Random talk thread: It just keeps happening

[Madrun Badrun]

What are you planning on taking?

[Himu]

Graphic design.

Mups: Inanimate object

[FlameofCallandorReturns]

Graphic design.

Mups: Inanimate object

It's a waste of time to get your masters in that and an even bigger waste of money to go into debt for it.

[Himu]

Graphic design.

Mups: Inanimate object

It's a waste of time to get your masters in that and an even bigger waste of money to go into debt for it.

No it isn't. If most of the competition have BAs, then logic suggests that having an MA will put you at an advantage. Much more, many companies will pay more attention to you strictly due to your degree. I have heard so many stories from peers who have been passed over by people with Master Degrees. In the long run, having an MA will be an advantage. Saying having one isn't worth sounds like you're thinking in the short-term.

[Himu]

Just got a boner looking at this shit.

http://showtime.arts.ac.uk/lcc/explore/

[FlameofCallandorReturns]

I feel you man, I really do. But here is what is going to happen when you get your masters. You are gonna be exactly where you are now + debt.

The best thing you can do is just do as much freelance work and network right now. And then if you feel like you need to get your masters, get it while you are working full time somewhere. Just get out there and start learning new shit. Learn how to design web (not sure if you do or don't right now). Get a lynda.com account and use that to just soak up information. Become the go to person for great design and you will move up.

[Broseidon]

British accents are fucking sexy, sorry.

[Madrun Badrun]

British accents are fucking sexy, sorry.

Not all of them.  cockney, yorkshire, and newcastle

[Broseidon]

Don't forget Scouse!

[Madrun Badrun]

really it's piss on anything that isn't RP or Scots.

[Phoenix Dark]

What's the Marry Poppin's regional English accent called? That's my fave

[Himu]

Surrey.

[Broseidon]

He lumped the entire North of england into the same accent.

Boo this man.

Other than that it was spot on for the most part.

[Robo]

Y'all sound the same to me, and smell like cooked cabbage.

[Madrun Badrun]

I hear cooked cabbage is what inspires most of Himu's art.  A Masters in Britain it is then.

[Madrun Badrun]

"Draw me like one of your zucchinis, Himu", said the cooked cabbage.

[Diunx]

Some brits mates one told me that they call their latino friends poofs! I sure love those guys they always say I'm the biggest poof they have ever met

[Huff]

Graphic design.

Mups: Inanimate object

It's a waste of time to get your masters in that and an even bigger waste of money to go into debt for it.

No it isn't. If most of the competition have BAs, then logic suggests that having an MA will put you at an advantage. Much more, many companies will pay more attention to you strictly due to your degree. I have heard so many stories from peers who have been passed over by people with Master Degrees. In the long run, having an MA will be an advantage. Saying having one isn't worth sounds like you're thinking in the short-term.

Isn't graphic design one of those jobs where being good at it is better than what level your degree is?

[Brehvolution]

Some brits mates one told me that they call their latino friends poofs! I sure love those guys they always say I'm the biggest poof they have ever met

---poof is another word for cigarillo

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080422185925AADgde9

[Broseidon]

Indeed it is.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Graphic design.

Mups: Inanimate object

It's a waste of time to get your masters in that and an even bigger waste of money to go into debt for it.

No it isn't. If most of the competition have BAs, then logic suggests that having an MA will put you at an advantage. Much more, many companies will pay more attention to you strictly due to your degree. I have heard so many stories from peers who have been passed over by people with Master Degrees. In the long run, having an MA will be an advantage. Saying having one isn't worth sounds like you're thinking in the short-term.

Isn't Graphic Design almost all about the portfolio?  If so, I'm not sure how an MA will help if there's an issue there.

Anyway, you're right about the last three sentences.  The Master's degree is the new Bachelor's since everyone and their dog has a BS or BA in something.  It no longer has the weight that it used to and will further dilute itself.

[Himu]

Graphic design.

Mups: Inanimate object

It's a waste of time to get your masters in that and an even bigger waste of money to go into debt for it.

No it isn't. If most of the competition have BAs, then logic suggests that having an MA will put you at an advantage. Much more, many companies will pay more attention to you strictly due to your degree. I have heard so many stories from peers who have been passed over by people with Master Degrees. In the long run, having an MA will be an advantage. Saying having one isn't worth sounds like you're thinking in the short-term.

