Danielle’s situation may seem extreme or somehow unlikely. Her boss sounded more like a movie character than a real person. But he was a real person, and so was Danielle. We all have these stories.
i would think that jobs like that are like this, that not everything is what it seems like, but i feel like you have to go through this kind of punishment to get to the top
Danielle’s job was a cross between The Devil Wears Prada and Entourage. Her boss yelled at her almost every day, usually because Danielle failed to be omniscient. How dare Danielle not know that Mr. X is always put right through on the phone? And why did Danielle not foresee that her boss might be bumped from first class?
This would be so discouraging to get a dream job, and find out its not what you thought it was, this happened to me when i use to work at a shoe store, everybody was into shoes and i wanted to be part of that, when i finally got a job a finish line, i hated it sooooo much, everything about the job was trash. i barely made any money working there. i could go on about this lol
Phineas Gage changed from thoughtful to reckless, from purposeful to vacillating, because the tamping rod had made a hole in his frontal lobe
Everything makes so much since now, the object damaging the part where he makes decisions and such, made him reckless in his thinking
This all changed in the 1970s when magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and then functional MRI (fMRI) technology made it possible for doctors to look at the brain in vivo. A host of new technologies can now measure brain activity in living children and adults, and this has allowed researchers to better understand how the brain works
I would of never known about the invention of the MRI if i didn't read this story. very interesting.
After the accident, he was suddenly wavering about plans for the future
I can see why he might of felt like this, he might of felt that because of the accident that, tomorrow is not promised, he could of been dead but he was alive and wake.
walking and talking with a hole through his head
very cartoonish, the narrator definitely describes the damage that was done.
The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use
the more you know, the better you'll get understanding things? this is how i take it.
Once the unpredictability of work began to affect her ability to pay her cell-phone bill, the life of an artist lost its luster
It always starts out this way doing what you like, this can be like working out, you don’t see any results at first, everything is going slow, but eventually you’ll get there
Her parents said, “What are you going to do with that?”
Probably the worst thing your parents could say when trying to do something you like.
Helen hated pre-med classes and did poorly in them
She should of sat down with her parents and told them how she felt about pre-med
covet
Desire
was the envy of friends who had gone straight to the “real world,” or its runner-up, graduate school
This is relatable.
“having an identity crisis
I would assume this happens to everybody, sometimes you come to an age where your confused about your self/ would this be the same as menopause?
The twentysomething years are real time and ought to be lived that way
Definitely the most important years of your life
It would be reckless for us to focus on Kate’s past when I knew her future was in danger
The therapist trying to figure why shes the way she is, is a waste of time rather than helping her find something she would like to do right now, this would of been different if she was younger
Before that and later than that, it’s either harder or impossible
People say that its easier to learn stuff when your younger as oppose to when you get older its harder.
Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today And then one day you find, ten years has got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
This is deep, nobody is gonna tell you what you need to do, you have to know to do it.
he married the rapper Offset, of Migos, whose own career was in overdrive
I personally think this was a "powermove" to get buzz around her name. just saying
Also, not all the good writers get attention and win awards so I feel I need to give back.”
This is correct. This goes with anything, take for instance soccer, theres a lot of players that are overlooked, College-MLS
“I never thought I’d make money writing.”
This is great to hear, doing what she loved, not caring if she would make money doing it.
Your inner ear is clogging up with sentences you want to grab before they slip away
Sometimes this happens when i take notes, thats why i don't take notes, but i should
They contain the regionalisms of his conversation and the lingo of his trade
Thats true because i can say things that come from my own vocabulary that others wouldn't say in theirs, making my writing unique. Its always interesting hearing others talk on paper.
getting hold of data from others is a very unreliable process
This is true/false, who else is going to tell you the truth other than yourself, you can become blind to yourself and not realize the things your doing. But people will lie to you and tell you things you want to hear.
SPENDING MONEY UNWISELY
Unfortunately this is me. I wish i could control this better.
what problems do you have around success/failure
I wish I would know this
plausible
Not sure what this means.
was not worth living
This sounds suicidal
unexamined life
I wonder what this means? Examined life?
My father, a bare man, a gypsy, a horse with broken knees no one would shoot. Then again, he was like the orange tree, and young women plucked from him sweet fruit
He was a rigid man but a sweet man.
washing ironing cooking scrubbing sewing mending hoeing plowing digging planting pruning patching dragging along never gaining never reaping never knowing and never understanding;
Is this applying to the people who are working jobs?
praying their prayers nightly to an unknown god
Is the narrator a atheist?
Papa, come home because I decided a while back I wanted to be just like you, but I’m forgetting who you are
Having a father just disappear in your life really puts yourself in confused state of mind.
Papa, come home, ‘cause there’s things I don’t know and I thought maybe you could teach me:
There are some things a mother cant teach her son that a father can and vise verse.
And for years he has never said a word. And so twenty-five years later, I write these words For the little boy in me who still awaits his papa’s knock.
Why such a long sentence? i wonder what his father did to be incarcerated for 25 years?
behind one of the windows sits my father.
I could tell that this meant his father was in jail.
A confused little boy.
When your at a young kid you never seem to think of anything bad.
Until that day when the knock never came
This sounds very sad and it seems that something very bad as happened to his father.
“Go on baby, get yo’self a plate” Kind of Women.
Definitely my grandma when she heard that i haven't ate.
He is also wearing those awful shoes
This reminds me of my dad he never seems to stop wearing old shoes that are partly ripped.
Errol Flynn
Who would this be?
And a giraffe looking over her shoulder
This is me in every picture i'm in.
sift
Ive never seen this word.
I am from the things I hang on my wall
i wonder what things they might have put up on there wall.
I am from the work my father did.
Was the narrators forced or destined to do the same work as his/her parents?
I am from three states and six different cities
Would the narrator have moved to 3 states and 6 different cities?
and it turns up everywhere including job applications
As it should. it should mandatory to ask that question in job applications.
I am from Interstate 40
Would this be the same as someone saying they're from country?
I am from the neighborhoods where people moved every other year
not quite sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing.
Straight as a nun I sit
Given the fact that nuns are very well disciplined.
hands louder than words
Doing it is much better than saying it?