$7,000 when the game releases in a week. I hope that extra week of playtime is worthwhile. That's like $1,000/day every day early they play the game.
Just... why
I could understand if it was a matter of getting a game a full year early, and you're a multi-millionaire or billionaire (cause even a million bucks wouldn't last long dropping $7k every time you wanna play a game a week early). That might be worthwhile for someone who can float it. But a week early? You can't even use Toad's Recroom since nobody else would have the game yet.
@JaxonH@ReaderRagfish Could be a fake bid, those aren't uncommon for items like this (happens to retro games all the time). I wouldn't be surprised if the seller never got paid. I'm having a hard time believing someone actually bought a copy of Mario Party for $7k.
@Knuckles-Fajita I don't want to criticise your life choices because you sound like your having a hard time but there is a wealth of jobs out there especially in construction that pay a fortune. When I was last in the UK working I was making £5000 a month as a skilled labourer/plant operator the young fellas I worked with who had no experience but showed a good attitude were still taking home £2500 a month with no over time. Everyone I kept in contact with quickly started earning better money and have been able to see a lot of the world through work. Its clear you have a vision of what you want to do work wise because its what you want to do but the reality of life is that the 'fun' jobs may not be the ones who pay what you want for doing things in your life outside of work. I think either you except that not having money is the price you pay for having a job you love or you change tracks get out there and make some money and take comfort from a big paycheck every month that in a few years can see you in a nice house able to afford all the luxuries you want and still have enough to support your children/wife/family.
@bluemage1989 This isn't a case of the job I "Want". The job I "Want" is administrative and managerial.
I'm in this job NOW to either eventually progress or to tide me over. It was the first place in a year that even offered me a position. I'm not saying no.
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Ya, dreams of doing a job I love that you think about when you're younger... all that quickly goes out the window when the real world slaps you in the face in your twenties.
Gotta find a job, start at the bottom, work hard and over the course of 5-10 years work your way up as you learn skills and prove yourself. Factories in the Midwest of the US are a HUGE opportunity. I started at my current employer seven years ago as a die cast operator making $10/hr through a temp service. In the summertime it would routinely break 100° on the shop floor and I remember a day and even got up to 115. And if you are working near the furnace where they melt the aluminum it can get hotter than that. So hot that everyone has big barn fans blowing on them and you would probably pass out if you didn't have those fans and Gatorade to keep you hydrated.
I paid my dues. Worked hard, always took the overtime when they needed it to earn a reputation as a hard worker, and I was soon hired on to the company at $12 an hour. Then after two years, an internal job posting went up for a quality specialist, with a path of progression to be a quality engineer. I applied. But I did not get the job, because this woman had already been in quality for a year and had dibs before me. But the quality manager said hold up, I DO need a CMM programmer. But you're not qualified yet. Come in, start out as grade 7 for $15.50/hr, and once you've got the training and signed off on the grade 8 programming position you will be promoted. By the end of the year I had done my training (and I busted my butt to learn that material as fast as possible) and got promoted to a grade 8 at $17.50/hr. Two years past with dollar raises each year, and I was soon at $20/hr. In my free time I was reading the quality technicians handbook and learning and I went to ASQ and passed the certification, and they gave me a raise to $22 an hour.
Then I started putting in for jobs elsewhere and got an offer, so I went to the vice president and told him I don't want to leave, but I want to be put in charge of the metrology labs and calibration. They offered me a deal to keep me at the company and gave me a bump to $25 an hour, with the promise of creating a position in charge of the labs which will actually upgrade me even higher in a month or so, once the position is finalized.
7 years. In 7 years I went from a nobody with zero skills working a dirty, tough job as an aluminum diecaster operator making $10/hr, to a senior CMM programmer making 2.5x that amount, and about to be 3x that amount in another month, and with OT even right now it's $75k/yr, working in a nice, clean, tempurature controlled lab that's 68 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius) every day 24/7. All it took was hard work and dedication over a 5-10 year period. You start at the bottom and you work your way up. When I first started coming to this site, I was still a diecaster on the shop floor.
