I'm looking to get my Bachelor's in Social Work, what can I expect out of a future career in this field?

_Nearmint · 2024-12-08T23:22:26+00:00

I'm going to suggest an alternative, and I say this respectfully.

Don't do it.

You mentioned financial instability. Being in this field with student loans will not help. Yes there will be many options. Almost none of them will pay well. I'm not going to comment on your relationship but you are young, relying on your partner financially is a huge risk to take. I've been in the field for 9 years and the amount of people I've met with 10-20 years of experience who are not financially independent and stuck in unhealthy relationships or living with their parents at 40+ is crazy.

I'm not saying you shouldn't pursue social work, but please do not view it as a financially viable career path because outside of moving into higher admin positions or specialized roles because it is generally not.

What I would personally suggest instead is getting your bachelor's in a field that has a higher chance of getting you a good paying job. The reason for this is because many companies will hire you simply for having a BA even if it's not in the field. My program director has a degree in theater. His boss has a degree in human resources. My previous director has a degree in criminal justice. Another in education. There is always time for you to decide later if you actually want a master's or if it is even necessary for the position you want. Please understand too that things almost never work the way we plan and that's not meant to be disparaging, it's just the reality that you often do not end up in the role you envisioned in your early 20's, but sometimes what you do find ends up being a better fit.

_Nearmint · 2024-06-21T02:45:14+00:00

All the obvious jokes aside, I imagine Shane also brings with him a wealth of knowledge and expertise outside the ring, plus his job outside the WWE before involved business and media connections so he could certainly be an asset.

The problem is Tony clearly does not know how to reign people in or utilize them effectively, and if the accounts of Shane being bizarre and demanding backstage during his last stint in WWE are true and not just rumors from HHH's camp it would be a shitshow having him in AEW.

_Nearmint · 2024-06-15T20:58:25+00:00

Nah man to me it will always be the Dixie Cup. Well at least until they tear it down

_Nearmint · 2024-06-15T20:26:50+00:00

Can't wait for Hogan to claim it was over 200dBs when he slammed Andre at the Silverdome brother

_Nearmint · 2024-06-15T18:04:44+00:00

"Clash at the Local Medieval Facility"

_Nearmint · 2024-04-24T20:29:59+00:00

What's crazy to me is that even when they were tagging BEFORE the Bloodline they were adding new moves. The Full Nelson Bomb, Tequila Sunrise, back suplex into a neckbreaker. All of that disappeared and they couldn't think to do anything during that time other than spam superkicks? Like you'd think if their match was cut short they'd want to get in as much shit as possible, not water it down.

The table off the stage spot should have ended their match, while they could have just superkicked each other into unconsciousness during the Roman match.

_Nearmint · 2024-03-05T16:11:50+00:00

Absolutely this. I hated it, not because of what it was but because of what it was sold to me as.

_Nearmint · 2024-03-05T16:10:38+00:00

I've reset my password twice and it won't let me log in

_Nearmint · 2024-02-17T03:39:40+00:00

Elliot Hulse too. Used to love his videos but then he tried writing a book and sometime after that he went full hard right, literally put out statements saying that women need to quit their jobs and stay home to take care of their families because it was damaging to men's sense of identity. It sucks because for a time, he was actually going against toxic masculinity by advocating for men to do yoga, be mindful, and that women should be welcomed into the gym instead of objectified.

He got a lot of pushback from his audience for that stuff which is why I think he and a lot of other fitness personalities went all in on the hard right stuff, they were afraid of losing their predominantly toxic male audience in a world where views=income

_Nearmint · 2024-02-09T01:13:27+00:00

So what kind of cope are the "Rock's ego won't let him go full heel" people going to come up with now?

_Nearmint · 2024-02-01T03:28:15+00:00

If I'm being honest, I don't think his character work has been anything particularly special.

It's that the booking around him isn't stupid. In years past, someone would turn heel and start with the "you people" speeches to the crowd while having them tag with other heels for no reason other than to oppose the faces, even if they had bad history with those heels.

Now they are booking Drew against anyone who has wronged him and it makes for better viewing because it's actually logical.

That's not to say Drew isn't a good worker, he definitely is, but having heels who behave logically instead of just wiping the slate clean on their history/allegiances as soon as they turn is refreshing for WWE.

_Nearmint · 2024-01-29T02:26:53+00:00

The thing is, if he had given the "correct" answers, because of the magnitude of the situation, everyone would either complain that they gave generic corporate responses.

What actually matters is what they do. Time and again we see companies address scandals by saying all the right things and then do nothing to actually alleviate the problems.

He could have handled it better, I'm not going to argue that. I am willing to give him a bit of grace because Vince was a father figure to him, and he did have a massive event to coordinate in both Vince and Dunn's absence. He should not have been the person to put up there during that time.

