Money Matters - Part 13

we know, Victor! LOL


That is really super creepy,and if people think for one min that it is JUST going to be used to offer you discounts to a store, they better WAKE UP

The other day I read about Starbucks and Square teaming up. The article says that sometime soon customers will be able to order a drink simply by stating their name. They won't have to take out their wallet or their phone to do so. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/technology/starbucks-and-square-to-team-up.html?_r=1

Couple that with this "Face Deal" technology and it seems to me like we're not that far away from our faces being linked to our bank accounts . . . Which I find unsettling. And I'm not really technologically averse. This just seems way too Big Brother for me.

Big Brother? Big Brother? It's waaaay too late to worry about that...

I know what I would LOVE to do to one of those FB cams!!!

Got a job that is driving me crazy. 2.30 the 1st day. Its called a Flat Liner Job.

Please explain, Sherrie..I'm confused

No hours. No chance of increasing hours. No chance of advancing. Flat liner job.

I still don't understand.

The job will go no where. 10hrs per week and no advancement. In other words not the job I wanted, its a dead job. I will keep it till I find something better.

Keep your spirits up, Sherrie. For some reason it is always easier to get a job when you already have one!

yes better than nothing

Sounds like my new job! almost. I'm considering it more money than I had before, an entry into a new organization with many similar positions suing similar skills to what I just learned. After three shifts I have pretty much mastered all the possible complexities. Now the real boredom begins. Capturing images of old student records from microfiche, convert to data, link to records. We're talking YEARS, decades , of stuff. and many orgs must be going through this kind of records conversion. Plus all new student records get scanned and linked.
But i'll keep my eyes open with the old job and the new job to move up..

9 hrs 18 mins this week - WoW :-) A woman that has been doing what I am doing for 6 months has applied for a supervisors job.

Now that would be up my alley but I am just getting off the Observation Interview been 2 weeks today. boo hoo.......

Sherrie - only 22 more weeks to go before you can move on up!

Here's an interesting blog post:
How The American University was Killed, in Five Easy Steps
http://junctrebellion.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/how-the-american-university-was-killed-in-five-easy-steps/

Thought provoking stuff

It's very hard to differentiate between 'college as a way to better your brain' and ' college as a ticket to a better career/life."

How about req'd classes for say, police officers? Where does literature really impact their job performance? AA degrees, are they good tools to screen candidates? Do they at least indicate that the candidate can commit to a learning program? Or that they are minimally stable enough, personally, to complete the program?

I see moves towards job development in high schools- STEM schools, magnet schools in our county that focus more narrowly beginning in high school. Is it good, or bad? Is it all about getting skilled workers (drones) for the Corporation?

Sherrie, despite my possibly offensive rose colored glasses post above--I know it's hard out there and I hope it gets better for you.
It's just too discouraging for me to think about the steep competition and limited opportunities I have.

Darius - that is an incredible article. I am one of those drone professors who gets low wages and no paid insurance and works at the whim of the college.

So sorry, Memory. It's really a sad state of affairs all around.

It is OK - other than I am being "part of the problem". I have a "day job" so I am financially OK - I just love having someones who have to pay attention to me! (As opposed to my house where the cats ignore what I say.) LOL

Our community college is no longer the domain of retired professionals. Many PhDs there.

I'd LOVE to know how much money colleges get from the govt as a result of accepting students who can't afford the tuition. If they do.

Oh my where is Victor? I am sure he can tell.

Darn I just had a FLEA on me

Hmm - wonder if there will be any outrage over these record profits while we pay sky-high prices, as there always is with the oil industry. Guessing not.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f477ac96-f149-11e1-b7b9-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=published_links%2Frss%2Fworld_us_politics%2Ffeed%2F%2Fproduct#axzz24xfFysT7

have to register on that site to read article, can you copy&paste?

Weird - was open before. I am not registered either. Recap - record profits for American farmers despite drought. High prices and gov subsidies reason why.

Unreal

Sad.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trading-caps-and-gowns-for-mops-2012-08-22

Gov spending on food stamps has doubled in the past four years.

Good grief.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/convicted-wife-murderer-gets-taxpayer-funded-sex-change/article/2506889#.UEZnQ2t5mSM

No words!!!

The price of food has about doubled in the last year!

Don't think it has been quite THAT bad.

Us debt just hot 16 TRILLION. $136, 260 per household - up 50% in the past four years. We really may never recover from this.

:(

UGH, I really need to stop coming on this thread
3.67 a gallon of gas

Over 4 here.

Local grocery store salad bar and soup bar now $5.99 a pound.

Fourth year in a row.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/survey-finds-us-competitiveness-sliding-17157428#.UEdRv5bsYtU

Feel really bad for young people. Read the other day that the avg start salary for college grads (all majors combined) is just $27K, down 10% in the past four or five years. I started at $30K 25 years ago!!


http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-08-23/finance/33323518_1_student-loan-debt-nonprofit-four-year-colleges-college-grads

Can't imagine you ever being fat and sassy, Sallyg. Heehee.

I think my college cost somewhere between $2 and 3 thousand a year.

Snacks, ugh. I'm going to a women's conference in Philly tonight and tomorrow. Don't even want to think of parking plus... Food. Tonight won't be bad cuz we will eat before we go, but my DIL, who is pregnant, needs to have food with her. Not allowed to bring any food in to the venue. Apparently they look through your bags. Of course they want you to buy your food there. That's how they make their money. Tomorrow, we'll either bring our lunch and leave it in the car so we can tailgate, or bite the bullet and buy inside. We could ride in another car, but because DIL is pregnant and always goes early we are driving up separately. That would have saved some money, but I am thinking this isn't going to be cheap.

Sooo looking forward to this. Mandisa will be there. Patsy Clairmont, who is a riot. Kurt Warner's wife. Just some of the line-up. Should be fun. An arena full of women singing. A joy to hear!