To think that nothing is exclusive anymore?

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Just that.
Everyone can have everything.
Even people who cannot afford it, can have everything.
Why did I spend the last 40 years working really hard in my profession to end up with nothing special, not just materially, but intellectually?
Any idiot can Google, I used to have to "learn" stuff.
Any idiot can Google, I can actually "do" stuff, consistently.
Deflated and defeated this evening.

Never mind skipping off to Google. Odd Socks. Im going to live on Pendent's planet.
Bye bye Everyone. Will keep in touch. Mwah

Ouch OP.

Are you ok? I really do mean that by the way.

You are obviously royally pissed off.

Dont blame you, I had a day from hell too.

Looks like yet another thread in which the OP posts some nonsense or other and never comes back again.

I'm sure they're on the increase.

You think your life isn't fair OP? I google all the time and I still haven't got the bloody Porsche I want.

OP the posts have bashed a bit but it prob just reflects you not giving an example of why you feel this way this evening. The ability to apply what a person has learned cannot be googled. I don't know if this helps as it sounds like someone has 'talked a good Google talk ahead of you'.
Try to chill and eat came (in moderate portions of :))

Pigs, maybe she's gone to bed after a hard day

Please come back OP, and explain!

Ouch! Why are y'all so mean? OP has just said she's feeling low, so cut her some slack. It's a horrible feeling when you take stock and realise that perhaps you don't have as much to show for your efforts as you would have liked to. Comments like "work smarter" are just plain goady. In my profession I couldn't work much smarter if I tried, it is inherently a tough slog. My splendid assistant, who works a fraction of the hours I do, and with none of the responsibility, has a higher standard of living than I do. She teases me, saying I'd be better off doing her job. I think she's right
Chin up, OP. Can you get out in nature this weekend, gain a greater, more gentle perspective?

Ilive can I join you? It looks fun on that planet!

Of course you can. The more the merrier.

Woohoo! I'm rich now!

And while you're here, because I think the clever google can't help me, how do I do the Xmas smileys please?

OP, I sort of get where you're coming from but, in my opinion, you can't buy emotional intelligence or indeed happiness or the ability to deep throat

Well I'd be willing to share my tips on how to deep throat. It can definitely be learned. And googled probably.

...or gargled.

in not much of a gargler myself. I prefer a spot of snowballing.

Bored on the Internet in the middle of the night? What gives you that idea?

Comments like "work smarter" are just plain goady.

It was meant to be. It was a tongue in cheek dig at OP in response to her digs at "idiots" (who presumably havent worked as hard as her and arent as intellingent as her ) who cant learn stuff or do stuff like she can with her magnificent brain.

Perhaps we should go back to the middle ages when laws governed what clothes people could wear, what fabrics and what colours. That would keep the upstarts in their place.

Why did I spend the last 40 years working really hard in my profession to end up with nothing special, not just materially, but intellectually?

Are you saying that you're not as clever as you thought you were?

SanDiego I hadn't clocked that

Not many people get to be serial killers. That's a pretty exclusive club, if you are feeling deprived and all.

MrsDeVere you don't have to sub children through University. I do, giving her the money I save as she isn't here eating etc ( and probably a bit more) but her best mate is one of 6 and has no money over and above student loans. She is doing a law degree, so has decided not to get a part time job either as she needs the time for study. She can pay her rent, food and entertainment. Time to worry about the loans when they earn enough to repay. It's a graduate tax really (although I do disagree with them).
Please don't discourage your children from studying whatever they want!

Any idiot can Google, I used to have to "learn" stuff
How did you learn stuff? Unless you did so from first principles, you simply used the equivalent of Google back then.

Very unclear post, sorry. The first 'she' is my DD, thereafter I mean her mate with the non-subbing parents.

I thought with law degrees, money had to be found for the Articles year or whatever it's called (?)

Medical-related are usually well funded by student loans & the NHS, though.

I thought with law degrees, money had to be found for the Articles year or whatever it's called (?)

Medical-related are usually well funded by student loans & the NHS, though.