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Bad grades = bad job

My dad just fucking pisses me off with this talk, I know that many people have succeeded without fucking degree and good grades, he keeps telling me that I won't succeed if I won't study all this bullshit.

How is it possible to succeed with so negative people around?Goingcrazy
01-25-2012 01:05 AM
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RE: Bad grades = bad job

My dad hes given me this talk multiple times. So has my sister, even. Shes a straight a AP senior who got accepted into Cornell. Yet she complains constantly about her schoolwork and how little time she has for herself.

Oh well, her loss. Ill just watch her live a miserable life.

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RE: Bad grades = bad job

I don't know why people buy that bullshit. There are the examples, and with a bit of creativity...you can always find a job somewhere. Ask him what success is for him...I bet its something overestimated. For me success would be a small flat, steady income and enough free time for myself. For others success is a big house, a fast computer, a lot widgets, car and other bullshit. It may be possible you don't get the second kind of success, but if you can get the first (if you want it), who cares? It's your life anyways.

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01-25-2012 01:43 AM
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(01-25-2012 01:43 AM)aCol Wrote:  For me success would be a small flat, steady income and enough free time for myself... a fast computer... It may be possible you don't get the second kind of success, but if you can get the first (if you want it), who cares? It's your life anyways.

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(01-13-2012 10:37 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Mike you deserve an SS medal. Here, be proud:
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Congrats for doing something I never had the balls to do.
If you have kids, save them from the bullshit you are forced to go through.
(01-25-2012 05:36 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Balls of steel re-awarded. 
(02-07-2012 03:22 PM)flann Wrote:  Balls of Tungsten, now.

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RE: Bad grades = bad job

(01-25-2012 01:15 AM)The Wrote:  My dad hes given me this talk multiple times. So has my sister, even. Shes a straight a AP senior who got accepted into Cornell. Yet she complains constantly about her schoolwork and how little time she has for herself.

Oh well, her loss. Ill just watch her live a miserable life.

I'm liking you more and more

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01-25-2012 07:46 AM
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RE: Bad grades = bad job

My parents used to give it to me too.
Just tell him in this new economy.

All grades=Shitty job.
Thats the reality.

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I think it is possible somehow to get a nice job ... even with shitty grades. The question is always: Do you really need them? Or does the job you want to acquire, that interests you, claim some real skill? I won't give a fuck about grades after I have the job I desire (Implying I give a fuck now, which I actually somehow DO NOT).

I don't get it, grades are a shitload of work, for a shitload of almost nothing.

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I got sent to my school's guidance counselor yesterday. She thought I was depressed because my grades have slipped since the first symester. I'm way happier this symester than I was in the first, so I told her to suck it.

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(01-25-2012 09:28 AM)The Wrote:  I got sent to my school's guidance counselor yesterday. She thought I was depressed because my grades have slipped since the first symester. I'm way happier this symester than I was in the first, so I told her to suck it.

My guidance counselor brought up depression when he was talking to me about grades but only asking if I had it. He wasn't saying "This is what's wrong with you." Just, "This is a possibility."

He's the only adult at my school that I like because he doesn't have this entitlement that other teachers at me school tend to have that he's saving the world by telling me stuff, but he's genuinely caring and trying to help me.

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(01-13-2012 10:37 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Mike you deserve an SS medal. Here, be proud:
[Image: BallsofSteel2.png]
Congrats for doing something I never had the balls to do.
If you have kids, save them from the bullshit you are forced to go through.
(01-25-2012 05:36 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Balls of steel re-awarded. 
(02-07-2012 03:22 PM)flann Wrote:  Balls of Tungsten, now.

I found a picture for tungsten balls
http://bit.ly/xqd1zk

(02-14-2012 03:17 PM)Maelstrom Wrote:  Your balls are denser than white dwarf star matter.
(03-13-2012 08:27 PM)M3116 Wrote:  Balls of steel re-re-reawarded Nutter

(05-14-2013 03:01 PM)Prince Darkstar Wrote:  Dirtbikemike is the only guy I know of on here who won an argument with a teacher.
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