Waste Management Technician Career Training Guide

Question: Ladies...would you date a Garbage Collector? I mean....Waste Management Technician?

Answer: job isn't important. and at least you could hope that he'd pick up after himself. (always a plus with the ladies)

Question: She married me with the intent of changing me now she is disillusioned and has lost hope for the marriage? I am a early 30's blue collar worker. She is a college educated girl from a very academically geared family. I was in management when she met me and I said that she inspired me to go back to school to be eligible for future promotions. She assumed that she could shape and mold me into a academic snob who is voraciously climbing the ladder fighting my way to the top. I said that as long as I am making a good wage and I am happy with my job then thats probably where I will stay (in the mid to high $20 range) she thinks it's a waste and I should keep pushing and she thinks thats what a "man" should do. Being complacent to her is a turn off but I told her she knew I was a technician and not an executive when she met me but she said "I thought I could change you, but I was wrong, this won't work." She has been lying to her family about my "accomplishments" She will not flex, compromise or bulge. Does not feel she has to.. In so many words she said it's over unless she changes her mind. I have always been honest with her and stated many times that I am from a blue collar family and even if I finish my education then I will be an educated blue collar guy. She nodded and said that she will love me like I am but now she does not respect me because I have't progressed to her expectations. I want to just file for divorce because I don't think counseling will help. She is VERY self-centered and does not accept responsibility for anything she says or does including being dishonest when being put on the spot. She has been a thorn in my side and on top of that she isevaluating things deciding whether to dump ME or not. That hurts. Just wondering if I am off of the mark. I so not earn $20,000 a year. I earn $28 an hour but I do not have a title. She wants me to have a title. My happiness is derived in the type of work that I do. I am not a "bum" but have gotten to a comfortable place in my career and would like to stay here. Middle-level management is where I can see myself for a while or owning my own business. My business would be successful but I do not see being a millionaire right away. Just a successful mom and pop (or just pop) type of enterprise. Don't think I am just scraping by, we are well into comfortable but she wants comfortable with a title and a 300,000 house as a starter house and I am wanting us to live a little below our means to aggressively pad the retirement account. I have enough ambition to accomplish what "I" want to accomplish. Her relatives are doctors, financial execs, engineers and teachers. My family are all factory people. None are in management and none have any college. They all make good money and so do I.

Answer: Women marry men in hopes to change them, and they don't..Men marry women in hopes that they will never change and they do... About 7 years into marriage, I asked myself....If my husband never changes a single thing about himself, could I be happy with him just the way he is...answer..yes...I quit trying to change him...we are now in our 23rd year... Edit...I imagine that if you attained the goals that she has set for you, she would be dis-satisfied with the man you are anyway.

Question: How Do I Fix My Financial/Educational Future?!? Where do I start? Okay, I am 23 years old and I feel completely helpless in the sense that I may have ruined my life. Now, I know all of you are going to say I am being completely irrational, and I tend to agree. But, at this point, I don't see anything positive coming of it- hence the eventual ruin of it. Let me explain: I am close to $100,000 in student loan debt and pretty much NOTHING but an Associates Degree to show for it. And with a 2.12 g.p.a to boot. Now, I have read similar posts and take full responsibility for my failures so, please spare me the further depression it would cause. Besides the bipolar/depression/ADD bull s$%^ that I take medication for. I refuse to use this as a cop out. It seems at time getting medicated is the only thing I have taken responsibility for, and it only works half the time anyway. But anyway, naturally they will go into repayment as soon as I am out of school. But at this point I am so screwed, I am not sure what to do. I have always had the lifelong goal of becoming a nurse but now that I break it down for all of you, it's sounding quite ridiculous. And that, makes me feel like a complete failure for wasting all this time and MONEY on a obvious pipe-dream. I mean really, I guess I should have accepted that I wasn't cut out for that kind of academic focus. I suppose the thing that kept me holding on was my love of taking care of people (that and it was the only career that was going to get me out of this debt ie great salary or loan forgiveness). I am a certified nurse technician and I Absolutely love it. I mean, it gives me the biggest amount of satisfaction of taking care of someone in need, especially when I am able to do something that 90% of the population would NOT. I like feeling needed. Oh yeah! I almost forgot. I have recently been in/out of jobs for the past 4 months. Some call it bad luck, I just call myself a glutton for punishment. I am sure my negative, cynical attitude isn't helping much either. Anyway, even with insurance, which I will lose next year, I have accumulated about 10k in both credit/medical bills. Which, I have successfully enrolled in a debt management program to tackle. I am trying to work on my budget and fix that part at least. But now.. my education??? My loans?? I am lost and I really have no one to confide in to help out with a solution. I am too stubborn and extremely ashamed of my failures. I can not believe I have become this person.

Answer: I have little sympathy for the student loan industry. Sallie Mae has a profit margin that makes Microsoft or ExxonMobil look like a lemonade stand. They're no different than mafia loan sharks in my mind. With that in mind, I see no issue in abandoning the loans, if you have an avenue for getting away with it. If the loans are private, non federally insured, then local statutes of limitation apply. Depends on the state, but this could be anywhere from 6-10 years. If you can get off the grid for that long, your pretty much home free legal wise. The debt will still be on your credit record. But in time even that will go away. Now, if your loans are federal or federally insured, your screwed here, because there is no statute of limitations on these. A better option is moving out of the country. It is unlikely they will come after you. Even if they do, they have to deal with you under that countries laws. And short of the middle east (which still has debtors prison), America has about the harshest laws when it comes to student loans. And between tracking you down, and pressing a suit against you, the costs will probably be too high to even bother pursuing you. And even they take all these steps and win in court, the worst they can do is garnish your wages. And wage garnishment laws abroad also tend to favor you much more. In addition to this, if you emigrate, your credit report stays here. Whatever country your in, there's an entirely new credit system, and a fresh start. You'll have no credit history... but no credit is better than bad credit. Lots of countries would probably accept an immigration application if you're a nurse technician. Even easier if you have family abroad... or marry some nice foreign man. I'll probably get flamed for suggesting you bail on your debt. Whatever. If you were a responsible adult when you took these loans out, I'd agree. But student loans are taken out by 18 year olds who don't know any better. I'd never had a real job, paid a bill, or made a budget in my whole life at 18. The biggest financial decision I'd ever made was whether to buy a playstation or a nintendo. The people from the loan companies were coming into my school and indoctrinating us on how we'd be total failures if we didn't go to college... paid for with a loan from them. They're predators and nothing more. F'em. Their balance sheet is still going to be stellar whatever you do. Good luck

Question: help me write a memo to HR? I was employed as a Technician and after a year i was taken to accounts office,i tried to complain and nobody cared,this has affected me coz im doing the job i hate for now five years and i didnt have qualifications,i had to study accounting part time on my own,yeah i struggled because i never in my life imagined working for Accounts,this has wasted my time,i cudnt progress career wise,now its a new management i want to write them a memo to be taken back to where i was and my salary should also be revised,my main issue,i want to go back,to restart what i wanted to do in life,also my salary to be increased beacuse i cudnt progress in accounting as i didnt qualifications,its not my fault,its their fault and that was illegal,so can someone just structure a sensible memo that can convince those people,im aching.Please help

Answer: To write a good memo to reflect you frustration with your position and demands, take time. The case story has to be straighten out, so it sounds better and acceptable to the new management. Rather than make you sound frustrated, it should bring out your commitment and the time you have sacrificed for the company. eLegal Consultant