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  Unemployment Rates For College v. High School

  by skeeter1 in

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  young people with only high school diplomas or less are hardest hit by unemploymentpublished: friday, april 22, 2011, 1:46 pm ap graphiconly about a third of young people with a high school education or less are working full time.

  ie6 hack ie6 hack young people who try to find work straight out of high school aren't faring well in today's tough economy.. .

  four in 10 of those surveyed whose education stopped at high school are unemployed.

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  MartynAndrew

  Hi

  time will pass with or without going to school, so whether your 25 or 45 in 4 years you'll still be 4 years older- wouldn't you rather have a degree? Part-time is a good option for some people, it takes longer, but you can spread the cost over more time, and you can still keep your job sometimes. Even if you don't find a job in your field it still demonstrates the ablitity to think, reason, summarize, analysis...some of the best lawyers come from history degree or even languages. Life is supposed to be fun and interesting, it takes a while to shake the cob webs out and get on with it.
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  So who's doing Easter Sunday

  by designs in

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  do you see it as celebrating a literal resurrection event, or do you see it as a celebration of hope or some other cause to celebrate..

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  I love having a day off work and that is reason to celibrate. We are getting together with family and friends, none of them know about my past really and don't care, i guess Christmas and Easter will always be a little strange. I get a whole week off for christmas now thats paradise.
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  I'm totally in love...

  by mrsjones5 in

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  with my french press.. *warning* if fluff topics make you gag and expose your superority complex then this topic is not for you...move along.

  a few months ago i got a little french press from a thrift shop but i never used it.

  last weekend i went to visit a good friend for a few days and i got my chance to use my little french press because my dear friend doesn't have a coffee maker which is kinda strange cuz he loves coffee just as much as i. .

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  We split a pound of Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee and used a press, it was sort of out of this world. Anyone listening to us discuss it would have thought we were talking about drugs with our split up pound of Jamaican and all.
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  Questions for former elders.

  by evilone in

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  i have a few questions regarding moving and changing congs.

  i would love to hear from former elders.. .

  my wife and i will be moving soon, and as i described in an earlier post we will be using the move as an opportunity to fade.

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  MartynAndrew

  Someone in an earlier post said- Witness Protection Program, that is so funny and so sad, having to excape from the most wonderful place on earth? Afraid for family and running for our lives, man it's sort of scarry. All the best, good luck with your new life.
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  Temporarily tired of JW boyfriend. Should I: a) leave

  by SEL in

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  2. relationships

  or b) continue in my plan of eventually getting him out with steve hassan's help?.

  option b is going to be expensive but not impossibly so.

  but it would require more patience than i think i have.

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  my two cents- run, it ain't worth it, find someone else and get one with life, this person could be a broken record, and if you think it sucks now give it five or ten years.
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  Where do the JW's pull their statistics from?

  by stillstuckcruz in

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  2. beliefs

  i noticed how, of course, the public talk outlines contain the same information for all the brothers to use.

  but their statistics on matter aren't very up-to-date i imagine.. example: i remember the talk about parents or young people or something.

  many of you may remember the statistic it provides.

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  MartynAndrew

  Huff,D(1982)How to Lie With Statistics.New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.
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  Need awesome suggestions!

  by the_raisin in

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  for the last four days, every morning i take donut out for her walk, i always find jw's preaching door to door across the street.

  i always cross to them, and wait with dread at what i think is inevitable: they will try to preach to me.. but it never happens.

  four days, seen three diifferent groups, nothing.

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  MartynAndrew

  Once they are on the clock they aren't going to waste their time, if you caught them before they started the shift they might try to hand you something, you say you're not interested, and they are on the clock, since they aren't on piece work, or get a bonus for talking to people why bother, they are going to paradise anyway with or without you at least in their mind. Plus a house holder is less likely to lash out since they are at home. I guess they are sort of working for a company that does not pay it's employees and they are only at work cause the wife or husband will be made if they sat on the couch all day. what a screwed up way to live, i'm so glad we are not part of that pile-o-crap.
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  How HIGH did you climb the ranks as a JW? Did you like the STATUS?

  by unshackled in

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  so what were your biggest jw accomplishments as a rank & file?

  curious as to what level you climbed the r&f ladder while in the org, or if you still are in.. did you regular pioneer, or auxiliary pioneer?

  bethel?

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  I auxilary pioneered twice, screwed it up completely the second time, as in not getting half the hours. I probably would have taken the hook like a bull dog and went all the way if it wasn't all so boring. I was pretty much useless as a JW, I remeber being asked to lead a service meeting since I was the only man there, man that must sting, total tool pretty well unqualified for anything and leads the meeting cause of the extra bit. I was not to impressed with the jobs anyway, mics? what kind of a freaking position is that? really reaching out.
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  Memorial - How many on here went and how many didn't?

  by IMHO in

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  feel free to add why/why not?.

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  I haven't been since 1994, and it seems to be exactly the same(from what i'm reading here), with half the format dedicated to telling the masses not to participate in the wine and bread. I've seen them screw up funerals in the same fashion, filling what could be a decent moment with a bunch of rules and crap that they have made up. If I had good reason to go, I'd go, but it is so boring and silly I would not go for any sort of spiritual reason, they would have to be giving out $1000 bills or hold it at a resort in Grand Cayman-at their expense of course...

  happy easter
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  The strangest looking (and acting) nut jobs you have ever seen at the KH!

  by new boy in

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  there are so many after after 52 years in the "borg".. my top two would have to be at my last hall tigard oregon.. one lady slept in her pickup truck with 30 parakeets, sometimes in the kh parking lot.

  people tried to help her with accommodations but she like the truck.

  she really dressed up for the meetings......feather boa's, big hats, looked like may west from the 30's.

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  MartynAndrew

  I loved the crazies, they made it remotely interesting.

  at the book study onne older guy would glaze over and give the most terrifying witness, regardless of the reading, and he always went last setting the memory, I think he thought he was teaching us a lesson or something, how serious the whole affair was.

  So many variations of crazy its imposible to bring them all up.