Why so many chessplayer men have bad jobs?

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buster47

This topic is insulting and ...Sealed

sosg
Blunders wrote:

Every job have its good and the bad but i notice so much times that all the chess playing men have no nice jobs.  Only the jobs for not using the mind.  Car washer, janitor, assistant, phone operator, bartender, carpenter

why no doctor lawyer physics persons are playing also?  it looking like the star trek fans when we worshipping the GM.  even he not having nice jobs if he cant play the chess. 

why its like this?


Billium248

Somehow, I think that as a teacher, I have to use my mind on the job.  Tongue out

artfizz
Sigmoid_Flexure wrote: Postal clerk. Guilty.

Oh oh! Another Albert Einstein.

TheGrobe

I thought he was a patent office clerk.

artfizz
TheGrobe wrote: I thought he was a patent office clerk.

It's only a few letters difference.

TheGrobe

I think you may have just redeemed this thread.

artfizz

I predict that not everyone will agree with you.

meserole

This topic sounds absurd on the surface, but actually brings up a really good point. A "good" job to society is a high-level manager position with high pay, high stress, and consumes all your waking time (worse with a Blackberry) and provides a ton of value to the company employing you. While a "bad" job would be a janitorial position, again, in societies eyes. Where is reality, cleaning up a learning environment actually enables better learning experiences to exist for the students and instructors, actually accomplishes something concrete, and leaves the worker fulfilled, and his mind clear to play a nice game of chess.... 

midnightcaller

I have a job. I work at BOEING  I well  have been their for  33 yrs June 1  and I play chess  sort of 

artfizz

"I am a fully rounded human being, with a degree from the university of life, a diploma from the school of hard knocks, and three gold stars from ..."

Jeffreak2010

i dont even have a job... im just a kid. lol.

TonicoTinoco
tonydal wrote:

That's a full-time job by itself.


Yeah, to his parents... Cool

Cystem_Phailure
Jeffreak2010 wrote:

i dont even have a job... im just a kid. lol.


Perfect!  You meet her criterion of being under 35 years old! Cool

--Cystem

smileative

who the flyin' wants a job??? !!! it far easier start ur own business, me started 6 (Ithink) in 5 different countries - first one 8000 miles from 'home' in LA back in '83 when I was all of 22 - bloody sure it ddn have anythin' to do with me standard of chess playin' - not quite sure what me 'O' level in Classical Greek was all about either Tongue out

Kernicterus

I'm amused at the desire to keep this thread active. 

kco

Well you keep poping in Afaf.

Archaic71
electricpawn wrote:
tonydal wrote:

Yes, I thought the same thing...while I was (briefly) a boat carpenter's apprentice, it seemed a pretty IQ-rich job.  And I don't even know what an A bursary is (sounds like one of those "O levels" British things).


 Because our society doesn't appreciate the skill set of people who can actually make things as opposed to wearing a suit and moving money around.    


 So true.

I have a good job (at least to me!).  I like what I do and they pay me well enough, but the definition of a 'good job' is a moving target. 

I think perhaps blunders real occupation is professional troll . . .

kco

She is.

smileative

I keep seein' that word 'troll' bandied about - I is new to this internet thingy - can somebody please tell me what it means ? it don't sound very complimentary if u has even a smattering of knowledge of mythology, but evidently the bloody word has bin adulterated into the techno-world jargon - I wishes people would make up new words 'stead of corruptin' old ones - might make life a little easier for us dinosaurs Smile