The 10,000 Post thread V3

[Duke87 1,070]

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It also makes a big difference what kind of job you are looking for and where. I know someone who grew up in Connecticut and wanted to be a teacher but had a difficult time finding any jobs in her area. So she moved to Texas where she was basically able to get off the plane and have a job offer in short order.

The problem is demographics - Connecticut has one of the country's lowest birth rates, so the demand for schools is quite stagnant and teaching jobs generally only open up when someone retires. Texas, meanwhile, has one of the country's highest birth rates and substantial population gains from people relocating there to boot. So naturally it's easier for a young teacher with no prior experience to find a job because it's a growing industry and new positions are frequently being created.

While the affect is not always as direct, there is a very strong correlation with population growth and job availability in general. Michigan's population is almost not growing at all, so therefore it logically follows that there will be fewer job openings.

 

What this doesn't explain is why it's easier to find a job in Japan, where the population is actively shrinking.

 

[Larks2242 251]

5282.

Looks like the Mets are back.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

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I'd be fine with a Mets WS win.

 

Also, the problem I have is that I'm "underqualified" for the jobs I want (meaning I don't have what they determine to be the proper experience) but I'm overqualified for the jobs I should be able to easily get.  Hiring managers at retail places don't want to hire me because I'd be a flight risk a few weeks in.  But that's all moot now because I'm moving to Cleveland to learn how to use a CNC/waterjet to cut granite counters at the place my brother works.  I'm literally about to ROCK.

[raynev1 1,886]

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@NMUSpidey Congrats on the new job . I've been told I was over qualified for jobs before . They said couldn't afford to pay me anything near the previous wage I had earned . But like you said , possible flight risk . I heard granite counter cutters/installers get paid fair . Good luck with the new venture .

[Chptrk 86]

5285.

 

Just checking in. Carry on.

[Duke87 1,070]

(5286)

Spidey, weren't you doing something completely different in Japan?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

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I was an Assistant Language Teacher, helping Japanese teachers teach English to their students.  It was a totally fun job and I miss it, but this new one won't have much of a dress code and that's pretty attractive.

 

Granite is expensive and the country is growing pretty quickly so there's apparently a lot of upward mobility.  I won't lie an say I'm excited by it, but I am curious to see how well I can do.

[Larks2242 251]

5288.

 

Cubs are cursed, end of story, I'm a believer now.

[Duke87 1,070]

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I'm a believer now.

Ah, I take it you saw her face?

[philforhockey51 4,211]

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I wish you luck NMUSpidey

So what broke the RedSox curse? Also refresh my memory what is the Cubs curse? They moved stadiums or something?

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

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Thanks!  Also, I meant the company is growing quickly, not the country.  I still have a few leads back in Japan in case it doesn't work out, though.  Always gotta have a fallback plan!

[Duke87 1,070]

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The legend about the Cubs is that someone brought his pet goat to a game of the 1945 world series but was kicked out of the stadium when people complained about the smell. The man then placed a curse on the team as revenge, they lost that world series and have not won a pennant since.

The legend about the Red Sox was that they cursed themselves by trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees... there wasn't much more to it than that. There is no commonly accepted story as to why the apparent curse suddenly ended in 2004, either.

[Larks2242 251]

(5292)

The legend about the Cubs is that someone brought his pet goat to a game of the 1945 world series but was kicked out of the stadium when people complained about the smell. The man then placed a curse on the team as revenge, they lost that world series and have not won a pennant since.

The legend about the Red Sox was that they cursed themselves by trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees... there wasn't much more to it than that. There is no commonly accepted story as to why the apparent curse suddenly ended in 2004, either.

5293.

Yeah, The Redsox however was less of a curse and more of bad front management decisions, The same GM Theo Epstein is now GM for the Cubs but Cubs mistakes go beyond just random mistakes it almost looks intentional how many errors the Cubs made in the Mets series.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

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I miss baseball.  Well, I miss Tigers postseason baseball.  

[+Guest]

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Ah, don't worry my friend we'll be back there soon enough! Mean while I'm sure Cespedes is enjoying his run with the Mets.

[Duke87 1,070]

(5296)

What I find interesting is that we have a World Series between two teams who last won in adjacent years three decades ago - 1985 for the Royals, 1986 for the Mets.

[Larks2242 251]

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What I find interesting is that we have a World Series between two teams who last won in adjacent years three decades ago - 1985 for the Royals, 1986 for the Mets.

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How about the fact that the last 8th inning error in a world series before last night was Bill Buckner 1986 and the last extra inning ws game was 2000 also staring the Mets.

Its safe to say you get a show when the Mets play.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

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I guess I'd rather root for the Mets since Cespedes seems to be doing well there.  I can be patient to see if the Tigers can make a run at it again in the future.

[Duke87 1,070]

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Given that KC is up two games to none the odds are certainly well in their favor at this point (82.9% chance of winning if these stats are to be believed), although such deficits have been come back from before. See Yankees vs Braves in 1996.

  Edited October 30, 2015 by Duke87  

[Larks2242 251]

5300.

1995 Braves are also the only team ever to win a WS after sweeping a championship series, Looks like that record will stand alone still.

 

Also the Softbank Hawks beat the Swallows in the Nippon World Series.

[Muck308 55]

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That was a busy month. Sorry I haven't been around. I logged in to change my siggy (thanks for the direction :)) but I got distracted halfway through. Now I've been talking to my ex all day. I have got to start dating women my own age. Yet single, date-able 35 year old women are like some kind of mythical creature that may or may not actually exist. If I still drank like I used to I'd be knee deep in Newcastle by about now.  Instead I'm just gonna play xbox until 4 in the morning. That oughtta do the trick.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

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We're moving to Cleveland next weekend.  I wish we were moving back to Japan, but I'll give it a year and see how I like it.

[+Guest]

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We're moving to Cleveland next weekend.  I wish we were moving back to Japan, but I'll give it a year and see how I like it.

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My best wishes go out to you and why did you decide to come back to the states? I'm guessing for a fresh new start?

[Duke87 1,070]

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I have got to start dating women my own age. Yet single, date-able 35 year old women are like some kind of mythical creature that may or may not actually exist.

You'd be surprised. About a year and a half ago I was complaining similarly, that all the women in New York City were in one way or another just not my type, and "my type" seemed to be some sort of mythical creature. I was seriously considering trying to move to somewhere else where I figured I might have better luck (funny enough, Pittsburgh was one of my top choices). Then I met someone in New York City who met the mythical criteria, and we've been together for 14 months now.

[astronelson 339]

5305.

 

I've finally finished everything I needed to do for my honours year. I've been thinking about getting back into SC4 now I have free time.

[Chptrk 86]

5306.

Fallout 4 finally comes out tomorrow so I won't have any free time.

[Duke87 1,070]

(5307)

If you're worried about getting attacked while playing the game, you should consider building yourself a Fallout shelter.

*ducks*

[Muck308 55]

 

I have got to start dating women my own age. Yet single, date-able 35 year old women are like some kind of mythical creature that may or may not actually exist.

You'd be surprised. About a year and a half ago I was complaining similarly, that all the women in New York City were in one way or another just not my type, and "my type" seemed to be some sort of mythical creature. I was seriously considering trying to move to somewhere else where I figured I might have better luck (funny enough, Pittsburgh was one of my top choices). Then I met someone in New York City who met the mythical criteria, and we've been together for 14 months now.

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Ah yes, the mythical criteria. I find what I look for in a woman is often something that's simply the opposite of that one thing that irked me the most about the last girl. I try not to envision my "ideal woman" too much because frankly, many a woman could be one that I could build a relationship with. Sometimes you just gotta get to know someone. Though typically, it seems that I find myself attracted to someone and once I know them better the attraction fades, as opposed to the other way around.

Moving on (I always screw up the formatting for multi quotes so...)

Good luck in Cleveland, Spidey. I helped move my buddy up there a few weeks ago and I've already been back twice. Once to pick him up and bring him back to Pittsburgh for his birthday, and then returning him. He moved to North Olmsted. I Haven't explored the neighborhood just yet.

I've never played a Fallout game before, mostly due to my hiatus from console gaming but it sounds like a really cool game. Friends have raved about past installments. I just got AC Syndicate though so I've got plenty left to do with that one. I rather like those games after playing Black Flag and Unity.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

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I've been having trouble getting excited about moving there.  I mean, it's great that I'm going to have work again (finally), and we found a nice apartment in an area with REALLY good schools, but I mean, we lived in Izu in a little town built between the Pacific Ocean and a bunch of mountains, a truly stunning area.  It's beautiful up here in the UP, too, but there are no viable, long-term jobs here.  And you know, it is Cleveland, it's not a bad place (almost everywhere has some redeeming qualities and cool things going on), but it can't compare geographically to where I've lived.  Still, I'm going to do my best to give it an honest shot.  There's no sense in LOOKING to be miserable, and I'd rather look on the bright side of life.  That's what they taught us in the lost gospel of The Life Of Brian.

[Odainsaker 2,134]

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I had a similar feeling when moving from Honolulu to San Antonio, Texas.  While this is hardly the flattest part of Texas, we were coming from one of our planet's tropical paradises of rain-forested mountains, Pacific beaches, ocean trade winds, and daily rainbows.  Even the sunlight is oddly different, probably from the way the ocean reflects it, the moist air diffuses it, and the positioning of the sun in the tropics.  The common image of San Antonio that had been long popularized is a desert town full of tumbleweeds, Old West gunslingers, and John Wayne fending off Santa Ana's army.  The more accurate image of San Antonio is a vast suburban mega-sprawl typical of a U.S. sunbelt city.  This too was disconcerting, as the international destination of Honolulu is a land-scarce, cosmopolitan city that has been heavily urbanized and is now even choking on its own overpopulation.  Ironically, the small and island-trapped city of Honolulu has by necessity and immigrant history a seemingly more internationalist outlook, with the pillars of its Pacific crossroads economy intimately tied to both the distant U.S. mainland and to the equally distant Japan, while the larger mainland city of San Antonio has the more rurally insular, provincial, small-town outlook, with its cultural ties as a historic crossroads of Old Mexico and its potential connections to modern Mexico haplessly undermined by broader national border and immigration issues.

On the other hand, cost-of-living in San Antonio is dramatically more affordable than in Honolulu, and relatives of mine who had recently also transplanted themselves to Texas this year sold their aging, ramshackle, 2-bedroom house in Oahu's Ewa Beach for $640,000 and bought a newer, 3-bedroom home with central heat and air conditioning in Northside San Antonio for $140,000...a half-a-million dollars difference, gained just by leaving the island!  Actually, out of unexpectedly convenient opportunity, they went ahead and bought their neighboring house as well for their elderly parents to move over later this winter, and now they own two homes.  They had to leave Oahu as the upward spiraling costs and tight economy had precluded any savings, while crazy traffic congestion on the expressway had made it so stressful to even drive out of Ewa Beach or Waipahu that motorists were reportedly having heart attacks while sitting in their traffic-blocked cars.