Message from @Xychotic

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2019-07-16 00:16:50 UTC  

I'm crippled for a year. Like, cannot work, cannot walk, need a wheel chair and walker.

2019-07-16 00:16:58 UTC  

Can't be awake for more than an hour at a time.

2019-07-16 00:17:23 UTC  

I remember wanting so much to play Resistance 2 but I can't stay up long enough to get through a whole match so I mostly watch my brother play.

2019-07-16 00:17:32 UTC  

Mom came back to help me recover.

2019-07-16 00:18:12 UTC  

I try to jump the gun and get back to work in patrol, but it's too much and I aggravate my bedsore in my foot and have to go back to mostly rest.

2019-07-16 00:18:51 UTC  

Another school sees that I'm dropped out and calls me up. They'll hook it up. Slower coursework, lower cost. I figure, I'm already on my continue, might as well do this shit right.

2019-07-16 00:19:17 UTC  

This is 2009/2010

2019-07-16 00:19:19 UTC  

I'm gonna be a project manager. I just need the degree, I tell myself.

2019-07-16 00:19:21 UTC  

Yeah.

2019-07-16 00:19:52 UTC  

So, for the next 6 or so years, I am mostly doing security patrol work. I get a nice, cushy day gig with 10 hr shifts.

2019-07-16 00:20:08 UTC  

Bring my brother. We rarely hang out anymore, but our combined incoming is now 30/hr.

2019-07-16 00:20:33 UTC  

We have become satisfied with the crap we acquired. No more hunger for possessions.

2019-07-16 00:21:08 UTC  

I get my BS in Business Administration, but the program wouldn't let me focus on project management. But I could if I go for my masters.

2019-07-16 00:21:40 UTC  

That's only a 2 or 3 year program. Plus, all those credits I got back in community college came over. So it took me 6 total years of casual school to get my MBA.

2019-07-16 00:22:04 UTC  

3.99 GPA for my BS, 3.95 (or 3.85) GPA for my masters.

2019-07-16 00:22:34 UTC  

I was eventually able to run a little. But my weight bounced back up and then started creeping back down.

2019-07-16 00:22:53 UTC  

Nobody in security would give me the time of day, though.

2019-07-16 00:23:24 UTC  

I'm almost 3 standard deviations smarter than everyone I worked with. The ones that recognized it probably saw me as a threat. My personality didn't help at all, since it was obvious I knew I was better than all of them.

2019-07-16 00:24:02 UTC  

Objectively, I was and still am. But, I was clearly violating Law 1: Never Outshine the Master, and my progress was stunted for it.

2019-07-16 00:24:34 UTC  

I finally got my MBA at 32 or 33. I'm on top of the world.

2019-07-16 00:24:55 UTC  

No one gives a fuck because I'm not an engineer nor do I have other technical experience because I've been doing security grunt work this whole time.

2019-07-16 00:25:10 UTC  

Yay me. Cue 2 years of unemployment or underemployment..

2019-07-16 00:25:25 UTC  

Fuck

2019-07-16 00:25:44 UTC  

My gf, a very milfy lady imo, ditched me at that dark time.

2019-07-16 00:26:23 UTC  

Then, about two years ago, my company called me up. They saw that I was claiming 3 years of project management experience (a stretch, tbh) and had a desperate need for someone in PA.

2019-07-16 00:26:47 UTC  

With no prospects in CA, I said, "Fuck yeah, let's do this."

2019-07-16 00:27:13 UTC  

I guess I won't be able to play a lot of German music in my future videos on their history

2019-07-16 00:27:17 UTC  

5 months later, the director of project management wanted a manufacturing engineer with an MBA in project management..

2019-07-16 00:27:43 UTC  

So I get curbed, but I'm lucky because I'm an employee of my consulting firm and they move me to OH.

2019-07-16 00:28:11 UTC  

The people here seem to love me. The cost of living is amazing compared to everywhere else. I've received raises every year and am hoping for a promotion in this month.

2019-07-16 00:28:22 UTC  

I see where the slight regret for not pursuing engineering comes in

2019-07-16 00:28:27 UTC  

Everything is finally coming up millhouse.

2019-07-16 00:28:46 UTC  

Except no one wants to let me run a project, because I'm not an engineer.

2019-07-16 00:29:08 UTC  

I just found out a potential project manager/program manager role that I was mentioned for was given to someone else... an engineer... with PMP.

2019-07-16 00:29:15 UTC  

Yeah nowadays you need a degree otherwise they won't let your grubby hands on it

2019-07-16 00:29:25 UTC  

Kind of ridiculous

2019-07-16 00:29:43 UTC  

And I've been told, several times, they can't put me in anything I want because I'm not an engineer.

2019-07-16 00:30:04 UTC  

This is what oversaturating the market with tards with a special piece of paper does

2019-07-16 00:30:10 UTC  

No technical engineering ability, none of the good stuff.

2019-07-16 00:30:16 UTC  

@ManOWar This stupid culture is the only reason universities are still so powerful

2019-07-16 00:30:37 UTC  

Imagine my disdain when i start seeing new hires, not contractors, all women. And the one that just joined the team isn't even a real engineer, she's an engineering management major.