What the Soup?!?

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Oh my god! Is that Bob!? I remember him! Wow!

Yea!! Bob returns.What's been happening?

Fuck, I don't remember Bob. Who was he again?

Originally Posted By: OldFolksFuck, I don't remember Bob. Who was he again? It's me! Bob! SteveA's disciple!

Originally Posted By: readytogoYea!! Bob returns.What's been happening? I'm poor, oh so very poor! But surviving.

I thought that when you left the ranks of a starving college student that all was supposed to be better.

Sadly not, now I am a starving minimum wage earner.

At least you're a well adjusted starving minimum wage earner. What are you doing? The job market is brutal.

Simply doing what I know. Son of a photographer, so working in a camera shop. Its good because I'm good at what I do, but at the same time its sickening when you see people spending thousands on stuff that you know they do not need nor have the capacity to use. Yet when you try to explain this to them (maybe not the capacity to use part) they insist that they know better. So I try to save them money, probably not the best idea when working in sales, and explain that what they want to do can be done using a €600 camera, they still insist that they need, they NEED, a €2000 camera.

It's so frustrating, especially when living in a country that was one of the worst effected by the recession, to see people who don't seem capable of learning from previous mistakes.

But anyway, how are you?

Lordy, I cannot believe you are all still here. Nothing better to do, huh? :3

I am fine--fit and sassy as ever.I've been reading about the economic conditions in parts of the EU, including Ireland. It doesn't appear to be a fun place to be living right now.Your generation is in a bad spot, You can see and understand why you are having problems but there are others unwilling to make the changes necessary to make things better.Isn't it frustrating to run across people who have so much and also be aware of those who are struggling?

Originally Posted By: bobaliciousSo I try to save them money, probably not the best idea when working in sales, and explain that what they want to do can be done using a €600 camera, they still insist that they need, they NEED, a €2000 camera.It's so frustrating, especially when living in a country that was one of the worst effected by the recession, to see people who don't seem capable of learning from previous mistakes.I just bought a new camera a few weeks ago. A Canon T31. $629 for just the body. (I already had the lenses from a film SLR). It was a big deal to spend that much $$$ and was actually about $100 more than I originally intended to spend, but a lot less than what I could have blown. But you're right, I didn't need anything more. (I didn't actually "need" a camera at all.)Here's the clencher, going to the comments about people spending that much money on something they don't really need. After I bought the camera, I had a friend say to me "Just goes to show you can't hide money." I was like what the crap?!? First of all, is he gonna let me go through his house and see what he's spent his money on? Secondly, I get two extra paychecks a year and had budgeted part of one for the camera. I've had some good things happen career-wise that have me in a more comfortable position financially, so I don't have to depend on the extra checks to play catch-up. Anyway, I'm a grown-ass man. I don't squander my money. I don't do impulse purchasing. I don't get why someone should be bitter because I bought something nice. I'm not choosing it over something I should be doing with the money, and it didn't cost them a penny.Rant over.