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You are obviously clinically depressed Azul. Stop drinking gin and switch to champagne.


Anyone who writes posts that make me laugh (I have very stringent standards) is not useless.


Now, pick yourself up and mentally devise 40 ways to assassinate your boss: 5 points for standard, 10 points for excruicating pain and humiliation. When you have reached 120, stop and remind yourself how creative you are.

Azul Wrote:

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> where I won't have to work 80 hours a week.

> The problem is that I'm pretty useless.

> what else can I do ?


If you have a mastery of Portuguese, you can work non-stop as a Portuguese-English translator in London. Unless you are already working as a Portuguese-English translator, and poss. your standards are too high, hence the 80 hour weeks? Just make it up and bung it out like 50% of the industry does (I never said that). Instant 40 hr week.

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> I think you've come to a state of self-awareness

> that's eviable.

> Embrace your uselessness. Accept it.

> The worlds of PR and marketing await.



Yep, I work in PR - and am utterly useless. However an 80 hour week is not beyond the realms of possibility for me, so possibly look elsewhere. Actually marketing's not a bad idea. Ooh, or teaching

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> You are obviously clinically depressed Azul. Stop

> drinking gin and switch to champagne.

>

> Anyone who writes posts that make me laugh (I have

> very stringent standards) is not useless.

>

> Now, pick yourself up and mentally devise 40 ways

> to assassinate your boss: 5 points for standard,

> 10 points for excruicating pain and humiliation.

> When you have reached 120, stop and remind

> yourself how creative you are.


boss is a great guy, the problem is the CORPORATION

now how do I get excruicating pain and humiliation from a CORPORATION?


It is the probably the biggest question in life... how do I collect one hundred and twenty points from the CORPORATION ?

who should be the first to go ?



[azul pretending to be tina]

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