Thank you for this summary. My ear drums were curling after I listened to ~ 15 minutes. This girl was well-studied but had the voice of a nag that was simply unlistenable.
I had the privilege of meeting Ian Paisley and having dinner with him and his family while attending Bible conference in Cape May, NJ during the troubles in 1969 -1970. His home in Belfast had sand bags all around it fending off Communist IRA terrorists led at the time by Bernadette Devlin among others.
The original IRA are not the answer. The NEW IRA are the answer.
Is that all you can say?
She's done more to stay on top of the pizzagate exposure especially when it cost a lot personally to do so, and all you have ever done by comparison is sit at your keyboard and spit ball her efforts.
There some who act and do and others like you who just sit and spit.
I am sorry for you that you have made so many poor choices in your career and life and appear to be on the way to making many many more by your own telling. Your decisions have left you hopeless and irretrievable embittered and seemingly on a forever descending vortex of despond. You have chosen to surrender to market challenges instead of looking for the opportunities in them.
You refuse to tell me what it is that you do better than anyone else, likely because you can't, and this makes you incapable of selling whatever it is you do to anyone at a price you'd like to be paid.
It's so much easier to complain about your competition than to face it head on an excel past it. And that's just your lazy streak coming out again. Either that or you are fundamentally inept and I have been talking to an unaccomplished block of chalk this whole time.
"Not everyone can join the military,"
True, only the best can, and clearly you are not it.
"not everyone can be a lawyer, or a doctor,"
I am neither. Didn't need to be to get where I got. I designed my career niche and filled it. I pick and choose my clients Sadly, you are too lazy to identify the unique niche you might fill yourself, because you have become the pedestrian jeet competing talent you strove to be, and nothing more.
"not everyone can get lucky"
The job market to you is just playing the slots, is it? Doing the same unsuccessful thing over and over and expecting a different result if only the stars would align. If you want to make the big bucks you have to sell skills that your employer can't get from the nearest jeet or chick. Eschew gambling. It's not luck. Success is found in hard work, persistence, good choices, it's not debt, it's not chance - "the house always wins," not you.
So typical of so many flailing about
"while knowing NOTHING about any of us."
What I do know you are a failure of your own making, who can't sell himself, his accomplishments, and skill sets to anyone convincingly to save his soul, complaining about his inability to get an entry level job.
"its PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to prove yourself OR your worth, when there are NO ENTRY LEVEL POSITIONS. :
Ever tried the military? It's competitive because Hegseth only wants the best. Are you the best? If you are, humble yourself and enlist like both of my boys did. If you are an Eagle Scout like they both are/were, maybe you'll get in as a lance corporal and not just a PFC. Give it try or are you too proud and out of shape? That's all on you.
My wife of 41 years and I have 4 children aged 32, 34, 36, and 38. Millennials. All college educated - three with masters degrees in fact, making their way building their families and careers. These are difficult times for some, but we all make choices. Some make better choices than others. My kids have made their choices and are prospering in this present environment in light of those choices in ways that it appears that you can't - or more likely won't because you are simply too lazy to prepare your personal marketing plan to sell yourself.
"... people like you are the reason "young people" hate everyone older than 55 at this point. I wish no ill will, but this is literally why young people hate every older generation at this point."
That's not true. Young people don't hate me - if any one regardless of age hates me, that's their problem and I don't really care. Their hate destroys them, not me. You need to find new friends and acquaintances who aren't personal failures and don't wreak with such angst and envy. Sadly, it appears it has rubbed off on you. For starters, try going to a Christ-centered church sometime and meet up with more positive people than you seem to surround yourself with at present. Bitterness is consuming you, and no one wants to hire pathologically bitter people. Bitterness exudes from the heart and bleeds outwardly in ways that pretending can't hide.
"... that young people are lazy and every problem in their life is self inflicted... but MAGICALLY when its everyone under 35 its EVERYTHING is OUR fault...."
I don't say that of all young people, least of all my own kids aged 32-38 who put the lie to most of your complaints about not having opportunities to succeed in the present economy. Maybe they don't just sit around scrolling reels all day and playing video games like so many of your fellow travelers do. Like I said, we all make choices. Squander not time for time's the stuff life's made of (B. Franklin). If you are just wasting time not developing your own creative personal marketing pitch that makes you stand out positively from others, you just wasting your life away complaining without solving your basic employability problems. You are your own worst enemy.
"... your LITERAL ONLY comeback is "market yourself, you're lazy" while REFUSING to acknowledge a single factual, and sourced argument I and everyone else on my side have made."
Your choices so far have you only spinning your wheels in an economy with so many opportunities.
