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  1. I wouldn't pick Ho-sang under any circumstances. I think it's even odds he never plays 100 games in the NHL.
  2. Nothing official but it says so here from this article today. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/06/16/hartnetts-rangers-offseason-preview-who-stays-and-who-goes/
  3. Just read that the projected cap is to be $70.5 mil.
  4. Now that the Finals are over I can be officially excited for the draft, right?
  5. HVAC is a constantly in demand urban trade with high initial earning power.
  6. The Isles are extremely pleased to have Tuukka back in the fold. We believe with his presence that we can challenge to get him that 2nd Cup. With this deal the offseason for the Isles is mostly done barring an ability to add some veteran presence on our bottom 6. Offseason Lineup: Schenn-Seguin-Franzen Wilson-Bergeron-Bennett Kuznetsov-Cullen-Etem Clifford-________ -Pearson Halischuk-Caron Edler-Garrison Seidenberg-Hamilton Regher-Smith Tinordi Rask Gibson Lowry-Namestnikov-Matteau Stephenson-Martindale-_______ Morrow-Elliott Zadorov-Ristolainen Bystrom-Nemeth Rutkowski-Bengtsson Eriksson Unsigned: Mueller, Bigras, Leipsic, B McGinn, Moutrey, Fournier, Hartman, Hagg 2014 Draft Picks: 8th, 10th, 11th, 18th, 41st, 43rd, 46th
  7. I surprised how many of you believe this is an intentional troll job. It much more likely he is just a supremely naive, misinformed and self important person with little or no practical life experience. Yes, these people exist.
  8. Joey, I know you tend toward strong sardonic wit.... but I also know you know what is implied with the commonly used term. The blue collar sector usually involves lower paying, monotonous work of many hours with little recognition compared to the white collar sector. I'm aware this is not always the case as I have skirted the line between both worlds successfully. It's a matter of having the mentality that you need to work for what you get, that it won't be a cakewalk without putting in the hard work and rolling up your sleeves. It's true in both worlds but it's the difference in analogy between the silver spoon and the self made person. That's not in dispute. What is in dispute is that success in whatever endeavour in life comes from actually doing the work in priority and the compensation does follow. Never will you be compensated before the proof of production. You and I are agreeing actually. If you want to better your status, especially in comparison to your contemporaries (which is what this discussion is all about) then you need to see value in yourself and go out and prove it. The only way to do that is to start somewhere and distinguish yourself through your skills and abilities. OP thinks he had done that but he clearly has not and seems unwilling to do so first. Where the disagreement with OP starts is not that he has high expectations for his worth and future worth. It's that he feels that simply getting a degree entitles him to skip the steps of actually showing his value in the marketplace as if his schooling was the golden ticket without the need to learn an industry or establish himself.
  9. I would imagine that Florida would be the one wanting Gostisbehere, being the local boy.
  10. As I said to him in one of his other threads... White collar resume but Blue collar work ethic. He argued against that logic.
  11. I think I just Rasked in my pants.
  12. Can you place a player on waivers if they have a NMC?
  13. Congrats OTTS! You pulled it out in the end! / Sig changed. You're the reigning champ now.
  14. Holy crap. I would have never glitchy that would happen in a hundred years.
  15. I'll give you this, OP, you're either going perform miraculously against all odds or you are going to implode spectacularly.
  16. Keep us updated on the job hunt, OP. Report back. I'm sure you'll find that job by Aug 1st. There's nothing stopping you.
  17. They expect you to manage your money wisely, work hard and sacrifice to build the life you want. They aren't in it to make your life easy.
  18. If he does actually get a job his coworkers are going to have him figured out in the lunchroom by the end of the week. To me he sounds like a guy who will wind up on the wrong side of law looking for shortcuts to wealth and success, wind up getting caught, and blaming everyone else for his failures. I hope not but at 26 years old a person should have more life experience than OP is portraying. I could understand if he was a teenager but he lacks every understanding of how the world works and what qualities make people successful.
  19. You mean the rest of us that have been in the workforce for decades, run our own companies, set budgets, hire personnel and actually have the practical experience you lack while also having degrees? Learning to listen to advice is a great skill to learn.
  20. I agree. I'm living proof. But..... What have you heard from OP that makes you think he has either of these qualities?
  21. Sooooo.....what you're saying is that you've never had a job or gone to an interview for anything other than a minimum wage job?
  22. Seriously.... I want to watch this reality show.
  23. That's exactly the case. It's also why the few who bully their way through the cracks wind up in positions of extreme power. There is a viciousness to their undervaluing of those around them.
  24. Ever since I read the paper on it I've been seeing it all over the place. Dunning-Kruger Effect The DunningKruger effect is a cognitive bias manifesting in two principal ways: Unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude.[1] Those persons to whom a skill or set of skills come easily may find themselves with weak self-confidence, as they may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. See Impostor syndrome. David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University conclude, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others".[2] Dunning and Kruger proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will: tend to overestimate their own level of skill; fail to recognize genuine skill in others; fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy; recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they are exposed to training for that skill.[5] Dunning has since drawn an analogy ("the anosognosia of everyday life")[1][6] with a condition in which a person who suffers a physical disability because of brain injury seems unaware of or denies the existence of the disability, even for dramatic impairments such as blindness or paralysis. If youre incompetent, you cant know youre incompetent. [] the skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is. David Dunning[7]
  25. Honestly....read this. http://forum.canucks.com/topic/358966-nhl-pesidents-salary/#entry12085613 I think he's completely serious. The world is going to be what you want OP. It's a much harder place.
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