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[tommyfilth]

Sounds like you and I are in the same boat. I challenge any CH fan with the means and resources to help support the requisite CH Infrastructure.

Web designer problems, am I right?

"Oh, yeah, you'll have no problem finding a job with a student portfolio and a GPA like yours!"

One year later...

[NeverSay]

What would you want on the site, I can make it, both backend and front.

[book_guy]

"Oh, yeah, you'll have no problem finding a job with a student portfolio and a GPA like yours!"

One year later...

Don't feel too special, man. I got a BA in 1987 and have been trying to live down exactly the same fucking lie ever since.

[tommyfilth]

What would you want on the site, I can make it, both backend and front.

Basically, I'm wanting to put together a custom WP site for trusted members of the CH community to keep a database of all CH titles, and current streaming and torrent sources. We're wanting something that we can use to keep everyone up-to-date on the latest releases in an environment that we can trust not to be overrun with sketchy ad campaigns and poorly written code that allow vectors for malware to infect user's computers.

Ideally, we'd want anywhere between 5 - 10 CH people who would be willing to put in a few hours a week to update the site with new titles, and make sure there are no dead links. These individuals would have editor level privileges.

I can definitely do the front end stuff, but it seems to me that the best way to keep the postings manageable would be a MySQL database that will automatically update info on posts, as opposed to having to go to individual posts and update them.

I would also like a robust commenting system (I like Disqus, but am willing to explore other options). We should also have social media integration.

"Oh, yeah, you'll have no problem finding a job with a student portfolio and a GPA like yours!"

One year later...

Don't feel too special, man. I got a BA in 1987 and have been trying to live down exactly the same fucking lie ever since.

Hah, I know I'm in the same boat as a LOT of people. It's that old catch 22; you won't even be considered for a job without some kind of degree, and when you get the degree, you need two years experience in order to get a job. The only option seems to be an unpaid internship, and I'm sorry if I have a problem WORKING FOR FREE.

[book_guy]

We're wanting something that we can use to keep everyone up-to-date on the latest releases in an environment that we can trust not to be overrun with sketchy ad campaigns and poorly written code that allow vectors for malware to infect user's computers.

Ideally, we'd want anywhere between 5 - 10 CH people who would be willing to put in a few hours a week to update the site with new titles, and make sure there are no dead links. These individuals would have editor level privileges.

I can definitely do the front end stuff, but it seems to me that the best way to keep the postings manageable would be a MySQL database that will automatically update info on posts, as opposed to having to go to individual posts and update them.

I would also like a robust commenting system (I like Disqus, but am willing to explore other options). We should also have social media integration.

Although I have literally zero web-board-editing skills, I am a normally intelligent human who is willing to offer some time to this project. I have moderated and quasi-moderated in the past and I suggest to anyone else who is considering offering input, that the best way to take care of this sort of responsibility is to commit a specific portion of the week to it. For example, I could promise to log in and double-check things on each Wednesday evening for one hour, or something like that. If you find people who can commit to more time, especially to more regular time, then by all means sign them up.

"Oh, yeah, you'll have no problem finding a job with a student portfolio and a GPA like yours!"

One year later...

Don't feel too special, man. I got a BA in 1987 and have been trying to live down exactly the same fucking lie ever since.

Hah, I know I'm in the same boat as a LOT of people. It's that old catch 22; you won't even be considered for a job without some kind of degree, and when you get the degree, you need two years experience in order to get a job. The only option seems to be an unpaid internship, and I'm sorry if I have a problem WORKING FOR FREE.

I really caution, in my unparalleled experience, against volunteering as a "way to get your foot in the door." Generally there are two types of volunteers at most typical North American workplaces -- those who DO get a permanent "normal" job out of volunteering, and therefore volunteer approximately ONCE in their entire lives; and, those who DO NOT get a job out of volunteering, and therefore volunteer at another place, and then another, and then another. For some people -- especially those who are a delight and surprise to the supervisors, and who bring with them a set of non-specific skills which do not translate to a resume -- the act of volunteering is indeed an act of getting past an otherwise insurmountable first overly restrictive hurdle. For many many others, however, volunteering, interning, or agreeing to other unpaid arrangements, is simply a way for the employer to get some free labor. If you are a White male with a traditional education and your statistics and qualifications would legitimately be considered middle-of-the-road or even above-average, then, IMO, volunteering is simply capitulating to slavery. DON'T DO IT. You won't ever get a job from it.

For those who won't get a job via volunteering, the act of doing volunteering will have a double-disadvantage. First, you give away work for free; this in and of itself is a loss to you. You may have been told that there are other benefits to volunteering. But, IMO, you aren't "learning the ropes" or "getting to know people" in some special manner, because you could have accomplished those sorts of things in several entirely different manners -- working as a sub-contractor; going to social events, conferences, and training sessions in the proper field; getting a sub-par but paid job in the field or at the organization that occupies less of your time and also gives you at least SOME sort of remuneration; etc.. Thus, it's pointless to volunteer, during the volunteering. Second, and worse, by volunteering, you are DELIBERATELY AND PRO-ACTIVELY sending the clear signal that you welcome abuse and exploitation. You have just told your desired potential future boss, "Hey, I don't care if you treat ME like shit, so long as I get to follow you around like a puppy dog." Consequently, if he (or she) has any sense, he will continue to kick you, while also looking for someone else to fill the job that you think you are working toward. Thus he gets two employees for the price of one. And even if you are seen to have recognized this scam and then change your tactic from acquiescence to resistance, he will nevertheless be highly likely to simply reject you for the position because you have demonstrated some period of lower-than-him-status; otherwise known as kick-worthy-ness. Consequently, volunteering not only harms you in the initial exchange as explained above; it also harms you in the longer run by creating more negative social-status expectations than you might otherwise encounter. It is VOLUNTARILY SIGNING UP to be exploited and thus OVERTLY SIGNALING desire to NOT be paid.

