YOU NEVER SAW ANYTHING ELSE HERE I AM NOT A FAILURE (lovingly ripped off from kai)

[easytochop.livejournal.com]

THE RELATIONSHIP TABLE MEME
HERE'S HOW WE PLAY:
1.) get all the characters your character might ever consider dating (alternatively, being friends with for the kids and allying with for the fucking asexual psychos)
2.) make a table with all of their names
3.) list the pros and cons for dating/befriending/allying with them, respectively, like so
4.) post them here and make everyone's lives just a little worse

Comments

[lilac-scented.livejournal.com]

Well, school gets you a diploma, and in most cases, a diploma gest you a decent job. Decent jobs are rare.

[deadthenred]

Was making more than decent pay at a time when jobs were a fair bit more scarce than they are now, at the age of fourteen. On the strength of my own entrepreneurial skills.

[lilac-scented.livejournal.com]

We live in a knowledge-based economy, Bucky. Gonna have to get used to it.

[deadthenred]

Still making money, I'm afraid.

Not sure school'd teach me anything new.

[lilac-scented.livejournal.com]

It might. You never know. What it may not teach you is anything useful.

[deadthenred]

So why risk it?

Truth of the matter is: I couldn't afford to keep going. I'd always planned on going into the service, anyhow, and you don't need a degree to swing that.

And, well, if I'd stuck it out 'till I was eighteen, I think the world'd be a considerably less free place.

[lilac-scented.livejournal.com]

Look, you're not going to get much of an anti-school argument out of me; I like it. I like learning new stuff, useful or not. But school isn't for everybody--I know that much--and you're right, if you hadn't joined up, bad stuff would've gone down. I respect that.

I guess this all boils down to the fact that as a person, I value schooling, and book-smarts. It's something I was raised with--most, if not all of my family has post-secondary education--and it's not likely to change. That's all.

[deadthenred]

I am book-smart. Like I said, my parents died, had to quit or starve.

That's the thing about the future-- people don't get that.