Did everyone apply for this?
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Wasn’t school pleasant today? Doesn’t my prof seem to be a decent sort, especially since we won’t be having any term papers or group projects (in-class group activities, yes, but no group stuff outside of classtime) to work on?
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Isn’t that lucky?
Doesn’t it seem that summer class professors are generally more easygoing and a little more alternative with their curriculae?
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Have you ever taken a summer course in quantitative chemical analysis at a JC, by a prof that boasted about the number of Berkeley and Stanford students that dropped after thinking it would be an easy pass?
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No; have you?
Have you ever taken a summer course in differential equations after failing it the previous semester, only to get an A? Doncha know that guy was one of the best professors I ever had, and he made all the difference?
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Except for that prof whose class I dropped, right? Wasn’t that a mess?
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Ugh; wasn’t it though?
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Didn’t I watch that class dwindle from 30 to 15 within a couple of weeks? Isn’t it funny they only offered it as a summer course?
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So should I seriously reply to the recruiter wanting sysadmins to work in Kuwait? Do I wanna be away from MrsTobinL and the kid for months at a time?
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Didn’t that make all the difference for me after dropping the 300 level linear algebra class 3 times?
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Quantitative chemical analysis
Was there, um, so much interest in that course that they should have offered a full class?
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Didn’t it seem intentionally designed to weed out those that were not serious abut the science? Was it perhaps a holdover from the pre-Internet days, when people couldn’t get easy access to the information that came after?
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Do you want to make lots of money? Do you want to come home months later realizing the money wasn’t worth doing it again?
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Are they offering you more than you would make here? Does the job require you to supply 7+ years of personal information to the US government?
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Anyone else leaving at 6:00am tomorrow morning to drive their kid to volleyball camp in the middle of the next state over? Isn’t it lucky that I have a flexible work situation?
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As all I have is the initial contact email how would I know yet? Are you referring to a security clearance? Yeah that’s another strike against it for my liking isn’t it?
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Should I suppose we won’t know then? Wasn’t I just speaking from experience, being in tech. and having certain countries come up with recruiters?
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Don’t we all? I mean if they doubled what I was getting at my last job it would be quite tempting as I could pay the bills at home and have a nice allowance while living elsewhere and that is kinda nice isn’t it?
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Aren’t some things worth a Donalding?
No. Absolutely not going to Kuwait.
Have I had friends who did this and came back divorced and bitter? Have I had friends who came back flummoxed at how fucked up their society is? Have I had friends come back wondering at their missing time from their kids and realizing it wasn’t worth the money?
Yes, yes, and yes.
I’ll put it to you this way: I wouldn’t go at ten times my salary and if I could take my family with me.
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Only double? Don’t you get concerned when money isn’t an object for these things? Don’t you think there’s some other real catch that makes it have to cost that much?
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