A helmet.

I wonder why alot of what's written can be taken the wrong way so often??? Humor is such a vital and complex thing isn't it? Where are all the silly sarcastic 30 and 40 something people out there? What do some of you think about using sarcasm, teasing, and overly serious people?

Wow, someone comes in looking for advice and automatically gets the smash and bash parade, welcome to mingle!!

Yea, like the ladies said, be sure first, don't stress it till there is something to stress about, and then STRESS LIKE CRAZY!!!!!

just kidding.

Dump the part time/as needed crap. I mean hold on to it until you find something but you need to get on the ball and get your life in order pretty quick, baby or otherwise. Construction/Surveying are easy jobs to get, it's hard work but it's steady and in the end a decent profession. Flip through papers and put a resume out there, don't wait on one to "come to you," go out and get one. She probably needs to be doing something in the meantime as well, y'all are in this mess together and need to work together to make something happen, just my opinion of course.

Step two, she's not going to be able to work for a couple months if she's pregnant and she's not going to be pulling in much money on a short term job, will probably save you both a lot of headache if one of you can stay home with the kid, and one that young, probably better her if you've got higher credentials.

Life is tough man, and you're about to find that out real quick so fasten your seatbelt and get ready. I don't have a lot of time but know this.
1. You're not going to get the job you want and it's probably not going to make you happy.
2. You've got a lot to go through and a fast learning curve ahead, so muster up some motivation and make it happen.
3. Your chances of survival through this thing, if you are prepared to work hard and make some sacrifices, is fair. Don't let it drag you down, let it make you a stronger person.

Maybe once you get working for a while you can start chasing the money a little but for now put first things first, man up, grab the bull by the horns and take charge of your life. My best advice ever. If you need someone to talk to let me know and I'll try to help.

One last note, get out of the mindset of parents are asshats, or whatever it was. They may be, but you might need a little help and being the bigger person, taking a little grief, and trying to get along when anyone else would quit will go a long way. Later and good luck.


The Geckgo

When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up.

What with walking twenty five miles to school every morning…

Uphill…

Barefoot…

BOTH ways…

Blah, blah, blah.

And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they’ve got it!

But, now that I’m over the ripe old age of thirty, I can’t help but look around and notice the youth of today…

You’ve got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!

And I hate to say it but you kids today don’t know how good you’ve got it!

I mean, when I was a kid we didn’t have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn Library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!!

There was no email. We had to actually write somebody a letter, with a pen!!!

Then we had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!!! Stamps were 10 cents!!!

Child Protective Services didn’t care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick my ass! Nowhere was safe!!!

There were no MP3’s or Napsters. You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!!! OR you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ’d usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!!!

There were no CD players. We had tape decks in our car. We’d play our favorite tape and “eject” it when finished and then the tape would come undone cause that’s how we rolled, dig?

We didn’t have fancy crap like Call Waiting. If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that’s it!!!

And we didn’t have fancy Caller ID either. When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was. It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn’t know! You had to pick it up and take your chances mister!!!

We didn’t have any fancy Sony Play Station video games with high resolution 3D graphics. We had the Atari 2600. With games like “Space Invaders” and “Asteroids”. Your guy was a little square. You actually had to use your imagination. And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!! And you could NEVER win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died!!! Just like LIFE!!!

You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on. You were screwed when it came to channel surfing. You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel. There was no Cartoon Network either. You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning! Do you hear what I’m saying?!? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons you spoiled little rat bastards!!!

And we didn’t have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove…imagine that!!!

That’s exactly what I’m talking about! You kids today have got it too easy! You’re spoiled! You guys wouldn’t have lasted five minutes back in 1980 or before!!!



Regards,

The over 30 Crowd

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