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Post by Miss Tequila on Jul 18, 2016 17:51:30 GMT -5
Im an only child...it's always about me!lol Why am I thinking of that children's song....do your ears hang low, do they wobble to and fro, can you time them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow... I mean, everyone's boobs can touch their belly buttons, right?? There's the added plus of them keeping your knees warm in the winter. Or my back...since Im single now inhave to shave it so Im tossing them over my shoulder for extra warmth!
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Jul 18, 2016 17:56:28 GMT -5
There's the added plus of them keeping your knees warm in the winter. Or my back...since Im single now inhave to shave it so Im tossing them over my shoulder for extra warmth! You shave also? I suppose you shave your armpits, too?
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jul 18, 2016 17:58:00 GMT -5
Or my back...since Im single now inhave to shave it so Im tossing them over my shoulder for extra warmth! You shave also? I suppose you shave your armpits, too? Dont be silly...i braid my armpits and add glitter...isn't that what everyone does??
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 18, 2016 17:59:38 GMT -5
This thread took the best possible turn.
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Jul 18, 2016 18:03:15 GMT -5
You shave also? I suppose you shave your armpits, too? Dont be silly...i braid my armpits and add glitter...isn't that what everyone does?? Yes...plus you dye it pink with Kool-Aid
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jul 18, 2016 18:06:33 GMT -5
Dont be silly...i braid my armpits and add glitter...isn't that what everyone does?? Yes...plus you dye it pink with Kool-Aid It was easy to do since they were gray...now I need to get the carpet to match the drapes....
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Jul 18, 2016 18:08:43 GMT -5
Yes...plus you dye it pink with Kool-Aid It was easy to do since they were gray...now I need to get the carpet to match the drapes.... Ok...just sayin'....one of my friends tried that with horrendous results.
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jul 18, 2016 18:09:53 GMT -5
It was easy to do since they were gray...now I need to get the carpet to match the drapes.... Ok...just sayin'....one of my friends tried that with horrendous results. Disastrous as in bad color....or antibiotics needed??
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Jul 18, 2016 18:14:34 GMT -5
Ok...just sayin'....one of my friends tried that with horrendous results. Disastrous as in bad color....or antibiotics needed?? As in burns. Really painful burns. I could have told her that was a bad idea, but she didn't ask.
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Jul 18, 2016 18:15:07 GMT -5
She said it worked on her eyebrows so....
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Post by mroped on Jul 18, 2016 18:19:22 GMT -5
Here is a joke for you since you are on the subject:
She is in the tub shaving her legs and calls him: -Honey, how do you shave under your lower lip without cutting yourself? -I just push my tongue behind the lip until is stretched straight! -Then I could use some help here if you don't mind!
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Post by Miss Tequila on Jul 18, 2016 18:19:47 GMT -5
Disastrous as in bad color....or antibiotics needed?? As in burns. Really painful burns. I could have told her that was a bad idea, but she didn't ask. great...now I won't know if I have an std or chemical burns from the koolaid! I guess if the ointment the doctor gave me last time doesn't work I will know it's the koolaid!
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 18, 2016 19:14:08 GMT -5
Here is a joke for you since you are on the subject: She is in the tub shaving her legs and calls him: -Honey, how do you shave under your lower lip without cutting yourself? -I just push my tongue behind the lip until is stretched straight! -Then I could use some help here if you don't mind! LMAO!!!!! oped, come get your husband before he gets into any more trouble!
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Post by swamp on Jul 18, 2016 19:38:36 GMT -5
OMG, ladies. Have a little self respect. Pick 'em up off the floor, fling them over your shoulder and bravely march on. You tuck them in the waist band of your yoga pants.
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Jul 18, 2016 19:45:16 GMT -5
As in burns. Really painful burns. I could have told her that was a bad idea, but she didn't ask. great...now I won't know if I have an std or chemical burns from the koolaid! I guess if the ointment the doctor gave me last time doesn't work I will know it's the koolaid! lol...I shall hope for the best possible result for you
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2016 20:13:54 GMT -5
Here is a joke for you since you are on the subject: She is in the tub shaving her legs and calls him: -Honey, how do you shave under your lower lip without cutting yourself? -I just push my tongue behind the lip until is stretched straight! -Then I could use some help here if you don't mind! LMAO!!!!! oped , come get your husband before he gets into any more trouble! I try to work for half an hour.... This is because I made him LEAVE the room while i was finishing up a project because he kept talking to me... and patting my ass. grrrrr.
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Post by Green Eyed Lady on Jul 18, 2016 20:54:02 GMT -5
LMAO!!!!! oped , come get your husband before he gets into any more trouble! I try to work for half an hour.... This is because I made him LEAVE the room while i was finishing up a project because he kept talking to me... and patting my ass. grrrrr. It was all the saggy boob talk.
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 18, 2016 20:55:53 GMT -5
LMAO!!!!! oped , come get your husband before he gets into any more trouble! I try to work for half an hour.... This is because I made him LEAVE the room while i was finishing up a project because he kept talking to me... and patting my ass. grrrrr. He was just letting you know you're doing a good job.
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Post by cyanne on Jul 18, 2016 21:14:53 GMT -5
I think I accidentally wandered into the Everything Else thread. Where am I again?!?
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Post by MJ2.0 on Jul 18, 2016 21:17:36 GMT -5
Slightly back on topic, my grandfather didn't have a degree but he was in the military. He did well enough to support my grandmother and 11 kids.
