Originally posted by iLLiE586
And once again that is no one’s fault but their own. No one is responsible for your mistakes in life. I know it's impossible for you 99% ing retards to grasp that concept, so continue thinking you have some great movement, but in the end you will just end up as a giant failure, because that's obviously the only thing you're good at.
Seriously shut the up....
Brandt Slater
@ Jon,
Hoping I get laid off. Wow! Nice attitude. I'm sure your parents would be proud that you wish such things. Fortunately for me I've been with Clair Bros for twelve years, and in the forty plus years of their existance have yet to layoff anyone. In fact we hire new people every year for all our tours. But thank you for your concern for me, it was very heartfelt.
FYI, me cleaning the toilets, and running errands wasn't because of a lack of experience. You have to have some sort of training before they would even consider you. It was a way of proving to a studio owner/manager that you wanted to be there. Once they saw your dedication, it paid off by letting you into the studio and assist on the sessions. Think of it as building responsibilty.
fantasyexctasy
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Originally posted by Brandt Slater
Hoping I get laid off. Wow! Nice attitude. I'm sure your parents would be proud that you wish such things. Fortunately for me I've been with Clair Bros for twelve years, and in the forty plus years of their existance have yet to layoff anyone. In fact we hire new people every year for all our tours. But thank you for your concern for me, it was very heartfelt.
I was referring to ilie586's post, as indicated by the fact i quoted him and not you. Unless of course you have two different accounts and you haven't told us
Brandt Slater
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Originally posted by fantasyexctasy
I was referring to ilie586's post, as indicated by the fact i quoted him and not you. Unless of course you have two different accounts and you haven't told us
I was talking to Jon. Message fixed.
jonmitz
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Originally posted by Brandt Slater
@ Jon,
Hoping I get laid off. Wow! Nice attitude. I'm sure your parents would be proud that you wish such things. Fortunately for me I've been with Clair Bros for twelve years, and in the forty plus years of their existance have yet to layoff anyone. In fact we hire new people every year for all our tours. But thank you for your concern for me, it was very heartfelt.
FYI, me cleaning the toilets, and running errands wasn't because of a lack of experience. You have to have some sort of training before they would even consider you. It was a way of proving to a studio owner/manager that you wanted to be there. Once they saw your dedication, it paid off by letting you into the studio and assist on the sessions. Think of it as building responsibilty.
bootstraps bootstraps bootstraps is all i read when i see your posts
go read about class mobility in this generation, thanks
Brandt Slater
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Originally posted by jonmitz
bootstraps bootstraps bootstraps is all i read when i see your posts
go read about class mobility in this generation, thanks
Your welcome. Maybe I'll just do that.
DaveT
I'm 32, dropped out of college in my first year so I could focus on my passion ; writing in the video game industry. This was early 1998 (I had been writing online about games since 1996). My parents didn't support me at all, said screw them and followed what I wanted to do and did web design to make money and kept a part time job on the side to get myself out of the house. In late '99 I interviewed at IGN and was flown out to SF for an interview. They never hired anyone for the position, but I fell in love with SF and knew that I had to move on my own if I wanted to take a chance. I packed my bags and left Florida two days later and crashed in a living room with not one, not two, but THREE other people. In a 13x13 living room. There was a bedroom, but the dude who rented the apartment had that to himself. Two months after that I started as a in-house freelance writer for GameSpot, and a few months after that was asked to co-launch a video team.
I learned what I knew in video in high school. Took four years of video and mass media productions.
I was at GS for nearly nine years and launched the first successful dedicated online video team in the videogame media industry It burned me out and largely asked to be laid off the next time they did them...thinking I'd at least have a bit of backup beyond my severance and could find a job with my experience.
Turned out to be one of the most difficult times, because no one was hiring. AT ALL. And those hiring? As some have indicated, it was all about hiring interns with little or no pay. I know production manager who have had to lay off their entire teams and them be forced to have a team 100% full of interns. This was a couple years ago. Today? Still 100% interns.
I had to dumb down my resume and take off some of my biggest achievements before I even started getting call backs. Hell, I was going after positions making 40% less than my last job, just because I wanted to work. Then it got to the point I had to dumb down my responses on my phone...after three "overqualified" responses. I had major contract projects (even flown to Tokyo) which got us by, but those two years sucked.
What about just trying to scrape by with working at a retailer or restaurant....and not be so lazy? Tried that. Many people I know tried that.But they usually aren't interested with people who will jump ship as soon as possible. Don't believe me? Go ask them.
I finally got a job earlier this year, though it's a contract-to-fulltime position (about to go full time) because the company was being bought out. And I'm sure a big part of why I got the position was because of people I know, and not my qualifications. I have most definitely proven myself there and am happy with how the future looks.
That said, the most amazing thing that I have noticed since being back it in the workforce is how some just don't have a clue just how tough it is. How stressful it is. How it's destroying families. It's obvious some people in this thread don't either, and need to pull some sticks out their asses.
PS. My first job was help teaching summer school (mass media/video productions) high school summer I was 16. Yes, I was paid - had to do aFBI background check and everything. I immediately went from there to work at Disney and then Dayton Hudson before moving to California. The only time I had not worked since that first job until I was laid off was when I moved to SF and started looking for a job. So I've never been lazy and take great offense when people think people w/o jobs are lazy.
Yeah, this topic pisses me off when I see idiots talking down to people struggling. No one I know who is struggling and is lazy is complaining. Or they would always be complaining, no matter how great the economy is.
72hrpartyanimal
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Originally posted by DaveT
Yeah, this topic pisses me off when I see idiots talking down to people struggling. No one I know who is struggling and is lazy is complaining. Or they would always be complaining, no matter how great the economy is.
this is all you had to say Dave :)
mobius9
Good story Dave.
I think the one thing we can all agree on is that it's awesome to see alternative live newscasts from people with low budgets. That was about as real as it gets and was fantastic to view.
chavalukes
As one of the biggest tourists attractions of Riverside approaches, "the Festival of Lights" at the Mission Inn in downtown. The mayor has ordered to remove all the protestors from the area, and they are using force.
Freedom of assembly: the individual right to come together and collectively express, promote, pursue and defend common interests.
DaveT
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Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal
this is all you had to say Dave :)
screw you billy. you gotta a problem!? Tomorrow. Alley. High Noon. BRING IT!
:wtf:
fantasyexctasy
I drove by the Occupy Riverside protest since I was in the area and just saw the police absolutely abusing their power against these protesters. The Riverside PD are some of the worst in California, they are monkeys in blue uniforms to best describe them. Some poor girl was jay walking in a pedestrian walkway with no cars going in her direction and the cops were arresting her as I was driving by because she yelled something back at them when they told her to stay on the sidewalk. Just a pathetic excuse the police have become in this state, they are too preoccupied being bullies against the helpless, giving tickets for the most microscopic infractions and too lazy to do anything about protecting us from burglars, murderers and thugs
