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| Topic Started: Apr 9 2011, 06:12 PM (6,390 Views) | |
| Ulgania | Aug 31 2011, 05:31 PM Post #126 |
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A better Zarathustra has never rode a horse
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What do you do in retail? Try getting some experience behind the scenes. I mean, I'm in retail, but I'm never on the floor or behind a register. I'm all receiving and marketing. Hell, tomorrow I have a meeting with an online marketer who's likely to give me a job offer if only because I've gotten to know him through working with him. Try a little networking. Anywho. Got approved for a credit card yesterday. From the Gap. Yeah. That's right. Shitty card, high interest. And I'm paying it off as soon as I get info on it. But it's also a Visa card. First credit card man. On the other hand my wardrobe's revamped, and I'm not broke. Huh. |
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| Aelius | Aug 31 2011, 06:21 PM Post #127 |
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Wal-Mart. :dry: Luckily, I'm not a cashier, I just stock stuff most of the time (usually meat), but I'm so sick of the low pay, part-time hours and general lack of dignity that comes from such a job. There's no real creativity or freedom in the job, and it just doesn't pay enough to be worth dealing with the bullshit. |
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| NRE | Aug 31 2011, 07:49 PM Post #128 |
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Screens you don't need not stink'n screens! Just use the screen money to paint a wall or two white an project on them |
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| New Harumf | Sep 1 2011, 08:17 AM Post #129 |
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I would strongly recommend using that card once, paying it off immediately, so that you have established credit, and then never using it again, or any other. Credit cards are a trap, and will destroy you financially with false promises. |
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| Aelius | Sep 1 2011, 11:49 AM Post #130 |
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Alternatively, use it to buy gas, and almost nothing else, and make sure the balance is paid off every month. Then again, I have an actual credit card from my bank. |
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| Telosan | Sep 1 2011, 01:48 PM Post #131 |
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The Foremost Intellectual Badass
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My plan exactly. |
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| East Anarx | Sep 1 2011, 05:38 PM Post #132 |
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Rather not even get one in the first place. I don't need no steenkin' credit card. I'm liking this tea-shop/movie-theatre/video-game-stadium more and more. So, Ulg, need any free labor? |
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| Tristan da Cunha | Sep 1 2011, 06:58 PM Post #133 |
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Science and Industry
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You need to incorporate these additions into your shop in order to maximize profits. --Chinese take out restaurant-- Hire a Chinese cook, who is preferabbly a quasi-legal alien and doesn't speak English, therefore ensuring his social isolation and loyalty to you --Mexican bus boys-- hard workers and non-rebellious --Beer and liquor bar-- Profits$$$ --Overpriced hits on the hookah pipe (key) --Acquire second hand big screen TVs on the cheap from police auctions and foreclosure auctions --Open/concealed carry welcome --Hire attractive high school girls as waiters to drum up business I saw your "Loose Leaf" merchandise and IMO it looks too genteel, and potentially undistinguishable from the dozens of other anonymously genteel tea houses in the arts district/gay district. Therefore you need to position your shop as a strange, Blade Runner-esque neighborhood gathering place rather than a pure tea shop per se. Edited by Tristan da Cunha, Sep 1 2011, 06:58 PM.
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| Rhadamanthus | Sep 1 2011, 07:09 PM Post #134 |
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Alternatively, there is always this idea: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44359943/ns/world_news-christian_science_monitor/?GT1=43001 |
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| Aelius | Sep 1 2011, 07:19 PM Post #135 |
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I like all of TC's ideas, particularly the beer/liquor. :P As for a theme... Steampunk tea house. That is all. |
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| Rhadamanthus | Sep 1 2011, 07:26 PM Post #136 |
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I say go Post-Apocalyptic instead. |
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| East Anarx | Sep 1 2011, 08:15 PM Post #137 |
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Why not both? Also, what TC said. |
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| NRE | Sep 1 2011, 10:13 PM Post #138 |
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Agreed....with both E and TC (that's got a nice ring to it :lol: ) |
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| Ulgania | Sep 1 2011, 10:24 PM Post #139 |
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A better Zarathustra has never rode a horse
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That's all well and good, but 'good' credit will get me a lot farther and business ventures than 'established' credit. Hell, I probably wouldn't have gotten loans for school if my family's credit was simply established. On top of that I've had a credit card through my dad since I was 16. And I've used it twice. I thinnnnk I have restraint. haha. But not to be too cruddy of a realist. It's not simple being 22 and trying to work with a system. And I'm the one with a philosophy degree. :lol: |
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| East Anarx | Sep 1 2011, 10:29 PM Post #140 |
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I don't think this is as ironic as it might seem... |
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| Ulgania | Sep 1 2011, 10:40 PM Post #141 |
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Fuck it. Opening a candy shop. E can provide the candy. I'll operate out of a van. |
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| Rhadamanthus | Sep 2 2011, 07:06 AM Post #142 |
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Both sounds awesome! Hell, can we all go join Ulgania? |
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| Ulgania | Sep 2 2011, 07:27 AM Post #143 |
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Steampunk tends to imply post-apocalyptic. Actually, there's even a steampunk's guide to the apocalypse. http://www.steampunkmagazine.com/pdfs/steampunksguide-web.pdf |
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| New Harumf | Sep 2 2011, 08:43 AM Post #144 |
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If this will be opening in a Gay neighborhood, I strongly suggest a mix of hot young high school girls AND boys for your wait staff. |
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| Ulgania | Sep 2 2011, 09:07 AM Post #145 |
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A better Zarathustra has never rode a horse
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Why is gay capitalized? |
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| New Harumf | Sep 2 2011, 01:12 PM Post #146 |
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Bloodthirsty Unicorn
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I like gay. :D |
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| Rhadamanthus | Sep 2 2011, 04:22 PM Post #147 |
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N/M: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44374541/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/t/americans-sick-vacation-libyan-revolution-may-be-over/?GT1=43001 |
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| East Anarx | Sep 2 2011, 07:00 PM Post #148 |
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Well, okay, but only if the van is steam-powered, armored (to protect against zombies,) and Gay. |
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| NRE | Sep 2 2011, 10:04 PM Post #149 |
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Just hire a hot Gay driver for the van, oh and might want to make sure it doesn't seem outwardly creepy...might be bad for business. |
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| Ulgania | Sep 3 2011, 08:07 PM Post #150 |
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I was hoping to really ooze creepiness. You know, just exude it all over the place. Let it really seep into things. |
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