What worries me is that a lot of people don't value life any more. More and more you hear people attempting to normalize suicide, which I think is very troubling. You also hear people talking about overpopulation with these dark undertones that people need to die. All of that worries me - just a general disregard for the one thing that gives us any meaning - our lives.

What worries me is rather simple, really--

The prospect of graduating in a couple years and not being able to find a job that can pay for an apartment and transportation and all the medicine and health insurance I need.

What that job is, I couldn't care less at this point, sadly--

I'd like a job I like, but really, I'll take any job, given the state of the economy and the fact that I seem to be the New York Mets of job applicants (ie, trying over and over and failing so often you're simultaneously hoping for a miracle and sardonically passing the time in the knowledge it's not going to come this season...again.)

As long as there's a laptop or pen and paper in front of me I'll always write...
If I ever get anything going with my writing, fantastic...

But I need a CAREER in a few years, and I can't even get my foot in the door now--

And when someone I knew from community college who had terrible grades, was dumb as rocks, pulled her pants down in public for attention (not even a proper strip, just for attention, like she was five) while randomly pouring syrup over my head and blazer out over nowhere and had the complete lack of sense to say, as the whitest of white girls, "Get down with your N*gger self!" with a fist pump in an African-American lit class surrounded by black people with the professor being black and the person evaluating him for his TENURE that day being black...

When THAT person can get a server job, and I can't...

I honestly worry if I'll ever be able to get the sort of job I need to support myself.

(I also somewhat worry for the future of America if THAT kind of person is the type people want to reward, but one worry at a time.)

protip, obi -- shorten your resume to 8 pages or less. ;)

Naw, I jest. I've seen people in that situation, before, people who deserved jobs. Something will work out for you eventually. Especially once you're an imminent graduate with a moderately relevant degree. (Not necessarily right away though, but eventually).

LOL, I barely have a resume, as I only have tutoring and 2 weeks at Barnes and Noble as job experience, plus whenever I helped out as a kid at my dad's insurance company moving paperwork and filing and such.

@obi

Shoot me an email if you want help on your resume. I'm a fucking resume wizard.

Plenty of things worry me, though I spend little time worrying about them (if that makes sense).

I'll choose one for now that is somewhat related to both Thucy's and SL's, though distinct. I worry that we have generations rising up that are unprecedentedly arrogant in their knowledge and power, and are intent on forgetting the wisdom of the past; generations of people who on the one hand have little interest in even learning to reason well, but who on the other hand believe that the often far-reaching whims they have don't even need to engage seriously with ideas of the past, because they cloak them in a pseudoscientific language.

Thucy gives a good example -- people talking about often radical measures to solve an often vaguely defined overpopulation worry.

I'm unaware of this tendency ever having led to anything but disastrous results, and I think we have it as badly as anybody in history. (And I include my own generation, so save the "get off my lawn" remarks. ;)).

I worry about the level of control we have over the world, and how we do not safeguard it to fall into the wrong hands.

We've always had evil dictators throughout history, and we'll have them again. But some time in the near future, some dictator will have all sorts of tools available that affect the world in a scale we havent really seen before. Nukes (not new), drones, internet espionage, eugenics.

1984 was scary. 2084 is still scary.

@Speaker

I know plenty of kids or are very interested in the workings of cars and computers. I don't think this is really anything new.

@abgemacht:

I appreciate the offer, but my dad mad mine (partly because he doesn't think highly of my ability, I think, and partly because, well, he hires and fires people for a living, so I guess he DOES have far more merit making a resume than I do) and he's made and remade it three, four times now...

Nothing. I don't even get interviews, so I can't even say it's my naturally-confrontational attitude that's the problem (though if I ever got an interview somewhere--such a mythical thing, but I hear that actually happens still--I wouldn't be confrontational...shocked, maybe, but not confrontational.)



I WILL ask a question, albeit slightly warily--

When you all fill out apps online, do you give your gender?

Because while it's still a male-centric hiring world, I WILL say that of all the friends of mine that do have jobs, all or nearly all of them ARE women...none of my male friends have been able to get one (granted two of them receive payment for having served in the military and at least one held a job years ago, but as of now, neither of them hold jobs and are just students to the best of my knowledge) so...

I dunno, do male managers just hire a lot of female workers, pay them less, and have a chauvinistic mindset?

I don't doubt most of those women are qualified, not at all--

But I have to think that even the most ardent anti-Obi person here would hire me over someone who inadvertently pours syrup on people, pulls her pants down and calls people the n-word...that CAN'T be good for business...so either she has some amazing connection (or was able to get that job via "other" means) or else, maybe, males hire women for positions a lot more than men (it was for host/server at a restaurant...and the friend I have who referred me to the job opening was female, too, so I dunno...)