I'll ask you point blank -- besides complaining, what skills set do you possess that allows you to do what it is that you do better than anyone else can do it? Next ask yourself why you at this moment are not doing everything creatively possible to identify and pursue your customer without constantly looking over your shoulder at smelly jeets (unless you are one yourself, and at that rate, the bar will just have to be set higher)?
"... but you're SO FREAKING CONFIDENT in your own world view,..."
I have every reason to be confident. I am blessed and I am thankful for that (you should try giving thanks yourself - it will rid you of your bitterness). After working full time paying for night school living on my own, I graduated college into the workforce in the middle of a deep recession, way higher unemployment than now, and a 15% prime rate. I moved 400 miles away to the Northeast and the best I could land at the time were contract temp lab jobs for 2 years - all while holding 2 BS degrees - one in Biology and Chemistry. Over the next 12 years working F/T in the pharma industry first in R&D, then Quality Control, and then regulatory affairs, I married, earned an MS in Biochemistry and an MBA (night school), and my wife and I had 4 kids. Opened my consulting business 31 years ago based solely on the quality of my personal reputation and business relationships I had made, and the quality and timeliness of my personal deliverables.
My wife had a career in the food industry beginning at the lab bench (where I met her) eventually holding the title, Director of R&D - before she became my Sec'y Treasurer where she has been the last ~26 years working along side me. We accumulated no debt beyond a 30 year mortgage we paid off in 15. We inherited nothing from our parents except the obligation to take them in when ailing and effectively insolvent.
Today she and I are multimillionaires, because we made good choices, planned effectively, made the best of adversities and set backs, invested wisely, and learned how to sell what we did well and effectively to a market willing to pay our rates.
" third of all jobs are fake, and of what IS real 90%+ of NEW jobs go to women, ...."
Try imagining a job description in your field that only you can do, because you do it better than anyone else can. You are the product and you need to learn how to sell yourself to your chosen industry. Advertised jobs are not where the real opportunities are. Try writing your own job description for a job that needs to be created for which your industry has an unmet need, and then go out and sell your skills set as the solution. That is what will open doors, get you past the HR drones, their phony job postings and those alleged career squashing "women" you think are holding you back. Man up.
while older generations aren't retiring because they can't afford to,...."
You resent people my age who are still working, but I do so by choice, not because I have to, but because its fun. When you like what you do and you do it well, it isn't "work" - remember few other people do what I do as well as I do it, so for all your whining I am not the one holding you back. You are.
Lose the jealousy and resentment and be thankful for the fact that you live in the US with more avenues for opportunities to explore than you can find anywhere else. Think outside the box and hone and polish your new personal sales pitch.
Failure breeds failure if you don't have the capacity to learn from your mistakes. Your present plan for employment is clearly not working for you, because your resentment and compulsion to blame someone for your own inertia stands in the way of your potential for success.
Your problem is you are not worth what you think you're worth or have simply failed to convince your market that you are the best at what you do and worth what you will charge them for what ever service it is that you provide.
"None of yours or anyone else's business what I personally do,"
Touchy, touchy ...
I don't need to know what you do to read this and know you can't sell me or anyone else convincingly that you are what you think you are worth. Most folks who are confident and proud of what they do happily tell people what they do, and like Trump, don't shy away from making it known that they are the best at what they do. You sound like you are ashamed of what you do or of what you have done or failed to become.
It's a simple fact of life: an employer employs you for one of two reasons: either you make them a boatload of money or you save them a boatload of money. That's it. Short of that your skills sets are worth paying minimum wage at best.
" I know people that went through veterinary and engineering school, that TO THIS DAY, cannot find a relevant job for their degrees and have no choice but to work at Amazon warehouses."
Like you they have the chance to sell their markets on their skills sets, but at this point they have failed to do so - take the risk to start your own business and perform better in it than anyone else in their fields. They have a piece of paper slapped up on the wall. Nice. What have you done for me lately? Your friends have developed no personal marketing plan to sell people on the value of what that piece of paper means to them and why it should mean anything to anyone who would pay them money to do anything. If they've defaulted to Amazon or slinging Chipotle it is not the market that failed them. They have failed to sell themselves, and to be creative in their selling skills enough to stand out positively and above anyone else.
"Which again, disproves all of your dumbass assumptions about people being just "lazy" since you can't get through vet school or engineering school while being lazy."
You and your friends are all too lazy to develop a personal marketing plan for yourselves that will make you the kind of money you want to earn. It takes work. You just won't do it but choose instead to continue to try to compete against incompetent jeets. You want to make more money than a jeet? Prove your worth. Develop your successful marketing plan and encounter trial and error and with it experience and quit complaining.
