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There’s plenty of opportunities in law enforcement.
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I read somewhere that a policeman’s pension was revoked due to a law he broke after retirement. Not sure if it was true nor can I remember where I read it.

I decided right then and there that I didn’t want a career in any field where my retirement could be revoked. To me, it is something a person earns due to their years of service and should not be revoke-able based on a future action.[/quote]

Absent any other concern, basing your decision on a single anecdote you don’t even know is true is . . . odd. Hopefully the OP’s son has the common sense to conduct a bit more due diligence.[/quote]

Cop could be fun.

One thing i didnt really think about is friends. Its good to have work if possible where you can make friends. Some jobs better than others.

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[quote=svelte]Should tell you how I found my career also. When I graduated HS, I was convinced I wanted to be an architect. I was 2 years into a 6 year architecture degree at a major midwest university when I decided I was badly mistaken…didn’t like it at all. Kind of like flu said, it’s one thing to be drawing/working on your stuff…entirely different when someone else is calling the shots!

So I quit school, quit my job, packed up my bags and moved to California. Still confused as to what to do, I worked odd jobs for a year and basically did nothing but manual labor during the day and play at night. My buddy was a computer science major so I tagged along with him to the computer lab when he worked on projects. That lit my fire, that’s what I wanted to do. So I applied to a California university and got in as a computer science major.

That’s how I found my niche and I never looked back.[/quote]

If we could know that everything would work out during our darkest confusion, the ride would be more fun. well, maybe fun is the wrong word. Less scary. less turbulence. I wonder if there is more pressure on young people to feel like they’re on the right path from the start nowadays.

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[quote=barnaby33][quote=scaredyclassic]It only took me 60 years, but i can finally relate to my dad.
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You forgot narcissistic. This thread isn’t about you. It’s about choices that a young man might make post college.
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ah, right. Narcissistic. Good point. Narcissistic yet self-loathing. let’s get back on track. Suggestions?

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It only took me 60 years, but i can finally relate to my dad.

I thought he was so boring, stable, anxious, fearful, cautious, repressed, irritating, obvious, habitprone.

Pot meet kettle.

It strikes me that my 60 years, if it didnt overlap with his 60 years, and his 60 years, had it not overlapped with his father, would stretch back 180 years, or back to 1840. Im not sure why this fascinates and alarms me. Maybe its another way of saying, TOO SOON OLD, TOO LATE SMART.

Or this sense that we stumble through life with no experience, led by parents who have us when they are no more than children themselves.

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Thanks, friends.

I will give him this thread.

Painful to watch. I now see how uncomfortable my parents must’ve been as i struggled to find my way. For so incredibly long. Floundering. dejected. Lonely. I was fixated on myself. I didnt care how they felt about my problems.

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Solid seems a little too optimistic. More like a sandy foundation.

Slightly closer vote, maybe trump couldve strong armed his way in to the supreme court and argued plausibly and won.

America, at least half of it seems to want the authoritarian boot on its face. Republican house loves it too. We want to be crushed in fear and kept in line by a strongman.

I have very little hope democrats will do anything to help either. Maybe just give everybody UBI, a monthly weed and pasta allotment and call it a day.

I believe the only thing republicans respect is an iron fist and the whip. So best course forward. Hit them so fucking hard they never recover and splinter forever.

Change all the rules. End the filibuster. Stack the supreme court with 20 liberals. Undo gerrymandering rules.

Put hawley and trump on the no fly list. Impeach cruz. Ruthlessly attack them. Never let up for a moment.

Run up the deficit three times what trump did. Buy a majority.

Fuck with their heads. Loosen gun laws. Fuck it.

Prosecute the hell out of everyone republican congressman insurrectionist.

Burn them to the ground without mercy.

Expose every wrongdoing in endless benghazi like hearings. Have the video of the riot playing non stop for the next 4 years as you pick off and crush house members like bugs.

In other words, grow a pair and hit back twice as hard as they hit.

Do not be remotely nice or fair. Do not negotiate with terrorists. Starting at the top.

Lock him up. For real.

Not that it matters. We are environmentally doomed anyway .

I went to the hills and the view was literally of a scorched mountainside from the cranston fire. You cant run to the hills they’re burnt to crisp.

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I saw 1 guy sitting outside jack in the box openly holding a meth pipe, and i saw another guy maybe on national take a hit off a meth pipe and immediately burst into an enraged paranoid monologue [not entirely dissimilar to the inner monologues that occasionally occur in my own head].

The open drug use is concerning. We are getting old. I cant be attacked, break a hip, etc.

On the other hand, the homeless seemed pretty chill. No aggressive, or really any, panhandling.