Isn't graphic design one of those jobs where being good at it is better than what level your degree is?

not always. degree preference still happens. I was passed over for an internship at a company. My interview went great (almost 2 hours long) and I was passed over for a guy with a master degree. Same thing happened with friends of mine who attended school with me.

[Huff]

dont mean to be a dick, but are you sure the guy with the master's degree just wasn't better than you? That's a reason to get a better degree, to learn and be a better designer and thus be more attractive to a company.

It just seems fucking stupid for a company to hire on anything based on talent for this line of work even though I'm sure it happens.

[Flannel Boy]

[Himu]

dont mean to be a dick, but are you sure the guy with the master's degree just wasn't better than you? That's a reason to get a better degree, to learn and be a better designer and thus be more attractive to a company.

It just seems fucking stupid for a company to hire on anything based on talent for this line of work even though I'm sure it happens.

The main reason I want an MA is to gain skills to be a better designer. Do I have to list every reason? The benefits far outweigh the negatives.

[Bebpo]

Yesterday I had to write two badass papers on different matters and I'd never done one of the type of either before.  Worked all day and night yesterday, finished the rough draft of one of them and started an outline of the other at about 4am.  Slept for 90mins waking up every 10 mins with nervous excitement of IS IT TIME TO GET STARTED AGAIN!?!? and got up and went into work at 6am, finished the rough draft of the other by 9am and then spent all day making the two motions awesome and finished both at 4pm. 

Now I am home and GONNA PLAY SOME VIDYA GAMES until I pass out and then sleep for 12 hours straight and walk in late to work tomorrow.


Love my job.  Never a dull moment.

[FlameofCallandorReturns]

dont mean to be a dick, but are you sure the guy with the master's degree just wasn't better than you? That's a reason to get a better degree, to learn and be a better designer and thus be more attractive to a company.

It just seems fucking stupid for a company to hire on anything based on talent for this line of work even though I'm sure it happens.

The main reason I want an MA is to gain skills to be a better designer. Do I have to list every reason? The benefits far outweigh the negatives.

Masters degrees arent cheap man. You are talking lots of debt plus years of lost wages. I strongly urge you not to. You're better off "working for free" or as an intern for 2 years than paying for a masters.

[Bebpo]

yeaaaah, nm that whole gaming thing.  Tried to play something and passed out for 4 hours.  lol 

[Himu]

dont mean to be a dick, but are you sure the guy with the master's degree just wasn't better than you? That's a reason to get a better degree, to learn and be a better designer and thus be more attractive to a company.

It just seems fucking stupid for a company to hire on anything based on talent for this line of work even though I'm sure it happens.

The main reason I want an MA is to gain skills to be a better designer. Do I have to list every reason? The benefits far outweigh the negatives.

Masters degrees arent cheap man. You are talking lots of debt plus years of lost wages. I strongly urge you not to. You're better off "working for free" or as an intern for 2 years than paying for a masters.

That's why I'm entertaining studying abroad. Cheaper.

[Mupepe]

yeaaaah, nm that whole gaming thing.  Tried to play something and passed out for 4 hours.  lol

that sounds like me :'(

[FatalT]

Forgot to take my medicine last night, woke up feeling the typical depressed withdrawals. Got on the computer, opened up facebook, saw some friends doing some yearbook thing for high school, opened that up. Looked at what all my classmates have done since graduating, felt like suiciding. GOOD MORNING SO FAR I'D SAY EH?!

[tiesto]

dont mean to be a dick, but are you sure the guy with the master's degree just wasn't better than you? That's a reason to get a better degree, to learn and be a better designer and thus be more attractive to a company.

It just seems fucking stupid for a company to hire on anything based on talent for this line of work even though I'm sure it happens.

The main reason I want an MA is to gain skills to be a better designer. Do I have to list every reason? The benefits far outweigh the negatives.

Masters degrees arent cheap man. You are talking lots of debt plus years of lost wages. I strongly urge you not to. You're better off "working for free" or as an intern for 2 years than paying for a masters.

See if you can find a company that will pay for your Master's... it's really rare (and probably more so in your field). Maybe an MBA, though I don't know how useful that'd be to you?

[demi]

Looked at what all my classmates have done since graduating, felt like suiciding.

Such as?

A lot of people on my list are doing some yearbook thing too.


I never got added

[chronovore]

Caught a cold on Sunday. It had been kicking my ass all week.

Then I discovered something:

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Two nights on that: BLAMMO! I am still coughing a bit, but coughing is usually the last symptom to go. I don't have a headache or muscle pains, and my nose is almost normal again.

