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Isn't Ecuador the gateway country to the Galapagos Islands? for a year - it might be a really good experience seeing a part of the world you might - JenBro Apr 12, 14:31 7
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  - nope. nm but: -- (link) - b. Apr 12, 14:37 [Backboard]
- even granting that those are positives and intangibles that it's hard to put a price on, the pittance they want to pay her raises muy red flags - the 40 year old virgin Apr 12, 14:34
- I'm not opposed to the experience aspect, just concerned about the particular situation described. -- nm - b. Apr 12, 14:34
- oh sure, they run a $3 bus to the islands. -- nm - loosilu Apr 12, 14:33
- she can get a real job and save up money if she wants to go to Ecuador. -- nm - Reagen Apr 12, 14:32 1
  - apparently, she could get a real job and just buy the friggin country. -- nm - TFox Apr 12, 14:33
mothers day weekend in LV. big food & wine event, Vegas Uncorked. -- (link) - peglegpete Apr 12, 14:31
Tell 'em you'll do it for $400 per month, then accept when they offer $350. Problem solved. -- nm - mara Apr 12, 14:29 17
- *snork* -- nm - TFox Apr 12, 14:30
- actually, just reviewed the description and it says $400. my bad. -- nm - Hotkiss Apr 12, 14:30 15
  - Ah, that makes everything totally sensible then. (Does the $70 for lodging come out of that?) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 14:31
  - (please note that jumping to the other side of that magic $350 line doesn't change a single piece of advice offered below.) - TFox Apr 12, 14:31 5
    - I'm not sure you understand the meaning of the word "magic." -- nm - mara Apr 12, 14:32 4
      - there are plenty of lines that seem to have a magic effect on hotkiss. -- nm - Max Apr 12, 14:33
      - L4 (nm) - musubi Apr 12, 14:32
      - He is using it synonymously with "imaginary" -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 14:32 1
        
        Hardly imaginary. We found it on the internet. -- nm - mara Apr 12, 14:33
  - Excellent. Now that $50 above basic costs is mana from heaven. - musubi Apr 12, 14:31 6
    - Retirement saving already! She's way ahead of the game! -- nm - mara Apr 12, 14:31 5
      - I'm tempted to walk to the mall and spend $400 on the dumbest thing I can find, just to prove a point. -- nm - TFox Apr 12, 14:32 4
        
        You're going to buy the dude who paid JD Drew 15mil a year? -- nm - Will Hunting Apr 12, 14:34
        
        Swarovsky crystal suspenders? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 14:33
        
