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Rob, congrats! How’d you overcome your fear?
exposure therapy!!! first i started writing the word peacock over and over until i was able to write it out full without my hand trembling, then i drew peacocks, then google imaged peakcocks and stared at them for as long as i was able to without my anxiety level hitting over a 7 (out of 10 being the highest). i havent had the guts to see a living real life peacock yet (not even sure where i could see a living one. someone told me they are native and wild to prospect park but im not i believe that). hopefully ill get to experience a real life one and be rid of this phobia once and for all!!
*rob*
jessi, rob’s just trying to play nice today. He scared himself this morning with an attempted blogicide. It was an attention-getting effort.
“Never offer information, don’t go too far back with historical references (like the yen trade info offered above), never apologize, never explain.”
I hear what you are saying, donatella, but between me, you and the other posters/ lurkers…I’m pretty sure that this ‘over-qualified’ crap I’m getting is bold-faced code for “too old/not hip enough/not current enough” or something. ‘Cause I’m pretty damn qualified, if I do say so myself, and I want to work. If I turn up at the mother-effing interview, it’s not because I think it’s ‘too lowly’ a position for me, or that the title isn’t senior enough. I never bring up my age at interviews, and I bank on the fact that I look young for my age, but my resume tells another story for me. And the truth of the matter is that I think my age is hurting me right now, and more than one recruiter has said to me that this is the case. That employers are hiring younger/lower salary people.
JB, you can believe that when you take Rob to the zoo and he doesnt freak out at the peacocks
Rob, congrats! How’d you overcome your fear?
Some kids also threw a rock at me in the Grand Army Plaza statio once. Hit me in the back of my down coat.
Another time I was walking down 6th Ave. and a couple were having a fight. Suddenly the man rushed the woman, grabbed something from her, and began speed walking away. she began crying and pleading for it back – think it was her Metrocard. I yelled “Hey!” and they turned the corner. He threw it down on the sidewalk and ran off.
DIBS, that’s the issue right now, capital appreciation aint the top priority vs. preservation is. for most retail investors, live to fight another day is the motto.
500,000
“I’d get admonished again by Cobble.”
Yes, you would. Save that stuff for your chat room buddies on Silverdaddies.