[Diunx]

oh my fucking god!!!!! Bunbury is coming next month!!!!!!!! is this what happiness feels like?? :kylielaff :nuhuh :hehe :tbslol :elf :usavich :himu :munch

oh shit only have 40 minutes to get drunk before work!!!

[Robo]

"Bunbury" is visiting?  That sounds incredibly unlikely.

[Broseidon]

Did he catch you staring at his ass when he looked coquettishly over his shoulder at you? 

[Himu]

I don't walk with gay swagger. I walk upright, with confidence.

[Phoenix Dark]

What is gay swagger walk? 

I know about the limp wrist thing, but whenever I see gay dudes walking they look regular.

[Himu]

Hips going from side to side in combination with limp wrist.

[Madrun Badrun]

wait, I walk like that!  O no.  O no no no.

[Phoenix Dark]

FM just isn't the typical straight guy

girl: want to see my tits daddy?
FM: Nah, cut your thighs and take a dump on a glass table for me

[Broseidon]

[Madrun Badrun]

cutting thighs?  That's sick.  more like

FM: Eat the taco bell, my darling.  Now squat over that glass table.

[Broseidon]

cutting thighs?  That's sick.  more like

 

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I got pics of thigh cutting saved.

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[Madrun Badrun]

new boots came.  Feels like I'm wearing armor. 

[Madrun Badrun]

cutting thighs?  That's sick.  more like

 

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I got pics of thigh cutting saved.

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I was just trying to work in a taco bell joke.  I do not judge you and your sick stock of images.

[Joe Molotov]

Broseidon is already a confirmed pervo, it's okay to call him out on it.

[Madrun Badrun]

Well he is Mexican.  You need a filthy mind to want to get with one of those girls. 

[Broseidon]

Who's mexican?

[Madrun Badrun]

You?

[Broseidon]

I'm British... 

Why did you think I was Mexican?

[Madrun Badrun]

Actually I thought you were from the Dominican republic.  Joke backfire

[Madrun Badrun]

Now Diunx is viewing this thread.  Pretend that joke was aimed at you and feel the burn!

[Madrun Badrun]

ya I'll go sit in the corner now.

[Joe Molotov]

Actually I thought you were from the Dominican republic.  Joke backfire

You missed a chance to pull the "Europeans don't shower" card and save the joke. Now instead you've just killed the entire thread. Lock it down, we're done here.  :'(

[G The Resurrected]

Had a strange "incident" happen to me back on saturday here it is almost friday and I feel different. Had some pressure in the chest, arm's, and legs along with some pulse issues. Sometime's I wish I wasn't carrying around damn near 400 pounds. It doesn't help that I have no health insurance and no place to go if it gets serious. Just when I start to get some good positives in my life, shit starts to go down hill fast.

The consultant for the clinic I'm going to on monday said I could have a crap load of things wrong with me. FML and this country/state (ca), we can afford to give free welfare to the anchor baby mexicans while the rest of us lower than middle class folks get fucked. Now I get to sit here and worry all weekend long.

 :'(

Funny thing is I still have all the energy in the world even after this incident. You'd think I'd of been knocked off my feet or something if it was a big issue.

[Phoenix Dark]

sorry to hear that man. How's your diet? Seems like it's time to start eating healthy and lose some of that weight

oatmeal every day yo

[G The Resurrected]

Its been all over the place to be honest mainly cause of lack of options and time. When I'm at home cooking myself its not so much an issue. But I'm rarely ever at home it seem's  nowadays. So it becomes convenience instead of reasonable choices. My meager walks and stuff have probably been the only thing keeping me "ok" but lately with life ramping up with school,work, and other such things its been on the back burner.

I'd love to see a proper nutritionist and get some ideas for at home so I can enforce them into the misses' mind that we can't go fast food crazy for days on end. I don't even eat at most of the places I go pick up food for her. Like at wendy's I'll get a chili with onions in it instead of frys and hamburger. It's hard when you're with someone who lived off of fast food all of their life and doesn't know how to cook. I am a great cook but admittedly I make large portions since I'm used to cooking for three adults each night. Her father was/is a rail with a metabolism to boot  I was not gifted with that. I usually end up not eating which is probably more harmful than eating fast food.

I love oatmeal with flax seed. I usually am not hungry at all in the morning. Never has there been a day I've woken up and said "I'm so damn hungry I wants food"

[G The Resurrected]

remember thats in black people money