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So I've been doing this experiment the last couple days - sprouting some chickpeas - and this morning after soaking for about 18 hours there were little sprouts coming out of the beans. I subsequently turned them into a bunch of hummus and falafel batter, both of which taste awesome - no cooking required. Just the sprouting, then plopping everything in a food processor. Yes it takes longer, but it saves you time, AND by sprouting the beans, you bring out more nutrients than they'd otherwise contain, and don't destroy any of them by cooking. Pretty flippin' sweet.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 03:22 PM) But when looking to satisfy a craving for pizza, that's about the healthiest I've seen. haha truth.

Y'all do realize I'ma take over this thread right?

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 12:31 PM) Clif Builder Bar Choco Mint is delicious SO much sugar. I've stopped eating them for that reason. 20g a pop? When your daily max should be something like 55? Yikes There are these new ones called Good N' Natural that you can find basically anywhere, which are all whole foods smashed together. 235 cal and only 12g of sugar. Just 10g of protein, but if you can't make up for that elsewhere you've got bigger problems.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 11:19 AM) Granola bars are one of the biggest lies ever sold to people as health food. Even intelligent and otherwise healthy people never bother to look at the fact that most granola bars are about equal to eating a snickers bar in terms of calories, fat and sugar. so... while you're right and mass-market granola bars are awful, that pizza muffin thing ain't too great either. but at least that way you KNOW what you're eating vs the lies on the granola bar wrappers. haha

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 01:34 PM) It all depends on how much responsibility you have, and how many people you have depending on you. 57k isn't enough for me to even consider at this point in my life, but I'm also not a single guy with a single guys expenses. I have a stay at home wife, a daughter, and another one the way. I have to handle all of the the families expenses on my own. While most would see my current salary as huge, it's not all things considered...it's enough to get us by paycheck the paycheck with a little left over. ...and that said, if I lost my job, and the only job I could find paid 57k, I'd take it, and do whatever was necessary to cover our cost of living, including making sacrifices to be able to afford it. The first thing that'd be gone is our basic cable bill. I don't even have netflix. It's stuff like that, that on a single salary, we can't afford without going into the red. I refuse to live life in the red. If I can't afford something, such as having movie channels...we don't have it. This is something that I see most people these days don't do. They simply live in debt, out of choice...NOT out of necessity. yes. obviously. I was mostly being facetious.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 01:00 PM) No, it paid $57k and a 15% potential bonus. It certainly wasn't a terrible compensation package. However, I did have to spend 6 months just learning about the industry before I could actually perform the job I was hired to do. I did give up the life I had in Chicago and all my friends and family and move clear across the country where I knew essentially no one. I did put the $100k education (which I took out school loans for, mind you) on hold to take a job in an entirely different field which I knew virtually nothing about. Now I could have sat at home on my parents' couch and complained that I couldn't get a job as an attorney making a salary commensurate with my level of education. And I could have scoffed at the notion of taking a job making $40k, because "that is what I could have been making coming out of undergrad!" But I applied for all sorts of jobs in retail and the food and beverage industry, making essentially the same $36k I was making before I went back to undergrad, but was told I was overqualified. I took an unpaid job in a startup company. Ultimately, I realized the opportunities seemed few and far between and took the first good one I had, even though I had to move all the way across the country for it. I realize there are plenty of people doing these things today, too. What I did, and what others did, is not some Herculean effort or anything. It is called taking responsibility for your lot in life. We'd like to see a lot of others do it too, instead of complaining so much, that's all. what does someone DO with $57,000? haha as someone who's breaking $20K for the first time at age 26 - I can't imagine what my quality of life would be like with 2.5x that. lol

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 12:51 PM) I think a very general point we can make is that human beings are blessed with very capable minds, that allow them to do many, many other things when focusing on immediate survival needs is not necessary. The standard of living for many Americans has reached a level where for a few generations, immediate survival needs were usually not a concern. This has created a sense of comfort and a lack of awareness of just how hard some of our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents worked to put us in this position. Now that many of us have been accustomed to not worrying about food, shelter, etc, we have been blessed with the luxury of worrying about being famous, or wealthy, or powerful. There isn't necessary an appreciation just to have a roof over our heads or to know where our next meals are coming from. This doesn't equate to a "moral failing" or even necessarily outright laziness. It's just a level of comfort that has always been there for many in our times. this is something i agree with, and we're entering a period - potentially - where many kids like us are going to get a rude awakening when they realize they can't just rely on that college degree the way they had expected to.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 12:34 PM) Well this guy did testing/mechanic work for Lotus, so it's a bit different haha DAMNIT!