Everyone's situation is different but, if you just pick a job at a company large enough to move up in, and work hard, you can end up making a decent middle class income. Even my brother who I got a job at the same place I work, he also started out at $10/hr, and is now making $20/hr and about to get hired on as a quality specialist to put him on track to become a quality engineer in a few years. What's so special about me and my brother that we advanced so much while many others there didn't? Hard work. That's pretty much it. Just stuck with it and climbed the ladder. Started with zero skills as nameless nobodies on the shop floor, and now are both among the most respected, knowledgeable people in our respective departments. I'd like to believe anyone can climb the ladder if they put in the work.
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I've built Cantlin into a literal fortress, which apparently was a bit of a waste as your villagers only recognize one story buildings, so only the first floor of my multi floored buildings count, but hey, at least it looks really cool.
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@JaxonH oh man that's a story I can relate to. I started off as a farm hand/abattoir worker/shearing shed worker before moving on to the docks as a stevedore loading and unloading containers, slinging loads for cargo ships and lashing. The whole time looking for that fancy job I had dreamt of as I finished A levels (with good but unexceptional grades) I soon realised from friends and former class mates that a lot of these entry level jobs quickly become rest of your life jobs for a lot of people so I was content to keep working for £12 an hour rather than drop to minimum wage to work as a clerk in an office. I saw all the time though men in there forties being laid off because there bodies were haggard from years of long hard shifts with no skills it meant spending the rest of there life living off welfare struggling to make ends meet. I ended up going into construction I dropped my wage a little but I was learning skills started off in the concrete gangs learnt to build shuttering and work concrete before moving onto dumper driving and gaining experience excavator operating when I could. I found myself pretty content for a while until I met a few guys from a surfacing company on a project I was on. We soon started talking money and I couldn't believe the money they were on I managed to land a job with the company starting out at the very bottom banking trucks collecting tickets removing covers setting out cones and so so so much shovelling lols it was hot work asphalting is hot anyday but at the height of summer where you feel your feet burning through your boots and your cold drinks are warm within minutes it was hard going but gradually I worked up to auger operator then paver driver did time on the rollers and the sweepers worked with the plainer crew and at the plant itself mixing got involved in everything I could asked a lot of questions learnt all I could about the engineering of surfacing now I am third in charge of a team of 35 taking home £75000 a year. I've made a nice life for myself and my wife and two children and am still only 29 when I see on Facebook former class mates and friends who looked down on me for my work decisions still on little more than minimum wage in there entry level jobs I know I made the right decision I might still get hot and dirty day in day out but the hard work has paid off. If you work hard push yourself stay modest share a laugh and keep going you can advance quickly. Sadly a lot of people these days feel society owes them there dream job and unless they have it they refuse to work and complain relentlessly and then find themselves at thirty with no skills or experience.
The problem is, society kept beating the drum of "You have to go to college, it's the only way you'll ever be anything more than a minimum wage burger flipper". And now all these people are graduating college with degrees in liberal arts and sociology, and are quickly realizing nobody is willing to pay you for that. And not just the exotic majors, but across the board, college graduates are a dime a dozen nowadays and the jobs aren't there (that's not to say school is necessarily the wrong choice, just that everyone started going to college because everyone wanted a cushy job in a cubicle making $100k/yr- and the world can't operate with everyone being college grads in cubicles). So a lot of them end up applying for jobs at factories like where I work as process engineers or tool room supervisors or quality engineers or what have you. And it's like... I'm making more than those same college grads that are engineers at my job, and I didn't spend $50,000 and 4 years of opportunity cost not working to achieve it.
