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LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 7:48 pm

I took my last exam this morning.

I will be graduating on Saturday.

Thank you everyone who helped with my A paper on abortion!

I'm so so happy to be done!

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 8:37 pm

Nice going!! Does this mean you'll be More Than Zero now??

I have one word for you, son: Plastics.

xxx

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 8:51 pm

No, I'll still be LTZ.

It's a Communication Studies major with a Journalism minor. Nothing you can get a job with...

But if anyone on the board wants to let me in on the ground floor of their plastics business....

Is anyone hiring??

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 10:05 pm

It's okay, LTZ. I have that same degree.

I even graduated in December, too. But that was a few years ago.

Congratulations on your paper and your graduation. I didn't realize it was so soon. Wish we could all be there to take you out for drinks!

A rope leash · Post by **A rope leash** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 10:11 pm

That must feel good, <0.

They just laid off forty more at my company. Merry Xmas, everybody!

Make mine 5ive exes!

XXXXX

Hey lookie I kissed you 5x!

I'm so proud!

>0!

Funny...!

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 11:00 pm

If you all bought me drinks, I'd probably have too much, but I would still love the warmth of the company. Would that be a great time OR WHAT?!?

Thanks Rope and Pooky, that means a lot!

I feel like you guys are my real parents! (don't tell the good dr.!)

Will work for lots of money,

LTZ

RedShoes · Post by **RedShoes** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 11:14 pm

LessThanZero wrote:No, I'll still be LTZ.

It's a Communication Studies major with a Journalism minor. Nothing you can get a job with...

Yeah, try finding a job with a BA in Psychology.....not so easy.

sulkygirl · Post by **sulkygirl** » Thu Dec 11, 2003 11:43 pm

Congrats, LTZ!!!

What ever happened to the Radio job???

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 12:45 am

sadly sulkyg, I am now working for the man.

I start my new job in Human Resources for the hospital next month.

It's a wonderful life...

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:23 am

I got my degree in Mass Comm too, with a writing minor . . .

I am also now employed by the man. It kinda sucks.

But I still dont know what I want to be when I grow up . . .

Post by **BlueChair** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:35 am

I think a lot of it also depends on where you live, and your work experience leading up to graduation.

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 1:51 am

Pip and I both live with the man.

Blue chair lives with his blue ottoman empire of couches and other couch like things, with stoops suitable for royalty, and whitehouse-burning, fanatic countrymen who care for snow and little else.

Perhaps the man's got a shot and now he's dead, 45.

Who wants to hire me? I'd be good in Boston, Toronto or even the beautiful city of Alabama.

My goal is to someday work in the public affairs division of the US embassy in Winnipeg and snowmobile my way to the top.

All I need is a simple twist of fate...

or a simple box of pine.

Misha · Post by **Misha** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 2:18 am

LTZ,

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Now you are going to end up doing mortuary work with that degree!! It never fails, most people do work that has nothing to do with their degree.

Now, if you stay in school...you don't have to start paying back those student loans....maybe you should go for a doctorate....like Diana.

LessThanZero · Post by **LessThanZero** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 2:22 am

Misha, I would if I could but I haven't liked school since the 3rd grade! I need a break.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 8:31 am

congratulations LTZ!! big, major accomplishment!!

and, uh, I'm forty years old and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up. my five year old daughter told me this morning that she couldn't decide: rock star, teacher or McDonald's. (!!!!) the world is full of possibilities...

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 9:36 am

Whilst I didn't help you with your paper may I add my congratulations.

I hope the new job doesn't affect you posting on the board!

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 9:36 am

Ummm, would you like fries with that?

It is true that a lot of people end up working in a field that is unrelated to their field of study. Sometimes I feel it is unfair to start college at 17 or 18 and be required to have an architectural design plan for the rest of your life - mapping out exactly four years of study and knowing exactly what you want to do. And then starting to do it when you're 22 or 23 and doing that same one thing until you retire or die.

I'm not even remotely the same person I was when I started college, so it just doesn't make sense that you decide something so important at a time filled with constant changes and uncertainty in your life. Although it worked for DrS, but I think some people get lucky. He would have never finished his PhD so young if he hadn't loved what he did from the beginning. But it really doesn't happen that way very often.

LTZ, be comfortable with who you are right now and embrace change in the future. Welcome new ideas and be open to new possibilities. The world is ever changing and so are we as people. It's important to realize that not only during a time like graduation, but also for marriage.

God, I really do sound like your parent now!

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 9:57 am

Congrats, LTZ.

Yeah Spooky, there's no such thing as taken for granted long term job stability anymore, so you (anyone) might as well enjoy any apparent diversions along the way.

I don't get the plastics reference, but I ended up designing shampoo bottles straight out of uni (industrial design), when I thought I'd be the next Charles Eames or something... it wasn't glamourous.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:07 am

Congratulations, Young Man. I'm sure you will find something productive and interesting to do with your life, and remember that you are never locked into anything.

Moody, my 8-year-old daughter says she want to be "a famous rock-and-roll drummer", so maybe the girls could start a band. I think my 2-year-old will be an exotic dancer, given his love for naked dancing.

LTZ, maybe you could think about those as possible careers?

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:23 am

Bamboo: If I'm not mistaken, Mug's reference to "Plastics" is a line from the movie The Graduate where that guy keeps telling Dustin Hoffman's character, "Son, the future is in plastics."

A rope leash · Post by **A rope leash** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 10:51 am

Twenty years of schooling, and they put you on the day shift
Look out kids, they got all hid!

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 11:29 am

CONGRATULATIONS LTZ!!!!!!!!

graduating is a feat. i too graduated in december, many years ago.

(and i re-upped for more school? sick.)

don't worry too much. what you do now won't be what you do 10 yrs from now, or likely even five. life is changeable.

and, HAVE FUN. best thing to do, have fun.

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 11:30 am

Thanks spooky.

I favour the tougher coloured injection molded polypropylenes over the clear acrylics they use for the EC reissue jewel cases... not brittle.

A rope leash · Post by **A rope leash** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 11:42 am

I'm into polystyrenes, myself.

That, and leather...

Lipstick · Post by **Lipstick** » Fri Dec 12, 2003 11:49 am

LTZ:

Congrats! Have fun this weekend!

And know that you are not locked into any job or career, ever.

I always felt that my life was going to go in cycles of 5 years, which has been approximately right. 5 years in college, 5 years of marriage before kids (can't give them back after 5 years though), 6 years in Business...and now I teach--Which I actually love doing. I may be in that for longer than 5 years, but not forever. I couldn't be one of those people who teaches the same thing in the same classroom for 35 years.

It's never too late to change gears completely.

I have a relative who went back to school to get a nursing degree at age 50. My brother started law school around 30.

The oldest freshman at my univ. was an 83 year old lady who had survived a concentration camp in Germany. She still had a number tatooed on her arm. She had sent all of her kids to college and had always wanted to go, so she did. She graduated before me!

Life is lived at all ages.

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