How many of you people actually have real jobs?

[eastbay]

When you spend 10 years in school busting your ass preparing for a career, and suddenly you realize you could make almost as much in your underwear at home playing a card game, it's kind of depressing. It's so depressing I haven't found the motivation to quit yet.

eastbay

[adanthar]

You talkin' to me? I went to freaking law school. LAW SCHOOL. I'm supposed to be studying for the bar right now...so of course I'm unemployed but can potentially make more than I ever could as a lawyer in 1/3 of the hours but then there's the lack of a resume to think about. Ugh, my head hurts.

[drapes]

Ahhhh... the joys of youth!

[eastbay]

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You talkin' to me? I went to freaking law school. LAW SCHOOL. I'm supposed to be studying for the bar right now...so of course I'm unemployed but can potentially make more than I ever could as a lawyer in 1/3 of the hours but then there's the lack of a resume to think about. Ugh, my head hurts.

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I'll take your law school and raise you six years in an ivy league applied math PhD program. SIX YEARS of misery.

"Oh, yeah, lovely, expecting wife? I'm giving up a variance free $10k a month to sit at home in my underwear and gamble. That cool?"

eastbay

[Slim Pickens]

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Does being a grad student count? It's almost like a job.

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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, he he he he, ha ha ha ha haw haw he ha ha ha!!!!!!

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[gumpzilla]

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I'll take your law school and raise you six years

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String bet.

[DasLeben]

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You talkin' to me? I went to freaking law school. LAW SCHOOL. I'm supposed to be studying for the bar right now...so of course I'm unemployed but can potentially make more than I ever could as a lawyer in 1/3 of the hours but then there's the lack of a resume to think about. Ugh, my head hurts.

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I'll take your law school and raise you six years in an ivy league applied math PhD program. SIX YEARS of misery.

Oh, yeah, lovely, expecting wife? I'm giving up a variance free $10k a month to sit at home in my underwear and gamble. That cool?

eastbay

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My story is better. This happened today with a customer:

Guy: What'd you do before this job?
Me: I went to college. I'm actually trained as a pilot, but...
Guy: You sell cars instead?
Me: Yeah...
Guy: Hmm...
Me: Well, I make about a billion times more doing this than I would being a pilot.

So sad. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

<--- Commercial Pilot, Flight Instructor (Airplane Single and Multiengine, Instrument Airplane)

Ugh.

[Slim Pickens]

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"How many of you people have jobs that require PANTS?"

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...and for the record. I am not the only one in my lab who has come in wearing PJ's. When I'm in my office with an experiment on autopilot playing poker, I count it as "work."

SlimP

[eastbay]

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Me: Well, I make about a billion times more doing this than I would being a pilot.

So sad. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

<--- Commercial Pilot, Flight Instructor (Airplane Single and Multiengine, Instrument Airplane)

Ugh.

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The pilots I know make mad dough and spend most of their time having illicit affairs around the world. What happened?

eastbay

[microbet]

Pilots make very little money if/until they get to be a pilot for a major airline-big planes, and then they make a lot.