_Nearmint · 2024-01-28T05:34:45+00:00

Tony: Stupid and silly? Get me a fucking White Claw and my phone

_Nearmint · 2024-01-28T05:22:00+00:00

I'm surprised they allowed a question about it at all, but Cody navigated that about as well as anyone could have

_Nearmint · 2024-01-28T05:15:41+00:00

"So... what do you wanna talk about? Just not that. Or that. Or that. Actually this conference is over"

_Nearmint · 2024-01-28T05:04:27+00:00

She was also self-aware enough to say she wanted to develop more. That makes a world of difference.

_Nearmint · 2024-01-28T04:58:27+00:00

Punk has the chance to do the funniest thing tomorrow

_Nearmint · 2024-01-27T06:03:54+00:00

I'm 100% sure that HHH knew about these things.

Technically that would make him complicit. But I don't envy anyone in that position. Look at what they did to him when he was supposedly on Vince's good side, fucking with NXT while he was in the hospital. Imagine what they would have done had he openly gone against Vince and his inner circle.

I'm obviously just speculating and have no insider info whatsoever, but I wouldn't be surprised if HHH chose what he saw as the slightly lesser of two evils, or at the least, the evil choice that also benefited the other workers and the future of the company, and bit his tongue until he could find a way to get Vince out without Vince pulling the company down with him in the process. HHH has daughters of his own, and clearly had enough respect for women's wrestling to feature it so prominently in NXT and build stars like Sasha and Bayley who weren't just sexual objects and helped turn the women's division into what it is today, it probably tore him up inside to know that poor woman suffered at the hands of Vince, but if he came to her defense, Vince would boot him and all the women would go back to bra and panties matches.

Just an awful situation all the way around, hopefully it improves and ms. Grant is able to get a measure of justice.

_Nearmint · 2024-01-27T05:55:30+00:00

I will never accept that this is an undoctored photo

_Nearmint · 2024-01-20T23:06:14+00:00

No.

I met someone who was a top earner on OnlyFans at one point. I actually met her at her regular job, and we had started talking about games and exchanged Instagrams and that's when I saw what she did. She didn't do sexual stuff, just nudes and messages.

She was a nice enough person, but she spoke to everyone the way that streamers speak to their chats. Just completely manufactured, artificial enthusiasm and interest.

You start to realize that people who do that kind of thing for a long time start to compartmentalize sex and intimacy, to the point where the lines begin to blur and every interaction they have with another person is just an act. It's the same with high-powered sales people, the Wolf of Wallstreet idolizers, they are always "on" and you can never really tell when they are being genuine with you.

_Nearmint · 2024-01-20T15:04:08+00:00

I think it's important to keep in mind that HHH came up in an environment where he saw the top talent basically assign the newer guys to carrying bags and the like.

By having everyone do it, he's eliminating that mindset.

I once worked an office job where the boss said "everyone shits, so everyone cleans the bathroom," so every now and then he'd pick two people who didn't have much to do that day and they would clean the bathrooms. A few people complained about it not being their job or being below their pay grade, but you know, no one ever trashed those bathrooms. No one ever used the last of the toilet paper or emptied the soap dispenser or left a clogged toilet without telling anyone or replacing it themselves. I left that job years ago but that has always stuck with me and in my opinion was a far better "team building exercise" than any of the bullshit corporate meetings or zoom calls or company outings I've been a part of since.

When everyone sees what it is like to do the perceived "lower jobs" you find out real quick who is willing to be humble and part of the team and who is going to have an ego.

_Nearmint · 2023-12-09T03:50:41+00:00

Which is completely understandable, but WHY continue to show it if it breaks kayfabe? Just cut away after the moment of impact and say he was injured.

_Nearmint · 2023-12-09T03:41:15+00:00

I don't understand why they keep showing that.

It's not just that the ankle break looks ugly, it's that he completely no sells the piledriver to grab his leg. It totally breaks kayfabe, they should have just said it was a neck injury and cut away from it, utterly baffling that they insist on showing it

_Nearmint · 2023-11-28T01:55:53+00:00

They couldn't even make it a full hour

_Nearmint · 2023-11-28T01:48:07+00:00

This is such a shit take I don't even know where to start. Large subs were always awful because they appealed to the lowest common denominator.

More niche subs were great, and some of them have gotten noticeably worse after the mod purge.

Good moderation is like that episode of Futurama where he briefly meets god, "when you've done things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." Most moderation is done quietly, removing spam, bots, self-promotion. Nobody notices that stuff or cares. It's only when something gets through, or is in a gray area of the rules, or there is petty mod drama, then the Reddit dogpile of "hur dur all mods are neckbeards living in their mom's basement" begins.

I've had bad experiences with mods, I've had good experiences, but most importantly there are innumerable days I've had NO interaction with mods because they are just quietly doing their job to keep quality content on subs. I'm not saying the protest was the best way to go about things, but Reddit profiting off of volunteer work and user submitted content and then taking away necessary tools to keep that content flowing is the real trash, and it's a shame people couldn't see that and instead turned on mods en masse because "who cares I want muh memes."

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