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Recruiters

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Ever since I took the ASVAB in highschool recruiters have been trying to contact me. I don't mind that. What I do mind is me telling the same recruiter 6 times WHY I can't join and they don't bother to write it down or keep a record of our meeting or conversation. It's been both the marines and the army doing this. Then I finally got tired of taking their calls, so what do they do? They send me a friend request on Facebook and a Facebook message asking if I've "Thought about joining the armed forces" and that me and them should talk. I find it a bit creepy that they tracked down my Facebook in the first place. They won't take no for an answer even though I don't want to. They then get pissed when I asked them to please not talk to me on Facebook and explain all over again everything I've told the same recruiters multiple times over the past two years. I understand it's their job, but I've told them why I can't and they won't keep it in their records why or even that I've met with them in person (where the army recruiter laughed in my face because I asked for a gun) I wish they would stop like how do I get them to stop! They call me and my sons paternal grandfather and won't leave us alone after we've tried to get them to stop :/
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If any of you follow me on any sort of other media or have had a long enough conversation with me you'll notice I repeat my self a lot...Why, you ask? I'm passionate about many thing and if I want people to pay attention to them I repeat myself. Maybe if I mention something enough someone will see the problem with it. For example: I talk about human trafficking quite a bit in school and various papers and posts on other media. I go as far as showing people the statistics in my country and internationally while including the number to the hotline used for human trafficking victims. Maybe I can influence someone or maybe they'll see the signs and they'll be able to save someone's life. I want to make a difference and it's hard to do alone. I care about subjects such as that ever since I learned about them. Another thing I tend to bring up is the nature versus nurture debate and cases involved in that. Did you know a kid got his legs sawed off, beaten up, and strangled while he was awake? Can you guess over what? The little kid (about 14) got killed over .50 American (he was from a Spanish decent country) he borrowed money from his neighbor for ingame currency and hadn't yet paid the debt back. I bring up a lot the amount of people inprisoned in America. We have 3/4 of the worlds prisoners with 6 MILLION people on probation at any given time with a total of 10% of our population locked up. All in all I repeat my self to try and get to people to care. We have a bad issue in my country of "out of sight out of mind" did you know by watching porn you're probably supporting human trafficking? Many women, not all because also many are consentual as a job, are used in sex trafficking and making porn is part of it. I try to show people issues that are rarely in the news or brought to light because they're important. It's literally playing with people's lives and the majority of my country doesn't care. I just hope that if I can get one person to care enough to try to make a change then I'll be happy. Everything I described above I repeat in large quantities. I repeat them in presentations, research papers, debates and normal conversation. I'm sorry if people find me repeating myself as annoying or that I can't find something new to talk about it's just these things are monumentally important to me and I believe others should know about what happens to the crimes pushed into the dark. Maybe one day you and me can save someone's life.
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Mask

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Can you see behind my mask?
This little thing I wear
Can you see the real me?
The one with wear and tear?
Can you see the true me
The one I wish to hide?
Can you see how scared I am
Of being alone inside?
Can you see how much I care
And how easily I break?
Can you see behind this mask
This one I want you to break
Can you show me it's ok
To sometimes be afraid
Can you be my saving grace
And put my fear back in its place
Can you show me what it's like
To love so near and dear
Can you take me by the hand
And lead me to the righteous land
And never leave me alone
Can you look into my face
And make a smile form
Can you make this fake ness I wear
Finally be real?
Can you transform me into someone who isn't just a puppeteer
But a real person with real love
And be with someone who actually cares
Can you take this mask and burn it
Or throw it far away
I never want to see it again not even in a play
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First: What is the house ACTUALLY voting on for this?
The law that Obama put into place was that people receiving social security who can not take care of their own benefits (mentally incompetent stuff like that) would be put on a list and if they tried to buy a gun on the background check the info would pop up and a "NO GO" would basically show up so they couldn't buy the guy. It was a safety thing....As someone who has a father who is disabled and sort of crazy I was happy he couldn't buy a gun because I would be terrified. Well, the republicans because in 'Gun rights for all!' Ok, but like seriously. Anyone remember the last time a fully mentally ill person got a hold of a gun? No? Sandyhook. Now if this happens my father can get a gun. If this happens we will more than likely have another Sandyhook...it's scary death is scary. I'm sick of being scared because of decision I have zero choice in. Now if this goes through I'll be scared everyday because now he can just get a gun and if he has an episode well...bye bye birdie. Don't get me wrong I've worked with people who had mental illnesses and they were some of the nicest people. The law only effected 75k people. Keep an eye out and no matter what please be safe.
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Our economy

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Let's talk about the article I just pasted above. Our DOW is down about 150 points and dropping. I'm honestly scared of another market crash. America can't function without trade from foreign countries and we can't survive in our own country alone. A good amount of our produce is shipped in from different countries. Anyway about the stocks...our stocks are dropping so fast it's frightening. Wall Street finally realized what's going on and they're not happy. We will on foreign trade and our stocks show it. I'm scared this will turn into the market of 2001 or 2008. Let's face it our economy hasn't been doing very well the past few years. As a fellow stock owner I don't want to lose thousands of dollars because some asshole thinks he can "prove" a point and make America a business. Trump is honestly the only person I've ever heard of to LOSE money by owning a casino. America is one "business" where he can't get a bankruptcy and leave clean. We aren't some material thing we are alive and have family's to support. We can't live by going "bankrupt" as a business. I keep watching the stocks drop and it's implementing fear into me...I grew up in a bad economy, but I fear this is going to be worse than it was when I was growing up. Wall Street isn't playing and America won't last being run as a business. Because we are a country! Our trade deals may not be the best, buy they kept our economy going and didn't completely burn is! We won't see a 4% growth like he promised us if this keeps up. This isn't me being rude or bad mouthing the president these are facts and they're scary facts...I want to be able to buy a house and own a business and not worry about my stocks plummeting to the ground. I want America to do well I WANT Trump to do well, but the honeymoon phase is over. Take off your rose colored glasses and watch our stock market watch our trade deals disappear. I don't want the economy to collapse I want everything to work out, but this is one time where I just can't be optimistic because I'm honestly scared to death...I woke up to over 20 reports about the DOW this morning and none of them were good...we are not a business we are a country and lives are on the line I sincerely hope no one loses everything.
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