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Motronic posted:Hoo boy, there are some good ones today. Also it's a destination wedding quote:I haven't paid the tab yet, but we are set to be married in early May. We have 75 guests coming to our destination wedding. There is a seafood appetizer option that's costing us $1100 that I want to cut completely and she wants the portions scales back...
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Maybe you guys went to bad schools? I went to a school that was ranked in the top 5 in the country for my M.A. program and they required us to publish peer-reviewed material, learn a second language, and get higher than a C in order to graduate. [HumbleBrag] I was going to continue with a Ph.D there, but they were only going to partially fund me and it was in a soft science, so I ended up taking my M.A. and getting a job. Doing a Ph.D on loans is BWM 95% of the time.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:I'm earning a masters after having completed my MD and the "quality" of the coursework turned in by many of my peers is SHOCKING, just honest to God SHOCKING. Yeah man when I finished my grad program, I was like "what the gently caress that's it? I'm a Master?" My program was really good in the sense that it fostered an incredible work ethic and exposed me to boring writing that I would otherwise never take the time to teach myself, and it's from one of the "lovely" UT schools that everyone turns their noses up at. But yeah it wasn't super hard, just required that you sit down and get your poo poo done. The focus on theory and research WAS there, it just wasn't required for you to get really good at it (which is tough). As long as you can adequately dabble in research, it feels like you'll earn your graduate degree nearly anywhere no prob. In contrast, my clients who are at The Proper UT hand me their syllabi and coursework...and they are getting ripped off it's hilarious. One of these poor chucklefucks is paying UT Austin over 4k a semester to learn about opinion vs fact in a graduate level journalism course. I informed her that she might be wasting her money and while she agreed, the sunk cost fallacy hits people hard and she's gonna finish up the remaining 3 semesters. I don't have the heart to tell her that you don't need a journalism degree to be a journalist (and she already has a BA!) I guess what I'm saying is UT Austin is a loving joke. I think they stand on their "reputation" too much, which has allowed their graduate programs to get complacent and target students Who Should Not Be Pursuing A Graduate Degree. Plenty of work for me so there's that! E: Maybe it's a Texas thing. Maybe we're just smart for the area. I don't really know. But I agree that PhDs are almost definitely a waste of time for nearly everyone who wants one and is not being funded. Might even say that for a Master's, but having an MA over a BA makes me a much more attractive candidate in a city with an insanely high ratio of college educated people. And the skills I learned are exactly the skills I use to run my writing consulting operation. So getting loans for mine turned out to be an okay investment! KingSlime fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Mar 30, 2017 19:21
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:I'm earning a masters after having completed my MD and the "quality" of the coursework turned in by many of my peers is SHOCKING, just honest to God SHOCKING. Ask me about getting asked by a project partner if we can submit my work as a joint project 4 hours before the due date after 3 weeks of continued noncorrespondence He couldn't figure out how to use a MATLAB toolbox This is in an advanced grad class for electrical engineering
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Mar 30, 2017 19:28
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KingSlime posted:In contrast, my clients who are at The Proper UT hand me their syllabi and coursework...and they are getting ripped off it's hilarious. One of these poor chucklefucks is paying UT Austin over 4k a semester to learn about opinion vs fact in a graduate level coursework. This sounds like UT is doing a lovely program or your clients are in remedial classes or something. I have never taken a Master's Journalism class, but it seems really really odd that they would have classes introducing the concept of Opinion vs. Fact at a graduate level. Many Master's Degrees are basically useless except as bridges to Ph.D programs, though. That still doesn't explain the low level of expectations from a graduate course.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Maybe you guys went to bad schools? This is some lame rear end humblebragging man. I know you can do better. A masters in basket weaving at a top 5 basket weaving school is still a masters in basket weaving. And a B in grad school is basically a C. A C in grad school is basically an F.
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I didn't know that Masters were that frowned upon. What if your masters is funded? And are PhDs still such a bad deal if you're decently funded all the way?
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Mar 30, 2017 19:31
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Oh yeah dude a B is "Needs Improvement" in graduate school You shouldn't be getting anything less than A's Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:This sounds like UT is doing a lovely program or your clients are in remedial classes or something. Hence my confusion. But nope, I saw it. I helped her with a paper.
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potatoducks posted:This is some lame rear end humblebragging man. I know you can do better. I have my M.A.s from Stanford and Georgetown. (One of them was almost free) Georgetown required me to learn Arabic to graduate. His journalism clients sound like they are being taken for a ride.
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Twerk from Home posted:I didn't know that Masters were that frowned upon. What if your masters is funded? And are PhDs still such a bad deal if you're decently funded all the way? If your goal is to maximize income over your lifetime its probably bad with money. There's other reasons people get a PhD though.
