Re: Los "países de mierda" le dejan millones de dólares a EE.UU.

Posted by Frank Wimberly-2 on Jan 22, 2018; 6:32pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Los-paises-de-mierda-le-dejan-millones-de-dolares-a-EE-UU-tp7591128p7591151.html

I'm willing to be useful but my age is a problem.  Not for my capacity to be useful but because potential employers don't believe I can be.  I still get calls from recruiters but lately I say, "It sounds like a good match but the hiring manager won't be interested because of my age."

Recently a recruiter said that I was getting in my own way and that the company (in Ann Arbor) that he represents isn't the least bit guilty of ageism.  He said that they have lots of employees in their fifties.  When I said I was in my seventies he seemed less motivated.  

I'll just keep playing tennis and studying the mathematics of quantum field theory, I guess.

Frank

On Jan 22, 2018 11:19 AM, "uǝlƃ ☣" <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yeah, but this raises the fundamental question.  We're used to having "respect for persons" ... as if it's somehow imperative to think of humans as ends in and of themselves.  As we go from hunter gatherer, through agricultural, through industrial, and informational population sizes to something more akin to a biofilm covering the surface of the planet, the question isn't about what you, as a single cell "like".  The question is one of finding a place where we can exploit you to the fullest extent.

Are you really that useful to _us_ (not you) living in New Mexico?  Or could we squeeze a little more RoI from you if you lived in CA or Pittsburgh?

I'm not being completely facetious, here.  For concreteness, we were at a dinner party a month or so ago and one of us asked "What do you want to do when you retire?"  (Of course, I'll never retire ... So there's only one right answer: "Mu". ... But I played along, anyway.)  Everyone at the table, constituted by relatively well-off white people with white collar jobs, said "Travel".  Already being horrified by the very question, this horrified me even more, given the carbon footprint of jetting around the globe for no other reason than your narcissistic desire to "see the sights".  So I tried to deliver my blow softly.  I would simply like to be useful until I die.  So, my answer is: Whatever my tribe finds useful.  If that forces me to rent a hovel in a crime-ridden neighborhood of Pittsburgh -- or worse yet, Kermit, TX -- then that's probably what I'll do.  Luckily, it all hinges on the definition of "tribe". 8^)

On 01/22/2018 09:53 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> I grew up on California but I can't move there in retirement because I'm not willing to pay $1 million for a 2 BR 1 bath house.  Now, if Amazon locates it's HQ2 in Pittsburgh I won't be able to move back there either.  Fortunately I like New Mexico.

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☣ uǝlƃ

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