How can people afford new cars?
I was thinking of buying a nice new car for myself...until I noticed that my favorite car was way too expensive itself and then I have to think about insurance, taxes, maintainence, gas, etc (I like the VW Tiguan-around $25,000). So I pretty much gave up on a new car for now.....what strikes me as odd is that I see so many people in my city driving the latest car (cadillac, mercedes, etc) and this city is on the top of being one of the poorest in the nation not to mention the least educated one because most people here barely have a high school education (actual stats). I've also known teachers who have the latest car, who have big houses in nice neighborhoods, and have kids...all with a salary of 35,000 per year.......I am single, with a BA degree, will be going for my Master's and even if I get my master's I dont think I could ever afford the Jaguar and a mansion....how the hell do these people do it?! Cheating the system, drugs, and being up to the wazoo in debt or what? Kinda makes me wonder why I ever went to school....
50 years old and unemployed What do I do now?
I am a 50 year old, and for the last 5 years I have been home taking care of my elderly mother. My resume WAS out-of-sight, before then, I am a Admin Asst., who has excellent computer skills, and I have maintain those skills at home, doing odd jobs for people. I would like to re-enter the job market, what should I do about the five-year gap? Older people do not get hired as much anymore. California has a job shortage in office jobs. Can somebody tell me anything? I only worked in offices, since I was 15, so I don't have any other real marketable skills.
Do people with High IQ get their job easier than other people with average IQ? Do employer really care so much about the result of IQ test?
From personal experience : NO.Even those who give psycho technical tests didn’t found that I was a good hire when though I aced them.Why ? Because there is the HR interview and I sound fake due to the way I reason. If I wanted to pass, I had to actually pretend to be normal and fake to meet expectations.Now, it got easier because I have proven experience and past missions were good. So it has some weight when they ponder my profile. (Which is now even better)As I learn quickly, I had the chance to have a good command of common programming languages. And when I say “good command”, I mean medior to senior level. Hence, my CV was bloated too and I couldn’t prove my knowledge beside outperforming technical tests and justifying it by “giftedness”.Getting the job easier ? Yes, we can!Do employers care about IQ ? Not at all! It can even be seen as “fishy”. When you are odd, you aren’t attractive.From personal experience, I now tell everything I did that is mildly impressive. Then I gradually ramp up. I let them know, then I acknowledge.I landed in a better position than I targeted because of this !
If you have Asperger's and a high IQ, will you still have problems finding a good job?
Jobs is not only intelligence, knowledge of your area, theory, etc.:You are going to work with people.You are going to follow orders.You’re going to feel stress.You're going to solve social problems.You could possibly be yelled at.You can be the target of some nasty workmates.You're going to attend the public.You must adapt to your boss.You must be organized.You must be punctual.You must be clean.You must take care of yourself.You must compromise.You might be lied to.You must be tactful.Sometimes you must stay quiet even when you know a certain situation is unfair or wrong.You must cope with anger.You're going to be confused.When you are going to work with others, many other elements play an important role than just a high IQ.Teamwork skills, time management skills, social skills, emotional intelligence and maturity, hygiene, hierarchy, typical treatment of authority, executive function, etc. All of this has a front seat alongside intelligence. If you don't have those skills, companies won't care if you are highly intelligent: they want someone who's prepared and a teamworker.Jobs are highly social.You will deal with volatile, irrational, emotional and chaotic humans.They are unpredictable, undefined, not concrete, changing, quick, judging, unstructured and confusing.They are under the influence of emotions.We are under the influence of emotions.Remember that.
Is going back to college at 25-26 odd?
I'm currently 25 and it's taken me this long to decide exactly what it is that I want to do with my life. Most of my friends have already graduated, and I'm still sitting on just a high school diploma. I dabbled in college before a few years back but quickly dropped out because I wasn't even sure about what I wanted to do, so I also don't have much in the ways of debt. Had I stayed, I would have probably graduated by now. At the very least, I want to do 4 years and get my Bachelor's degree. If I do, I'll be 26 by the next Autumn when I plan on going, and graduate around 30 or so. Am I just overthinking it and making things seem weirder than it actually is?
Will AI intelligence take over not only handy/odd jobs, but take over health, law, education, piloting etc. If so, does it mean humans will be basically useless?
Your questions assumes that humans are not useless right now. This implies that humans have a purpose.Yet, you only list a small handful of particular jobs. Is “doing something that someone else is willing to pay you money for” the purpose of humans? I would argue that it isn’t.Also: computers being able to do something does not mean that humans won’t. Just look at how many people solve Sudoku puzzles, where a computer could solve any such puzzle in a fraction of a second. Or how many people go running, whereas a car can transport you much faster.Healthcare, law, education, piloting all already make use of AI to some extent. IBM Watson, the AI system that won Jeopardy! has been adapted to be used for both medicine and law, where it is used to search for relevant articles in extremely large knowledge bases. Autopilots have been around for a long, long time. There are software systems that can automatically generate multiple-choice tests and adapt study trajectories for individual students (a company I worked for in the past worked on those things). None of those developments made humans obsolete.Most people use AI on a daily basis, and have done so for 2 decades or so. Any search engine is AI. Your route mapper for your GPS is AI. Any recommender system (including Quora) is AI.Would you rather go back to a time where, if you wanted to find out information about something, you had to go to a library, wait for a librarian to become available, and then look through dozens of books to find what you needed? I wouldn’t. I don’t fear AI.Also, I do not think my job is my sole purpose. A robot will never enjoy playing music for me, for example.
Why do people live in slums in Mumbai, Delhi when they can easily find employment in other cities?
They can find employment in small cities but the salary is much lesser as compared to metropolitan cities . In small cities entrepreneurs are paying only 4k to office assistants, paramedical staff, drivers and such level jobs. Can you assume a person who is intermediate by education, can survive with his family in a salary of 4k. The labour deptt and other regulatory agencies for the labour are doing nothing. So they have no option left and migrate from small cities to metro, where they can get a salary of 10–15k at such level.
What is the threshold amount of income in self-employment - such as odd jobs, eBay, etc - that would require you to file taxes?
Any amount of profit made from any activity, should be reported to IRS as income. Companies are required to report payments exceeding $600/yr to any individual, to the IRS, but if they choose to, they can report at any level, even if it is a for a few dollars.
16 year old odd jobs?
Hello Point Blank: Unfortunately, there aren't too many employers, other than fast food places, that will hire minors (people under 18) for safety reasons. If you have the time or inclination, you can charge an hourly fee to do these things: - Walk the neighbor's dog on a regular basis; - Provide vacation care for neighbors who need to leave their pets at home, but want someone to walk them and feed them daily. - Contact elderly neighbors and find out if they need someone to run errands: post office, grocery, pharmacy; charging a small fee for each trip. - If you like kids, offer to babysit for an hourly rate; - Help elderly neighbors with the programming of their DVR's or setting up their internet stuff. - Read to an elderly neighbor who can't because of surgery or sickness. - Wash the neighbor's car(s) on weekly basis. - Water people's plants or set up the weekly times on their sprinklers while they're on vacation. Lastly, you might want to look at www.seattle.gov for opportunities with Seattle youth organizations. Good luck and have a great summer.
I need help filling out this job application?
i think it's the punctuation that got you confused. the "-" [dash] can be used to make a compound word, but it also can function to mark off words like parentheses do, which is the way it's used here. So instead of "employer-type-of-business" like a compound word, it's better understood as "employer (type of business)." They're just asking you to make sure its clear what type of business your employer does - for example, construction, software design, marketing, grocery sales, etc.