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Yesanman
Joined: 21 Jun 2006
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 Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:04 am Post subject: I'm so pathetic! |
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So, bored sitting at work. Decided to google an old classmate.
Found a guy that I studied with in Moscow in 1992.
The article I found about him is to celebrate his becoming a fully tenured professor at Princeton.
Ok he was a better student that I was, but come one Princeton prof..
Needless to say feeling a little pathetoc about myself.
Now as I sit down to play Monopoly with a bunch of 10 year olds I must contemplate the fact that he has kicked my butt profession-wise. |
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numazawa
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: The Concrete Barnyard
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| Forget about that other stuff. Just make damn sure you don't lose that game, or you're finished. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Don't worry, you will soon be living large in Kamloops, the hub of the successful set. |
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SuperFly
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:26 am Post subject: |
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| That's ok, I went to school with Greg Kinnear the actor. |
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JongnoGuru
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:27 am Post subject: |
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Whatever you do, be sure nobody buys Mayfair & Park Lane before you do!!
(or boardwalk & park place) |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:56 am Post subject: Re: I'm so pathetic! |
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| Yesanman wrote: |
The article I found about him is to celebrate his becoming a fully tenured professor at Princeton.
Ok he was a better student that I was, but come one Princeton prof..
Needless to say feeling a little pathetoc about myself.
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Har. That's nothing. I went to school with at least one Pulitzer winner, one Tony Award winner, a baseball analyst / transsexual, a dictionary editor / regular guest on an NPR show, not to mention countless professors, doctors, and lawyers. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:44 am Post subject: Re: I'm so pathetic! |
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| huffdaddy wrote: |
| Yesanman wrote: |
The article I found about him is to celebrate his becoming a fully tenured professor at Princeton.
Ok he was a better student that I was, but come one Princeton prof..
Needless to say feeling a little pathetoc about myself.
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Har. That's nothing. I went to school with at least one Pulitzer winner, one Tony Award winner, a baseball analyst / transsexual, a dictionary editor / regular guest on an NPR show, not to mention countless professors, doctors, and lawyers. |
Yeah, and a whole mess of people went to school with ME. Lucky bastards. |
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numazawa
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: The Concrete Barnyard
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:52 am Post subject: Re: I'm so pathetic! |
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| flotsam wrote: |
| huffdaddy wrote: |
| Yesanman wrote: |
The article I found about him is to celebrate his becoming a fully tenured professor at Princeton.
Ok he was a better student that I was, but come one Princeton prof..
Needless to say feeling a little pathetoc about myself.
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Har. That's nothing. I went to school with at least one Pulitzer winner, one Tony Award winner, a baseball analyst / transsexual, a dictionary editor / regular guest on an NPR show, not to mention countless professors, doctors, and lawyers. |
Yeah, and a whole mess of people went to school with ME. Lucky bastards. |
And here I was just getting ready to point out how nobody seemed eager to acknowledge the seedier counterparts of these past associations.  |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:55 am Post subject: Re: I'm so pathetic! |
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| numazawa wrote: |
And here I was just getting ready to point out how nobody seemed eager to acknowledge the seedier counterparts of these past associations. |
Finally someone quick enough to take it literally when I write "lucky bastards". |
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Homer
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| Now as I sit down to play Monopoly with a bunch of 10 year olds I must contemplate the fact that he has kicked my butt profession-wise. |
Why?
Was it your goal to become a full tenure professor at Princeton?
Did you have the goal of completing a PHD to become a professor?
What was (is) your professiona goal in life?
Comparing yourself to others is useless and more to the point a bad idea because...they are not you now are they?
Case in point: my older brother.
Works in Tokyo for Cannon as a Director of the translation office. Makes great coin.
Should I feel that he kicked my butt professionally?
Heck no...because translation works and what he does would bore me to tears and it was never my goal.
One of my friends from High School is working as a big time lawyer for a large firm in Canada...did he kick my professional butt?
Not really no because I never had any intention of becoming a lawyer and working the hours he works in the field of work he is in.