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 12:17 PM) I know plenty of people that turned something they loved doing into a job (mechanic for example), but it ended up ruining what they loved to do because it was now work. Sometimes it's better to find something you don't mind doing for work, and saving what you love to do for hobbies. i think that has to do with someone expecting a job to be one thing and it turning out to be another. A mechanic loves tinkering with cars they have an attachment to, but the majority of what they do in their job is oil changes and boring repetitive tasks like that.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 12:02 PM) That's exactly it...but you accepted the possible -- and highly probable -- consequences of that choice. A lot of people "chase the dream" only they don't want to accept the fact that the odds are stacked against them. Not to mention, there are a lot of people in hollywood that made it big, only it took them 30 years to get there...and for that 30 years, they struggled every day for the eventual payoff that most people look at and say it was handed to them now that they're living large. I'll admit it...I did the opposite. I didn't chase my dream. I liked IT work, I didn't love it, but I liked it...I really love technology, but not really the technology I work with. But it wasn't my "dream job". My actual dream job was to be a US Forest Service Ranger...don't ask why, I can't explain it. The reason I didn't go after that dream was because I knew what it meant...it meant struggling and being paid a low wage to "do what I love". I'd rather make money doing what I like. makes perfect sense, and actually as you're training as an actor the one thing you hear over and over again is "if there's something else you're good at, something else you enjoy, or like to do besides acting, you better do that." Yeah, maybe it wasn't your dream job - but when it comes down to it, if you enjoy what you do and the quality of life is where you want it - that's a win to me. It's this thing Duke's talking about where he'll take ANY job just to make more money that I don't really understand. Sure you're making 60K now... but is there room to grow? Room for improvement? or will quitting school have limited that? I don't know the answer - just wondering.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 11:54 AM) The point is, sometimes we have to accept that life is going to be hard for a temporary amount of time, and we may not like having to accept working two jobs to make ends meet, but that's life. We do it anyway. OR, we don't do it and b**** about life being unfair and hard and how you coulda' been a contender. or we don't do it (like me) and also don't b**** about life being unfair. I picked a ridiculous field to want to work in (performing) so I made my bed, and I'll sleep in it living paycheck to paycheck. (also my day job of catering pays $23/hour and that requires zero skills besides looking pretty)

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 20, 2013 -> 11:38 PM) I'd say that there are probably more parents that over-coddle, under-critique, whatever you want to call it than ever before. But it's not as if being critical of everything your kid does is necessarily the best way to do it, either. Most people respond best when they are given a mixture of criticism and praise. Let them know what they're doing wrong and let them know what they're not. It's pretty simple, it's about moderation. BTW, I came from the "everyone gets trophies" generation, and everyone knew that didn't mean s***. We'd keep the trophies because shiny things are cool, but we wanted to win. When I was 6 or 7 years old and we played in a basketball league that didn't keep score. While there are some benefits in trying to keep things from getting over-competitive (is this for the parents or the kids, by the way?) I know that all we'd do after the game is argue about who would have won if the score was kept and compare our self-kept statistics, etc. You can't make people noncompetitive even if you try -- though I'd say making them feel like losers too much rather than winners too much is more likely to have a negative effect. absolutely, but there's a statistic that says 75% of parents of obese kids don't REALIZE their child is overweight. how crazy is that? parents these days have rose colored glasses like you wouldn't believe, and this whole "protect our kids at all cost" mentality really doesn't prepare them for the real world. I dunno. Just my opinion. I agree that a balance is optimal

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 20, 2013 -> 10:51 PM) Journalism. writing, critical thinking, research skills. I'm sure you can add more to the list. if you'd said Communications, that'd be a whole 'nother story.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 20, 2013 -> 10:23 PM) Yes, but apparently I'm supposed to have a magical skillset to get a job. what are you studying?

