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wsas3 wrote:A place of business is a place of business, and your boss isn't in charge because he's good with empathizing with people. If you are a strong employee and you really benefit your employer, bring that up. It is best to look like the bigger man in the situation. Let the idea sit in your boss's head for a bit before you mention having to leave. Save that as a wild card.

I dunno, it does seem relevant. Maybe not the specifics, but the fact that it's either making more at the current job or starting to look for something else. I think it all depends on how comfortable you are with your boss and how easily they could replace you.

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The idea that "Good things come to those who wait," has that worked for anyone here, or ever?

The4455 wrote:The idea that "Good things come to those who wait," has that worked for anyone here, or ever?

Nope. Good things come to tenacious bastards.

However, I hate the phrase,"God helps those who help themselves," cause the Bible says the opposite. Not that it means anything to angry atheist like me.

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Just seen this. Awesome.

i think that cliche gets misconscrewed in that waiting, in and of itself, generally doesn't lead to much. i think it's supposed to be that good things come to those who are patient.

there are scriptures regarding God aiding believers commensurate to their own efforts, but i'm really not up to Biblical research at 3 o'clock in the morning. any more than i'm up to Googling to find out if "good things come..." got scrambled somehow in being translated to English as so many of the daily expressions of my childhood turned out to be Anglicized Germanisms. i always think of my Mom walking into the living room, a kid's jacket dangling accusingly from the crook of her finger, demanding to know "who belongs to this?"

dubkitty wrote:i think that cliche gets misconscrewed in that waiting, in and of itself, generally doesn't lead to much. i think it's supposed to be that good things come to those who are patient.

there are scriptures regarding God aiding believers commensurate to their own efforts, but i'm really not up to Biblical research at 3 o'clock in the morning. any more than i'm up to Googling to find out if "good things come..." got scrambled somehow in being translated to English as so many of the daily expressions of my childhood turned out to be Anglicized Germanisms. i always think of my Mom walking into the living room, a kid's jacket dangling accusingly from the crook of her finger, demanding to know "who belongs to this?"

Hm, maybe. There is nothing that really literally translates as Good things come to those who wait in german. We say Gut Ding will Weile haben, which means something along the lines of "good things need time". So that is definitely for patience.

I don't know about "help yourself..." the exact same saying exists in german, maybe it's more of a protestant idea.

it could be another language as well...English is notorious for gobbling up idioms, French ones in particular. i just think of Anglicized German because that's what was present in my home, with a hoch-Deutsch grandparent on either side.

So a drummer that sounds promising got in touch with me about working on my project. I hope he's serious and I can get this thing off the ground.

jfrey wrote:....a drummer that sounds promising......

I haven't heard that phrase in a LOOOOOONG time

excane wrote:

jfrey wrote:....a drummer that sounds promising......

I haven't heard that phrase in a LOOOOOONG time

He sounds promising because he's the guitarist of an active local band. I figure if he's productive as a guitarist he'll be productive as a drummer too. I hope...

That's cool then. Yah, would be sweet if it works. Almost all of my issues with bands/band members have been drummers. I have no idea why

I never wanted to believe that a stupid stereotype/myth might actually be true.

excane wrote:That's cool then. Yah, would be sweet if it works. Almost all of my issues with bands/band members have been drummers. I have no idea why

I never wanted to believe that a stupid stereotype/myth might actually be true.

It is unfortunately. My last two groups failed because of the drummer, and my previous attempt at my current project ended just a couple weeks into getting started because of the drummer.

i'll get in trouble for saying, but my troubles in bands have always been the bass players. once i find one, my drummers have been delightful, intelligent, hilarious guys who played their asses off. if i could find them all and invite them over, i'd love to have a party for my former drummers. LOVELY human beings, the lot of them.

Maybe I've just been unlucky. I really hope it works out with this new guy. I NEED to get some music out there.