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5 minutes ago, 1938 Packard said:

What makes it any better?  The commuting alone would zombify me.

How could higher pay, living an actual life with different experiences, and not having to mop drunk patron's bodily fluids possibly be a better, more fulfilling job?

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14 hours ago, bnmjy said:

So? Commuting time include, it'd still be a higher hourly rate than what you make now.

That with no health benefits and the expense of maintaining a vehicle.  Why would I chase twenty dollars an hour when I'm spending a third of it between health insurance and car insurance?

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Just now, 1938 Packard said:

That with no health benefits and the expense of maintaining a vehicle.  Why would I chase twenty dollars an hour when I'm spending a third of it between health insurance and car insurance?

Because, I don't know, twenty an hour is entry-level salary and most people end up making significantly more after five years?

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1 minute ago, bnmjy said:

Because, I don't know, twenty an hour is entry-level salary and most people end up making significantly more after five years?

I've been fed that line of woof on several other jobs, including electroplater.  It never materializes.  They just use that as carrot and stick.

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Just now, 1938 Packard said:

I've been fed that line of woof on several other jobs, including electroplater.  It never materializes.  They just use that as carrot and stick.

So you just stayed content as a janitor with no car? Okay.

Life is dreadfully boring without taking risks.

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5 minutes ago, bnmjy said:

So you just stayed content as a janitor with no car? Okay.

Life is dreadfully boring without taking risks.

It all works out.  

I know I'm headed to where I can buy a house outside of this state (and lots more square footage) without doing any sort of work at all.

Sound boring?  Then, spice it up with some wood crafting classes or some international travel.

With no bells to answer, life will be sweet.

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5 minutes ago, 1938 Packard said:

It all works out.  

I know I'm headed to where I can buy a house outside of this state (and lots more square footage) without doing any sort of work at all.

Sound boring?  Then, spice it up with some wood crafting classes or some international travel.

With no bells to answer, life will be sweet.

That sounds dandy, but you could have been working and lived in a better place with your own car and have retired with even more money.

But whatever. C'est la vie and all that shit.

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13 minutes ago, bnmjy said:

That sounds dandy, but you could have been working and lived in a better place with your own car and have retired with even more money.

But whatever. C'est la vie and all that shit.

Was anything from Aesop taught in your school or were the books discarded and burned as "racist"?

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30 minutes ago, bnmjy said:

So which tale do you think is applicable here, O Wise Packard?

it's probably the one where the old man mocked the ambitious young man for working too hard and not enjoying the simple life. then the old man died while scrubbing a shitter in the casino bathroom where the young man was vacationing with his buddies. 

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54 minutes ago, bnmjy said:

So which tale do you think is applicable here, O Wise Packard?

Dog and bone.

When you have something already in your hand and it's working for you, more often than not the bigger and better things you think you see are just illusions.  

A bird in the hand is better than two in the brush.

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54 minutes ago, 1938 Packard said:

Dog and bone.

When you have something already in your hand and it's working for you, more often than not the bigger and better things you think you see are just illusions.  

A bird in the hand is better than two in the brush.

You're a white man in the US, for fuck's sake.

I'm done.

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2 hours ago, 1938 Packard said:

Dog and bone.

When you have something already in your hand and it's working for you, more often than not the bigger and better things you think you see are just illusions.  

A bird in the hand is better than two in the brush.

This is profoundly sad.  If I had this mindset I'd still be hauling pulp wood.

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16 hours ago, 1938 Packard said:

A bird in the hand is better than two in the brush.

The saying goes “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”. 

Like a chicken in the pot is worth two in the pen. 

But hey, six one way....half a dozen the other. Right?

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3 minutes ago, Tengu said:

The saying goes “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”. 

Like a chicken in the pot is worth two in the pen. 

But hey, six one way....half a dozen the other. Right?

So, if George W. eats two Cornish hens, is that two in the Bush?

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