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[Kyriakos]

Thanks, and i hope you do get accepted

 

[Takhisis]

Heh, all I need to do is find a job. As easy as the Blender learning curve.

 

[Wolfshade]

Takhisis, best of luck here. I do know how important to have a good & satisfying one, especially for male!

 

[Quinzy]

There's often work in security; usually good pay, okay hours, and some good people.
I did it for a while, my girlfriend still does.
Or are you looking for more or a career than a simple job?

 

[Takhisis]

Yes, but security's a good job where the crooks aren't better armed (and defended at court) than the police.

I should get a job even marginally related to languages and interpretation.

 

[Jerry'sGoldfish]

ohhhhh man i laughed.........

 

[Takhisis]

WTH‽

 

[timerover51]

:/ Even Argentina is making fun of us now, what is next, Albania?

Argentina should not be laughing at Greece, as they defaulted on their own foreign debt a few years ago, and probably will be doing it again.

Takhisis, if you can translate Spanish to English and vice versa, you will always have work here in my area of the US, which is near Chicago. Not sure how close the Spanish that they speak in Mexico is to Argentine Spanish though.

 

[Takhisis]

I can translate of course, but there's the slight catch of not having the official title. And also the slight catch of visas/work permits/etc.

 

[Gojira54]

I now live in Laguna Niguel, CA, about 30 miles south of HB, 60 miles north of SD.

I no longer live in Laguna Niguel, we bought our first home in Rancho Santa Margarita, CA, almost 2 years ago. Still in south Orange County, just the eastern corner instead of the western, as home prices by the Ocean are not in the reasonable range.

OC has had it's share of bankruptcy, too, and there is plenty of room for spanish/english translators in these parts.

I've also recently switched to a Vegan + seafood diet.

All things pass, Kyriakos. Greece may be having a rough patch but is a well respected country with an extremely influential and rich history I would be surprised if it fell apart.

 

[Kyriakos]

I hope it does not disintegrate, but in reality this country has been slowly eating itself for decades. The level of the average Greek is widely regarded by the next Greek ( :/ ) as pitiful, and i think it is true, only that most of the judges are judged the same, and with some merit.

 

[Jerry'sGoldfish]

the waring city states period aproaches - and there is no other sparta - i might bet on larissa (thessaly)

 

[Kyriakos]

Nevermind, move along

 

[RickFGS]

Spoiler :

As a portuguese high educated individual, PhD in Economics and experience in banking/insurance and enterprise sector, all i can say is that my country doesn´t like people with more knowledge than 4th grade childreen, my elite only wants china like slaves for the work environment, beeing the state the only main employer and where people can get some self respect, of course you need a family/mafia membership to get into a state job, which you will never get.

The future of Portugal for the next three/four years is a deep hole of ****, the old fachist/monarch big fortunes have the Banking and Insurance system in total control, and they aren´t lending to people or enterprises, the result will be mass bankrupticies and total control of the economy in the hands of 6/7 powerfull families, like in the days of the sadistical murderer Salazar.

The road for Portugal is dark and my future here belongs to God, i hope i can be ok in the next few years, but life is very hard, and people are scared and divided. As a catholic i have faith that all will be ok some day, and i believe that if i was born in Portugal, than my place is in Portugal, and not in some foreign land to be exploited by racist germans, xenophobic english or any other corrupt european power. I have much more respect for the BRICS former portuguese colonies than for those eurotrash holes.

Portuguese native language is spoken for more than 250 million in the world, we could be the 4th or 5th most powerfull nation in the world, but my leaders bend the knee to every mediocre clown sitting in the european union corrupt seat, i guess that beeing raise in english or german coleges since a child does take away the portuguese identity of the well born.

As portuguese, i undertsand two things, we have to suffer because in our spirit, we still have a lot of greed and we don´t hesitate in selling our own mother to the highest bidder, even if we lose our own independence, it´s sad for a country that gave new worlds to the world once, i guess we lost our faith in the way, and replaced it with money.

Newspapers are now saying that Germany is coming for our gold, and of course, they will get it, because for a few bucks, these politicians and the families that master them will do anything.

The only hope for europe is France´s recent ellected President, but he will have a very hard task, beeing so isolated in the midst of all the fachist corrupt politicians now in charge of european power.

A simple solution to resolve this "Fake" Crisis is what America does every day of it´s history, print money! but the european central bank isn´t doing it, that´s of course the strategy of those who want to destroy the economy to punish the last decades of socialism and human development, it´s a simple strugle for power, and the old monarchies and fachists are winning.

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[Blue Monkey]

Moderator Action: A couple of sections of the op are worth keeping in mind:

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[Kyriakos]

Possible that i will be published in a greek newspaper of London. Will report more when i know if it happens or not

 

[Jerry'sGoldfish]

man, man, wait a moment, it is quite simple to appear on a british newspaper....
first you have to find a suitable englishman and knock his car window, when they will find you, believe me they wil, you will have to explain that the whole affair is a terrible misundersatnding and you (having the sum of money already prepared) wanted no more than a little advertising and the whole world should know you have a bad living in the respective country - this stuff is working 100 procent....i would do it....

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[timerover51]

Getting back to the original purpose of the thread, things have been a bit wearying in my household. My son had surgery last week, and he was at the emergency room at 4AM Saturday morning because the surgical wound had started bleeding pretty bad, and then on Monday, he nearly passed out when the doctor changed the dressing. I have already buried one son, and this is a bit draining emotionally.

Along with this, I am working up a WW2 simulation based partly on the Axis and Allies board games, but using a much larger map, and additional units for other powers along with the units from the Axis and Allies games. The purpose is to walk my summer history class students through WW2 and then let them fight it themselves, and see if they do better than history. Working with developing a better combat results table for that game has me poking a lot more at the various units in Civ3 to try and get more reasonable combat results in the Civ3 game. I need to have the simulation ready by the middle of July, and all of this with my son is slowing things down a bit.

He needed the surgery, but the aftermath has been more than we expected. The doctor is hoping that things will settle down a bit in the next week or two, and my wife and I are hoping and praying that will be the case. It is wearing her, me, and my son down more than we would like. My daughter is getting ready for a short summer missions trip to South Africa with our church, so she is busy with that, and we are trying to work everything in.

 

[Kyriakos]

I hope he gets better soon. Sorry to hear about your other loss.

 

[Wolfshade]

Don't give up, Timerover. Things can't be bad all the time. Hold on, Big Dad.