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Re: Blog Thread IIIa : Look Who's Blogging Now
Jimmy the Squid:
Just try to get yourself kicked out by being entirely sympathetic with the defence or plaintiff or whatever.
Jimor:
--- Quote from: Zombiedude on 30 Aug 2010, 01:18 ---Last year of High School here I come.
You guys are the worst with your college horror stories.
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The main lesson isn't "don't go!" or even "definitely go!" It's that it's OK to not go or drop out if you find out it's not your thing.
My story is that I spent too much time in that no-man's land of going/not going/failing/repeating classes/etc. After finally deciding to just drop it, I drifted around in retail for a few years before that burned me out, and now I'm back in school but more for technical expertise in TV/Video production than going for a full degree.
Looking around, there are a LOT of jobs that call for A degree, not caring in particular what it's in. So if it's a choice between taking things you like, and things you don't, do what appeals to you even if it's obscure, and it will still help in the job market. Past your first job, it also rarely matters which school you went to, so again, go somewhere that you WANT to go.
The model we all are pointed at is somebody who gets good grades in high school (or equiv) to get into a good college/university, that feeds you directly into your chosen field at a prestigious company for good money. We feel like failures if any part of that path is interrupted, but much like women made to feel like shit because they can't match the idealized supermodel, too many kids are raised with this ultimate goal that is very rarely realized even by "good" students.
Edit: stray uncompleted thought deleted.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Christophe on 30 Aug 2010, 16:16 ---So I have Jury Duty scheduled for next week. It will probably be the day after I start working at my new job. I have already served once and while that ended up being an okay experience I'd rather not do it again. Would being the only full-time employee where I work be enough to excuse me from duty? Otherwise I'm gonna try arriving to court about 5 minutes before I'm supposed to report, so hopefully I end up on the outermost number of jurors whom they'd probably outright excuse for the day.
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Dogg just do it. I had a summons while I was living overseas and even though my excuse was perfectly legitimate it's really made absolutely painless. You can't lose your job for it, there's legal protection on that front. They make it impossible to refuse unless you're under certain very strictly-defined circumstances.
Christophe:
Yeah but considering that that Tuesday is the day after Labor Day it will most likely also be the day the bookstore opens. I'd rather be around the shop for the first week of operations rather than be in a jury trial.
Lunchbox:
In my experience (I manage the leave requests for my entire company) it is incredibly hard to get Jury duty off. We've given up writing excuse letters for staff because they are always denied. Might be different on your side of the ocean though.
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