Board 8 > This leap year marks my 20th anniversary as a resident of the U.S.

(+) Yeah! (+)

My family arrived in New York on February 29, 1992. It also, coincidentally, marks my first day on a new job after a few months of searching. Wish me luck!

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Cool stuff on both accounts.

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"Why must we always choose between certain death and probable death?"
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/insert you've been here for 80 years joke

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Oh that's cool.

Good luck on the new job

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only here for 5 years huh.

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Does Lady Liberty have dat ass?

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We arrived at night. It was too dark to get a good look at Lady Liberty when she was pointed out to me. Funny how I remember that.

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Man what's with all the 20th anniversary's this February


though this one is by far the greatest

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oh yeah I guess this is the one time every 4 years I can use this account

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^5

Congrats on both fronts.

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SuperNiceDog had a super nice bracket too.

First day went very well, but maaaaaaan women have dominated the workplace. Apart from one other man, it was an all-female office. Wasn't accounting known as a man's profession? WHAT HAPPEN

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grats mate.

New job means money, which means money!

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Yoblazer that's cool. When did you get citizenship?

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First day went very well, but maaaaaaan women have dominated the workplace. Apart from one other man, it was an all-female office. Wasn't accounting known as a man's profession? WHAT HAPPEN

You speak as if this is a bad thing.

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From: Shoenin_Kakashi | #012
grats mate.

New job means money, which means money!

Yep. I was technically employed, but I was working veeeeeery light hours from home in my boxers. Obviously living that way brought with it certain benefits, but it was nice to wake up at 6, put on a suit, and make actual money for the first time in a while.

From: KingButz | #013
Yoblazer that's cool. When did you get citizenship?

2001 IIRC. Took a while for my siblings and me. My parents each got theirs about five years after arriving.

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Also, it sort of horrifies me to think that for many immigrants and tourists, the first part of the US they see is New York.

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Wasn't accounting known as a man's profession?

Everything was known as a man's profession. Until it changed.

Today the most male-dominated educated profession is probably investment banking. And that's perhaps a profession where we could really use some more women, to stop the bravado groupthink.

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From: red sox 777 | #015
Everything was known as a man's profession. Until it changed.

Yeah, but accounting is obviously a field dealing with numbers. The data-backed stereotype has long been that women just can't do numbers as well as men, though I'm certain most bookkeepers, accountants, tax specialists, and CPAs emerging from the U.S. today are women. As sexist as it sounds, it does knock my ego down a peg. I'd probably carry a bit of concealed pride if I won my bread in something like actual mathematics or physics - a field most women simply can't do.

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Yeah, but accounting is obviously a field dealing with numbers. The data-backed stereotype has long been that women just can't do numbers as well as men, though I'm certain most bookkeepers, accountants, tax specialists, and CPAs emerging from the U.S. today are women. As sexist as it sounds, it does knock my ego down a peg. I'd probably carry a bit of concealed pride if I won my bread in something like actual mathematics or physics - a field most women simply can't do.

Whoa there, women can do math and physics! I admit I don't have any quantitative evidence to back this up, but my personal experience has been that women are equally naturally talented as men at math. However, they choose not to pursue math-based stuff from a young age because cultural expectations tell them that it is not for them.

Geography is probably a field where men are better than women. There is an extreme dearth of girls in the National Geographic Bee at least. Not like math/physics where it's perhaps 2 or 3 to 1, but like 95/5. And I don't think the cultural bias is nearly as strong there as with math either.

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wait what country are you from originally?

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wow yoyo

thats great

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From: GrapefruitKing | #020
wait what country are you from originally?

Iraq

From: BIGPUN9999 | #021
wow yoyo

thats great

Thanks buddy!

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