dc20willsave Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 I am currently in my store. Yesterday was our official last day of business. I'm basically getting paid today to watch people take away fixtures and books that I spent four years worrying way too much about. It's difficult to express in words how equally depressing and liberating this is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 *hugs, Dubs* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 I am currently in my store. Yesterday was our official last day of business. I'm basically getting paid today to watch people take away fixtures and books that I spent four years worrying way too much about. It's difficult to express in words how equally depressing and liberating this is. Wooo? But yeah Dubs, that sucks but as you even said, you're feeling good about it also. Sure things will go alright. And totally unrelated: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackFetch Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 I am currently in my store. Yesterday was our official last day of business. I'm basically getting paid today to watch people take away fixtures and books that I spent four years worrying way too much about. It's difficult to express in words how equally depressing and liberating this is. It's time to get that resume together: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Why so so many female characters in american films work in or want to work in real estate? That's really an ideal world job for people? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 What era are the films set in? Up until the 2000s, real estate was a pretty lucrative market. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Just films in general. I'm watching Date Night, and Steve Carell has a standard boring office job and Tina Fey sells houses. You couldn't find people with more boring normal movie jobs. Not saying it's bad, it really works when you're using it for something like in American Beauty. I mean, those people had boring typical movie jobs for a reason. It's just an odd job to feature so regularly, I don't think a single British film has ever featured an estate agent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Huh, that might just be another case of you Brits being weeeeird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 I'll have you know, all Americans aspire to be real estate agents. It's the greatest honor one can hold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 And if it was any market other than the current one, you could make a good asston of money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 I think the idea is that it's a really good middle-class job that's not terribly gender-dominant one way or the other. It doesn't have the stiffness of an office job, and it's reasonably respectable. It's also something that can vary as far as general income, so upper- and lower-income people can relate to those characters. I will say, though, that I never really notice it. As far as that not being a British thing, might that be because Britain is an island? With not a ton of extra land? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 It's more that most British people look upon estate agents with the contempt they deserve. That's why Stavros is puzzled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 What, do the real estate agents in Britain make it a tradition to go out an run over everyone's collective grandmothers every weekend? Ours give us cookies and let us know when the house we are buying is actually a mold-infested dump. xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 What, do the real estate agents in Britain make it a tradition to go out an run over everyone's collective grandmothers every weekend? Ours give us cookies and let us know when the house we are buying is actually a mold-infested dump. xD See that bolded bit? Ours go out of their way to described that as being a "balmy environment". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Well, yours are right bastards, then. Come to the American side. We have cookies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 I'm writing an application for an internship in Godfrey, Illinois right at this very moment! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Excellent! I'm trying to find goddamn anywhere that's employing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 For me?!? How very kind, Miss Krueger!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Oh, that's right, I've got competition in you now for the jobs market, on top of everyone else. Should've laced that booze with a bit of arsenic in Chicago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stavros Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Any chance we can just make it a straight swap for Dubs? That way when he wants to stay forever you're screwed (assuming immigration works on a strict one-in one-out policy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 You can't get rid of me that easily, Stavros! Even if you & Dubs would enjoy such an arrangement, I would find my way back to this green & pleasant land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 I'm in between jobs at the moment, so this is great timing. I'll get my bags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slothian Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Hey!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 Bah, Ian, you'll love America. Slowly, you'll lose your accent, enjoy your bacon crispy, and the only queens you'll recognize are the ones at the local gay bar. Then, when your parents see you standing there in your American Flag jacket at Christmas, asking for coffee instead of tea and humming God Bless the USA, you'll realize how far you have trully come. Dubs meanwhile will be much the same I assume except playing games in PAL format instead of NTSC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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