Almost 19 I finally decided what to do with my life

[JohnKleeb]

Lame yes but its something.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. OK.......So........

WHAT is it?

Are you going to keep us in suspense?

I'd like to know!

:shrug:

[lizziegrace]

2. Yeah!

What's your decision?

:hi:

[JohnKleeb]

3. fine suspsense time is done

http://www.nlrb.gov/nlrb/home/default.asp
I know it sounds silly as hell but this looks like the perfect kind of work for me. I'll probably have to go do law and graduate school.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

4. Oh thank god...

I thought you were going to say you were joining the military...and then I'd was going to have to kill you, and thank god that didn't happen because that would just be messy. :hi:
:evilgrin:

[JohnKleeb]

5. hahahhaha

eh this is probably the best way I can "serve" my country by making sure the little guy doesn't get screwed. I actually decided on this a month or so ago.

[bigwillq]

6. Sounds interesting Kleeb!

:hi:

[JohnKleeb]

7. Thanks

Yeah It really sounds like the perfect job for me, I feel though I am a partisan politically the past year has really enabled me to see things from all sides and be objective.

[bigwillq]

9. You will need to be

in that kind of job.
Good luck in this pursuit. :hi:

[JohnKleeb]

11. Ive been getting better at it by the day

It helps when you have a class with people of diverse backgrounds in it too, my speech class is just great, really is a great group of all kinds of backgrounds.

[bigwillq]

12. I miss college.

:(

I loved classes that pushed me intellectually and to see all sides of a certain subject.
Do you wanna switch places?

You can be a 28-year old sportswriter at a repuke newspaper and I can be 19 again!

What do you say? :shrug:

[JohnKleeb]

13. I am not 19 yet

its not really the class itself that has me to do it, its the people in the class itself. The one thing I love about community college is the huge diversity of people you have in your classes, today's presentations alone showed that, we had a dude from New York talk about graffiti as an art form, a Somali talk about traditional muslim dress, someone who horseshoes horses for a living. Yeah I'd switch places though I may get you fired because I'd be hating on the Yankees though because I am fair I'd go after the Sox too.

[bigwillq]

14. We have more Sox fans

in the office here.
They drive me nuts! :mad:

When's your birthday? :shrug:

[JohnKleeb]

16. late July

Ah let em have their bottle man, they've what won one championship in your lifetime, as much as I enjoyed watching the Yanks blow that 3-0 lead in the series, I think its hilarious that the Sox have only won one world series since 1918, I feel the same way about the Chicago Cubs and I want them to go a century without a series win since I kinda like their rival, the Cardinals.

[bigwillq]

18. NO!

These Sox fans (at my office) are just whiny babies.
They get on my nerves.
Not my fault the Sox are tradtional losers! :popcorn:

[JohnKleeb]

19. I meant laugh

and say yeah how many championships have you guys got in your life times? That'll shut em up. Hell man since 1918 the Washington Senators won the same amount of championships as the Sux did and that team left DC 26 years before I was born. Oh and if they start to talk about the Pats who I hate a lot just refer to them as paying attention to football only because they wanted to escape their perennial blowabiggame baseball team.

[bigwillq]

20. See I like the Pats

I am a Giants fan but I don't mind if the Pats win.
Strange, huh?!??

[JohnKleeb]

21. that is strange

I'll give you a easy reason to hate them most of their fans are Sox fans and they have serious entitlement issues. Then again I feel indifferent to the Giants and have a respect for them since Wellington Mara was like what Dan Rooney is to the Steelers.

[bigwillq]

22. Mara was a good guy indeed.

He will be missed. :cry:

See I don't feel the same way about Pats fans that I do about Sox fans.
I just don't HATE Pats fans the way I HATE Sox fans.


I don't really hate the people that are SOX fans but you know what I mean. I hate that they root for the Sox and I am sure that they hate that I root for the Yanks!

[JohnKleeb]

23. Just as I dont actually hate Yank fans

I think if the Giants were in the same conference as the Pats they would hate them since they would be in the same division too. You know what the funny thing for me as a Orioles/Steelers fan though is? Most of the Orioles fan base is now from Maryland so they're thus Ravens fans and as my friend on the Steelers site put it the Ravens are basically the Cleveland Brownies in purple. It's a hated rivalry so when I wore my Ben Roethlisberger jersey in ocean city last summer I got hissed at hahhaha but because Steeler Nation is so damn big I got a Go Steelers too. I am getting a Bettis or Ward jersey next. Seriously I'll look for reasons for you to hate the Pats.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. That is OUTSTANDING, my dear Kleeb!

