Xref: utzoo comp.sys.atari.st:9943 comp.sys.att:3380 comp.sys.cbm:1441 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!ihnp4!ihlpf!gmark From: gmark@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Stewart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.att,comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: HELP ME!!! Summary: Beg Message-ID: <4892@ihlpf.ATT.COM> Date: 30 May 88 18:00:02 GMT References: <5831@cup.portal.com> <404@sp7040.UUCP> <238@obie.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois Lines: 34 In article <238@obie.UUCP>, wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes) writes: > Poor College Student needs Your Help!! :-( > > Hi. I just finished my junior year in college, and now I'm ... > I've come along way, and there is no chance in hell that I'm going > to drop out now! I'm not a quiter, and I'm not going to give up. > Okay. By now, you've probably gotten spit upon by every soul in netland that worked through school and has an axe to grind, Bunky. Well, there's an alternative. Why do you want to go through school? To get a job, right? To either make a lot of money or help humanity. I'll assume that if you wanted to make a lot of money, you'd have been asking for loans from folks over the net and offering a fair interest rate. But you didn't, so I'll assume you want to help humanity (or are so incredibly stupid that you didn't even think of the personal loan route). And, we'll assume, that you didn't ever hear of the disk jockey in Texas or the guy in the New York Times or the dozens of others who tried the "Send your dollars now" scam and got $K's. Okay, here's how you do it. You go down to, oh, any major pedestrian traffic intersection and BEG. I've lived in some major cities, and have seen it work famously. If a job isn't your cup of tea, just be honest with people on the street. Tell them you have no disabilities, no disadvantages, have been going to college for several years and have no intention of performing any extreme physical or mental labor ever (I'm assuming this is your story, now). Maybe someone with the same background will stroll by ("look, Mumsy, a poor chap with clean fingernails is -- 'sweating'!! I'll give him some money! Would you like my Bentley for the weekend, Fellow?") There is a downside to this, though, assuming you don't get your head batted around by someone who'd read the net around now when you graduate. You might get hired by someone. G. Mark (sensitive) Stewart