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        For TFox that wouldn't be dumb. Now he's covered when his first other one is at the cleaners. - musubi Apr 12, 14:33
  - Well, then!! Off with you to Ecuador! -- nm - mara Apr 12, 14:30
This Pujols guy is pretty good -- nm - CQ Apr 12, 14:27
hotkiss, let's just assume for the moment you are going to pass on Ecuador. are you still in contact with your supervisors from MTV Summer in NYC? - the 40 year old virgin Apr 12, 14:20 3
- No I'm not, that was a project-based hire anyway. -- nm - Hotkiss Apr 12, 14:21 2
  - yeah but it's a contact. phone call: "hey, this is hotkiss from last summer? well, i've graduated and was wondering what your hiring is like?" -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 12, 14:23
  - don't think I wouldn't already have pounced on that if it was possible. -- nm - Hotkiss Apr 12, 14:22
Spawn and Amy are on Vaca in Florida, just texted him that he's selling viagra -- nm - Remlik Apr 12, 14:20 4
- are you & Logan going bar hopping tonight? -- nm - peglegpete Apr 12, 14:23 3
  - wisely they left Logan with someone else, I do have Petey though. -- nm - Remlik Apr 12, 14:27 2
    - laughing. This reminds me of when I used to dogsit a Lucy. - loosilu Apr 12, 14:28 1
      - Looossssii.....what did you do now??? -- nm - Desi Arnez Apr 12, 14:30
I wouldn't mind working for a year in another country. Does mafic need someone to split his core? Does wiggie need a manny? -- nm - Dano Apr 12, 14:15
Mortgage defaults may be driving consumer spending. That is: If you don't pay off your mortgage, you've got more money for stuff. -- (link) - Mop (220 lbs) Apr 12, 14:02 2
- 16 million unemployed...8 million not paying their mortgages... and we're supposed to believe there's a big cheat trend based on one example? - stewie Apr 12, 14:10
- when you're family doubles up with other family you have to buy rollaway beds couches etc -- nm - zDroid Apr 12, 14:06
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- She's in a bar and he's supposed to be wary of her being underage? - Will Hunting Apr 12, 14:33 4
  - bars are one of the easiest places to find underage girls on earth. - TFox Apr 12, 14:34 2
    - Maybe...but I'm really thinking that's weaksauce that he was buying a woman in a bar drinks - Will Hunting Apr 12, 14:36
    - this. -- nm - loosilu Apr 12, 14:35
  - I agree. A *professional* age-guesser let her in. -- nm - mara Apr 12, 14:34
- by punching him in the face? -- nm - Dano Apr 12, 14:09
- trade him to the Raiders. that'll teach him -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 12, 13:57
- He's probably a jacktard to women but the alcohol thing is weak. -- nm - David Apr 12, 13:56 1
  - I still have a weird sense of resentment of some kind about the helmetless motorcycling. - Beryllium Apr 12, 13:57
I have a job offer! in Ecuador... - Hotkiss Apr 12, 13:51 78
- what would you be doing there? -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Apr 12, 14:26 1
  - starving -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 12, 14:27
- do you need a work permit? -- nm - loosilu Apr 12, 14:07 43
  - the company has a partnership with my school, so that kind of stuff is taken care of. - Hotkiss Apr 12, 14:09 42
    - and in a related point, why in the eff isn't your school explaining to you what a horrible idea this is? - TFox Apr 12, 14:19 23
      - why is it really so horrible? -- nm - Hotkiss Apr 12, 14:20 22
        
        the pay is on the lower end of what a pro/go ecuador site is suggesting is normal. - b. Apr 12, 14:26 6
        
        here is why i would take a job in ecuador (or similar country): cause it paid enough that i could be banking a lot of money for when i came home - the 40 year old virgin Apr 12, 14:29 4
        
        based on what she's said, I think she'd be happy with basic living expenses being covered. - b. Apr 12, 14:32
        
        I could see taking it for the cultural experience because when else in your life are you going to do something like that. But not if I have to come - pmb Apr 12, 14:31 2
        
        If I were going to do it for the cultural experience I'd go for an NGO. At least I'd feel as if - loosilu Apr 12, 14:32 1
        
        I agree with this. (nm) - musubi Apr 12, 14:34
        
        TOtally agreed with your IM. There are many opportunities like that. -- nm - loosilu Apr 12, 14:27
        
        What other people have said - plus it might not provide you with the experience or contacts you'll need to make in order to further your career -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 14:26 1
        
        Note that I am a habitual understater, so when I say "it might not", I really mean "there's no chance" -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 14:27
        
        You are talking about taking a job at which it would take a decade to earn one year of the cost of your schooling. - TFox Apr 12, 14:22 5
        
        (i might be being too harsh. it's possible your school doesn't require a lot of math classes?) -- nm - TFox Apr 12, 14:25
        
        assuming you pay nothing for food, housing, or anything else. -- nm - loosilu Apr 12, 14:23 3
        
        right, just sock every precious peso or whatever the fuck in the Ecuadorian Sock Bank. -- nm - TFox Apr 12, 14:23 1
        
        "Ecuador Sock Bank is the sock we beat you with when you ask us for your money." -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 14:24 1
        
        or taxes, for that matter. -- nm - loosilu Apr 12, 14:23
        
        It defies logic and common sense so immensely that we are aghast you're even considering it. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 14:22 1
        
        (Yet, we do recognize that ... we shouldn't be as shocked as we are. Really.) -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 14:23
        
        you really don't see why, even in Ecuador, $300/month is an awful awful salary? -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 12, 14:22 4
        
