I think if I take a few pics in Chicago this year and put them in my con report, we can really open up a discussion about it.
Hopefully you won't chicken out like last year.
You know what happened last year. I just don't announce everything on these boards.
I'm often amazed and befuddled the amount of highly personal stuff that some people post on the internet. Just don't get it
That was my point with deleting.I made that post late last night, didnt mean to say this thread should be deleted....meant to say the Chip Go Fund Me thread should be deleted, for Chip's sake.
Of course his name is still plasteted over the internet elsewhere but those other threads are several years old.
In any event, my job advice was solid.
Construction, as an entry level laborer ( no exp needed) takes the cake over a McDonald's or Walmart job.
His own feelings of self worth will NOT be positively effected by slinging fries at Mc D's or stocking shelves st Walmart.
A manual labor job, will require a lot of hard work on his part, which will help him mentally in terms of self respect.
The job I linked to offered benefits, as well.Any job in construction, starting out as a laborer has room for advancement to a crew foreman, if you pick the trade up and work hard...expect to put in 1-3 years of a laborer before becoming a crew foreman.
There is also comradery with the guys you work with while you're busting your a** , under the sun in the summer...and in the cold of the winter months...
.......you don't get any of that when you take a job where you're stocking shelves in a soul crushing Walmart warehouse or asking a 15 year old kid if he wants to super size his value meal for an additional 99 cents.
As far as the comment by another boardie about deletingChip's posting history on here as "hiding" the facts from a potential employer....I'd say that his posts here are really just embarrassing, and if he truly wants to get his life together, and is eager to work instead of asking others for money, you should not have issue with his taking steps in that direction.
There are a million other reasons why he shouldn't have his life spilling out over a public forum, as well.
Then he could build a cool fire pit.