vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
I have always thought that most of the time spent in a class was a waste. I also do not think that school prepares people for the harsh realities of a full time job. Also I was not prepared by school to make money, manage money, or survive life better than someone who didn’t go to college. I am a pharmacist, I have an MBA and a PhD.
I love how this probably won't get many replies because your in the trenches doing it, keep up the hard work. I graduated high school with 1k in savings and dropped out of college to help support my depressed and unemployed mother with some help from my Father.   I am now a married new construction homeowner and we take home enough money to have new cars, save for retirement, and enjoy life with no college degrees. I went from 8 an hour to over 35 now in 4-5 years.  We both had to get off social media because of all our old high school friends who went to college for garbage degrees, never tried to get entry level jobs in their industry while in school or network, and now cry all day about how Bernie sanders didn't win the election and why school should be free so they don't have to pay off debt for a worthless degree as they wait tables. No sympathy
"I am very tired of the age-old conservative argument for inherent ""dignity in work"".  Go fuck yourself.  Me not wanting to bust my ass for shitty pay that serves only those individuals that are of a higher class than me does not make me a lazy person.  To me, it is more dignified to work for something greater, i.e., a type of system that works for all.  Fuck anyone that thinks otherwise."
40% of income going to debt payments being their line is reasonable I guess, BUT maybe it should be higher for educated high earners.  For example, currently I'm technically using about 50% of my monthly income because I'm a new graduate with some student debt and I'm trying to pay it off aggressively, in under a year.  Despite this, my income is high enough that the remaining 50% is enough to support a decent lifestyle.    In a couple of months when I'm paid off I can probably start saving several thousand dollars a month.  Do I really have a debt problem?
If I applied for a decent paying job and told them that I only want to work 3 days a week, they'd probably wouldn't hire me.   Some people would be happier working less and foregoing a bit of pay. ~~Take a look at labor norms in Italy, seems to be working well for them.~~ Nevermind, the Italian economy isn't doing too great right now. I was basing that statement off a Micheal Moore documentary where people tend to work less and are happier.
I worked in constituent affairs. A normal day for me ranges from finding low-income homes, handling unemployment insurance checks that get held up, finding open rehab centers for people who are having trouble finding treatment centers. Is it remotely connected to a court case? Now I have to find a way that is completely sterile from the legal proceedings.   Do I give help to the one person calls who is being kicked out of their home in 4 days and is sick, or do I have to find some shelter for the people with children first?   I love my job, but pray tell, with my 28,000 a year salary, what special privilege do I get by trying to maximize assistance for people with minimal resources? I am interested to hear this so I can go to work and demand them.
Not at all, I fully understand you. I am in this industry and understand how these products work. I dont do these type per say but our product has a high enough interest rate that my clients all are going to do this themselves. Hell, I am going to do it with mine and my wifes policies too. Its a very nice form of passive retirement income on top of 401k, ira's etc.
Oh jeez. Really? Ok.   Yes. I am a millenial. No, I am not unemployed. I work for a living. I pay all my own bills. I feel satisfied by doing it. I have my own hobbies, plans, and goals for the future, and I don't expect anyone to hand me these things or map them out for me. Why? Because they haven't. Millenials got the shit end of the stick. I don't understand how the hell you think that makes us more entitled than the people who grew up before everything started going into decline. We have it harder and we have to clean up all of your fucking messes.  That being said, I pay for all of my content, or I find it available legally for free. This article is in fact available for free on Bloomberg's website, and  the Daily Herald in no way deserves my money for content that they didn't even produce.  So eat all the dicks, old douche.
Idk how to word this better but Is it possible to make 4000 in a month? I work full time for a school making 14.70 and my wife makes a little less full time at her job. Is there a way I can help myself maximize price to save based on what we have outgoing? Need a down payment for a home and really don't wanna use a government loan. (Moving snarky just want a better rate and lower closing fees). Thanks!
I'm aiming to buy in four and a half years... I'll have about $120k in savings between various accounts and be making $52k a year with no debt and no obligations... no kids, I'll have excellent credit (building it--I didn't want cards while paying off student loans) and still... I'll be lucky to be able to afford a 600 sq foot condo with a $300/mo HOA fee.   Fucking SF Bay Area. I can't even afford to live in a Section-8 complex right now. Seriously. What the bloody fucking fuck ($1,500/mo if you're not Section-8... they get discounts).   Thank goodness for my dad, he's the only reason I was able to pay off my student loans within two years of getting my current job and the only reason I am able to save so much.  Our system is seriously fucked. People making $44k a year should be able to afford an apartment within a hour commute of work in an area where they don't have to dodge bullets or fight rats....