        "A job that pays $350 and up a month for an 8 hour work day, is sufficient to cover your basic costs in Ecuador" -- (link) - Roger More Apr 12, 14:25 2
        
        which means, this job will not cover basic costs. -- nm - loosilu Apr 12, 14:26
        
        L63 (I love it.) -- nm - TFox Apr 12, 14:26
        
        Yeah. You couldn't even rent pixie's box for that amount. -- nm - pmb Apr 12, 14:23
    - that's not a job, that's volunteering. -- nm - b. Apr 12, 14:17 2
      - it involves a lot of flights back and forth to Miami. no luggage -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 12, 14:18 1
        
        Well she's too old to actually be sewing clothes at the nike factory, so it's probably managerial and involves beating the kids who try to nap. Main - pmb Apr 12, 14:20
    - This is a punk'd, right? -- nm - Reagen Apr 12, 14:15
    - I hope $300/month is a typo -- nm - MDH Apr 12, 14:14 2
      - Well, I'm sure she didn't mean $3000 a month ... so what could the typo have been? -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 14:14 1
        
        $3,000 a month is an ok salary. Nothing to move to friggin Ecuador over, but a living wage, at least. -- nm - TFox Apr 12, 14:15
    - That's either a typo, or you're about to get tricked into being sold for prostitution in Eastern Europe. -- nm - TFox Apr 12, 14:12 1
      - and ST doesn't have Liam Neeson on hand to fix the situation -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 14:12
    - should be ok. is that ... the salary? - loosilu Apr 12, 14:10 3
      - their arranged housing is $70/month, and foodstuffs can't be that bad, right? - Hotkiss Apr 12, 14:13 2
        
        I don't doubt cost of living is cheap, but you're not even going to cover the airfare. -- nm - loosilu Apr 12, 14:16
        
        Why in the diseased nutsack would you consider moving to Ecuador for sub-McDonald's money? -- nm - TFox Apr 12, 14:14
    - $300 a month?! - the 40 year old virgin Apr 12, 14:10 4
      - There are dudes in the Sudan who would turn down $300 a month. -- nm - Reagen Apr 12, 14:15 1
        
        ... and they're the slaves of the dudes who would have you shot if you offered them $300 a month -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 14:17
      - that's basically unpaid. -- nm - loosilu Apr 12, 14:10 1
        
        ...which may explain the work permit situation. -- nm - loosilu Apr 12, 14:11
- Ecuador's specialties include Ecuavolley, a three-person variation of volleyball. -- nm - TFox Apr 12, 13:59 2
  - If you stand directly on the equator and twirl around, you get high like whippets. -- nm - Reagen Apr 12, 14:02 1
    - In a shocker, that shit was real. -- (link) - TFox Apr 12, 14:03
- mafic's been through there, I think. It's becoming the next eco tourism place in SA. I've definitelty have it on my radar of places to go -- nm - CQ Apr 12, 13:58
- http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ecuador -- (link) - mara Apr 12, 13:58 1
  - already looked, not much about Manta though -- nm - Hotkiss Apr 12, 13:58
- It has the highest point on Earth as measured from the core. -- nm - Reagen Apr 12, 13:55
- Be careful. Reagen got stuck in Dubai trying something like this. -- nm - David Apr 12, 13:55 14
  - and ended up running from hookers like The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night. -- nm - Reagen Apr 12, 13:56 11
    - Ooh, I never heard that part. -- nm - David Apr 12, 13:57 10
      - go here and search for "hookers" for the original post -- (link) - Max Apr 12, 14:00 1
        