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 20, 2013 -> 10:08 PM) What is this useful skillset? As an unemployed 20 year old looking for a job, I'd like to know. I also want to to know what this useless skillset I apparently chose to have is? Please. Tell me. are you in school right now?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 20, 2013 -> 08:26 PM) Again, nonsense. The number of people with skills appropriate for the available jobs is huge...because the number of available jobs collapsed when people lost all their money. craigslist is full of jobs every day that i'm not qualified for. it's full of jobs i'm overqualified for. point is, it's full of jobs.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 20, 2013 -> 08:19 PM) That maybe the problem with the economy isn't that we're not mean enough to kids, or that our society is somehow becoming a bunch of "Wussies". That maybe...that isn't even happening at all, but people just feel good about calling everyone else wussies. That maybe the economic problem, for example, which you cited, comes from a much more systematic exploitation of the political system. i honestly didn't know we were having a discussion about the economy. i brought it up because that's an easy-to-cite excuse for why 20-somethings don't have jobs.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 20, 2013 -> 08:17 PM) Of course, the one group that we never call on for responsibility are the investors who dismantled the rules about loans, actually dumped tens of trillions of dollars into the loans, then walked away rich after being bailed out by the government. They're the true heroes. again, what argument are you HAVING here?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 20, 2013 -> 08:13 PM) And of course, the personal responsibility only falls upon the people you want to heap scorn on, not on the people who spend billions of dollars marketing that crap, getting the taxpayers to subsidize it, and so forth. i agree with both sides on this, and both sides are at fault. stupid people should have more personal responsibility, and the government shouldn't let it be so easy to take advantage of those stupid people.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 20, 2013 -> 08:11 PM) No, the bad economy has nothing to do with that and the suggestion is quite ludicrous. The bad economy is what happens when the financial industry inflates a $10 trillion dollar bubble based on enormous, systemic fraud and then that bubble implodes. what argument are you having here?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 20, 2013 -> 08:03 PM) What problem? the fact that - beyond the bad economy - kids have grown up to have no idea how to take care of themselves, and as Y2HH said, we've become a country of excuses. the first thing a parent says to a kid that fails? "it's not your fault!" well... yeah... usually it is.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 20, 2013 -> 07:31 PM) One commonality amongst all the people who are calling everyone else in society "Wussies"... Note how it's all just an argument based on how they feel. Note the lack of data. They know that society must be getting weaker...because they're big time. They're strong. They never need help with anything. And so they have the right to call everyone else out on their failings. And there's totally no positive emotional reaction gained by knowing that you're better than all those other wussies. there's nothing about me that qualifies as "big time". I'm a struggling actor in NYC. lol also this post is a bit incoherent. you're arguing that the mentality Y2HH and I were talking about doesn't contribute to the problem? this overprotective pampering of kids that's going on these days?

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 20, 2013 -> 07:02 PM) While I don't quite agree it's the "wussification" of society, I have observed that we have become an increasingly excuse laden society. We didn't fail because we failed, we failed because of X, Y and Z. When I grew up, losing sucked...so next time we tried really f***ing hard to win. Sadly, sometimes, it resulted in another loss. These days, I'm seeing more of this "there are no losers" bulls*** going on, in academics, in sports, in everything. Sad news, there are losers. And if you live long enough, you're going to run into more than your fair share. So strive to be a winner, instead...instead of using every man made excuse society created for you as to why you fail. Thank. You. the whole "everyone gets a trophy" thing is what's spawned this mentality in America. the fact that kids are "too sensitive" to handle criticism is ridiculous. kids should get in fights. kids should win or lose. kids should deal with crap. that's how they learn.

What are all those tickets doing on Chris? I mean I know you get special deals for being a player, but that seems unfair...