Thank you so much for this valuable info.  Really love reddit for these personal answers, I wish I could talk to you all on the phone :D   I'll spell out my situation a little more clearly, maybe you'll be able to direct me the right way.  Graduated with an average GPA, business admin. I want to continue this path towards finance and I've been told by a few people the best thing to do is get an i banking job, then figure out what I really want to do in life (this way I have a solid resume).    Been trying to leverage my puny network and I've been unsuccessful in getting a job, though I've paid for many lunches :\ Basically, I want to show I am smart and capable because the last thing employers have to go on is my gpa.  Could there be a better solution?
"Thanks for the advice. My phone autocorrects to ""résumé"".   As far as the sophomore thing, I figured I might stay another quarter after 2 years if I am unsuccessful, but how would I market myself as a sophomore now?   I have to turn in a resume for a program I am applying for through school by next month, so I have to put CC down on there. Once I get a GPA at UCLA, I figure I can omit the CC at that point."
I think there are multiple mafia's involved. Clinton mafia, deep state mafia, and various fiefdoms within the kingdom. Trump is a wildcard. He sees his job as ripping out the old mafia and installing a new mafia, which is loyal to him. The only way to destroy the mafia, is with a mafia. There is always a mafia in control, but during a changeover, the people get glimpses of what is really going on.  I believe that Trump knows he is insane. Clinton does not have this level of self awareness, and that actually makes her more dangerous.  I am not FOR Trump; I am for a wildcard, and change, and the glimpse of what is going on behind the curtains.
I'm reminded of people complaining that Wal-Mart has manufacturers make a cheaper version of their drills for their customers. Supposedly, this was a dastardly plan to make items disposable, so people would have to buy more. In reality, Wal-Mart just realizes the average guy who buys a drill isn't seriously going to get into woodworking, like he's always saying. He's going to pull it out 2-3 times, after the initial enthusiasm wears off. I thin Wal-Mart pisses people off, because they know what we really are, as opposed to the people we pretend to be. &gt; they're creating a disenchanted workforce incentivized to get back at the company whenever possible Wal-Mart has a pretty good bead on their workforce. They're not losing money. This ""getting back"" is highly theoretical. In reality, they're going to gripe about their job and cycle through a lot of low wage jobs on their way back to Wal-Mart again. I don't know if you've worked with low skill workers before, but there's a reason they are where they are. They're not these noble creatures from Steinbeck novels. I worked at quite a few of these low wage jobs while putting myself through college. These are the people who show up hungover to work. These are the people who work for a few weeks and then suddenly flip out for seemingly no reason at all. These are the people who, when told to perform a task, say, ""No one tells me what to do."" That's what the check is for dummy. That's what a job is. These are the same people who sat in the back of the classroom in school and talked shit about how the teacher was stupid; school was stupid; they didn't need that shit to be successful. They are mostly ignorant and filled with overweaning pride, which they've been told they should have not for accomplishments, but for simply existing. When you've actually been around the poor masses for a while—raised around them as I was as a child—you stop idealizing and objectifying them.
I asked for some basic info about the projections and seem to be unable to get any. Stop making this a personal issue, my question is a simple question about economics. I am not interested in who you are or who I am, I am only interested in the economic theory. If you choose not to respond to my question, I won’t be offended.  Sorry for any trouble.
Time off was pretty standard and accrued by the hour worked, which was nice. There was no ""you have to be with the company for X length of time"" before time off benefits began to accrue, or before any benefits kicked in, for that matter. By about Year 5, I had easily racked up enough vacation days to take 3 weeks off at a time. The longer you have been with the company, the faster your time off accrues. And each summer they'd offer a cash-out program, where you could double up on time off, where if you took off a week, you could opt to deplete your accrued vacation time by two weeks and get double pay for it. A lot of people liked this option. The points for absenteeism thing seemed a bit silly -- and seemed to only have been implemented in one store and then only for a brief time. From what I gathered in the article, it was an experiment that failed miserably. The other corporation I have spent a significant amount of time working at is Whole Foods Market, in their corporate office. While both Apple and Whole Foods always are selected as two of the top companies to work for by Forbes in their annual report, as far as benefits went, Apple's were far superior in most aspects. With respect to company culture, I personally found Whole Foods to be better, but that was sort of a personal preference. Both were dream jobs, and I consider myself very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work for two outstanding companies that both treated me very well. Oh- and incidentally, Ron Johnson, who was VP of Retail at Apple from the inception of the stores until like a year ago, now is CEO of JC Penny, and, I suspect, is fully behind JCP's ad campaigns which include images of families with same-sex parents. JCP has stepped deliberately and full-on into what is, unfortunately, still a controversial topic and has taken a firm stand in support of all types of loving families. I have to wonder if part of this might have been inspired by the fact that Apple's new CEO, Tim Cook, is gay. Ron Johnson would have worked closely alongside Cook during his tenure.