My mom's brother works in IT and I'm pretty sure he didn't go to college. His "wife" is a phlebotomist. They're not rich, but they rent a nice townhouse in SEPA.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 19, 2016 10:21:42 GMT -5
Slightly back on topic, my grandfather didn't have a degree but he was in the military. He did well enough to support my grandmother and 11 kids. My mom's brother works in IT and I'm pretty sure he didn't go to college. His "wife" is a phlebotomist. They're not rich, but they rent a nice townhouse in SEPA. I worked for 16 years in insurance. No degree required. I made the move to IT. No degree required. I'm beginning to think that the years of working FT and going to school PT all while keeping up with two babies was a waste. I was a walking zombie for nothing!
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Post by raeoflyte on Jul 19, 2016 10:37:36 GMT -5
Slightly back on topic, my grandfather didn't have a degree but he was in the military. He did well enough to support my grandmother and 11 kids. My mom's brother works in IT and I'm pretty sure he didn't go to college. His "wife" is a phlebotomist. They're not rich, but they rent a nice townhouse in SEPA. I worked for 16 years in insurance. No degree required. I made the move to IT. No degree required. I'm beginning to think that the years of working FT and going to school PT all while keeping up with two babies was a waste. I was a walking zombie for nothing! Do you feel like the degree helped get you in the door for an interview with the IT job? I worry that that is where I'm at, and that I need to get a degree just to keep options open.
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Post by quince on Jul 19, 2016 11:54:11 GMT -5
I think you can get a degree or you can network for options open. My husband interviewed in Silicon Valley when he came back from Peace Corps several years ago. He was told to get a graduate degree. He got in to grad school, then after one semester went to intern in....Silicon Valley. He was offered a job immediately. He was invited to join a start up 6 months later. He doesn't have his PhD yet (two more journal publications. Please let it be over soon!), but no one cares, because he has a network of contacts in place now. A degree is good, though, because it lets there be at least some doors open where nobody knows your name.
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Post by andi9899 on Jul 19, 2016 12:42:30 GMT -5
I worked for 16 years in insurance. No degree required. I made the move to IT. No degree required. I'm beginning to think that the years of working FT and going to school PT all while keeping up with two babies was a waste. I was a walking zombie for nothing! Do you feel like the degree helped get you in the door for an interview with the IT job? I worry that that is where I'm at, and that I need to get a degree just to keep options open. Not at all. I was hired for my insurance knowledge, not for any technical ability or any degree. My degree is in Business Administration. I just got my friend on for another IT position here and she was hired for her insurance knowledge. She has no degree.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jul 19, 2016 13:32:27 GMT -5
I think I accidentally wandered into the Everything Else thread. Where am I again?!? We're discussing boob degrees.
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Post by 973beachbum on Jul 19, 2016 13:39:41 GMT -5
Wow was this an interesting read. At my second job I started out as a cashier and for the summer I applied to be a front end manager. In grocery stores titles like bagger or clerk are used without thought cause we all basically do whatever needs to be done regardless of title, but I know plenty of women who started out as baggers too. But for the record a bagger is two levels down from a cashier. There is a reason cashiers start out at $1.25 more an hour than a bagger. And the term head cashier is a really old one. I am 50 and it predates my memory. What used to be called the head cashier, although it still is called that by some employees in the late 60's, is the office coordinator position. Other than the store director and asst sd they are basically the highest employee in the store. In a lot of ways I actually think of them as higher than the asst sd. As far as getting passed over I work with quite a few people who have worked there for over 30 years, Most of them actually used to be dept mgrs. They just got tired of the constant stress and decided to step down. Others who weren't dept mgrs never wanted the stress or extra hours. I have never seen anyone with more seniority there passed over. But they don't just tap you on the shoulder. You have to apply for the posting. Hey I posted for the FE mgr and got it. If someone with more years than me had applied I wouldn't have. But you can't get what you don't ask for.
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Post by jeep108 on Jul 19, 2016 13:59:00 GMT -5
My husband went to cc but never finished. He's always been mechanically inclined. He has never not had a job that pays well.
He's worked on cranes for the past few years now. He make 70K to 75K a year gets awesome medical benefits and 401K.
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Post by lexxy703 on Jul 19, 2016 14:09:54 GMT -5
Insurance agent. You just need an insurance license not a degree. I started out making next to nothing as the receptionist. Now I make good money.
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Post by mroped on Jul 19, 2016 16:24:21 GMT -5
The time when you could make it without a college degree has come to an end. Rarely people make it anymore without one. To make it worse, even with a college degree you have hard time making it. Look at the prices of housing, vehicles and prety much everything else and then look at wages! It used to be that there was one bred winner per family and they would have a home of their own and raise kids and so on. Now two adults working and still. Granted we want much more now than our parents wanted- bigger houses, better cars- but still!
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Post by Apple on Jul 20, 2016 17:17:51 GMT -5
Are we considering an associates (of applied science) a college degree? If not, I can play too...
I have some amount of OT available every year. If I work around 100 hours of overtime a year, I'll break $100k. Since most of my shifts are 12 hours, that means less than one day of OT a month, and I only work 7 days every two weeks (less my sick days and vacation days). I have a great job, some days I can be busy all day, some days I only have to put in about 20 minutes of work, some days are high stress and there is always the chance of a bad emergency, but some days/nights are very relaxing and quiet.
I've put up with a lot of sexual harassment and discrimination to get here, that no one should ever have to deal with, but I'm in a good place now.
Some of my college classmates/coworkers chose a different path and are now making over $50/hour, but I have no desire to do the job they have, even though I'm more than capable. It's pretty much a desk job with a ton of responsibility. Not my ideal job at all. My new (as of last September) boss asked me about my 5 year goals, and I told him I just wanted to be a happy (current job title). Maybe that will change, but for now, work life is good.
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