Well, obi, I wouldn't draw any sweeping statistical inferences from the small sample size of your friend.

@obi, instead of asking that question I think you might be better off asking those women to look over your resume, ask anyone you know who is working what they suggest. Check out your area for internships (you're still in school right?). Depending on your school you might have an internship program. Find one now to get experience. You are not going to have an easy time finding a job without experience and an internship/co-op is the way to get experience these days.

I also question how good an idea it is to have somebody make your resume who "doesn't think much of your ability."

Having the same person rewrite your resume does not make it better the second time. If you aren't getting interviews, you are applying for jobs you are unqualified for or your resume sucks.

Yeah. (Or else unemployment is worse in your area than most).

It can't hurt to have abge give it a second look.

(You don't even have to take his advice. You won't be hurt -- right abge?)

Not at all. In fact, I don't even care if he doesn't want me to look at it. But *someone* needs to.

i am worried about low levels of happines ,it looks like the new generation cares only about smartphones and the amount of friends in their facebook .
drugs are much more common now then ever and ppl are too superficial.
young girls act like sluts and the violence is high,no one cares about other ppl anymore.

yo abge would you look at my resume... i'd much appreciate it.

I worry that relationships of all sorts between human beings become increasingly shallow and meaningless. There are IMHO many technological and economical reasons behind this development, none of which should stopped or slowed down in the slightest.

What worries us? YOLO.

I agree redhouse. I feel like no one cares about anyone sometimes. A crystal clear example is the way the dating scene is among people my age. It's pretty fucking sickening and terrifying the way people treat each other and think of each other.

Like commodities.

@Thucy

Sure. Do you have my email?

yup yup

@Obi: Your CV gets you through the door. If you're not getting interviews, blame the CV. Remember that the person who would offer you an interview *isn't* the person who *first* reads your CV in an organisation. That'll be someone who has a hundred CVs to go through *that day* and only 5 of those will get passed up the line. Everyone else applying for the jobs you're applying for has the same almost complete lack of experience that you have. Your CV (and it's covering letter) has to stand out from the crowd, has to get past that first, bored, cynical, busy, overworked filter.

interesting piece of advice:

if youre a woman in the US - do not attach a photo to your resume

if you are a man in the US, only do so if you are conventionally attractive

The reason behind this? Most of the people who work in that first filter position are women, and studies on those people show that they are more likely to favor attractive men, and more likely to disfavor women whose pictures they see, regardless of whether they're attractive. and if you're an unattractive dude, don't attach a pic for obvious reasons.

be thankful it's not like other countries where having a photo is more or less compulsory

Interesting cultural difference:

In the UK attaching a photo of yourself to your CV is frowned upon by most businesses and will significantly lower your chances of getting most jobs.

Worry: There are so many things I'm trying to forget, I can't even remember them.

Actually, my impression would have been that the same was true in the US as what Octavious said: I've always been told not to attach a photo under any circumstances. (lol, OK, I'm opening myself up to various remarks).

various obvious remarks sent

What worries Thucy? #fuckthucy

What worries me:-
1) People who feel the need to carry guns, they worry me
2) Politicians who think they are smarter than they are
3) Israeli military
4) General health of family members
5) Desperate people who have nothing to lose
6) Religious fanatics
7) Killer dogs & killer whales (add polar bears to this list)
8) Suicide bombers
9) Dangerous and/or drunken drivers
10) People who wield power without responsibility/rationality

1) The Spanish Inquisition
2) The unexpected

yeah its not normal in the US either, you should really only do it if you're a hot dude. lol or so i've heard

@NigeeBaby i wanted to +1 you but then i read "3) israeli military"
you are a smart person ,why does israeli army worries you?

@oct: 1) is redundant, its a subset of 2)

Since it came first, though, maybe it was predundant

@NigeeBaby i wanted to +1 you but then i read "3) israeli military"
you are a smart person ,why does israeli army worries you?

Is that a rhetorical question?

In the Bible it says an eye-for-an-eye, a tooth-for-a-tooth
I don't think the Israeli army work on those Biblical stats
They seem to insist on at least 10-1 ratio
It is a pathetic question to ask considering the constant and systematic human rights abuses carried out daily by the Israeli regime on the Palestinian people, it really disgusts me, I think the thing that disgusts me most is that my own country support the policy along with the European Union and the Americans, one day justice will come to the Palestinians until that day I hang my head in embarrassment and shame.