Wal's Epiphany

[wal66]

Ever have an epiphany? Like just out of the blue a realization hits you for no apparent reason at all and wakes you up or impacts your life in ways that you never thought possible?

Im sitting here in class on the last day of my training and BLAM! Like a bolt of lightening striking a tree in your front yard, I almost leaped out of my seat. It hit me that, I am an unattractive man sitting in a room filled with unattractive people.

Being an unattractive man wasnt the epiphany nor that the room is filled with the same. What struck me is that we all have the same type of job. We are all water and wastewater technicians, operators and supervisors.

So now I am wondering to myself and I start associating different types of jobs with persons appearances. Naturally models are typically beautiful or at least physically appealing type people so that was a given but what about other types of jobs.

Convenience store personnel are seldom attractive people. The make-up counter people at Dillards generally are. If youve ever been in a check cashing establishment the person cashing your check or floating you a payday loan is often not very attractive but you rarely see a really unattractive bank teller. For the most part police officers are decent in appearance yet a security officer much of the time looks like he just left his park bench to come to work. If a person works in HR (human relations) generally they are a very nice looking or even very attractive person but a social worker often times is average at best and generally leaning towards unattractive.

So Im now convinced that had I been a more attractive man I would make a better income. I mean look at the examples given and think about others not even mentioned and you can see that better looking people get better paying jobs through all walks of life not just entertainment.

Sure there are exceptions to the rule as with anything in life but it looks like there is a definite correlation.

Im certain this really isnt much of an epiphany and almost as certain there are probably studies to support what I am thinking about but still, I am sitting in a room full of ugly motherhunchers and I am one of them.

 

[Matty]

Ever have an epiphany?

I’m sitting here in class on the last day of my training and BLAM! It hit me that, I am an unattractive man sitting in a room filled with unattractive people. What struck me is that we all have the same type of job. We are all water and wastewater technicians, operators and supervisors.

So now I am wondering to myself and I start associating different types of jobs with persons appearances. Naturally models are typically beautiful or at least physically appealing type people so that was a given.

Convenience store personnel are seldom attractive people. The make-up counter people at Dillard’s generally are. For the most part police officers are decent in appearance yet a security officer much of the time looks like he just left his park bench to come to work.

So I’m now convinced that had I been a more attractive man I would make a better income.

Sure there are exceptions to the rule as with anything in life but it looks like there is a definite correlation.

I’m certain there are probably studies to support what I am thinking about but still, I am sitting in a room full of ugly motherhunchers and I am one of them.

Edited for ADD types like Herman and I.

Wally, HR people are NOT attractive and they tend to be impossibly dumb and slow. HR is for business school dropouts. HR also stands for human resources.

 

[Matty]

As for the topic at hand, I'd say there is a tendency for people who perceive themselves as less attractive to generally aim lower and be content with a lesser income/lower-profile job. Your income has more to do with your ambition and your willingness/ability to sell yourself. If you don't feel good about yourself, chances are you don't think you're worth a higher income.

Mr. Bean is a very rich man. Think about it.

 

[kato]

Edited for ADD types like Herman and I.

Wally, HR people are NOT attractive and they tend to be impossibly dumb and slow. HR is for business school dropouts. HR also stands for human resources.

go robyn, go!

 

[Matty]

Robyn is not a HR person, she's a one-man-business-and-office-manager-who-does-HR-cause-she-has-to. These people work in small companies and they are admirably overworked. I'm talking about the big bad Fortune 500 corporate world and 50-people HR departments here.

 

[Mudcat]

I must strenuously object to Matty's assessment of HR people. I have been in two relationships with HR people who were/are both very attractive and bright.

Also I worked for 2+ years for a company whose business was providing training/consulting/assessment for HR departments of large companies - so the place was always crawling with HR people attending workshops and conferences - and I found them to be terrific as a group. A bit prone to thickness in the ankles perhaps but very nice.

I do agree however that HR stands for Human Resources.

 

[Matty]

It needs to be said that I'm in the middle of an impossibly long and backwards HR process right now, hence the propension to find everything "HR" to be ugly as a dog's anus.

 

[kato]

Robyn is not a HR person, she's a one-man-business-and-office-manager-who-does-HR-cause-she-has-to. These people work in small companies and they are admirably overworked. I'm talking about the big bad Fortune 500 corporate world and 50-people HR departments here.

i agree with ur assessment of hr in general, wanted to see if robyn would go off

 

[betplom]

I must strenuously object to Matty's assessment of HR people. I have been in two relationships with HR people who were/are both very attractive and bright.

Muddaaaay! Since you admittedly have never banged a hooker your opinion regarding attractiveness is much too opinionated, sorry pal.

Bang a hooker and get back to us, we'll be interested to hear what you have to say then.

 

[Mudcat]

I have banged a hooker - once - but I split hairs.

I am trying to fathom the connection you see between banging hookers and assessing aesthetics. I generally have a pretty good imagination but cannot, in this case, decipher what is going on in the plombrain.

 

[betplom]

Muddaay! One of these girls is attractive and the other is REALLY attractive (for a crack ho).

Pal, what I'm getting at is the fact you have never banged a crack ho, which in terms of "pay for pleasure" are the low end type of girls.

 

[Mudcat]

Ah. So due to my limited life experience, me saying HR girls are reasonably attractive as a group is empty and meaningless.

If I had more experience of a Plommeresque variety, I would have been able to add with some authority: and extremely attractive compared to low end crack hos.


I always wondered why my opinion was worth nothing and now I know.

 

[wal66]

Matty I specifically listed HR people among the attractive people because of Robyn. While it's true Robyn is attractive more importantly I need to score some points with her.

 

[MrMonkey]

Wal , big print! Thanks for the heads up!

 

[kato]

Wal , big print! Thanks for the heads up!

 

[RayRay]

wallballs, sex sells...always has, always will.
why you think the spoke shop never lets bread hang out in the front of the store???

 

[stevek173]

In my limited experience I disagree with your HR assessment. When I worked for Lanmark Group in Eatontown, NJ the HR people were real cool lead by a CFO named John who in every single facet was an amazing person.

That being said my experience with HR has been very limited.

They have to hold in their farts until its bathroom time. Think about that.

 

[Matty]

They have to hold in their farts until its bathroom time. Think about that.

I can't seem to find it but there was an ad on Canadian TV, I think it was for a hotel chain's free Internet service, where a remote worker is saying good night to everyone involved in his professional life (every person is standing there in his room). The "Human Resources Specialist" they portrayed in it was dead on and it was hilarious.