Austin

Really why are people so incredibly stupid? I am only 26 and I swear people that are my age and younger are as dumb as a rock and make me look bad. I am a mechanic for a living, but I can also build my own house, fix my own cars, the short version I do everything myself I don't hire anyone for anything at all. I don't buy the latest and greatest anything I stick with what I have. I am debt free except for my mortgage of 356 a month, and I am nearly done my bachelors degree (no my parents didn't pay for my school). I have paid for everything on my own except for school I was active duty for 4 years and used my GI bill. I meet people my age, they still live at home with their parents, expect everything to be handed to them. They can't grow, catch, or even shoot their own food, and even if they did they can't prepare it. Unless they can buy it off a shelf and have someone do it for them, they can't do it. Can someone explain to how these people know how to breath?

I have someone that I used to be friends with. Now their just someone I know. But he is 26 (nearly 27), still lives with his mother and has no skills or any ambition to do anything at all. He was forced to finally leave his parents house and proceded to just drink to death to make his mom feel bad and let him move back in. He has lived with her for years now. He doesn't work, doesn't want to work, and has nothing to his name. He literally sleeps all day, wakes up whenever he does, goes to the bathroom (doesn't shower), and only comes out of his room to take food back to his room and never comes out. No there is nothing wrong with him. He has had everything handed to him as a kid now he refuses to do anything. How can someone be so lazy?

I have never been a big reader, but here recently I have been wanting to read. But I do know I can't just read any book. So hopefully you fellow readers can point me in the right direction.

I am looking to read something that is about being happy, a feel good book, almost spiritual book. Please no religious books, that's not what I am looking for. I am not looking for a book to help me live a happy life, I am looking for one that is possibly about someone living a happy life. Basically I am not looking for a self help book. I have always been on and off with Buddhism but I bring this up because Buddhism is about harmony and living happy.

I know im terrible with explaining what I am looking for but hopefully most of you readers are very good at decoding this and knowing what I may like.

Thank you in advance. I am looking for books like this because over the past few years my life has been very difficult and I haven't really been happy. And since I have came back to listening to relaxing meditation music and spending all my time outside away from civilization it has been getting better. I have been occasionally been reading short articles on the internet about how people live like I do (I live in the country away from civilization) and they are happy from doing simple things.

I start this new job tomorrow, and yea I am kinda excited that I have a job that's close to home and for the most part no one will bother me. But during the interview when we got to the portion about pay, I said I would be comfortable making $20 an hour for what they want me doing. She said she will start me at $16 an hour. Of course I had a problem with this since my last job paid $20 an hour. She said after 90 days we will re-evaluate it but I can't promise you $20.

Now here is when she really bothered me. She made the comment after her last statement saying:

"you come from a generation that feels as if your simply entitled to more money, just because you want it, im not paying someone more money just because they want it." and she said it with a very aggravated tone.

This really bothers me, because I have been completely poor my whole life. Not poor as in don't have a new car, but poor as in as a kid I remember going to the church to get food because my parents couldn't buy any. When I was 13 I had to hunt and fish and hope that I got something so I could eat that day. My family went through periods where we didn't know where our next meal was coming from for at least 2 weeks. Im married now with no kids. My mortgage is $355 a month and thats the only debt I have. No cable, no smartphones. Just mortgage, electric, grocery bill, gas, internet (until I finish my degree), and the cheapest insurance I can find. Not even a car payment. $16 an hour barely pays my bills.

I have a 1991 s10 blazer with a 4.3 out of a 95 in it. I need to replace my serpentine belt and I don't know what belt I need since someone removed the smog pump on it. It has air conditioning in it. Does anyone know what part I need? The store I have is advance auto parts.

I'm starting this new job tomorrow and I'm already having problems with them. They required drug testing but made me pay for it, they required me to go to employee orientation (60 miles away) before employement and not get paid for it. Now they're telling me that I have to complete this sexual harassment course in order to stay employed but I won't be paid for it. I am paid by flat rate hour so I only get paid for repairs that I make. I already told them if I won't be paid for it, then I won't do it. They're already threatening to terminate me if I refuse to do it. Is this legal?

Seriously people why? Words are just sounds that we form. So your getting furious over sound. I don't care what you think the words mean, its just sound.

So far the excuses that I heard for people getting offended by curse words are:

1) "Those words aren't in the bible". Ok so because your book doesn't have them, that makes them bad?