Honestly, having seen their trial and cancelation process, it seems they're betting that the Planet Fitness model will work for cinema tickets. It's cheap enough that it seems like a great deal, but in practice most people won't even see a movie a month and won't bother to cancel.   Every time I've been about to sign up for a subscription cinema ticket, I've challenged myself to actually go to the cinema at least twice a month for 3 months. I always drop off!
"&gt; Being concerned for people isn't naive, it is naive to think slightly above minimum wage retail employees ever had a fighting chance. &gt; You are naive to think these people ever had a chance to begin with. &gt; It is naive and gullible to think the Sears' employees ever had a chance. When did I say they had a fighting chance? What part of ""fucked"" leads you to believe that they had a fighting chance? Surely everything I've said is that they did not, do not and will not have a fighting chance. If I thought they had a chance I wouldn't be so upset. To repeat myself yet again - these people are fucked. All people working in retail are fucked; and it's very likely that there's going to be a collapse and almost everyone without a specific technical skill that's in demand is going to be fucked. _All these people are fucked. They never had a fighting chance. Things were bad for them when they were working; things are going to be much worse for them now. And I am sad._ Is this clear to you now? This is what I've said from the beginning - but somehow simply expressing sympathy for all these people getting fucked is so controversial that people somehow feel compelled to claim that I'm a supporter of exploitative capitalism. &gt; The good news is a $9/hr job is easier to find than a $100,000/year job. These Sears employees can go work at Khols or Panera Bread for very little loss in income. Can you give me any evidence of your claim? There are five job searchers for every open position in the United States. Businesses are not expanding, why would they be hiring unskilled labor? They're sitting on large piles of cash, waiting for the recession to end - and if it doesn't, why, they now have a guaranteed pool of labor at near-slavery prices.
The legalization of marijuana has led to higher wages for unskilled workers. People who would normally work in fast food or the restaurant industry is a good example of this. Instead of taking a minimum wage job, these marijuana companies are offering higher wages to work for them. These jobs tend to be a less stressful and pay more than working in a restaurant so more and more unskilled workers are going into this field.  In fact this has created a shortage of jobs in the restaurant industry. Colorado literally cannot find enough people to work in their restaurants..  I've worked in the coal Industry for 3 years but I can't comment on the coal situation since I've been out of that market for a while. All I can say is nuclear is our future.
Except that doesn't really work.  If a corporation makes too much profit, they get undercut.  Which is what's happening here.  BWW sells an expensive yet lousy product.  People aren't buying.  There are less expensive options that are better.  Taxing people isn't some miracle cure, either.  I'm older and could probably pull off retirement right now if I wanted to.  But I keep working to make more.  If I start getting assfucked with taxes, guess what?  It's not worth it for me to work.  You can't tax me when I'm not showing an income, or a much, much smaller income.  If you're one of those knuckleheads that think communism works, there's a reason why it consistently fails and ends up with horrendous human rights abuses.  I fall under the ADA and while I can work because I *want* to work, you better believe that I will stop working if everything is free.  I can make a medical argument not to work and you better fucking believe that I would take that opportunity.  When demand outstrips supply - like it always does under communism - then it collapses.  But not usually before the communist regime starts killing and torturing people.  Fuck everything about communism.
I am 10 years out of college and been debt free for 4.  My school would have cost me $180k for 4 years.  I was aware of the cost to go to the school I wanted and so I worked in highschool for every possible scholarship available.  I then went into a degree program which I knew was a good investment, engineering.  I came out of college in the middle of the recession with you guessed it, around $100k in debt.  I moved to a place where the cost of living made it so I could get a job and save.  I did not live a lavish lifestyle, I invested my money well, and I worked hard.  Garbage in, garbage out.  Go to a bad school, not worth it.  Do not work hard in college, not worth it.  Work hard in a major which has no economic value, not worth it.  Do not set yourself up for success by working hard in high school, getting things like AP credits and scholarships, not worth it.
I'm not sure if I am exactly what you are looking for, but I am currently studying finance at a university with a top ten finance program.  I would be happy to help you out with your search for a college or program.  The stuff about how to dress and act will come later.
More than likely you have signed an NDA with your employer with a non-compete clause within it. From what I have seen this clause would be in place for two years following the date you left your firm. So, leaving your firm and consulting as a 1099 for your current client is more than likely a violation of your NDA for 2 years or some period of time. With that being said, there is nothing keeping you from going off on your own as an independent and finding work, so long as that work isn't from one of the current clients of your firm.   I am not a lawyer and everything above is what I have seen in my personal experience.
"נסחפת  My own choice. And the eclipse is quite minimal in NJ. And if I wanted to step out for 2 minutes, or 1 hour, of take the day off, I don't even need to to notify my ""bosses"". I am a boss myself.  So far none of the people who report to me asked to take time off."
