skipro3 wrote:
Geocritter wrote:
The sad part is at 6’5” and 220 lbs with a Mensa level IQ, I could physically and mentally kick the butts of most of these imbeciles. It really sucks to be treated like that when you love the work you do and you’re good at it.
Steve
It amazes me when folks tout their ultra intelligence then admit they have to work FOR somebody. Ha! With an IQ like that, one would think you could do just fine without the 'imbeciles' controlling your quality of life. But since they obviously do, by your own account, they must be even smarter than you and your Mensa IQ.
Actually skipro3, I had my own successful environmental/geological consulting business for over 15 years while I lived in Chicago. I only gave up the business when my wife became sick with inflammatory breast cancer and the Chicago area hospital recommended MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston after they ran out of treatment options. I promptly closed the business and took a job with Halliburton in Houston only to get laid off 2 years later when the economy tanked in 2008 (Halliburton's notorious for quick layoffs every time the economy hiccups). By that time I was 61 and apparently unemployable. Try to imagine Mr. skipro3, your wife dying of cancer while at the same time your COBRA insurance benefits are rapidly expiring, and you can't even get a hay nay or gotohell when you apply for a job doing work that you excel at. Now perhaps you know why I'm more than a little irked over corporate America's unspoken age discrimination policies. FWIW I found work consulting and came close to selling an oil prospect I'd put together, all while I was looking for work AND INSURANCE BENEFITS. I'm still consulting only my wife passed away two years ago and I don't need corporate America's health insurance benefits anymore.
Steve
