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Criticism.

I try not to reject comments outright as in the past. Even coming from those who have not traversed the path, encountered its limitations, some statements or similarities may provide insight, if not motivation. Besides, tolerating naysaying with tenacity is tantamount to training for a vicissitude filled reality.

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Job Fairs.

Haven't had the opportunity exactly; been to a couple of showcase / interview days prior to recruitment. They seemed to work much better since both you and the army have little choice in the matter of acceptance (ie by default you'll just fill some crack), and the second being academy oriented had decent matches.

But what you describe definitely corresponds to unemployment experience (as BA1 stated), except being haled to such interviews weekly in exchange for a dole.

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This is a long one, so please bear with me.

Thank you for sharing your aspirations, araz.
Mayhap I'm misreading (by all means, correct me if that's so), however seems you've all but explicitly stated your goals do not involve him directly. Whether to enhance the experience, or believing his escort prerequisite to success, is unclear.
As it stands, opting to stay is detrimental to your chances. Making a major career & residence shifts becomes monumentally difficult once rooted in commitment (debt, family). If adoption is unsuitable, you've a very strict biological clock to adhere to - by 40, miscarriage & defect rates rise steeply, I imagine you're familiar with the tolls such misfortunes take on those involved. Moreover, child care in modern society is extremely expensive and claims at least half of one's time to perform well; you'd have to save up, or someone highly reliable, or both, again within the time constraint. Although I do not know what to what end goes your current multitude of occupations, I suspect it isn't a dash for building up reserves.
You believe your mother would encourage you to stay. Why? As I've stated before, you need good reason to 'take a pill' in any association. I believe that my parents' primary justification in the matter would be children. My mother told me in the past, even though she felt stuck at times in a position not quite agreeable to her plans, she did it for the sake of my sister & I. Everybody's got regrets, things that make them look back on how the path turned out; but when you've come a long way, what keeps you looking ahead is the ones whose growth has just begun, and whose lives you've influenced - this may also be students and the like, but I'd speculate those who have gone as long beside you wouldn't count as legacy in one's perspective. Awaiting his shift from career orientation (or so it seems) to family orientation, which might not come, is perchance less effective than reclaiming it if & when it does.
Now, if you fear of slipping into a chasm, without tether, guidance or safeguard... Yes. Everyone falters. Measures can be taken to prevent injury, but there's no universal guarantee of safety. Experience may teach you legerity, or pain. It's a leap of faith which mayhap few will or can take. Nevertheless, its direction is one with your intent, which may not be so bad a way to go.
I'm truly sorry for writing this, really don't want to make decisions for others. But perhaps you could learn a bit from the errors of a failure.

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So we have to come to a decisionโ€ฆ Helptogo is being shut down, and they have offered us to buy the domain, and more importantly the info (as helptogo does still have all the old posts from the

So you're running a left join to merge the guest id in a new table?
Any clue where the orphan data may have originated - perhaps wiped / temp users or somesuch? Or if we're talking millions, the old site's posts?

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Living at home question.

http://joealcohol.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...

If you've the capital to acquire the house and aren't buried 6 figures under in debt, I'd say you're doing pretty damn well.

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So we have to come to a decisionโ€ฆ Helptogo is being shut down, and they have offered us to buy the domain, and more importantly the info (as helptogo does still have all the old posts from the

Rockster160 wrote:
The next step after that is to attempt to reformat the data, which should go MUCH faster. Then it will be ready to send up to the interwebs.

What kind of reformatting do you have in mind for the first pass, apart from amending encoding? Meaning, do you plan to fit the data to the helpcom 'wrapper', or leave it as htg / bbcode? (Assuming it's still the htg tables rather than whatever's backed up from the old site.)

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I've come to realize people aren't friendly.

"My Helpcom Helperยฉ limited warranty:
Don't like my advice? Give it back."

If you prefer to sit on the fence and point out everyone's flaws, that's fine too. Personally, I found some of the old site's feisty attitude riveting to observe, notwithstanding its role in driving friends away.

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they say that the rats are the last things to leave a sinking ship, Goodbye Rats.

Oh. Thanks for the reference, he seems to have made some interesting titles, probably ought to check them out sometime.

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they say that the rats are the last things to leave a sinking ship, Goodbye Rats.

Actually, doesn't the idiom imply the opposite? Rats represent the masses, abandoning ship at the first sign of sinking by instinct of self preservation, whereas the captain goes down with it.

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So we have to come to a decisionโ€ฆ Helptogo is being shut down, and they have offered us to buy the domain, and more importantly the info (as helptogo does still have all the old posts from the

Sort of; shoutboxes / messages were a later feature, and permitted multiple users by invitation, as far as I recall.

In the client side terminology, topics & posts are equivalent to posts & replies here, respectively. Dunno if it's the same in storage.

Are you testing in production, by any chance?

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