You mistakenly think "boomers" had everything handed to them on a silver platter. Every generation from the Jamestown and the Pilgrims who literally started with nothing in a hostile persecuted environment that literally cost many their lives - never mind livelihoods to the Revolutionary War generation who personally pledged lives treasure a sacred honor to establish this nation now populated by so many ungrateful whiners -- or the Civil War generation that spilled the blood of 400,000 countrymen just to hold the Union together -- or the depression generations of the 1890's and 1930's, or the World War generations to the generations or technological advancements made by boomers, genX, millennials, and now today's gen-Z --- all have or had their respective challenges to overcome in their times. Those crying tears in their beer today too often have lost perspective of the challenges faced by other generations - and have subsequently failed to learn from them what it takes to succeed in any circumstance. And in that way you are far too proud to listen to the advice and wisdom of those who did successfully make it.
No one cares what you think you know if you are too lazy to make the effort to sell the market on your presumed genius. Whenever I ever looked at a person to hire I asked two questions: 1. Can he do the job? 2. Will he do the job? The first answers whether he is the best at what he does that would make me want to pay him what he thinks he's worth. The second - in light of all the demonstrated competencies is - is he a go getter enough to do the best job he can do, and apply those skills productively for my betterment, or for all his genius is he just a lazy shit?
It is timeless truth to say: either you perform or you don't, and that determines whether you are worth paying or not.
At present you are too busy whining to be convincing.
Your problem is that you have not convinced an employer to pay you what you think you are worth. If he did, your bitch post would likely be a lot shorter, because you'd have yours. At present however, it appears that no one wants to pay you that rate or salary, because you have failed to sell them on the idea that you are actually worth that much to pay for whatever it is you do.
You thrash about whining on this board and that defeatist spirit probably percolates throughout every facet of your life. Employers and possible employers can read it on your face.
You have have time to synthesize a bitch post, but you have likely never taken the time to do a hard self-assessment to determine what you have to offer an employer that will pay you the money you want to make. You haven't landed a niche career that requires a unique skills set.
If you think what you do is so valuable, you need to sell others on the idea that you are worth what you think you are worth.
I identified my skills sets early on, honed them throughout a career, planned a career strategy and built professional relationships, successfully delivered on high value projects and eventually went into business for myself doing what I had done for others as a simple employee.
I have owned my own scientific and legal advisory firm for > 30 years. There are few others out there who do what I do as well as I do it. I have a profitable niche that allows me to choose my clients, even as my services are sought for their high value projects.
If you are truly worth more than you are being paid its up to you to convince your chosen market and sell an employer or client on the notion that you are actually worth paying more, because what you do, you do better than anyone else does - and you can readily prove it, and have others who can speak glowingly on the quality of work you do.
The high quality of your skills sets must stand out unquestionably. You need to sell people personally on your candidacy, by making personal contact, through telephone - sometimes cold calls - and handwritten communication to hiring managers not electronically through HR filtering drones on mindless job sites. Without that you'll just continue to be competing with the other 1000 + undifferentiated pedestrian talents for the same phony Linked-in postings.
Most people who complain about their station in life do so because they are too lazy to do what it takes to build the career and land opportunities which are literally everywhere, and to put together their personal marketing strategy to make themselves successful. They are too busy leaning on the point'n'click approach to the job search and to do their thinking and "research" for them, which is a failed strategy.
What you are doing at present isn't working. It is up to you to figure out why -- not just sit around on a board like this mourning your perceived misfortune, and looking for someone else to blame for choices you have made that find you where you are today.
"This is, of course, assuming that any Chinese stats or derived stats related to China can ever be considered trustworthy."
Thank you for your well informed observation.
Where were all these alleged stockpiles of oil when Trump cut off most if not all the Iranian oil in March, and China experienced gas lines which resembled our own in the 1973 and 1977-1979 oil shocks?
All Trump has to do is refuse to let Iran's oil get out of Iran, let the inventories back up and their entire oil infrastructure will collapse irreparably. Taking Iran's oil off their hands for free actually does them a favor even as it enriches us at the same time
My stance doesn't lack humanity at all. I give generously to my church and to faithful missions it supports as well as to other worthy Scripturally sound charities. One hopes that you do as well.
I don't see how you as having once been the president of a firm with the obligation to maintain and increase shareholder value would hold on to non-performing assets and personnel merely for the sake of the appearance of "humanity" - especially when it is other peoples' money we're talking about.
"You lived in a different time than now."
