We are so excited to have the fabulous Lynn Slater with us today for a very special episode of School of Hustle. Lynn, thank you for being here. Thanks for having me. And thank you all for showing up.  This is going to be a lot of fun. We have a lot of fun ahead. I think that it's probably most appropriate to start by asking you about what you're wearing. You look beautiful when you walked in. You know, you're so stunning and so elegant. I love your shoes. Could you tell us a little bit about what you're wearing tonight and what it means to you? I want it to be comfortable so I could enjoy myself. And I am a little obsessed with pajama looks. But this is Amping Net Up. And it's from Stina Goya. And I'm wearing Chloe shoes and a bag. And let me remember, vintage earrings. It looks great. Thank you. Now, you have been into fashion from the start.  And you got very creative about how you would express your individuality in spite of the fact you had to wear a uniform. Yes. How did you do that? Well, I think that's a big part of my story, which is starting with sort of a small box and being creative in a box. And so we were not allowed to have any accessories, no jewelry. We were all supposed to look the same, no makeup. But we were allowed to have religious medals and rosaries and things like that. So I used them as accessories. And so I would make these different combinations on my uniform. I would put rosary beads around my arm, like a bracelet. So you worked within that box? I did. You pushed the envelope right up to that line? Exactly. Did anyone ever tell you not to do that, or did they say to check it out? No, because they couldn't. And you see, that's the place you have to find is, you know, in every situation where you think you don't have power, if you look very, very carefully, there's some tiny place that you can. And so they had said you could wear medals. They didn't say how you could wear them. And so what could they say? I was wearing medals. Academics are very important to you. And you have your PhD in social welfare and you are a professor at Fordham. How did you grow into such a substantial role at the school? Well, I have been in social work a very long time. And in my social work career, I've also done a lot of reinventing. And so I have about a five-year timeframe where I decide to try something new and then I'll get very good at it and then I'm ready to move on. And so I did that in my career as a social worker, which is why I love that degree because it lets you do many, many things. So before I went to Fordham, I was working with lawyers. I was representing with lawyers and kids who were in the child welfare system and really making sure that their voice and their story and what they wanted was in the room because most of the time it was everyone else making decisions. And at that time I was starting a PhD program and Fordham was starting a big collaboration with their school of law and they wanted to have social workers in all of their clinics and they wanted to have courses with social workers and law students and they recruited me to teach because I had been doing that for a long time. And academics played a very important role in you launching your blog as well. Why was that important to you and how did you use academics to launch your blog today? Well, I think a lot of times people underestimate the intelligence of people who love fashion. And I knew that there were a lot of people in the world who understood that fashion is not just about trends. Fashion has been part of social movements. I think right now it's a really super exciting time. For me as someone committed to social justice to be in fashion because fashion has decided they're taking on a lot of these issues. So there's a lot of inclusion, diversity work. There's a lot of looking at sustainability and fair wages and human rights. And so it's a really, people are beginning to see that fashion has a lot more power than we ever thought it did. And so I knew there were people who knew that so I just started to write in that way. And I certainly found out that my guess was true. How did you name your blog Accidental Icon? So that story always gets conflated in the press and what happened was I work at Fordham Lincoln Center which is about a block away from Lincoln Center when they had the fashion shows there. And so I was, it was the first week of school I was really dressed up because I like to wear something out readjust for the first class and I went to meet a friend for lunch and I was standing on the plaza and a couple of photographers came over and started taking my picture and then a bunch of other photographers came and there were some journalists from Japan they came to interview me and then the tourists thought I was someone famous and they started taking pictures of me and they were wanting to take selfies and so when my friend came she said you're an accidental icon and I had been, my blog was ready to go but I had been struggling with the name so that's how I got the name. The press seems to think that that's how I got famous and so for the purpose of School of Hossel I want to say that that was how I named my blog and it took really hard work every day really working on social media producing good content just working like 10 hours a day to get at the point where I became well known so it was not a magic moment because people took my picture and it involved a lot more than that It usually does there's not one quick moment to reach success but a lot of hard work along the way Absolutely How do you hope to liberate and inspire people through fashion? Well I guess I really when I first started I had no agenda except I was really kind of bored and I wanted to express myself in a different way that was more creative than academia I wanted to write in a more creative way and so because I wasn't in fashion I had no idea about how fashion worked I just knew I loved clothes and a lot of people had told me all throughout my life but even more recently that I should start a blog you have great style and so I just started taking pictures writing about an article of clothing or a designer and pretty soon I got noticed and that's how it happened so I think what has ended up happening which wasn't intended is that I have perhaps given people a different way to think about what it means to get older and on Instagram interestingly the majority of my followers are 25 to 45 and when I speak with 25 year olds it's interesting they say they're not thinking oh I'm going to be 26 that's great they're thinking oh my god I'm going to be 30 I'm getting old I haven't done this I haven't done that I haven't done this and so what people in that age group have told me is that I'm letting them see that it's never too late I was 61 when I started this and it's just become like I couldn't have dreamt of it and I wear things that any age woman would wear because it just feels good for me and my style so I think in that way I've changed culture a bit I've made being older look like kind of cool and exciting and fun so it's not something that you have to fear and start trying to change yourself and be worried about I love a particular quote from you here's the quote the more I research fashion the more I realize it's a powerful force we talk a lot about how it's oppressive or how it promotes ideal body types but we don't talk about how it can be productive how does fashion lend itself to productivity in society well I think for me you know it's a really great example of how I through clothing through fashion through how I style myself became was able to break into a world and I