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View Poll Results: Are you gainfully employed?
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No, I am currently unemployed.
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Yes, I have a part time job.
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Yes, I have a temp or contract job.
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Yes, I have a full time perminent job. (I just surf to much on 'poly)
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September 25, 2003, 13:36
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Deity
Local Time: 02:16
Local Date: November 2, 2010
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Are you unemployed?
I seem to notice that a great many of the regulars (myself included) here at poly are either unemployed or underemployed. I'd like to start a nonscientific poll to see if this is true.
Also how do you explain the poll results?
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Christianity is the belief in a cosmic Jewish zombie who can give us eternal life if we symbolically eat his flesh and blood and telepathically tell him that we accept him as our lord and master so he can remove an evil force present in all humanity because a woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from an apple tree.
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September 25, 2003, 13:39
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No -- I'm a part-time employee through an internship while going for my Master's.
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September 25, 2003, 13:39
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Deity
Local Time: 02:16
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BTW my own answer is that I was employed but now I am not. 
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Christianity is the belief in a cosmic Jewish zombie who can give us eternal life if we symbolically eat his flesh and blood and telepathically tell him that we accept him as our lord and master so he can remove an evil force present in all humanity because a woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from an apple tree.
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September 25, 2003, 13:40
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I posted my answer -- and now I just voted.
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September 25, 2003, 13:41
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OTF Moderator
Local Time: 03:16
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i am employed in a TA
I am not sure what that is considered
Jon Miller
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I AM.CANADIAN
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September 25, 2003, 13:42
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Deity
Local Time: 02:16
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I gues it could be either a temp or part time job. Take your pick. 
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Christianity is the belief in a cosmic Jewish zombie who can give us eternal life if we symbolically eat his flesh and blood and telepathically tell him that we accept him as our lord and master so he can remove an evil force present in all humanity because a woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from an apple tree.
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September 25, 2003, 13:43
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King
Local Time: 01:16
Local Date: November 2, 2010
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Location: Southern California
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I have been looking for a job for about 4 months now. I think I am close to getting a job, but I have thought this before and did not get past jobs. I just interviewed with one place and I am going to a school district to take a test for a computer job. You have to past the test in order to get an interview and that is a week from today.
Does anyone have any tips on taking these types of tests? The postion is a computer tech and I think it will have something to do with computers, but no one I talk to could tell me what the test was on.
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September 25, 2003, 13:44
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I am a full-time student, so economically speaking, while I am not gainfully employed, I am not unemployed either.
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September 25, 2003, 13:48
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King
Local Time: 01:16
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Location: Southern California
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I wonder if anyone here on Apolyton is looking for people to hire?
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September 25, 2003, 13:48
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Civ4: Colonization Content Editor
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I have a full time job. I use to post from work on occasions (when I need a short break, but this are usually only one-liners), but right now I'm already at home.
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September 25, 2003, 13:54
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Local Time: 18:16
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I teach. Its the fate of all liberal arts majors 
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Stop Quoting Ben
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September 25, 2003, 13:54
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King
Local Time: 01:16
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Originally posted by Sir Ralph
I have a full time job. I use to post from work on occasions (when I need a short break, but this are usually only one-liners), but right now I'm already at home.
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I wish I had a full time job like you. Why cant I get a job?
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September 25, 2003, 13:56
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King
Local Time: 02:16
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Location: Melbourne
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I am unemployed, paradoxically I'm going to work tomorrow.
hmm
I quit my job, but they need someone to cover a shift tomorrow so since I haven't got anything else to do....
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September 25, 2003, 14:23
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Emperor
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I'm now very much employed, but when I first became a regular poster, I was in the third or fourth month of an eight month "state sponsored vacation".
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"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" — Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
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September 25, 2003, 14:53
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Prince
Local Time: 09:16
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I work part-time (around 50 to 100 hours a month), but as that usually net's me £2,500 then I see no need to work more.
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September 25, 2003, 14:56
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If anyone wants to apply for an IT position and cover up my time wasted on Poly when I'm at work let me know, I'll see if we're hiring...
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September 25, 2003, 15:02
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Deity
Local Time: 02:16
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I know we have a bunch of unemployed students here. Where are you all hiding?
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Christianity is the belief in a cosmic Jewish zombie who can give us eternal life if we symbolically eat his flesh and blood and telepathically tell him that we accept him as our lord and master so he can remove an evil force present in all humanity because a woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from an apple tree.
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September 25, 2003, 15:06
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President of the OT
Local Time: 03:16
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I am overemployed. Basically two parttime jobs plus school.
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September 25, 2003, 15:06
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Emperor
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I'm a student but I (supposedly) do that full time.
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September 25, 2003, 15:34
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CTP1/2 GODDESS
Local Time: 09:16
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I just sit around waiting for a job to find me. I'm good at hiding from work, though. Maybe... TOO good.
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September 25, 2003, 15:36
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Emperor
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many are students 
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September 25, 2003, 15:37
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Local Time: 12:16
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student, unemployed.
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September 25, 2003, 15:48
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Emperor
Local Time: 05:16
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I'm a contractor, and my contract may be expiring soon. They haven't told me one way or the other, so I will assume that I'm outta here soon, though they'll probably find some more money to keep me.
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Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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September 25, 2003, 15:55
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Originally posted by Jack_www
I have been looking for a job for about 4 months now. I think I am close to getting a job, but I have thought this before and did not get past jobs. I just interviewed with one place and I am going to a school district to take a test for a computer job. You have to past the test in order to get an interview and that is a week from today.
Does anyone have any tips on taking these types of tests? The postion is a computer tech and I think it will have something to do with computers, but no one I talk to could tell me what the test was on.
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I've only taken one of these tests, and it was for a govt job. I found the test to be very similar to the kind of material you would study to get the A+ certification.
Get yourself an A+ book, study it, and you should be okay.
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...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - Snotty
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September 25, 2003, 15:59
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Prince
Local Time: 04:16
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I used to be a philosophy instructor, now I'm a law student. I did work full-time over the summer at the Legal Aid Society though.
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- I went to Zanarkand, and all I got was this lousy aeon!
- "... over 10 members raised complaints about you... and jerk was one of the nicer things they called you" - Ming
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September 25, 2003, 16:11
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I work part-time, usually just one day in the week during the University year, and one whole month during my summer break.
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September 25, 2003, 16:26
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Emperor
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I know we have a bunch of unemployed students here. Where are you all hiding?
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Sorry, to be unemployed, you have to both not have a job and be actively looking for a job. Otherwise you simply aren't in the labor rate. :P
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"I imagine the neighbors on your right are estatic." - Slowwhand
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September 25, 2003, 17:01
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Deity
Local Time: 10:16
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I have been unemployed in the past...I am currently employed and moving straight from one job to another with a significant increase in pay.
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"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
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September 25, 2003, 17:02
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Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I have been unemployed in the past...I am currently employed and moving straight from one job to another with a significant increase in pay.
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Nice. What's your new job?
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...people like to cry a lot... - Pekka
...we just argue without evidence, secure in our own superiority. - Snotty
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September 25, 2003, 17:05
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Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
I'm a student but I (supposedly) do that full time.
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I love how you qualified that.
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