        Sigh. I can't believe I have to tell David's boss about this... -- nm - David's IT guy Apr 12, 14:01
      - Yeah, they chase you down - Reagen Apr 12, 13:58
      - who runs from hookers? nm -- nm - groiny Apr 12, 13:57 6
        
        amateurs - Epiphany Apr 12, 13:59
        
        ...you run from their pimps. (nm) - groiny si Apr 12, 13:59
        
        being chased by hookers? that's good. Death sentence for using a hooker in Dubai? That's bad. -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 13:59 3
        
        iirc they have the best hookers to hang with the richest especially east asians as beautiful as any Bollywood star -- nm - zDroid Apr 12, 14:03 2
        
        these must have been the cast offs from that. -- nm - Reagen Apr 12, 14:06 1
        
        *wanders in front of the Hi-Def camera* *audience gags* -- nm - Beryllium Apr 12, 14:08
  - wha? -- nm - Hotkiss Apr 12, 13:56 1
    - Just because you have a contract with them does not guarantee that they have a contract with you. - David Apr 12, 14:05
- thats hot -- nm - Redmond on a phone Apr 12, 13:54
- It declared independence from Spain in 1822 -- nm - Guigue Apr 12, 13:54
- It's hot and a poor country. Great culture. -- nm - loosilu Apr 12, 13:53
- good money? -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 13:53
- Yes, it's gradually becoming a narco-state. -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 13:52 3
  - Oh, and it uses US currency, so no exchange rate fees! -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 13:54 2
    - just looked it up, you're right. that's boring. -- nm - Hotkiss Apr 12, 13:56 1
      - (I'm joking about the narco-state stuff, but it is becoming a money-laundering centre) -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 13:57
- It is hot. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 12, 13:52
- awesome fall foliage. -- nm - TFox Apr 12, 13:52
The Box major spoilers - David Apr 12, 13:50 3
- I agree - horrid, horrid movie - Triangle much better -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 13:52 2
  - There was a preview for Triangle on Bad Liuetenant, it actually sparked my interest -- nm - MDH Apr 12, 13:53 1
    - it is not earth shattering but if you sat through Bad Lieutenant =- you can handle it -- nm - Epiphany Apr 12, 13:58
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I would be dead w/o modern medicine. And women are not immune from being slugged. -- nm - TWuG Apr 12, 13:46 10
- Very likely I'd be dead, unless my mother is exaggerating about that whole "You stopped breathing on the way to the hospital" thing. -- nm - mara Apr 12, 14:30
- I'd be alive, but my eyesight would suck -- nm - Stephen Apr 12, 14:23
- I think I'm 75% sure I'd be dead. I may have been able to survive the broken neck without medicine. -- nm - Dano Apr 12, 13:48
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- I'd still be alive, except maybe if glasses count as modern medicine. -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 13:47 5
  - You would be unemployed -- nm - Redmond on a phone Apr 12, 13:57 1
    - Well, I wouldn't be chief hunter for the tribe or anything, but I'd find something to do -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 13:59
  - I'm amazed at how few of us would be alive. The damn gene pool is being screwed. heh -- nm - CQ Apr 12, 13:49 2
    - Yep. The next stage of evolution, for homo sapiens, will have little to do with genetics. - Beryllium Apr 12, 13:56
    - that's why families had 6 - 10 kids, those ear aches kids get antibods for probably killed half of us before year two -- nm - zDroid Apr 12, 13:54
pow, right in the kisser -- nm - the 40 year old virgin Apr 12, 13:46
Why doesn't Spawn want me to have a bigger and stronger penis? -- nm - oblique Apr 12, 13:46 12
- because then he'd have to Highlander you. -- nm - Max Apr 12, 13:53 3
  - I get to be Kurgan, right? -- nm - oblique Apr 12, 13:55 2
    - nah you're the Samauri guy in the 1st movie. -- nm - Remlik Apr 12, 14:15
    - sure, if you think sewing it back on is a cool look. -- nm - Max Apr 12, 13:56
- cold sores. nm -- nm - groiny Apr 12, 13:48
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  - Be a good boy Jack or i will have Stacy text you with details about her strap on because you like hearing about it so much -- nm - Redmond on a phone Apr 12, 13:53 3
    - It is going in Redmond again, he is still crying. nm -- nm - Stacy si Apr 12, 13:54 2
      - I knew who posted this before i even clicked to look -- nm - Redmond on a phone Apr 12, 13:55 1
        
        yup, still crying. nm -- nm - Stacy si Apr 12, 13:57
- I think the last time was enough for him -- nm - Roger More Apr 12, 13:47
- UAI -- nm - Dano Apr 12, 13:46

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