What, like poor you has it so much harder? I started my career during the 15% prime interest rate recession of 1982 which Volker used to squeeze out the 1970's era Carter inflation. I worked temp jobs out of college for my first 2 years which formed a valuable portion of a basis for a now 44 year career where I have held all the titles imagine-able at on time or other that today has me owning my own pharmaceutical development and legal consulting S-Corp firm of 30+ years, where I bill annually $500 - $1MM, sitting on ~$1MM liquid cash + a $3MM 401(k).
The Revolutionary War generation lived, struggled, and eventually won against forces far greater, the Civil War generation survived to rebuild a country where 400,000 of their countrymen had died fighting a European effort to divide and conquer us, the WWII generation entered post-war unemployment and hung on to turn it all around economically in the 1950's, building families, technological advancement and wealth in the process, the Reagan peace through strength era that defeated the USSR without firing a shot while building massive wealth through supply side tax policies.
And somehow I don't remember reading about record of whiners like we see today, who blame everyone else for their inability to make it and scolds like yourself wagging your finger about what you allege is and entirely "unforgiving, unsympathetic un-Christian" stance taken by those who did not make the same foolish choices as others.
"These people signed up to invest into a Future that was taken from them."
What degree did you earn that you want to squeeze out of your stupid debt load, "BA in tranny-African wymyn's studies" ?
I worked full time during my undergrad STEM studies in night school (BS Biology, BS Chemistry), got married as I started my MS Biochemistry studies in night and summer school - both of us working full time. Began a family and raised 3 of our 4 kids while I completed the MS and went on to complete and MBA, again in night school. Together with my wife's income now married 41 years we afforded a house - paid off a 30-year mortgage in 15, never inheriting a dime from insolvent health ailing parents who we took in until they passed. and were able to raise a family and prosper without being plagued by a debt treadmill - scholastic or otherwise.
Millennial kids are all raised and gone making their own way and raising their families - all completed undergrad, 3 of 4 completed grad degrees - 2 in STEM fields.
You chose a different way to pay for your education and you can shove your idea to send the bill for your stupid financial decisions to me straight up your ass.
$4.09 at Costco in Brookfield, CT. $4.45 in Wilton, CT on Rt 7.
10800 fu was the effective published study dosage but how do you take the 10800 fu dosage when the dosages one typically may purchase are denominated as 2000 fu, and 4000 fu?
They dug up Oliver Cromwell long enough just to place his skull up for visual derision on London bridge when the monarchy was restored - then reburied it with the rest of him and his son in Westminster Abbey.
It should be possible to dig up Susan Wojcicki, jam her head on a pike and perch it up on the Golden Gate bridge for a time, don't you think?
Ann Arbor, MI, incorporated in 1833
I'd love to circulate this but my head hurts just trying look at it and read it.
My birth certificate does not have my name appearing in all CAPS. My name on my Social Security card is (first issued to me in 1973), but not my birth certificate.
Who in the USSC signaled? We know Alito was skeptical during arguments, but what other valid indication has been communicated recently?
IRS settles with Trump for breaching the privacy of his tax returns to the tune of $1.776 billion.
Trump and his family took the hit, get an “apology” from the IRS – an absolute admission of guilt (this fact will have legs in many respects and in pending cases where a fact pattern has now been established), and Trump then graciously makes that amount available to victims of past government weaponization and lawfare. Whatta boss!!
This is the first of what will be many direct hit broadsides lobbed against the IRS that will coming down the pike. IRS may not survive too many more of these.
You knew the IRS is a private corporation chartered in Puerto Rico, didn’t you?
"Kenites (descendants of Cain, the evil seed -- offspring of Satan, due to what happened in the Garden of Eden)"
Cain was not birthed in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve had no offspring until banished from Eden.
Some people just can't participate in the equivalent of a National Day of Prayer and Rest (Sabbath) without sending up a self-important laborious Jeremiah-ed like this.
Get off the perfection spiral. Our Founders would never recognize the applications of Scripture and law as have been implied here.
"Forget kelp.
"You can get arsenic poisoning from kelp. Joe Rogan got into the "eat a lot of sardines" trend. Ate 3 cans a day. Went to the doctor and doc told him he had arsenic in his blood. Why? Because sardines are bottom feeders and they get all sorts of pollutants, including arsenic. Kelp is the same."
All arsenic is not the same. Organic arsenic is as common as dirt. Inorganic arsenic is the true health concern.
I won a case for a client (a generic phama firm) who was accused of having "arsenic" present in the gelatin capsule in which the formulation was delivered. The plaintiff failed to establish whether the arsenic in question was organic arsenic, which may be derived from many natural sources - fish, shell fish, horses hooves (gelatin source) or inorganic arsenic - deadly - generally present as arsenic trioxide. There are pharmaceutical limits to arsenic content which apply to gelatin, and those limits were not exceeded.