I used to work in a unionized job.....

And the NLRB was a life-saver!

You have made an awesome and outstanding choice! Major props to you...

:yourock:

[JohnKleeb]

10. Yeah the NLRB really is great

My grandfather worked in it for many years and recently because my mom talked me out of going in to journalism, I am still shy as hell and I think she was looking out for me there, so I talked with my dad about labor arbiration possibly as a career and he gave a call to an old friend of his fatehrs and the guy really was a great bit of help. Plus in the labor arbiration field you meet all kinds of people. My grandfather knew Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsfers fame, Walter Reuther of the UAW fame, and others quite possibly one of my heroes John L. Lewis who is up there with FDR with my other grandparents.

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. Good for you, John....

It'll take some education, but I know you can do it. You'll be looking out for us working stiffs. The best of luck to you.

[JohnKleeb]

17. Yep

I may have to go to Cornell to learn how to do this, upstate new york far ways from home.

[nuxvomica]

24. A good choice for you, Kleeb

Fair labor relations are the warp and woof of democracy. And I think you'd have a passion for it. :thumbsup:

[JohnKleeb]

25. Indeed

I have the background from both sides of the coin too having great grandfathers who were miners, uncles who were steelworkers, a grandfather who actually did this which would be the middle perspective, and another one of my great grandfather was an engineer. Labor rights are important to a functioning democracy.

[nuxvomica]

28. You can't have a strong middle class without them

And if you don't have a middle class, you can call the country a democracy, you can even have people voting, but you don't really have a democracy, IMHO.

[JohnKleeb]

29. Very true

Thanks to acts like the GI Bill the modern American middle class was formed, I think thats probably one of the most important legislation pieces in the past 100 years, that and the Wagner Act which ironically is what established the NLRB, and my dreaded least favorite the Taft-Hartley act.

[nuxvomica]

34. You do know your history

I actually think the Wagner Act was more significant than the GI Bill but you're better at history than me so I'll concede the point. I'll also concede it cuz my dad probably wouldn't have done so well in life without it and, so, neither would I. ;-)

[JohnKleeb]

35. They're both great

There's a reason why Robert Wagner is considered one of the best senators of all time by historians.

[DBoon]

36. Awesome!!

You picked a good one!

Best luck!

[JohnKleeb]

37. THanks

Gonna be a hard road but I think I have the skills for it.

[Telly Savalas]

38. Awesome!

There's nothing lame or silly about that. Having people who know what they're doing working for organizations like the NLRB is arguably as important as having people on Capitol Hill who know what they're doing.

[JohnKleeb]

41. I agree

You have to have an open mind and see things as complex.

[JVS]

46. As though that organization will even exist for the rest of your life!

:evilgrin:

[Shine]

26. Good for you. Some people are twice your age and still haven't decided.

:hi:

[JohnKleeb]

27. Thanks and it took me a while too

I am really glad that I didnt take that Criminal Justice course as a junior because I changed my mind.

[ContraBass Black]

30. Oh snap.

I'm 21, a Junior in college, and I don't have a damned clue. I'm falling behind.

[JohnKleeb]

31. Nah man

it takes a while.

[ContraBass Black]

32. I've been trying to figure it out for 17 years.

That's a while.

[JohnKleeb]

33. Mine constantly changes

I went from wanting to be a UVA Grad Lawyer which I think was a laugh since I couldnt get in anywhere to wanting to be a Sports journalist. What are you majoring in?

[TimeChaser]

39. I'm 19 as well, and I have things narrowed down,

although I'm going to get my Bachelors of Science before I get any more specific.

Congrats on making up your mind :hi:

[JohnKleeb]

40. Thanks

[Rhiannon12866]

42. Whatever you decide to do, John, and you don't have to decide now,

I know that you will always make us proud and we'll all be boasting that you knew you when... You always make us proud, little brother.:-)

Rhi:D

[PittPoliSci]

43. you've got a 2 year head start on me!

but still, congrats! it's important, and it makes you feel good and gives you a sense of direction.

i'm still wandering around aloof with no clue as to where i'll end up.

[no name no slogan]

44. This Union Man says GO FOR IT

And if you don't get on at the NLRB, you could always go to work for one of the unions, too. They can always use the help.

[jukes]

45. good 1, Kleeb

you'll do well!