There are SO many jobs that need to be filled that aren't working in a cubicle like Office Space. The message that needs to be given to a lot of these younger kids nowadays is, college is not the right answer for everybody. And that's true now more than ever (especially as colleges are more and more becoming a political machine for indoctrination- it's why we see the SJW generation emerging, but that's a whole other discussion). The workforce needs people with real, actual skills. And you get those skills by starting at the bottom with grunt work, paying your dues, proving yourself and climbing the ladder, rung by rung. If a college grad applied for an engineering position at my work and I applied internally, I'd get hired over the college grad, easily, because I have the actual skills and experience to perform the job. Classrooms aren't preparing people for the real world in many cases, aside from very targeted jobs that line up with a specific major.
You can actually make just as much if not more as a four-year college graduate nowadays, and you don't have to spend four years of your life and tens of thousands of dollars to do it. But it does require hard work and determination... and it's not going to happen overnight. But people who work hard, they always end up climbing the ladder. But you have to want it. You have to be self driven. If you possess those qualities, I would be shocked... I would be amazed if you don't climb the ladder to at least end up with a respectable middle class income that can sustain a moderately comfortable life with wiggle room for hobbies.
And I got a late start. I was a late bloomer, due to wasting 10 full years from age 16 - 26 in a haze of drug induced madness, that's honestly just a blur to me now. But I still managed to get it together and get where I am today before age 35- it's never too late. A person in their early twenties still? Oh man... the world is their oyster, if they want it.
I just dislike the current educational system in America in general. It forces pointless classes on students and fails to teach several important skills that are super necessary. Not to mention there really is an unfair bias in terms of how the 'higher level' students are treated and supported a lot of the time.
Universities just want to rip you off and leave you in debt. Longer professions will leave one paying loans well into their 30s or early 40s.
@JaxonH@bluemage1989 Great conversation guys. I didn't take the same route, I followed my heart and left the UK to eventually find what I didn't really know I was looking for. I left school at 16 and went from crappy job to crappy job in the UK before I decided enough was enough and went to The Netherlands on my own where I eventually found another crappy job. Then on to France where I worked as a holiday rep which I absolutely loved despite paying badly. I done 2 seasons of this and my second season I was put in charge of our campsite with several staff below me. This gave me enormous confidence and I met some brilliant people who would influence decisions I made years later. After France I went back to the Netherlands where I found a cladding job that paid well but wasn't going to be long term. I then found another in a steel foundry which was brutal work but paid very well. I lasted there for over 6 years before the 2008 recession eventually led to most of the foreign work force being laid off. No worries for me, I had some savings and used that to move to Thailand and start selling on Ebay. . Nearly 9 years later I've now got my own business that is so easy to run I almost feel like I'm unemployed, except the money keeps coming in. I'm 40 year old and basically retired living in an amazing city,despite being a bad behaved kid who left school at the first opportunity and didn't go to college.
Eww, it looks like spyro reignited physical on psxbox will contain game 1 on disc and 2 and 3 are downloads. It's literally 1/3 of a set of 20 year old games (remastered) on a flipping bluray.
Remember this whenever someone says switch tax because of cartridges.
@JaxonH
College is most definitely not the right path for everyone, but as always, humans are now swinging from one extreme to the next - we can never just settle in the middle ground. Over the past 2ish years or so, at least in U.S., there is a growing resentment of colleges and a growing number of students pledging to skip it altogether. Like you said, for some that is perfectly fine, but for others they are going to find themselves woefully ill prepared to attain the job they WANT.
And trickling things down to how much money you make is always a silly argument, at least to me. I'm a teacher. I make next to nothing. I know, for a fact, many non-college friends who make double or even triple what I make. But guess what? They have zero satisfaction in their jobs, and it drives them crazy. It's like a huge hole in their lives. I love my job (even though it can be VERY stressful at times) and I feel like I'm actually making a difference in lives, and I could never have this job without my college educations.
Something funny happened to me last year. A bunch of teachers in my district were taken on tours of local factories and such so that we could go back and tell our kids exactly what we're saying: college doesn't need to be for everyone. Plenty of factory jobs that pay well, etc. The guy at this one place was talking to us, pretty much trashing college educations, but when asked questions about how he worked his way up to manager, he admitted he needed to attend college lol It was just an ironic turn of events that everyone could tell he was fully aware of.
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