I deliver for Caviar. They've treated me well and allowed me to work as much as I'd like. It's a hard job but at least I have a job. I think it was smart to sell. Our economy is going to r/collapse soon anyway.
"&gt; The point of the article was although she clearly works her ass off, to the point of working 80 hour weeks, she can't afford basic needs. You can point out she isn't working 80 hours now, she has always at least worked full time. Yet she couldn't support herself and two children.. &gt; To me that's a failure on a collective level. It shouldn't be possible  So if instead of digging a hole with a shovel use a spoon so I work harder but the value Im delivering is less I should get paid the same or more? Who care how ""hard"" you work? Its meaningless.  What VALUE are you providing? That is the measure the market looks at, its the measure YOU look at when you go to spend your own money.  &gt; If a wage can't support a worker, one should support raising that wage.  What does this mean even? So I own a gas station. I am looking to hire a clerk for midday. You say I need to pay a living wage right? So I have 3 applicants.   1 is a high school dropout no kids just wants a steady job  1 is a college kid looking for beer money  1 is a mother of 2 hell lets even say one is special needs looking for full time work   Which living wage should I pay? They all have different needs and circumstances that will change that number"
I assume you're posting like an asshole because you've recently lost weight, and there's some sort of psychological consistency thing going on. Did you read the article, you should be aware that you're likely going to feel as if you're starving for several years at best.   For example - many years ago I too lost significant weight (~70 lbs), and kept it off for a long time. Once I assumed I was in the clear a couple of years later and stopped tracking my diet, it slowly started creeping back (maybe +5 lbs/year, almost imperceptible). I find nowadays that if I don't log literally everything that goes into my mouth and weigh myself daily, I inevitably gain weight. That was a lesson that was not easy to learn, and is not part of any diet program I've ever heard of.  Point is - you don't know what you're talking about until you've kept significant weight off for a couple of years. In the mean time, you should chill the fuck out, because when you have a better perspective your current attitude will seem embarrassingly stupid.
Thanks for the nice words. I do work in research actually, but I think there are a lots of people who would be a better AMA.  As far an intelligent policy, it really is simple. The people that have been in power have decided that not enforcing the law is better off for their prized constituents than enforcing it. The Democrats liked the illegals that became their voter base, the Republicans liked the cheap labor they provided to their corporate doners.   They have now wrapped all this in social justice nonsense so being practical is now akin to being racist. The solution is simply to enforce the existing laws.
Do you really want to have a pissing contest about the horrible things said in /r/conservatives,  /r/politics, etc?  From what I can tell the horrible things to common sense ratio is terrible.  Not a week goes by where politics doesn't call for killing people who disagree with them or for armed revolution.  Going to the political subreddits is misrepresentative.  I am talking about what I see leaking into the non-political subreddits.  Which somehow garners me downvotes for even mentioning it in lighthearted terms.
"I find the sun country airline a unique example, it is owned by Marty Davis, CEO of Cambria (a countertop / stone tile company).   They use the airline to promote their countertop business with in- flight magazines and even and Cambria logo on the door of the plane as you walk in.  I have been a fan of Sun Country for a long time, but recently a new CEO took over and there was a memo leaked that they are going to start operating like an allegiant or Spirit ""super-discount"" airline.  I hope not, I choose sun country for the people that operate their planes and for the simple, no-bullshit, I buy a ticket, I get bags and a checked Bag is $25.  So far it's the only airline that I am a fanatic for, and I hope that their culture isn't sold in a race for the bottom dollar.  I am pretty sure that Marty Davis bought Sun Country with a deep discount after the Petters Group Worldwide Fraud became known.   Full history with some financial information if you're interested. It obviously isn't a ""Big"" Airline, but I am still a big fan.  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Country_Airlines"
"Pyramid Schemes are illegal. This is not a pyramid scheme but I wouldn't dive into it unless you either had some killer marketing skills OR you are an extremely social and likable person; like high-school popularity contest winner level, but older.   The affiliate earning system is way more complicated than what you mentioned (in a good way) because there are many ways to earn, but the biggest way to earn requires someone who ""knows how to throw a party"" or someone who absolutely loves people. (I don't).   I personally am documenting my experience with PMB CBD oil and am posting my no B.S. review about everything from the product to the affiliate system on my personal FB. I'm not a people-person so i don't see me standing on a podium with a little mic around my cheek, but oddly my candid (and often funny) reviews inspired many of my Facebook friends to buy CBD. I get $30 for every bottle i sell through my affiliate page; this is a better way for me to earn than standing up in front of people like Martha Stewart.   It helps if you actually like and use the product because that way you don't feel pressured to sell. I'm experimenting with CBD because I simply can't relax and suffer from some major anxiety and stress attacks.   Results? Well it's 6am and i'm writing to you not freaking out about work tomorrow and browsing for Rick and Morty memes. I like it so far but we'll see."