2) "My religion bans cursing". My personal favorite, so your excuse for getting offended by sounds is because your religion says its bad. Ok so you just used your religion as an excuse for your own stupidity.

3) "My kids don't need to hear that", so your kids can't hear me say it, but they can hear it in movies, games, and guess what....in school to. Yes kids curse at school all the time. Are you going to write everyone who curses and tell them to stop? Or just annoy me?

4) "It's just offensive", so you have no clue why it bothers you, you have no logical explanation, but your still going to have a fit.

5) "I don't want to hear it", so you don't want to hear it? Well I don't want to see or hear you but yet your still here, and I'm not walking over to you and complaining about.

6)"It means your uneducated", really that's your best excuse? I know people with Doctorate degrees and they curse all the time. I hold an associates, a bachelors, and run my own business (the business of fixing your vehicles, your just so smart that you can't do it yourself). So explain how I am uneducated?

I am looking into getting my class B CDL, that is all I will need for a job that I am interested in. My main questions are:

1) How long will it take me to get it? (I currently have a regular drivers license that's it)

2) Am I required to go to any school for it?

3) Am I required to do permit driving first? If so, do I have to have another driver with a cdl while I drive?

4) What do I need to do to get hazmat on my CDL? (I need if for this job)

Is the 3.8 in a firebird (I think year 1995 or 1998) an overhead cam motor?

I just thought about this so I looked up to see if stalking was illegal and it is. So if it s illegal then why aren t paparazzi arrested for stalking? That s what they re doing.

Type of vehicle in the title. I am tying to figure this out. This truck has no power at all. It struggles under 2nd gear. There is no air getting into the fuel lines. It cranks up just fine, and it idles just fine, it just won't go. It's not smoking either, and it's not blowing out a single code. I can't afford to throw parts at it. What do I need to check?

I just saw this thing on my internet news that the "Arms Trade Treat" was signed at the United Nations and that the USA is participating. I don't always trust the news especially if it was on the internet so I tried doing some research and can't really find anything that says WHAT the treaty is, it just says it was signed. Can anyone please elaborate what this treaty is to a very understandable level? From what I keep finding online it says that it goes around our second amendment, it bans weapons and ammo from being sold in the USA, and pretty much disarms America, I am hoping that this is one of those fake articles but I can't find anything to prove or disprove anything about it.

I just saw this thing on my internet news that the "Arms Trade Treat" was signed at the United Nations and that the USA is participating. I don't always trust the news especially if it was on the internet so I tried doing some research and can't really find anything that says WHAT the treaty is, it just says it was signed. Can anyone please elaborate what this treaty is to a very understandable level? From what I keep finding online it says that it goes around our second amendment, it bans weapons and ammo from being sold in the USA, and pretty much disarms America, I am hoping that this is one of those fake articles but I can't find anything to prove or disprove anything about it.

Main point:

I have two people who used to be good friends.

The first one is 25 now, and has had everything handed to him. He is now a drunk going through every homeless shelter in his state, owns nothing at all. His family gave up on him because he started stealing from them.

The other one is now 27. He hasn't had a job since he was 16 because he chooses not to. Makes up crazy off the wall excuses for not having one. Lives with his now wife (see extended story below if you want to know), and they both have no job, money, nothing.

These two people used to be good friends when we were back in our teen days. What changed?

Extended Story:

The second friend that's lazy, somehow dated his now wife over Facebook, I'm not sure how you do that. Well he moved in claiming he would help around the house and get a job. 8 years later still hasn't done a thing. So far the excuses of why he didn't have a job are "I didn't get hired because normal people are intimidated by my power", and "I can't work here because Obama might need to build a real life Iron Man suite." I have no clue where he came up with this, or what possessed him to say this. He completely fell off of the reality branch. He now tells people that the government sends him a secret serum in the mail to inject himself with, so that he will become a Halo super soldier (like the video game), he also tells people that he is on a secret task force for Obama and flies around in an Iron Man suite and fights wars overnight.

I have been practicing my piano again since I haven't done it in a long time. I starting playing a song I made up in my head and the chords I play on the right hand are C minor7, G minor7, F major. Then the bridge is g#major, B flat major. My music theory is a very very rusty since I haven't used it in a long time.

About a month ago I quit my old job because of endless bull s*** that was only getting worse. My old job didn't pay squat but I had weekends off and I worked from 7-4 with an hour lunch.

