Re: And the Whispered Word Is...
Joey Naddeo
10/25/2011 3:38:08 PM
@ Street Smart - I have seen The Graduate. Good Film. As for civil service tests, I'm actually waiting to take the firefighter test. I should be hearing back from them any day now....
@Icebreaker 1975 - It wasn't a bad gig, but it had gotten repetitive even in the week and a half I was there. Sadly, I wasn't around long enough to see what it would be like down the stretch.
@Askasa - Something tells me plumbing wouldn't quite make me happy....
And the Whispered Word Is...
Street Smart
10/25/2011 8:37:36 AM
Joey, did you ever see The Graduate? If so, do you remember the scene where the party guest comes up to the befuddled Dustin Hoffman at the party and whispers, "Plastics?"
Well, I think there are still whispered words today. I'd like to offer two scenarios which are both unisex, though Scenario 1 might favor men because of gender scarcity and Scenario 2 might favor women for the same reason.
Scenario 1: "Nursing"
Scenario 2: "Law enforcement"
I have some actual experience with Scenario 2. My son graduated from an elite private college in the East but decided that his dream, his passion was to enter law enforcement. Imagine how THRILLED his parents were!
Well, he had the last laugh on us. He is, at age 25, earning a six-figure salary with full benefits and pension and will be able to retire at age 40. Get thee to the Civil Service exam, my boy!
We're doing our kids a disservice trying to force all of them into college. Some of them should go into the trades. Good jobs, good income. When did it become cool to be so elitist that you need a college degree for anything?
that sounded like a pretty cool gig. Wish i could get a gig like that
Re: Pick Any Two
AskAsa
10/24/2011 11:49:54 AM
Interesting observation.
Recently when the Commissioner of the NYS Dept of Labor was asked to give advice to 19 year olds seeking career choices she said; 'Skip the liberal arts - go to community college and learn plumbing, then evolve in to green plumbing - you'll make a very fine living."
Joey,
There's a blog post making the rounds which I'm pasting for you below because the linking feature seems to be disabled on the site at the moment.
I got it from the following URL but don't know the author:
I send it your way because I think it's useful to know exactly how ruthless your competition is out there. Something tells me they're not looking at Craigslist!
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/04/30/217381/we-are-wall-street-we-are-smarter-and-more-vicious-than-dinosaurs/
“We are Wall Street. It’s our job to make money. Whether it’s a commodity, stock, bond, or some hypothetical piece of fake paper, it doesn’t matter. We would trade baseball cards if it were profitable. I didn’t hear America complaining when the market was roaring to 14,000 and everyone’s 401k doubled every 3 years. Just like gambling, its not a problem until you lose. I’ve never heard of anyone going to Gamblers Anonymous because they won too much in Vegas.
Well now the market crapped out, & even though it has come back somewhat, the government and the average Joes are still looking for a scapegoat. God knows there has to be one for everything. Well, here we are.
Go ahead and continue to take us down, but you’re only going to hurt yourselves. What’s going to happen when we can’t find jobs on the Street anymore? Guess what: We’re going to take yours. We get up at 5am & work till 10pm or later. We’re used to not getting up to pee when we have a position. We don’t take an hour or more for a lunch break. We don’t demand a union. We don’t retire at 50 with a pension. We eat what we kill, and when the only thing left to eat is on your dinner plates, we’ll eat that.
For years teachers and other unionized labor have had us fooled. We were too busy working to notice. Do you really think that we are incapable of teaching 3rd graders and doing landscaping? We’re going to take your cushy jobs with tenure and 4 months off a year and whine just like you that we are so-o-o-o underpaid for building the youth of America. Say goodbye to your overtime and double time and a half. I’ll be hitting grounders to the high school baseball team for $5k extra a summer, thank you very much.
So now that we’re going to be making $85k a year without upside, Joe Mainstreet is going to have his revenge, right? Wrong! Guess what: we’re going to stop buying the new 80k car, we aren’t going to leave the 35 percent tip at our business dinners anymore. No more free rides on our backs. We’re going to landscape our own back yards, wash our cars with a garden hose in our driveways. Our money was your money. You spent it. When our money dries up, so does yours.
The difference is, you lived off of it, we rejoiced in it. The Obama administration and the Democratic National Committee might get their way and knock us off the top of the pyramid, but it’s really going to hurt like hell for them when our fat a**es land directly on the middle class of America and knock them to the bottom.
We aren’t dinosaurs. We are smarter and more vicious than that, and we are going to survive. The question is, now that Obama & his administration are making Joe Mainstreet our food supply…will he? and will they?”
College Alumni Associations
Street Smart
10/23/2011 11:19:41 AM
Joey--
I might have missed it buried somewhere in the three pages of good advice you've received, but I didn't see anyone recommend that you network through your college alumni office.
Depending on where you went and the sophistication of their outreach efforts, this can be a gold mine of job postings, internships, well-connected alumni, etc. Heck, sometimes even high school alumni associations can be powerhouses. One of my sons went to a Catholic boys' high school, and they have a worldwide network (no, NOT Opus Dei...)
If you haven't tried it yet, I'd reach out in person or at least via their website or LinkedIn.
Re: Death, longing and desire
Dex
10/23/2011 5:47:35 AM
Yes, beautiful sentiment. Joey, keep the faith!
They are true for investing too.
Value Hiker
10/22/2011 6:03:42 PM
"And so I continue on this weary road of unemployment with a few very tired clichés engraved on my heart. One, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Two, patience is a virtue. And three, you don't always get what you want. I should probably find some new passions."
All the lessons you learned apply to the investing world too. It is not a coincidence. A job is an investment of your time & energy on some work that your employer reaps most profits.
Unless you are passionate about the work, you shall not take it if you can financially afford to spend more time searching your dream.
Too many times, the darkest period in a person's life often turns out to be his finest hour, as long as he believes in himself.
Re: Death, longing and desire
back2basicz
10/21/2011 1:50:13 PM
Noreen,
Great post!!!
This is just the kind of hopeful message that people need to hear today.
Excellent,Excellent stuff!!!
Ashish.
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