of it. It's pointless. I have hapkido now, and once this absolutely infuriating injury (i got punched in the chest, right over the heart, and the muscles have been sore for two weeks ) goes away I'll be back to that as my vent. I give my international marketing presentation tomorrow and that completes my undergraduate coursework!

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Originally posted by AtriumXP:
Not to mention, there's no guarantee it's "the" Tom Martell. Sure, the gmail account says so, but... Yeah. Probably is though. *shrug*

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That is, in fact, the real Tom Martell. Just thought you should know.

Josh, Trand. Spankings all around!

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Help within the context of the parameters I've put up is appreciated.

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Assuming you did any sort of research for yourself, there's nothing else anyone can do for you "within the context of the parameters." eSports isn't big; there's only so many companies going anywhere with it right now, and you've crossed off the one that has the largest hiring potential for anything in that area because you don't like them. You either look up companies that make the games that get played as eSports (blizzard, riot, a couple others), sponsors (razer, ttesports, etc), or companies that provide services that directly support eSports (MLG, twitchtv).

Chains of restaurants aren't hard to look up, we can only assume you're smart enough to have looked up pretty much all of the mid-sized to bigger ones already. If you did that and came up with only one single company that you'd like to look for (YUM!), then the only conclusion I can come to is that you're unnecessarily limiting your options and no one can help with that.

Maybe use some of that money, put together a business plan, and get a starter loan to create an upstart company. Hire out talent from your local college community and see if it goes anywhere. If nothing else, even a failure means great experience for your resume.

Moving on..

When people say "best advice" I'm always extraordinarily skeptical, as such advice has turned out to be good 0% of the times people have said it in my life.

The startup idea isn't a bad one, to be honest. The bigger issue is what, exactly, it would do. The only thing I like doing that would make money involves Magic. I've had my playgroup ask me to fetch them cards from mottle and ebay for the past 18 months so much that at some point I got the accounts crossed. I was sourcing cards for 4 people and loaning out to a fifth. Some locals are frustrated that the LGS uses SCG pricing when they know they can get better online. I don't think there's enough money in that, though, and evidence suggests there's not enough room locally for multiple gaming shops (one store that focused on magic for its business went out of business in the past few years; another stopped hosting magic as all its players left).

I can't find anything I like doing enough to stick with it longer than a few months at a time. With all my hobbies, it's been this struggle to remain interested. Magic, Runescape, tabletop RPGs, video games in general, music- all things I'm greatly interested in, but that I tend to take extended breaks from. Part of this process is going to be finding what could motivate me to stay in one job, or one chain of promotions etc, for the next however short years my life continues. Cooking, and showing people how to do the things I know how to do, have been the only constants. My favorite job that I've had was the one at Long John Silver's because Julie (our GM) was extraordinarily good at hiring non-idiots. Any single one of my co-workers was someone I would hang out with outside of work (at my time of hire, three of them were people I saw out of work; I ended up seeing two more outside of work over the course of my time there).

The "teach others" aspect is what motivates me to consider getting an MBA- I know trying to teach without a PhD would be absolutely horrible, but I wouldn't be doing it for the money, but rather because teaching others gives me a sense of giving back to society and bettering the people around me, which feels amazing. I've worked booths at 3 expos talking to people- two about teas, one about a new car Chevy came out with that has amazing fuel economy and a reasonable price tag (the Sonic, for those of you who care). That car expo was so fun despite the conditions, actually. I talked to a chemist at Dow Chemical about subsidies to the solar power industry about a chemical Dow has found that might make solar panels profitable without government subsidies. One of the visitors to our booth asked me if I'm an automotive major; when I told him no, he said, "Hm, that's a shame. We could use more people like you in car sales" or something along those lines. He appreciated that I have a mind for remembering the technical specs of the cars.

To be honest, looking into sponsors of e-sports like Razer isn't something I thought of. I like Razer's products, as do a few of my friends. Steelseries is pretty cool, too. That's something to look into.

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In other news, what's commonly in cheap meat that people are allergic to? I get an upset stomach when I eat terrible meat like cheap hot dogs or something. Not a big shame because I don't especially like terrible meat, but still. Is it the nitrates? Generally mechanically separated pork/beef disagrees with me. Chicken seems to be fine.

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Originally posted by Volcanon:
I never said I didn't like "that sort of thing." In fact, I'm so nice I'll provide my valuable nuggets of wisdom.

> You can try being a dealer, but it hard to make a living being a magic store. Especially if you don't have an "in" on cheap cards. Even if you do, it's not especially easy.
> Jobs differ from hobbies. You likely won't get tired of working. You will 100% have co-workers you don't get along with. But that's a life learning experience.
> My impression is that there are a lot of MBAs in the market and the ridiculous cost to get one isn't worth it now.

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In other news, what's commonly in cheap meat that people are allergic to? I get an upset stomach when I eat terrible meat like cheap hot dogs or something. Not a big shame because I don't especially like terrible meat, but still. Is it the nitrates? Generally mechanically separated pork/beef disagrees with me. Chicken seems to be fine.

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Could be the casing? Unless it's happening on non-cased foods.
Nitrates? Definitely possible. Ways to rule IN nitrates - eat beets and see if you get the same effect OR have a glass of orange juice with said meats - if you no longer have pain, then it's the nitrates.
Inulin is a food additive that acts like fiber, but usually not in processed meats.
Gluten can also find it's way into processed meats, but if you aren't having the issue with bread, then doubt it.
MSG can cause stomach issues as well. How are you with oriental food?

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