Where do you work?

[Jon E]

Originally posted by JohnJones
I'm a corporate finance attorney (IPOs, mergers and acquistions, venture capital) in a large firm. I think it's great in some ways, and it sucks in others since there are so many dumb-sses in this line of work.

So you majored in finance and then went to law school? Im majoring in finance myself. What are they paying financial lawers these days? How do you like it?

 

[Mr.Hash wid da Stash]

i have the ****iest job out of all of you all

No I hold that honour.

K MART

 

[JohnJones]

Originally posted by Jon E
So you majored in finance and then went to law school? Im majoring in finance myself. What are they paying financial lawers these days? How do you like it?

Nah, I have a humanities degree. If its a big firm in a big town, $125,000 to start. Smaller towns are more like $110,000.

 

[Oxide]

rgeere... i would love to get some tips from you..

I am Russian, so that was my first language. English is my second, and i think im better at enlgish than russian now.
I used to take Italian for about 4 months, then Finish for about 4 months, then spanish for another 4.. I used to know some Ukranian as well..

I would like to learn another language, which direction should i go - Spanish (i work with mexicans who do not know english that well) or german (i hear it is easy) or what else would you recommend.

How were you able to not forget the language, without constant practice or living in that country?

 

[Spike_the_cowboy]

Real Estate Sales Person/ Porfessional Musican.

 

[rgeere]

Originally posted by Oxide
rgeere... i would love to get some tips from you..

I am Russian, so that was my first language. English is my second, and i think im better at enlgish than russian now.
I used to take Italian for about 4 months, then Finish for about 4 months, then spanish for another 4.. I used to know some Ukranian as well..

I would like to learn another language, which direction should i go - Spanish (i work with mexicans who do not know english that well) or german (i hear it is easy) or what else would you recommend.

How were you able to not forget the language, without constant practice or living in that country?

By enduring constant practice, I absorbed myself in the language whenever I got the opportunity. The first year that I learned german in school, I bought a simple german grammar with every important paradigm in it and memorized every single one and learned how to apply them, putting me an entire year ahead of the class. Then I bought a more advanced grammar, dictionary, a book on 500 verb conjugations and subscriptions to magazines such as Stern, Der Spiegel, Focus, and probably like 2 or 3 german language newspapers "Kalifornia Zeitzung" was one. I memorized entire articles that caught my attention about 125 word at a time.I also watched Deutsche-Welle on cable and over the internet, and have several movies with german voice over. I spoke it with anyone I knew that also spoke german no matter how well they spoke the language. I did this every single day for years, and still do it. Then I came to the university here and I found several Professors and students who spoke german, so I speak it with them and also do assignments in german. My Greek teacher was a native speaker from Germany, which also helped me learn Greek, since I found the paradigms so
easy to memorize.

As for pointers on how to learn a language, I did it by brute-force and using special memorization techniques with a hugh emphasis on grammar.It worked great for me, but memorizing 125 words a day off and on for years may not be for everyone.I think it if someone was to learn a new language, that they should focus foremost on learning the first the 160 most used nouns, the entire conjugation charts of the auxilary verb which are the
conjugations of "I am", "I have","I become","I should", "I may", and "I would", direct and indirect articles including all the cases that are in a language for Nominative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Vocative, Instrumental, Imperitive. The demonstrative and realitive pronouns denoting both closeness and distance, whether a prepositional phrase denotes direction, indirection, posession, and a general focus on the pitfalls and obscurities in grammar and language that can not be directly translated into any other language. And also by studying a good book on the syntax of a language.

By the time you have learned one language this way you can easily learn any other similar language you want, because
you can pick out the diffrent parts of grammar in the language you are trying to learn with hardly any practice, and it helps you learn faster.


This really helped my DJ skills, since I am one of a few americans who actually speaks another language. There was a girl here at school that was always hanging around me because she spent a year in germany as a foreign exchange student and I spoke better german than she did, and always wanted to practice.


I've also had several european girlfriends as a result of me knowing german. There was one Ukrainian girl who always use to tell me how glad she was to have met me every time we spent a signifigant amount of time apart, and would always invite me to do things with her. Back before I was suppose to go to the Ukraine for relief work she gave me her e-mail address to keep in contact with her.

It will also help you to understand ******** as well, I wrote a grammar a while back on female language patterns, which is floating around somewhere in the tips section. Everyone should have a look at it, it's quite interesting.

In my opinion you should learn spanish, it will benefit you more than german will in the united states, but then german should be easier to learn for you than someone whose native language is english because of the closer grammatical similarities.

 

[EFFORT]

Currently waiting to here back from all the places I applied/ Internship at this endangered Animal place taking care of Tigers, Jaguars, Leopards, Ocelots and a variety of other wild cats ( And i have the nerve to fear approaching harmless chicks!)

 

[leoncour]

Originally posted by rgeere
English was my first language

German was my second fluent language. I have almost reached fluent speaker status, began learning when I was 14 in school and have sought to perfect it ever since.

Greek I learned in college
Hebrew I learned in college

I also know some Spanish, French, Dutch, Russian,Ukrainian, and Gaelic, though not much more than the basics.

If you are an american I would advise learning another fluent language. Believe it or not chicks tend to find it quite intrigueing, especially if they are non-american. It helps to make you look very well rounded.

I know what you mean. With the world becoming more and more global and national boundaries having less meaning, its essential to be at least bilingual. It seems like everyone knows at least 2 languages, and if you don't you are percieved as an ignorant yokel. I am a little late in beginning to learn my second language but I am starting my second year of french and I love it.

 

[dietzcoi]

US Army

It was a great job until 9/11, now it sucks. But I retire in 05.

Any of you young guys, I would not advise joining just about now.

But it really was great being stationed in West Germany during the cold war. We lived like kings. I still live well here but all has changed. Germany has changed as well as the US.

Dietzcoi

 

[SDBmania]

I work at the local BlockBuster in my town. It's decemt work and pretty easy. What makes it fun is the people you work with.

 

[LuckyStrike]

Originally posted by SDBmania
I work at the local BlockBuster in my town. It's decemt work and pretty easy. What makes it fun is the people you work with.

I used to work in a video store. That was a great place to meet chicks!

Now I'm an Aerospace Technician for a large company who supplies parts to companies like Boeing etc.

 

[SDBmania]

Originally posted by LuckyStrike
I used to work in a video store. That was a great place to meet chicks!

Yep!

It really helped me to be more social too.