“Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give.”
William Arthur Ward quotes (American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)
Have been adjusting for the last 3 months. Times have been waaaaaaaaay tougher than expected with every unimaginable-crazy speed-bump coming up. So many of the situations here have been out of my control. Family stressing me with shit that wasn't a problem while in Thailand. Nature biting my ass ie bed bugs. Started working $12/h PART TIME for the first month. Have since landed a full time ENTRY LEVEL position with entry level pay when friends are making more money... etc..
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Thanks for the awesome quotes everyone. Need some book recommendations. Preferably audio books/ebooks.
talking to a younger friend in nova scotia right now, distressing to hear he's earning 13bux an hour at 38. it's cold over there. what's the plan i ax him. donno. speed bumps beget speed bumps, mountains beyond mountains.
there are ways out if you're open to them. the problem with him is he isn't, just sticking to smallville, the devil you know and all that. and that's most people. having it easy in the west for so many years has not prepared people for much.
For God's sake mate. If anyone has to ask a basic question like that ... they should ask their mum.
omg, mirrorOriginally Posted by Beavis
I am lucky that my father knows a regional manager in the very successful company I work for. There opportunities for advancement if I keep my nose clean (haha) and do some courses. It is all within my reach but will take time. I will persevere. I'll bring my wife over and we'll have good times and bad but we will have each other and hopefully retire in Thailand (what a dream!) before we die!!
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For God's sake mate. If anyone has to ask a basic question like that ... they should ask their mum.
Where to begin..
There he goes again bragging about how much money he makes and how he's successful in business.
Well, add another depressed Canadian to the list. I'm telling you, there is something about this country.... I know what it is.
I am feeling better now. Thanks to everyone who helped.
Any suggestions for audio books or ebooks??
It's cold and cloudy? SAD is a pretty serious condition.
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steveo: Read The Millionaire Next Door. I'm also reading "English Teacher X: A TEFL Memoir". Quite fun.
Audiobooks? Rubber Balls and Liquor by Gilbert Gottfried (read by the author)
Am I the only loser who voted?
canada is like england. well, england and finland together.
That's it.
The eternal present.
A good thing to learn is not to dwell on notions.
Things are in continual change....
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I like the seasons in Canada.
I like the fact that you sometimes get perfect days, weather wise.
Different strokes for different folks...
Maybe Thailand in the winter, Canada in summer.
Canada ain't as cold as many believe.
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
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There; that's what it's all about.
Everything else is a distraction.
Frederick Douglass: Find out just what any people will quietly submit to
and you have found out the exact measure of injustice
and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these
will continue till they are resisted with either
words or blows, or with both.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn;
“Don’t believe them, don’t fear them, don’t ask
anything of them.”
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