so...what school do you go to?

more or less, how can i get people to take me serious in an office real world stylee

I just kick whoever asks this in the balls and yell "WHAT SCHOOL DO YOU GO TO?" while they writhe in pain.

actually that is not true.

hahaha <3

how can i get people to take me serious in an office real world stylee

-- bell_labs, Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Shave your beard.

if i dont have a beard what else should i shave instead?

[ pervy silence ]

go to more school until you look old

I get "are you in school?" a lot too. I think it's mostly because I can be a bit of a slob in my job (within reason - when I get too shabby the security guards at courts start hassling me more).

i don't want more school

In seriousness, any disadvantage from looking young now is overridden by the fact that you will probably look young later.

http://www.guypetersreviews.com/images/rsou.jpg

It may be a combination of factors: young looks plus hanging out with a young crowd. When the crowd grows up they will ask "so...what do you do?" instead. Unless it's cab drivers: they thought I was a student for years and then one day I woke up to find I was a ma'am.

tell them you're in dental school

doesn't this look exciting?
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/07/07/images/dental2.jpg

maybe i should get some glasses to look "smarter"

i would love to be asked this question. i would love a 2nd shot at school.

if you could do school all over, what would you do?
i think i would study accounting

i think i would study computer things so i could get PAID.

such a hard question. i've thought a lot about the PAID bit, so computers/money would definitely be an option. but since i'm in the arts now, i often wish i had studied them in school -- music, theater, visual arts, etc

the point is i would THINK about it much more. i think we make the mistake of telling kids "doesn't matter what you do in undergrad!"

(it does matter)

if i dont have a beard what else should i shave instead?

-- bell_labs, Friday, 18 April 2008 04:54 (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

try growing one

yeah bell labs all it means is you look young, this isnt nearly as offensive as me still occasionally getting carded for cigarettes @ 22

guys that's absolutely not offensive. when you're 40... you'll look back with fondness, really

if yr a dude its not good to look 17 in yr 20s

if yr a gay dude, it might be =P

i am really conflicted on the school do-over question. i loved studying what i did and i wouldn't want to change the experience for the world...except that doing something a bit more vocational strikes me in hindsight as something that might've been a good idea.

i feel like if i had kids i might find myself steering them in the direction of learning something more practical.

exactly. i mean, now i kind of feel like my parents spent a fortune on "teaching me how to think"

which is kind of bs. i mean that's the running explanation of a liberal arts education, isn't it? now, i'd be more interested in being taught how to earn a fucking living

MATH

I'm 30 and I love getting asked this although it happens less often these days. lol.

I am in school right now and studying exactly what I to be studying. If I could do it all over again though I think I'd have done premed undergrad and gone to med school. Of course, my 17 year old self would be appalled by my 30 yr old self saying that.

haha

i know, i find math incredibly fascinating.

Alternative answer is that I would have also done education so that perhaps my lit/creative writing B.A. would have actually had a practical application.

more or less, how can i get people to take me serious in an office real world stylee

-- bell_labs, Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

your answer: get a more formal haircut

fucking around on a blackberry constantly wouldnt hurt either

although on some level this all prob points to yr lack of investment in yr workplace - ur not holding the appropriate psychological tension - this is likely a good thing - look into other lines of work

well i wouldn't find it insulting if i had been among a bunch of kids thinking i went to school with them but this was mostly people in their 30-50s and the thing is i was dressed in my office clothes - i had chaired a multi-department meeting that day and was in head to toe banana republic clothes, not like jeans and a tshirt.

hahaha

maybe i should step up my business clothes from banana republic outlet, does brooks brothers make suits for the ladies?

well i know they have women's stuff... you should look into it!

they're so good for formal business stuff

I think if I could do it again I'd double major in English (which is what I majored in) and maybe something like finance or econ.

I got asked this (or UK equivalent, I'm obviously not in SCHOOL) last year, I was quite chuffed (I was 30). I am a big scruffbag though.

If I could go to uni again, the biggest change I would make is actually studying something instead of spending 3 years pissed and stoned. There's plenty of time for that later.

go to more school until you look old

-- Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

haha aw

back to school haw

Say you go to the school of hard knocks.

http://images.quizilla.com/P/pollyprizzle/1098751464_turesmaeby.jpg

Poo, would you really? I might actually focus LESS on the work, and make more of the facilities, cheapness, opportunities etc.

It's a minor regret of mine that I didn't actually learn anything at university! Fuck knows how I got a 2:2

Glasses don't make you look older.

styling may have something to do with it. demeanor may have something to do with it.

skin.

I am pushing 40 and still get carded from time to time. Mostly liquor stores, hardly ever bars, every once in a while at the grocery. I'm pretty ok with that.

Answering the thread Q -

HARD NOX!

Maybe put your hair in a ponytail and wear lots of make-up: this is how my roommate dresses for work. (She also wears a pants suit.)

I'm just happy if I can get to work on time--above that, I don't really do too much. Which is a bit inconvenient when I need to go out after work and I look a bit blah.

although on some level this all prob points to yr lack of investment in yr workplace - ur not holding the appropriate psychological tension - this is likely a good thing - look into other lines of work

-- jhøshea, Friday, April 18, 2008 2:19 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

am thinking this may be truth bomb of sorts. why throw psychological investment into some workplace situation that you mebbe would not gravitate towards naturally?

my 17 year old self would be appalled by my 30 yr old self saying that

this is deserving of its own thread i will start it here i go

the school of hard cocks lololololololololol

Do your job in a professional manner that demonstrates to your immediate supervisor that you have your shit together and let all those other people just sit on a painful object for all you care.

"I'm on a multi-year sabbatical" and/or "I quit going because I couldn't figure out what good a degree would do me."

A month or so ago a marine recruiter asked me "Are you in high school or college?" and i took great pleasure in telling him "Neither."

hoo rah

Being in some position where people make it out like you have to justify your life path is always charming.

Fuck that.

"I vomit for a living. I market my regurgitate to a firm which distributes upchuck to starving infants overseas at a reasonable price. That's how I'm able to afford Ikea furniture whilst managing to maintain my temperamental Phencyclidine laboratory. I smoke most of the sweat of my labors, but hey, the rest is gravy."