I wanted to be a teacher (I am) and be successful at it (I am). I also wanted to start something on my own (I did: consultant, part-time) and have a family. Those are my goals and I do not care one iota how much the next guy makes or what car he drives.....that my friend is a bad way to go about your life! |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| Homer wrote: |
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| Now as I sit down to play Monopoly with a bunch of 10 year olds I must contemplate the fact that he has kicked my butt profession-wise. |
Why?
Was it your goal to become a full tenure professor at Princeton?
Did you have the goal of completing a PHD to become a professor?
What was (is) your professiona goal in life?
Comparing yourself to others is useless and more to the point a bad idea because...they are not you now are they?
Case in point: my older brother.
Works in Tokyo for Cannon as a Director of the translation office. Makes great coin.
Should I feel that he kicked my butt professionally?
Heck no...because translation works and what he does would bore me to tears and it was never my goal.
One of my friends from High School is working as a big time lawyer for a large firm in Canada...did he kick my professional butt?
Not really no because I never had any intention of becoming a lawyer and working the hours he works in the field of work he is in.
I wanted to be a teacher (I am) and be successful at it (I am). I also wanted to start something on my own (I did: consultant, part-time) and have a family. Those are my goals and I do not care one iota how much the next guy makes or what car he drives.....that my friend is a bad way to go about your life! |
Sour grapes. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:25 am Post subject: |
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I went to high school with a girl who is studying at Cambridge, and served on committees with students who went on to be Rhodes Scholars. I was on that track, but I messed up. There are some choices I wish I hadn't made to end up in Korea, and my life would have been so different. But you can't undo the past.
I can spend my time rueing bad past decisions, but I've decided to put my energy into moving onto somewhere better than I could of if I couldn't come here. And I also know later on when the chips are down, I have the strength of character to push through the bad patches after my experiences here. I made a whole life for myself out of nothing. I didn't know a soul, had some theoritical knowledge of education, and didn't speak the language at all when I arrived here. I do a good job, my kids win awards, I've learned a language to the point where I can get by in daily life, and I 've made some awesome friends without that big safety net back home provides. Makes succeeding at that other stuff seem kind of easy by comparision when I think about it.
So you aren't where you want to be. That's not a problem. Work out what you want to do and what you have to do to get there. Then start working on your escape plan. Korea is a good place to find out the 'true you' and build a nice nest egg for future plans.
Remember that success isn't always in the doing, but how you rise after you fall. |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
I went to high school with a girl who is studying at Cambridge, and served on committees with students who went on to be Rhodes Scholars. I was on that track, but I messed up. There are some choices I wish I hadn't made to end up in Korea, and my life would have been so different. But you can't undo the past.
I can spend my time rueing bad past decisions, but I've decided to put my energy into moving onto somewhere better than I could of if I couldn't come here. And I also know later on when the chips are down, I have the strength of character to push through the bad patches after my experiences here. I made a whole life for myself out of nothing. I didn't know a soul, had some theoritical knowledge of education, and didn't speak the language at all when I arrived here. I do a good job, my kids win awards, I've learned a language to the point where I can get by in daily life, and I 've made some awesome friends without that big safety net back home provides. Makes succeeding at that other stuff seem kind of easy by comparision when I think about it.
So you aren't where you want to be. That's not a problem. Work out what you want to do and what you have to do to get there. Then start working on your escape plan. Korea is a good place to find out the 'true you' and build a nice nest egg for future plans.
Remember that success isn't always in the doing, but how you rise after you fall. |
More bitterness.
(OK, I'll stop playing now.) |
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Hapkido-In
Joined: 24 Jun 2006
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Comparing incomes with people is not a good way to compare yourself to others at all.
What you should ask yourself is, "Could I knock-out, choke-out, or tap-out the person in question." If you can, then you win.
Remember, money only lasts until a market crashes.
Arm-bars and Choke-holds are forever. |
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The Hierophant
Joined: 13 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:49 am Post subject: |
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Arm-bars and Choke-holds are forever. |
Or, at least until someone bigger and badder than you shatters your wrists, elbows and shoulders, leaving them permanently deformed and incapable of combat. It's around that time that the money comes in handy. |
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