In some instances, its difficult to tell whos homeless . We saw a reasonably dressed woman, young, eating a pie while squatting down against a building. We had a hard time figuring out.

Homeless or not?

Her purse looked too nice. But why is she eating a whole pie outdoors. Against a wall? Grubby clothes, but i was dressed worse. Not always clear.

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discovery cortez looks awesome. walk to little italy, farmers market, balboa park right there….the HOA seems high. 730? is there a risk of large special assessments in places like this.

is everything up to the inside of the house covered by that?

It’s all even walkable to the airport, which attracts me. i can just take a short hike with a backpack.

are these homeless people going to be here forever or is there some sort of giuliani like nyc 90s plan to clean up the city?

i guess we could have two residences….

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[quote=sdrealtor]Wait IMO. Massive inventory added down there the last 20 years and more coming plus exodus away from density should work to your favor if you still want to in a few years. Either way no hurry and not subject to the madness I see up by me[/quote]

ok. does seem to be a lot of inventory even in the super nice building we are in. near island and 11th.

I was overcome by an urge to start a completely new life, at a low interest rate, but that is not just a matter of buying a condo.

Also, yardwork is wearing me down.

Maybe in a few years. It all seems so small and manageable. a little tiny place. this desire seems so utterly predictable, cliche, embarrassingly so.

I definitely want a 100 sq ft plus patio.though and I’ll be set… i can sleep out there.

what is reaosnable per square foot ona high end sd condo in your opinion, sdrealtor? Any idea what the building cost is on these massive structures per square foot?

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[quote=svelte]Welcome back Scaredy…I’ve been thinking about you every few days.

As I’m sure you’ve seen Trump tried his best to burn the place down on his way out the door. Jan 6, 2021 will be in textbooks for decades to come. Those photos of hundreds of troops laying on the floor the the US Capitol are really something.

This is all such an amazing thing to watch and while it embarrasses me that our country is going through this, it shows that the foundation is still rock solid. Our system works. All three branches of government work. It took four years to spit out a defective part of the executive branch, but the defective part was indeed spit out.[/quote]

The capitol riots cheered me up. We are a nation founded on genocide and slavery, and in general we’ve always been an undemocratic, militaristic, war-mongering, nation of aggressive dudes ready to mess up other countries for our own personal gain. It’s who we are. It’s our brand.

Now, it seems, we are the same, except the anger is directed inward. This is interesting. The enemy is us. Instead of screwing with guatemala’s elections or some CIA coup outside our borders, we seem to be doing to ourselves what we have been doing to the world for a century. Destabilizing ourselves as an inside job.

Its therapeutic for the world for us to bring our aggressive idiocy home where we can deal with it without screwing up other nations.

Also, really, I was a bit jealous of the capitol rioters. So much community spirit amongst them, which I do not feel in my own life. So much purpose! and they seemed to be having such an awesome time. It looks like maybe one of the best days of their lives, and for most, with small penalties to pay, probably on the whole worth it. What am I? Some dumb liberal wuss who hates gun and is afraid of everything. I want to walk into the Nation’s capitol like I own it, maybe take a piss on Mitch Mcconnell’s desk. Man that would’ve felt good. But no, I can’t because I am a reaosnable antifa type person who is concerned about other humans points of views. What a dope.

I do not agree that everything is OK. Everything is just as it was. unstanble. Chaotic. Primed for possible improvement, or decline.

Overall–thrilling. I give jan 2021 5 stars.

Now, about the SD condo market….should I wait?

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I’m staying in SD in the east village in a free, totally hipster tiny apartment for three months my wife got through work. I now realize that maybe I should be living in the east village and not in trumpy temecula. Any reason not to impulsively buy a small 400k condo in this incredibly hip area, other than the superabundance of homeless people and dogs peeing and pooping everywhere? I love it here!

i think im an old person ready to downsize.

My primary concern is that they appear to be building a highrise on every single block. Are there enough people to actually fill all these buildings? indeed, does anyone actually live here? the streets seem relatviely empty.

Is everyone just hunkered down? I never want to go back to temecula. I want a tiny condo!

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holy crap, biden won! anything else new?

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i had saved my unmailed bush gore ballot for many years, hoping to sell it on ebay someday, but i lost it somewhere.

I was thinking of saving this ballot too, but decided to let the money go and mail it in.

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Maybe it was because asians wore masks and americans dislike asian culture.

Its like being asked to use chopsticks. People found it a foreign unamerican practice

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Why did i hate judaism?
To piss off my folks.
Why did i hate christianity?
To appease them.
Why did i become a buddhist?
Because it helped me not want to appease or piss them off.

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