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Deseprate Plea For Help

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Re: Deseprate Plea For Help
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Aug 25, 2005 at 07:49 UTC
    Ok fellow monks, I am honestly having a tough time making myself do this, but the circumstances under which I find myself are leaving me little choice.
    Begging here for money is never a option.
    Go away.
    Get a job.
    Ask your local community for money (family, friends, local do-godder, church/whatever).
    Ask your goverment for money.
    Sell your stuff (that thing you use to type your emails).
    Sell your roommates stuff (thief).
    Most importantly, go away!
    Every day I get hit up for money, everywhere I go. Perlmonks is not the place to beg for money.

    update: added local, it got lost; swapped a slash for a comma.
    I'm not planning on fixing the do-godder typo :)

    MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
    I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
    ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

      Not to imply that the OP is on topic, but I find it funny that you say:
      Ask your community for money (family, friends, local do-godder, church, whatever).
      I think perlmonks falls into the whatever category of his community.
        The word local got lost. There is plenty of Nigerians who need help, but they also need to ask their local community for help.

        MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
        I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
        ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

Re: Deseprate Plea For Help
by pboin (Deacon) on Aug 25, 2005 at 20:15 UTC

    You know what? Flipping hamburgers for a living is an honorable profession. There are plenty of people out there busting their humps: driving trucks, mowing lawns, working retail and cleaning bathrooms -- putting up with crap from people who think they're better than they are. Those jobs are good enough for anyone to take if that's what you can get.

    It's rude and lazy on your part to ask for the sweat of others 'cause your opinion of yourself is too high to do an honest day's work.

    If you were elderly, disabled or working 60+ hours and still not making it, that would be an entirely different story, but from your post, that's not the case.

Re: Deseprate Plea For Help
by Mutant (Priest) on Aug 25, 2005 at 13:01 UTC
    While I certainly feel for you, and admire your courage in asking for this on a public forum, I think it's probably inapprioriate for PM. As [id://Foxcub]'s consideration noted, it's not a good precendent to set - the last thing we want is weekly posts asking for money.

    I also think [id://PodMaster]'s points are fairly valid, there are plenty of other ways to get money if you really need it. I've been in similar situations before, and managed to scrape through on short-term loans from good friends, family and credit card companies.
Re: Deseprate Plea For Help
by digiryde (Pilgrim) on Aug 25, 2005 at 06:59 UTC
    To make this sound more sincere and easier to swallow, you might want to set it up so that the money is paid directly to the school in question with a guarentee that any refunds are paid back to the *investor*.

    Good luck

    digiryde

Re: Deseprate Plea For Help
by talexb (Chancellor) on Aug 25, 2005 at 21:41 UTC

    Well, we all have our troubles.

    I had mine when I got separated in 1995 and had to find a housemate or sell my house. I could have taken the easy route and sold, but I badly wanted to keep the house -- it meant something to me. And pride's cheap when you have something valuable to lose.

    I cut lawns when I was a teenager. That's hard work, customers are demanding, and I made just $6 a lawn. Remember, it's only a dead-end job if you never aspire to greater things. If you take a job flipping burgers while you work your way through school, that's not a dead-end job. It's a means to an end. And many people would be happy for a job like that. Whatever you do, do it with pride.

    I guess I don't understand how $125 is going to make the difference in your situation. You want to go back to school to do Grade 12, and then go on to university. So, the $125 will pay for your Grade 12 tuition. But where are you going to live, and what are you going to eat while you are doing Grade 12?

    I sympathize, though .. best of luck. I really hope it all works out for you.

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

      I will let completely alone whether or not I think the OP is on-topic, in the right place, or deserving of sympathy and/or assistance.

      I think the reason the $125 is "going to make the difference" is because he needs it in full by the 29th of August to get into school this year.

      OTOH, the request would, IMHO, be more disturbing if it were a much larger dollar amount, say for housing, food, and gas for the next 12 months. It would seem likely a scammer would seek a larger amount. The nature of this request makes it seem legitimate - a relatively small amount needed by a swift-approaching deadline.

      Good luck, all who posted here...

      planetscape
        I think the reason the $125 is "going to make the difference" is because he needs it in full by the 29th of August to get into school this year.
        You're probably right. OTOH, I think that the OP could think about it in time, and not wait for August 25th to jump up and decide to go back to school.
        It would seem likely a scammer would seek a larger amount.
        I'd say the opposite. A small amount is more attractive to potential donors, and your post just proves it. Moreover, there is no control over how many persons are going to help the OP - 10 times $125 seem a large amount with this respect. Even if there would be a way for the donors to coordinate, if you were a scammer would you prefer to ask for $1000 and receive nothing, or ask for $125 and receive $125 because "it's not that large"?
        The nature of this request makes it seem legitimate - a relatively small amount needed by a swift-approaching deadline.
        This is the root of practically all scams. I have tons of e-mails saying that there is an unclaimed bunch of money waiting for me - but fast! And they would probably tell me that I'd pay a little amount of money for legal expenses (I've never gone beyond simply deleting these emails, so that's guessing).

        Flavio
        perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf

        Don't fool yourself.
Re: Deseprate Plea For Help
by diotalevi (Canon) on Aug 25, 2005 at 19:09 UTC
    For any that wonder, this is the same person as mt2k and Coruscate.
Re: Deseprate Plea For Help
by zentara (Archbishop) on Aug 25, 2005 at 11:36 UTC
    All you need is a Nigerian email address.

    I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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