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Twerk from Home posted:I didn't know that Masters were that frowned upon. What if your masters is funded? And are PhDs still such a bad deal if you're decently funded all the way? If you're funded, go hog wild If you're not, think about whether you really need or want the graduate degree for the sticker price, in general higher degrees still translate to higher lifetime income for most people Despite the circle jerk, graduate degrees DO look great on resumes and push you to be better, it's just up to you whether the money is worth it (especially since standards are slippin' everywhere) But that's my point, Leon, standards are terrible everywhere. Maybe you were shielded from that but That Is The Norm in this country. See: others popping up to echo my sentiments E: Fun fact: my favorite clients are business majors doing grad school/an MBA because their coursework is always, always, ALWAYS laughably easy regardless of what school they go to, they also tend to make a lot more than me in their lifetimes so the joke is on me lol hahahaha KingSlime fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Mar 30, 2017 19:33
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I have my M.A.s from Stanford and Georgetown. In basket weaving? And how many C's did people actually get? I'm not trying to disparage your academic credentials. They sound great. I'm just saying that your humblebrag wasn't very strong.
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Mar 30, 2017 19:37
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A graduate degree in of itself is worthless and institutions will push through as many in order to drive revenues. There is a financial impetus to churn through many and make it easy. What gets you a job is the networking, your portfolio and your publications. If you just get the degree and have none of the other things you will be one of the many many many people with an advanced degree not working in their field.
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Mar 30, 2017 19:39
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Aka foster skills everywhere and anywhere you might be at. Grad school happens to be a fantastic setting for one to do this, if anything Life is an RPG E: fixed a typo because i am a Professional Writer drat it
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Mar 30, 2017 19:40
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The median salary difference between PhD and BS on my field is 40k. Probably not worth the 5 years of hell, but the type of work you do is very different unless you're very exceptional and far more interesting with the PhD. Still not sure it was worth it.
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potatoducks posted:In basket weaving? Government and Economics. We only had 13 people in our program at Georgetown and at least 3 people had to repeat classes for getting C's that I know of. (I also failed my Arabic proficiency - with a C - the first time and had to redo it.  )
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Mar 30, 2017 19:41
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cowofwar posted:A graduate degree in of itself is worthless and institutions will push through as many in order to drive revenues. There is a financial impetus to churn through many and make it easy. This is true if your field has lower demand than supply. You can actually look at the faculty salaries to get an idea of the supply/demand for doctorates in your field.
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Mar 30, 2017 19:42
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Government and Economics. this is definitely supporting my point rather than detracting from it...
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Mar 30, 2017 19:43
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KingSlime posted:this is definitely supporting my point rather than detracting from it... I don't think a ~25% failure rate at a very competitive program is really an indictment that everyone there was just pushed through.
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Mar 30, 2017 19:47
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There's lots of ways to interpret that figure of course, but I assume that a robust, respected program provides students with the resources to get an A in every single class. For so many of your cohorts to get C's rather than B's (which is still Not Good), either the classes are ridiculously demanding or the applicant pool wasn't as competitive as you might hope Don't get me wrong, having a graduate degree is still incredible and something to be proud of in comparison to most people, and I have zero exposure to your school, but my exposure to smaller cohorts means that the programs can't be as picky when it comes to candidates. Little to no candidates + low enrollment is a death sentence for any department. But who knows? I can only speak of programs and students I am exposed to, and the standards are pretty bad...
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Mar 30, 2017 19:51
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Government and Economics. i probably have the exact same economics one and it wasn't that hard if you did the work lol
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That's another point too. I regularly do coursework for some fields that can be done By Someone Without A Background But The Proper Info And Resources. Business, government, economics, lots of liberal arts fall into this umbrella. Why the C's? Where did the students fall short? Was it not doing the work? Was their writing weak? Did they not do the readings? Etc KingSlime fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Mar 30, 2017 19:54
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Zikan posted:i probably have the exact same economics one and it wasn't that hard if you did the work lol What year? And yes, I wasn't saying that it was insanely demanding. Just that the idea that "Intro to Opinions vs. Facts" is not indicative of a typical graduate program and it sounds like these people are getting ripped off. KingSlime posted:For so many of your cohorts to get C's rather than B's (which is still Not Good), either the classes are ridiculously demanding or the applicant pool wasn't as competitive as you might hope The acceptance rate for the Georgetown program was about 9% and it was about 7% for Stanford. I don't think the issue is that they had nobody applying and had to take anyone. I'm not even saying that the graduate programs were difficult (learning a foreign language was the only really challenging part). I'm just saying that it sounds like your clients are getting snookered and are in an especially bad program. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Your response to learning this bit of information is exactly how I felt when I saw the assignment sheet and further reinforced my notion that America is absolutely getting stupidier UT is a highly respected institution, much more so than the "knock off" UT that I went to, so I don't get it either. E: Yeah that's exactly what I'm saying as well! UT Journalism grad program: Sad! KingSlime fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Mar 30, 2017 20:07
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Also, what do you do where you have clients coming to you and asking you to do their Grad School coursework?
