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Besides bragging rights were there any benefits to being a mensa member ? I took the test back in the college days and made high enough score to join and went to a mensa mixer...
Couldn't you just have asked at the Mensa Mixer you supposedly attended? :D


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Dec 20th, 2012, 10:26 AM
No I'll skip the spelling be. You'll have to look up my old Mensa test I took and use that....
LOL
And just how would we go about looking up that old Mensa test score of yous?
 
Besides bragging rights were there any benefits to being a mensa member ? I took the test back in the college days and made high enough score to join

Riiiiiight. And then you dropped out and became a roofer and moved into a motor home? :confused: Something really bad must have happened to hit the wall like that.

Ive never seen a bigger dumbass in my life who struggles so hard try to convince people he is intelligent.
 
Well, I think the universe of high paying jobs/industries is larger than one thinks...

legal
medical
technology
marketing
public relations
entertainment
financial
lobbying
government contracting
c-level positions in the Fortune 2000

I imagine there are at least 1-20 million employed in these industries...

Honestly, I do not know why anyone wants a job. Nowadays, its not as secure as doing your own thing.

One of my wild hair ideas in my non-published manifesto is to tax companies with greater than $5B in annual worldwide revenue at a tax rate of 25% of worldwide revenue. To avoid the tax, companies would need to split up into much smaller pieces. Each piece requires separate independent management and ownership structures. And maybe a provision to prevent them from recombining in the future through mergers..

The intent is to move to "smaller is better" - allow people to fill the resulting voids by running their own shops instead of working for the big corp. Allow/encourage them to embrace responsibility for their own lives instead of relying on big companies or government.

The big conglomerates like Berkshire Hathaway, GE, ATT, Proctor & Gamble, RJ Reynolds, Cisco, Microsoft, etc, would be relics of the past...

Opponents would argue that getting bigger offer economies of scale. In my view, the only economies of scale they offer are bigger pay packages for the C-level employees and board members....

In years past I would probably have laughed at your tax plan, but I actually see a lot of merit to it. In some sectors such as banking, it would prevent a lot of problems. We have learned that the only thing banks achieve through vast size is bigger CEO comp packages and bigger bailouts.

Critics would argue that it would put our companies at a disadvantage versus foreign competitors. Maybe in some industries such as auto manufacturing it would, but again, would we want to offer up GM and Chrysler as models of success?

Some would say it is unfair to penalize a company like Apple that grew through innovation, not mergers. Since Jobs passed away, what has Apple accomplished? Financial engineering mainly. Small ideas don't move the needle at a huge company so they get ignored. Sometimes those small ideas can get pretty big though. They just need the vision to fund them. You don't get that with a bunch of boardroom politicians running things.
 
And just how would we go about looking up that old Mensa test score of yous?

I don't think they tell you. I'm probably wrong, but when I took it in the late 90s, I think they only sent me a "Congratulations, you've been accepted" letter.

The test is just an IQ test. Whatever IQ test variation is taken, applicants have to score higher than the "top 2%" threshold. I seem to recall there was an option to submit your SAT scores if they were high enough (like 1400+ on the old test). If they did, I had to take the test since I didn't qualify that route...

I only applied to see if I could pass the test. I later found out that the membership was as useful as paying to get listed in a Who's Who book.... Not very if you're egoless like me...
 
I don't think they tell you. I'm probably wrong, but when I took it in the late 90s, I think they only sent me a "Congratulations, you've been accepted" letter.
So bigzero has no idea what his score was? Assuming he even took the test in the first place. That's funny.
 
More likely, there are enough jobs, but there is a major mismatch between experience and skills needed vs what the job seekers actually possess.

Businesses live for the here and now (in their quest for lower operating expenses, higher net profits, and higher stock prices), so they buy/hire what they need right now. They don't invest for the future. They want results now, and are willing to pay for it.

I think the reason we have any unemployment is that the job seekers fail to take initiative and adapt to the changing needs of the marketplace. Specifically, populating their resumes/CV with the right companies and right buzzwords/acronyms.

If you don't have what the companies want, you're not going to get hired. They're not going to change to accommodate you. You have to change to accommodate them.

Recovery Has Created Far More Low-Wage Jobs Than Better-Paid Ones

By ANNIE LOWREYAPRIL 27, 2014

"WASHINGTON — The deep recession wiped out primarily high-wage and middle-wage jobs. Yet the strongest employment growth during the sluggish recovery has been in low-wage work, at places like strip malls and fast-food restaurants.

"In essence, the poor economy has replaced good jobs with bad ones. That is the conclusion of a new report from the National Employment Law Project, a research and advocacy group, analyzing employment trends four years into the recovery.

“Fast food is driving the bulk of the job growth at the low end — the job gains there are absolutely phenomenal,” said Michael Evangelist, the report’s author. “If this is the reality — if these jobs are here to stay and are going to be making up a considerable part of the economy — the question is, how do we make them better?”

"The report shows that total employment has finally surpassed its pre-recession level. “The good news is we’re back to zero,” Mr. Evangelist said.

"But job losses and gains have been skewed. Higher-wage industries — like accounting and legal work — shed 3.6 million positions during the recession and have added only 2.6 million positions during the recovery. But lower-wage industries lost two million jobs, then added 3.8 million.

"With 10.5 million Americans still looking for work — the unemployment rate is 6.7 percent — employers feel no pressure to raise wages for those who are working. As a result, the average household’s take-home pay has declined through the recession and the recovery to $51,017 in 2012 from $55,627 in 2007, after adjusting for inflation.

"With joblessness high and job gains concentrated in low-wage industries, hundreds of thousands of Americans have accepted positions that pay less than they used to make, in some cases, sliding out of the middle class and into the ranks of the working poor."

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He rode the short bus to his "mensa" meetings, the people in the special needs classes just didnt have it in them to tell him the real reason why he was "special."

I took a Mensa test many years ago. Not only "passed", got bonus credit (>100% score) for finishing in less than allotted time.

Attended a local chapter meeting after the test, but didn't join. Was negatively impressed... they appeared to be mostly pompous, arrogant, poorly-dressed school teachers/Leftist/Communists... who thought themselves "some kind of special".
 
I took a Mensa test many years ago. Not only "passed", got bonus credit (>100% score) for finishing in less than allotted time.

Attended a local chapter meeting after the test, but didn't join. Was negatively impressed... they appeared to be mostly pompous, arrogant, poorly-dressed school teachers/Leftist/Communists... who thought themselves "some kind of special".

So I'm not the only one who passed but didn't join. Let's see if the idiots Kotex boy and lukey lay it on scat. Of course they won't because they are partisian idiots with little ability for independent thinking. Go fuckyourselves.
And have a nice day. :)
 
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