To beat this dreadful cycle, you must have something DESIRABLE to offer. During the initial stages of the volunteering, you must be able to show the facts that (1) nobody else ON THE PLANET can POSSIBLY contribute the way that you can contribute; and (2) you will GO TO THE COMPETITORS with your amazing skills and personality IMMEDIATELY and for a HIGHER PRICE unless the person for whom you are volunteering promptly and immediately hires you on permanently. This is an unlikely scenario for 99.99999% of all recent college graduates. You are not unique in any manner which interests the work-place or the employment marketplace, sorry to say. It is simply truthful economics speaking here, though it is a harsh lesson, and of course there may be a thousand people who happen to have skirted or circumvented these rather rational economic realities by means of some kind of outlier experience, some phenomenon which they can't quite put their fingers on. They got lucky. Don't depend on it for yourself. Or, as is quite often very likely, they had demographically desirable traits that you don't have. Never ever volunteer in a cadre of new potential hires if you are the only White male, you will be the first rejectee regardless of skill level. If you are a lesbian Cherokee female with scoliosis then you may volunteer. I have regularly made the mistake of being only a lesbian Cherokee MALE with scoliosis ...

I think the biggest lie in North American job-training and hiring is, that you can "get your foot in" any door ever. You don't do that in the market. You BUY AND SELL in the market. Furthermore, there are no guarantees of beneficial hiring situations ever. All of North America, 100% of it, is a "work at will" jurisdiction. There are very very few low-level, entry-level, or even trained skilled level, positions, for which the employer cannot fire you immediately simply because he doesn't like your shoelaces. Europe and some other more socialist regions have SOME "right to work" jurisdictions, where an employee (or any citizen) has a legal right to assume that work will be provided for him, at a fair exchange of effort or time for money, and that the work cannot be taken away without some sort of just cause. This is called "right to work" rather than "work at will." The United States SELDOM does that "right to work" thing, and you would know it if you were in a setting which did. Instead, the opposite choice -- that the employer almost ALWAYS has a right to fire you, except for abusive or bigoted reasons like racial prejudice -- will be your lot in life. Welcome to North American Economics 101 as organized by Mitt Romney and his friends for his benefit and your detriment. I know, I sound angry about it. I don't think I would have been HALF as bitter if I'd simply been TOLD THE TRUTH rather than the silly lies. If I'd come out of college with a "wow man, it's HARD out there and it SUCKS," I'd probably be a balanced decent guy on this subject. Instead, my fancy-schmancy college told me, "Volunteer, get your foot in the door, it'll really pay off!" Assholes. It WON'T pay off.

This is an employment MARKET. Therefore, it NEVER makes sense to do something in advance, and then expect or try to demand recompense only afterwards. Get an arrangement in which you are REQUIRED to be paid, before you agree to work. Because otherwise, the sensible decision of any supervisor will be, not, "Oh, you gave us X so we have to repay you with Y." Rather, his (or her) right decision will be, "Thank you for the free X. We want more X. If you make it too hard for us to get X we will simply stop asking YOU for our supply of X and we will get it from someone else, perhaps by giving him (or her) some Y in exchange for it, if he drives a hard bargain; or perhaps by just taking some of HIS X for free, suckah! just like we did from you."

Don't let the one-percenters fool you. You are NOT a member of their secret insider club, and generally speaking, volunteering as their lackey, stable hand, boot-polisher, or chamber-pot emptyer, does NOT cause them to re-consider your status and invite you to stop being their underling. All it does, the more you do of it, is cause them to think you are MORE AND MORE an underling relative to their overling status. When was the last time the chamber maid got a membership at the yacht club simply by being a rather straightforward good enough or even above-average, but not remarkably once-in-a-lifetime exceptional, chamber maid? Does the fact, that the chamber maid reminds the yachtsmen of their shit, convince them to make her a member of their club, or convince them to keep her as a servant to the club and never give her membership?

Don't let career counselors fool you. Their "this is the way it works" system is a lie. Fight da powah. Workers of the world unite. "Debout, les damnés de la terre, Debout, les forçats de la faim" ... OK sorry I'm done now. :)

[tommyfilth]

Although I have literally zero web-board-editing skills, I am a normally intelligent human who is willing to offer some time to this project. I have moderated and quasi-moderated in the past and I suggest to anyone else who is considering offering input, that the best way to take care of this sort of responsibility is to commit a specific portion of the week to it. For example, I could promise to log in and double-check things on each Wednesday evening for one hour, or something like that. If you find people who can commit to more time, especially to more regular time, then by all means sign them up.

I agree, this is the best way to approach this. Division of labor, clear cut expectations, and not overworking our people are key to making this work. And based on my impression of you thus far, you're definitely hired! :)

(tons of good advice)

Thank you very much, all that is very helpful, and I agree with most, if not all of it. I may have given the impression that I'm a younger guy, based on my admission that I'm a recent grad, but I am in fact about 18 months away from my 40th year on this planet, and what you had to say actually resonates very strongly with my own expedience. Like you, I wish I'd been given the straight facts when I was young, but I was sold a lie, and I ate up every bit of it. I don't think it benefits the established power structures in the United States to prepare young people for reality. Somebody armed with facts is less likely to be taken advantage of, and that just won't do when the only thing that matters is your bottom line and what the stock holders vote on at the next big meeting.

[book_guy]

Yeah well, I think that about halfway through that post I realized that I was writing it more for my own benefit than for anyone else's anyway ...

[ByteShare]

Does anyone know a source to still see the video, and preferably HD? All the links I tried said the video was taken down due to copyright.