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I'm a one-man writing consulting firm. I get all sorts of requests my way. My favorite was a guy who wanted me to write an erotic short story about two chain-mail wearing bros who discover their passion for each other during a particularly challenging raid on a nearby enemy fortress I couldn't do it, I never even replied to the guy because he attached a pic of two blue collar white dudes with their pants down past their rear end. "this is what they should look like"
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Mar 30, 2017 20:13
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KingSlime posted:I'm a one-man writing consulting firm. I get all sorts of requests my way. I got a friend who would totally write that story for a quick buck send em' my way next time you get a weird gaybro erotica request
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I sure will! They don't come in too often, but they come in alright. Alternative reply: new dark souls DLC is weird bro
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KingSlime posted:I'm a one-man writing consulting firm. I get all sorts of requests my way. That's hilarious. How do clients find you? And you just do any sort of writing assignment? It seems really bizarre to be doing consulting work that simultaneously attracts requests for both: - Academic articles and - Erotic chainmail bro-fiction. I apologize for the derail, but grad school and non-funded Ph.Ds are BWM and erotic chainmail fiction is more entertaining than radiology equipment. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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If it pays yeah and i feel that I can deliver on expectations, I'll do whatever. I don't think gay erotica from me would be any good though, which is why I turn those types of tasks down. Maybe straight erotica might be more manageable but those requests have yet to come in. Honestly I'm not up to snuff on attracting high end clients or even having a strong web presence, and I'm still overloaded with work. I mostly plop ads on reddit (r/forhire and a few others) and occasionally get referrals from past clients. I do specify in my ads that I am particularly experienced with academic writing and workplace writing, but can take a stab at other tasks as well (this is where the misc requests come from). It's been a steady two years and at this point I've nearly done every type of writing under the sun, which only helps attract more clients with different needs. If I was more driven or focused I could explode the size of my "firm" but I don't know if I have it in me. I like what I got going on right now I guess. Or I'm just lazy. E: Woops! I forgot we were in the BWM thread! Uhhh for content it is BWM to be me and not put tax money aside because tax season is a real bitch KingSlime fucked around with this message at 20:34 on Mar 30, 2017 |
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Mar 30, 2017 20:31
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KingSlime posted:explode the size of my "firm" I thought you said you didn't do gay erotica though 
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ate all the Oreos posted:I thought you said you didn't do gay erotica though Are you just F5ing the thread waiting for pun opportunities? Your last one was better! Actual content: This is kind of sad, but the brevity and the response to the first question... quote:Should I consider bankruptcy? Im 40k (from drugs) in debt and don't know what to do. I make about 34k a year quote:Nobody can help you if you keep dodging the "are you still addicted" question everyone is asking. Bideo Games. quote:Video Game Industry Tax Deductions? His wife must be incredibly persuasive or incredibly beautiful to convince him that dropping 45k on luxury items in two years is normal. quote:30yo in 35k CC debt, need game plan I spent more on Anime and Funco Pop Anime figures than I did my newborn. How can I budget better? (Note: I need advice on how to lower my baby expenses and student loans. My anime and figurine budget are fixed.) Also, I bought half a cow for almost 1.5k and plan to do so again. quote:How I wasted $12,000 this past year and what should I do with $12k in the next year?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Are you just F5ing the thread waiting for pun opportunities? I didn't actually realize I had made a pun before the most recent one - I was serious, I have a friend that has written weird fantasy gaybro erotica before that would probably do great at it 
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It's a niche that frankly, I am not equipped to fill A gap on my resume, if you will anal sex
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Also how do you even buy half a cow, is it a live cow or did he buy like, a cow carcass?
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ate all the Oreos posted:Also how do you even buy half a cow, is it a live cow or did he buy like, a cow carcass? You buy half a cow from the farmer. Usually dead and butchered. Put it in your big freezer and hope you don't get a power cut.
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Oh I was thinking it was like a cow timeshare, like you get to milk the cow every other week, switching off with someone else.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I spent more on Anime and Funco Pop Anime figures than I did my newborn. How can I budget better? This is one of the only ones that's made me genuinely angry. Becoming parents is where we finally straightened up our act with regard to finances, and you'd better believe I'm not buying FunKo Pops instead of making 529 contributions.
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ate all the Oreos posted:Oh I was thinking it was like a cow timeshare, like you get to milk the cow every other week, switching off with someone else. Organic, grass-fed ground beef is roughly $4 a pound at Costco, ($5 at Aldi), which is a quantity our family consumes roughly every week (probably 3 weeks out of 4 but who's counting?) Maybe we have steaks every month. Let's figure we really splurge, grass-fed organic beef or something. $10 steaks. 24 steaks plus a pound of beef a week puts us at, what, $500? We could afford to do this AND buy a NEW Weber gas grill (and the propane to run it) every single year for the price of his stupid cow plan.
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Funko Pops are $10 each, so he bought 60 of the bloody things. At least he isn't into candles I guess.
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