30-10-2002 04:27									#91
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quote: Originally posted by Dr Strangelove HUH??? I give blood every 2 months, I am an asthmatic, but they never object to my giving blood. Are you on steroids? Taking steroids might be a problem since people getting blood tend to be debilitated and don't need the additional immunosuppression.

I don't use steroids, no. I'm just saying what the nurse told me when I tried to give blood, oh so many years ago. If it's true that I can give blood, great. I always felt bad I couldn't. Back then I wasn't even using abuterol, just theopholin and Primetine.

	30-10-2002 05:31									#92
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara I don't use steroids, no. I'm just saying what the nurse told me when I tried to give blood, oh so many years ago. If it's true that I can give blood, great. I always felt bad I couldn't. Back then I wasn't even using abuterol, just theopholin and Primetine.

There is no reason why an asthmatic can't donate blood. The amount removed isn't enough to impair your blood's ability to carry Oxygen, so it can't hurt the donor. Since most blood is used to make packed red blood cells there isn't enough antibody in the blood product to affect the recipient, the globulin containing plasma is centrifuged off in the making of pRBCs.

	30-10-2002 05:34									#93
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I generally have been perusing this forum with the "PM" function turned off. In this case I've turned it on. Che: send your address to my "PM" and I'll send you some money.

Oops! I didn't see your reply to Groucho, so I won't expect you to contact me.

	30-10-2002 05:41									#94
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Ah, well, I sent it. Never mind then. Thanks for your offer though.

	30-10-2002 05:44									#95
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Che, I'd spot ya if it weren't for the fact that I recieved a letter from Texas A&M Student Financial Services today informing me that if I do not pay them now, a Intergalactic Bounty Hunter would be sent to chop off my left testicle.

Well, not in so many words, but you get the idea.

	30-10-2002 05:55									#96
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Thanks for the kind thoughts, Lonestar.

	30-10-2002 06:19									#97
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quote: For me, I have to be really careful. If I make too much money with a job, I'll lose the unemployment but take home less because of taxes.

god forbid you have a real job and work your way off unemployment

seriously though, are you incapable of holding a job? anything medical or the like?

tough suitation though. i'd float you some money but i'm in college, and you probably know how that goes... scrounging money for pizza and stuff.

	30-10-2002 06:39									#98
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Glad you're able to pay the rent, at least for now. and I hope your situation improves.

	30-10-2002 06:57									#99
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It gets better and then it gets worse. From 1988 to 1997 my income more than doubled and now I am making what I made in 1988 again.

I am writing a first novel which I am beginning to truely expect to finish. Odds on publication for first time novelists are something like 100,000 to 1 and if published first novels normally make about 8k.

Ack.

	30-10-2002 06:58									#100
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara Ah, well, I sent it. Never mind then. Thanks for your offer though.

So I got your message. We'll be expecting a blood payment from you forthwith.

	30-10-2002 08:22									#101
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quote: Originally posted by orange have you considered going to local area small businesses giving them a pitch, drafting up some nice web pages for them, and charging low prices? Host it for them on a basic server, use most of the $ to pay the bills, invest a little of it in getting better equipment or advertising, and working your way up?

Good luck with that. Maybe the SMEs over there in the States are more generous with advertising money. Here, a friend of mine tried that and didn't get anywhere.

[Granted, his own website sucks, looking like a 5-year old did it in a couple of hours with FrontPage ]

	30-10-2002 10:40									#102
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like I said, we made over $5,000 doing this in one summer...people have money to burn in the states...it's sick!

	30-10-2002 11:04									#103
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You know, I once donated a few bucks to help some Filipino girl build a house... one would think I could do the same to people I've met and dined with. PM me the info, Che.

	30-10-2002 11:17									#104
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I feel like George Bailey.

	30-10-2002 11:23									#105
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quote: Originally posted by orange like I said, we made over $5,000 doing this in one summer...people have money to burn in the states...it's sick!

I wish people were just as sick here

	30-10-2002 17:21									#106
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Che, a practice that you could try is to make a nice resume (CV) not longer than 2 pages, photocopy it and send it to dozens of companies that are in your field of work.

Just get their addresses and send it to them.

I only send like 5 resumes to the companies in my field of work. (isn't that lazy or what? )

I remember I once got a call out of the blue from a company to which I had send a resume. (wasn't what I was looking for but it was a nice surprise nevertheless).