I finally picked a new job out of the options I had. It had the best money out of the choices, but the hours were all the same. This new job is Monday- Saturday from 730-630 with an hour lunch, and every other Sunday from 9-6. So far that ever other Sunday is my only day off.

I need a job so I can't really say no anymore and the money is good. But how am I supposed to have a life with hours like this? My commute is about 35 minutes each way so if I actually leave on time I will be getting home about 705. I will literally have time to come home, shower, scarf some form of food down, to go right to bed and repeat the process.

I am married but we don't have kids yet. Which really bothers me now because my wife now wants a child soon and I don't think it will happen with this job.

But the problem is, every single job I have found the hours are like this.

I am a mechanic for a living. My old job was working on diesel/construction equipment. The new one is full service technician. I work in an auto shop now working on cars and trucks, gas and diesel.

I have worked with this company for a year and four months. I am 25 years old, a veteran of the military, with a associates degree in the line of work that I do along with military and civilian experience. I am the newest and youngest member of this company. I have treated every co-worker with respect and courtesy regardless of how they have treated me. This has been going on since the day I have work here, but my two other co-workers purposely leave things in my way (big pieces of equipment) creating a safety hazard, they have poor housekeeping skills also creating a safety hazard, I am always expected to clean up after them. One of them constantly screams at me when I refuse to do his job for him. Both of my co-workers are in their mid and late 50's. The on that screams has yelled at me the following:

>You are like **** on a bull

>Your a useless kid

>Your young and stupid

>Shut the f*** up you f****** retard

This is what I have to put up with. He has thrown tools at me, balled up his fists and threaten to hit me, and small things. I have brought this up with my direct boss who said there is nothing he can do. Today my co-worker yelled at me again in front of customers who don't know me very well telling me to shut the f*** up and stop telling him what to do. The incident that caused this was he was chaining a piece of equipment down and the way he was doing it is harder on him, so I only offered an alternative, I was no means telling him what to do at all I just said

Through my day I heard some lady ranting about how Jesus should be brought back into all schools regardless of what people think. I at some point asked why. She blew up saying "because I am tired of all these non Christians committing crime and hurting people."

I stated to her that not everyone is Christian, everyone doesn't want to be Christian, and just because your Christian doesn't mean your perfect.

I know plenty of people in my time that are hard core Christians, and one of them is in jail for like the 4th time, and cannot even function in life without being nearly dead drunk. I know a few other people that go to the Christian church in town, and they do illegal drugs all the time in the parking lot.

My point is, religions are beliefs, they are not facts of life and they have never once become close to being proven at all. I am not disrespecting anyone's religion. I have plenty of friends that come from all different religions and function together all the time. Believe what ever you want to believe that's fine with me.

Now back to the women, after I explained all this to her, I then told her "the reason you can't put religion in public schools is because there are different religions and you can't make someone follow your beliefs just because that is what you want. That would be pushing your religion onto someone else. Stop using world events to push your religion onto other people. And it just went downhill from there and I just left.

*Back story.

I hate my job mainly because of my boss, I am tired of horrible bosses and being told that I am wrong just because I don't do things THEIR way.

*Question

I want to start my own business for the reasons:

> Be my own boss

> I will make much more money

> I don't have to answer to anyone but the customer

> I make my own rules

Now here is the problems I fear about starting my own business

> I have no capitol

> I live in the middle of nowhere

> The area I live in is below poverty income

> I am not able to move

> I have some debt ( about $7000 that's it)

> I am afraid that I won't be able to get customers

I can drive about 30-40 minutes away and be in an area with wealthy income, but these people have A LOT of money and probably wont want my business because I am not an expensive dealer.

The company I want to start is a mobile mechanic. I already have a work truck and tools (I'm a mechanic for a living) and I have an education for this and I have done this since I was a teenager and I did this in the military. I will be able to go to customers houses and repair their vehicle there, or they can bring their vehicle to me if they want to. I am very good at what I do and I like doing it. I don't know how to even start. But I really can't take another year of this horrible job and I don't want to get another one because it will just start all over again.

What are the chances of my business being successful? How would I even start it.

I have to find a recent tort claim to use as an example for my college course. It needs to be recent within the past 5 years. I can't find anything using google and its getting frustrating. It also must show what the case was and everything. Where can I go to find this?