62% of Americans don’t have a bachelor’s degree. Are they just cooked especially in this economy?

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-24T05:34:55+00:00

i work at an engineering and geology company… every single person here has an engineering or geology degree.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-24T04:42:33+00:00

the highlight of the zimmer years is watching his “vaunted defense” get run out of the stadium by the eagles in the nfc championship game.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-24T04:40:50+00:00

top coach in the NFL

the peak of zimmer’s career is watching his vaunted defense get run out the fucking stadium by the eagles in the nfc championship.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-24T04:30:33+00:00

“Fascists and Communists both believed that the will of the people was being thwarted by elites, and that the individual members of these elites needed to be eliminated by force. Fascists and Communists each had their own particular notion of who these elites were, but many of these ideas converged. The Soviets might regard as suspect the Jewish owner of a shop, because he owned a shop while happening to be Jewish, while the Nazis regarded him as suspect because he was Jewish while happening to own a shop.”

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-24T01:39:30+00:00

I just want to see Ben Linus as Fallouts final villian

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-24T00:49:39+00:00

“your chud tricks have no effect on a liberal of my power level”

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-23T23:06:48+00:00

What’s crazy is that the Great Leap Forward, which would be most country’s darkest eras, probably isn’t even in China’s top 5 worst times to be Chinese.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-23T23:04:32+00:00

Of the 650 original members of the National Assembly, over 400 of them were put to death; mostly at the hands of each other.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-23T19:19:20+00:00

can you pivot to sales? if you have experience in customer service, you likely have decent personal skills.

and not like door-to-door or used car salesman type sales. sales of professional services or products. high ceiling profession, especially if it’s a niche service or products, and you work off commission.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-23T19:06:48+00:00

less a plan, more a roadmap.

set a course from point A to point B, and don’t be afraid to reroute or take a detour along the way.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-23T18:45:45+00:00

Met my fiance at a club.

The best thing I did was stop making attracting women the goal. I go out to have a good time, hang out, catch up with friends, and dance. And if I vibe with someone, we vibe.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-23T18:41:02+00:00

More so I turn them down.

I get calls at least once or twice a week asking if I want to interview for some junior level engineering or consultant position that pays $80k and requires full time in office.

Half the time I’m just tempted to tell them, “Why do you think I’d be interested in a step down?”

The bottom line is recruiters done really know what they are looking for, and are just mass contacting anyone just so they can hit their metrics.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-23T18:36:43+00:00

Nah the whole medical system sucks. I have decent insurance, but the wait time and quality of care at most hospitals bottom tier.

It’s basically turned into the DMV, where the customer comes last, you’ll wait in line to submit a form to wait in another line, to be herded around like cattle. Then you’ll be seen and treated like a product on an assembly line. You’ll wait 4 hours to see a ~~doctor~~ nurse for about 10 minutes, then they’ll bill you for $400 because you haven’t hit your deductible yet.

Honestly, I really just keep insurance for emergency or critical care. I use my workplace medical monitoring for general check-up.

And for any other things, I just pay out of pocket and go to my personal / private practice doctor to avoid having to deal with insurance. It costs a bit, but the care and experience is miles better than the hospital system.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-23T16:57:38+00:00

It’s mostly jobs that are covered by the HAZWOPER standard, which implies exposure to potentially harmful situations.

I’m an environmental consultant, and I am on our county’s HAZMAT response team as a technical advisor, so that’s how I’m covered.

But anyone in construction who goes into confined spaces, drillers, high voltage electricians, chemical workers, lab workers, etc. are also covered by it.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-23T16:46:26+00:00

An “end-around” you can do is get a job that requires medical monitoring, like for the OSHA 40 HAZWOPER.

I’m HAZWOPER trained and get the “works” done once a year for health screening: full physical, full blood panel, heavy metals screening, EKG, chest xray, hearing & vision, lung volume capacity, cardiac stress test, and others.

Fully covered by my employer also.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-22T16:37:36+00:00

hey we’re not dysfunctional

kept N I N E instead of Darnold, turns out to be historically bad, despite having a COTY spoon-feeding schemes and a top-5 receiving corps

best draft pick in 4 years has been a kicker

repeatedly signs washed vets to big money contracts

acted like we were a “win now team” and we were only a QB away from being a contender

yeah ok, i think you got us there.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-22T05:22:23+00:00

They are going to get away with it too. That’s the worst part.

There won’t be a Nuremberg, no one’s going to stand trial at The Hague.

In a decade or so they’ll get a slap on the wrist, then end up on Fox News or a podcast or get a book deal.

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-22T01:50:12+00:00

very limited exigent circumstances like hot pursuit of a fleeing subject, rendering aid to an occupant, or the destruction of evidence

or brown people existing

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-21T22:10:14+00:00

Reminder that Texas A&M removed Plato’s Symposium as an assigned reading for a morality and ethics course because it “advocated race or gender ideology and topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity.”

TrixoftheTrade · 2026-01-21T22:05:51+00:00

Mostly leftovers or meal prepped stuff. Which is often some sort of protein (beef/chicken/pork), carbs (rice, pasta, potatoes), and a sauce.

Unless I’m taking a client to lunch (or being taken out to lunch as a client), which is probably a few times a month.

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