It won't cost you anything, it is very easy to do (just get some addresses, the more the better) and just send your resumes to them.

Some of them, at least the serious onces, even if they have no places or interest in hiring you then and there or call you for an interview, they will store your resume and keep it handy for future reference...

Sometimes they even have a "net" of distribution of the resumes. For example, the call I got was from an affiliated company of the one I had send my resume to.

Good luck again Chegitz

	30-10-2002 18:15									#107
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quote: Originally posted by paiktis22 I remember I once got a call out of the blue from a company to which I had send a resume. (wasn't what I was looking for but it was a nice surprise nevertheless).

Yes it never hurts to be out there. You never know when some idiot will offer more than you're worth. I've switched jobs a couple of time that way.

	30-10-2002 19:20									#108
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara I feel like George Bailey.

Careful...AH kinda resembles Mr. Potter...

	31-10-2002 01:32									#109
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Well it is a killer being on the dole. I have been on for 7 months and I am doing some temp work. However it is unlikely the job will continue past december

	31-10-2002 01:47									#110
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I will also contribute if PM'd an address. Things are tight here as well, but I can manage some to help someone out.
If you want low pay and quick work, go to a temp agency, perhaps a technical one because of your skills. I recently finished a month long stint at Freightliner that is now up, but have a phone interview with a large outsourcing tech support company tomorrow.
I believe in fate...and in the three fold law of return.
Better get me that address quick...I'll do overnight mail.
Hang in there!

	31-10-2002 02:03									#111
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I don't see that there is such a thing as destiny though Sneak, things just happen. I am hoping that things work out well in my life as in che's life...it's a difficult thing...

	31-10-2002 02:57									#112
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Hey Che, sorry to hear about the finances...

If you PM me, I should be able to add something to the ‘war chest’ by Paypal…

I’m no stranger to the odd bout of hardship, so I know what it’s like.

Actually it’s a bummer about the vicious circle re the benefit and getting a job that pays enough. The important thing is to get working no matter if it’s not your field and to keep plugging away with job applications. Sneak and PH are talking about whether destiny exists or not – I believe you make your destiny, by getting out there and taking the bull by the horns!

When we got to Sydney for example, in my naivety I thought it would be easy to get an IT job of some sort but hog-tied as I am with this stupid work visa that only allows me to work in one place for three months – it has been practically impossible! So after finally giving up and re focusing my energies I finally landed a decently paid job co-ordinating the facilities management of Vodafone sites nationwide…

Of course, over here if I didn’t get myself a job I wouldn’t be getting any money whatsoever!

So hang in there, keeping plugging away and remember that if you take me up on my offer, I expect a place to stay next time I’m in the US…

Best of luck!

	31-10-2002 03:40									#113
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quote: Originally posted by chegitz guevara I feel like George Bailey.

I like you Che, but you're just not as cool as Jimmy Stewart.

	31-10-2002 03:53									#114
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If you're going to express your gratitude you could at least do us the favor of feeling like Elmer P. Dowd. "Harvey" was a much better movie, and light years more funny.

I loved the parts where Harvey and Elmer crashed the luncheon party and the part where the psychiatrist began confiding to Harvey.

	31-10-2002 04:37									#115
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Sorry to hear about your situation, che. Send over a pm with your info, and I can help out too.

	31-10-2002 06:53									#116
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I had a similiar situation last year after I graduated from college only to be hit by the worst job market in two decades. It sucked but I was forced to continue working at the same low paying place I had worked all through college even though I was supposedly an educated graduate.

Fortunately, it paid the bills until I could land a much better paying job as a geologist.

	31-10-2002 12:41									#117
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Che, sorry to hear that but there is a simple solution. Marry the Bunny (small service in a relative's house with wedding bands courtesy of your new Wal-Mart card) and collect the wedding checks.

	31-10-2002 13:38									#118
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LabSupport is a good temp agency, and while they concentrate on scientific (read 'laboratory') technical services, they landed me no fewer than four computer-related assignments.

	31-10-2002 23:37									#119
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It is a beautiful day, and I'm going bikeriding . . . over to a temp agency I know of. It's a few miles from here, but they have been recommended by a few different HR people.

	31-10-2002 23:53									#120
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Good luck.

I hear its in the 70's and 80's down there...:envy: