A Dilly of a pickle I'm in right now

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  • LeilaMoonTurtle
    LeilaMoonTurtle Posts: 1,418
    or #4
    LeilaMoonTurtle wrote:
    call in sick
    go to msg and then back to CA
    u'll look like hell from all the traveling
    so it will be believable

    :)
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  • Vedd Hedd
    Vedd Hedd Posts: 4,631
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    Any job at all. Do you have an offer? ;)
    I could actually be employed in Colorado and be living in Cali. I know a guy who had a relative who helped him scam the system like that. He got to do his thing all summer, but he was on the books in his uncles company.


    hehe, welcome to America.
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  • wash_
    wash_ Posts: 1,073
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    2 - Risk losing my job and possibly getting sent home halfway through my holiday for the sake of seeing Pearl Jam 3 years in a row.
    /quote]

    Do what ya gotta do...would you feel guilty for not taking the opportunity to see them in New York? If yes...GO TO NEW YORK!!!! And have a blast for the rest of us stuck here. No doubt you'll hear Education once more! :D
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  • Hitch-Hiker
    Hitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    It's clear now that I don't have a choice in the matter.

    [Waynes World impression]I will go to the concert, Oh yes, I will go to the concert[/Waynes World impression]
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  • ECM
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    getting fired to see pearl jam..... sometimes I just don't get people....
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  • Hitch-Hiker
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    Evil Closet Monkey wrote:
    getting fired to see pearl jam..... sometimes I just don't get people....
    Well, it's not definite yet.
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  • wash_
    wash_ Posts: 1,073
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    It's clear now that I don't have a choice in the matter.

    [Waynes World impression]I will go to the concert, Oh yes, I will go to the concert[/Waynes World impression]

    No, you dont have a choice. You're representing Europe. Make the boys come back to us!!!!!!!!!!
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    2007 ░▒▓ London, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen, Nijmegen
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  • meistereder
    meistereder Posts: 1,577
    Evil Closet Monkey wrote:
    getting fired to see pearl jam..... sometimes I just don't get people....

    This is not a career. It's a busy work job. You only live once.

    If I were studying abroad somewhere and PJ was playing in the country, there is no way I would miss it.
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  • Vedd Hedd
    Vedd Hedd Posts: 4,631
    Evil Closet Monkey wrote:
    getting fired to see pearl jam..... sometimes I just don't get people....


    Yeah. I dont get it.

    I have seen 30+ shows, and I plan to see 30+ more.

    But I wouldn't do anything to risk losing my job, wife, family, work visa, or any other life-changing-type thing.

    If I was in college and I was blowing off a class and selling some CD's to get tour money, thats a different story. (Heck, have a keg party to rasie travel funds.)

    But its really not worth it to risk your well-being.

    What if you have a job that has health benefits, then you decide to blow it all on a few concerts, then get fired, then get in a car accident, and cant pay for your hospital bills becasue you dont have benefits anymore.......

    To the original poster.....what if you cant find another job, (as finding a job is tough right now in the US) and end up getting sent back?

    Would it have been worth it?


    EDIT: I dont have a wife, children, etc, but there was another thread where the guy was contemplating leaving his pregnant to go see a pearl jam show two weeks before her due date.

    Thats kinda ridiculous.
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  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,829
    If you get fired, does you ability to stay in this country get effected?
  • meistereder
    meistereder Posts: 1,577
    Vedd Hedd wrote:
    Yeah. I dont get it.

    I have seen 30+ shows, and I plan to see 30+ more.

    But I wouldn't do anything to risk losing my job, wife, family, work visa, or any other life-changing-type thing.

    If I was in college and I was blowing off a class and selling some CD's to get tour money, thats a different story. (Heck, have a keg party to rasie travel funds.)

    But its really not worth it to risk your well-being.

    What if you have a job that has health benefits, then you decide to blow it all on a few concerts, then get fired, then get in a car accident, and cant pay for your hospital bills becasue you dont have benefits anymore.......

    To the original poster.....what if you cant find another job, (as finding a job is tough right now in the US) and end up getting sent back?

    Would it have been worth it?


    EDIT: I dont have a wife, children, etc, but there was another thread where the guy was contemplating leaving his pregnant to go see a pearl jam show two weeks before her due date.

    Thats kinda ridiculous.

    Agreed, but this doesn't sound like a "well being" type of job. I am an attorney, and of course I wouldn't blow off my career for a show. But if I was back in college, studying abroad and working as a copy clerk somewhere, I'd call in sick and go to the show. There is a big difference.
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  • Vedd Hedd
    Vedd Hedd Posts: 4,631
    meistereder wrote:
    Agreed, but this doesn't sound like a "well being" type of job. I am an attorney, and of course I wouldn't blow off my career for a show. But if I was back in college, studying abroad and working as a copy clerk somewhere, I'd call in sick and go to the show. There is a big difference.


    I can agree to that.

    I blew off everything in college. :D
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  • meistereder
    meistereder Posts: 1,577
    Vedd Hedd wrote:
    I can agree to that.

    I blew off everything in college. :D

    That is part of learning what you can and can't get away with. Part of the education process, if you ask me!
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  • Vedd Hedd
    Vedd Hedd Posts: 4,631
    meistereder wrote:
    That is part of learning what you can and can't get away with. Part of the education process, if you ask me!


    Good point.

    I learned all about credit card debt then.

    A few months from now, I will have finally paid off the Yield Tour.
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  • redrock
    redrock Posts: 18,341
    Evil Closet Monkey wrote:
    getting fired to see pearl jam..... sometimes I just don't get people....
    Vedd Hedd wrote:
    But I wouldn't do anything to risk losing my job, wife, family, work visa, or any other life-changing-type thing......

    What if you have a job that has health benefits, then you decide to blow it all on a few concerts, then get fired, then get in a car accident, and cant pay for your hospital bills becasue you dont have benefits anymore.......

    Put it in perspective. He's a foreign student, in the US for three months. What kind of jobs do you think he will get? Yep.. crappy jobs that are used to people coming and going, not turning up for work, etc. Not a 'career' job or a job with benefits! He works for a couple of weeks, goes to visit NY and while he's there take in a gig or two, then goes back to San Diego to find another crappy job.

    I'm sure Hitch will have his travel insurance which will cover medical issues (you WILL Hitch, won't you? It would be very silly not to).

    If he gets sent back because he didn't get a job in good time to satisfy his work visa requirements, he still had a lil' holiday in the US and can always come back on a visitor's visa. No big deal.
  • einatshaul
    einatshaul Posts: 2,219
    Vedd Hedd wrote:
    Good point.

    I learned all about credit card debt then.

    A few months from now, I will have finally paid off the Yield Tour.

    Is that right? if so, I feel much better about my own debt right now... phew...
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  • Hitch-Hiker
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    redrock wrote:
    Put it in perspective. He's a foreign student, in the US for three months. What kind of jobs do you think he will get? Yep.. crappy jobs that are used to people coming and going, not turning up for work, etc. Not a 'career' job or a job with benefits! He works for a couple of weeks, goes to visit NY and while he's there take in a gig or two, then goes back to San Diego to find another crappy job.

    I'm sure Hitch will have his travel insurance which will cover medical issues (you WILL Hitch, won't you? It would be very silly not to).

    If he gets sent back because he didn't get a job in good time to satisfy his work visa requirements, he still had a lil' holiday in the US and can always come back on a visitor's visa. No big deal.
    All sorted out already, so no danger of massive hospital bills :)
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