think social media has a lot to do with it that was pretty much controlled right so 15 years ago I doubt that someone like me would be considered to be a person in fashion I don't fit the the stereotypical mold of who was supposed to be so I think that's the wonderful thing about technology and social media is it's a great equalizer and it's given us power and I think that's how fashion can be productive also since I'm a researcher there's a lot of research now that shows that what you wear actually impacts your brain and your performance and so there's been studies that have been done repeatedly with the same outcome where they take two different groups of subjects and they all have tested so they're equivalent in their performance levels and they'll give them a blazer and they'll tell one group that it's from Prada and the other group that it's from H&M and the one who thinks it's from Prada will always perform higher and they've done similar experiences with white coats they tell one group that they're a painter and one group that they're doctors and the ones that think the coat is a doctor's coat perform higher so it really it's a little complicated because it's how you think about what you're wearing and what you have in your head about it but it's a very powerful force and so for me I think about how I can use what I wear to express myself or even to get an outcome and so I'll think about okay what do I have to do today what do I want to happen who do I have to meet what do I want them to think when they look at me and then I very purposefully get dressed and so when you when you're styling and your fashion comes from inside of you instead of outside you begin to have more power and right now it's okay to be different it's getting more and more okay to be different I think we should all be controlling how we want to be represented and so for me I'm controlling how I want to be represented as an older women because the way that society thinks of older women is not okay with me and so I'm not having it there is some scrutiny around fashion's impact on the environment specifically what do you consider when you buy clothing given some of the environmental impacts that the industry has well for me actually my personal wardrobe is pretty much from consignment and thrift stores so I really have always had a habit of using recycled clothes I'm in a very enviable position right now because designers give me a lot of clothes which is really nice but I will also recycle them so for example housing works always does a big fashion for aides and this year I gave them my closet so I gave a lot of clothes that I had gotten from designers for that kind of thing I think a lot of brands are starting to realize that they have to do something I think there are some brands that have been doing it really well and so I think being thoughtful about what you buy being creative with how you style yourself and reusing things like I do if people look at my Instagram I don't care I'll wear the same thing that I wore in other posts because I love it and so I might wear it a different way but you'll see a lot of repeating of my personal clothes and so that's how I think about it what is the difference between thinking and talking about fashion versus consuming fashion well I think it's just that that you're not just buying it but that you are that you know who you are and so when you're going to get something that it is advancing who you are so a lot of people say oh I'm going to this event what should I wear etc I cannot tell anyone else what to wear I don't give style advice because my belief is that style is intensely personal and that it should convey who you are and so I'll say to women instead and sometimes men and I understand later a dog to think of maybe three words that describe them their essence and then to take a look at the clothes that they have take an order of clothing and say does that convey that and if it doesn't then you can recycle it but if you have that in your mind you're being a much more thoughtful consumer and you'll find that you may buy a lot of less things but they're going to be more special we talked about social media earlier but I'd like to ask you about how we can think about when we're posting in social media we love to post our clothes and things across Instagram and that space how can we use social to raise people up and not bring people down well I think I have been very fortunate because I pretty much just show people my everyday life I'm not in Bali pretty much Calvin and I are on New York City streets that's where we're shooting and actually I got a wonderful comment on Instagram yesterday and I made a screenshot because it meant a lot to me the woman said thank you for what you're doing and thank you for doing it in a way that you're not making other women feel bad about themselves and so I do think about that and what I I mean look people get what they see I have gray hair I have wrinkles that's who I am I'm fine with it Calvin is a film photographer and he's graciously agreed to get a digital camera to help me but the consequence of that is he does not know Photoshop no Photoshop on his computer so all of the pictures on my Instagram that aren't taken by professionals that are taken by Calvin have no retouch nothing and so I think people see that they see me and they say I could kind of be like that I'm not so out of the orbit of the real world that I can't maybe inspire people to think about their own kind of ordinary life in a more special way with regard to negative feedback that you might pick up I know that you get a ton of positive feedback but there's always those trolls out there who say what they're going to say how do you address that negative feedback do you do that yourself to lean into your community how do you handle that well you know again one of the things that has helped me a lot is I've had a career as a social worker I've had a career as a professor and so I know how to set limits and I know how to deal with unpleasantness and again I'm very blessed because overwhelmingly my comments are positive particularly on Instagram I don't like Facebook because people for some reason seem to be freer on Facebook and so I really didn't pay attention to my Facebook for a while and then one day I looked at it it was after some Buzzfeed video and I had like 100,000 followers on it or new followers so I said let me look at it and the thing that was sad to me was you know it was these judgmental negative comments from other women and so I was about to just shut the page down because I do most of my stuff on my blog and on my Instagram but I said let me see if I could turn this around and I've done a lot of group work before in my career and I've had to deal with bullies and a lot of people in different scapegoats and all different roles in the group so I basically set a manifesto about how people were going to behave on the page I said I'm going to be transparent with you if your comments are judgmental I'm deleting them I shared research about the positive and negative impact of social media on women and if you look at it it's 50-50 it could be bad or it could be good and so for me I basically said this is my page I'm responsible for it and I'm not going to have it be a place where any woman is going to feel bad and so I want women to take risks I want to encourage them because Facebook is generally my older group of followers a lot of women who lost themselves during career and raising families and now they're like what happened to me and I need to get back or they're hearing things like from their children oh don't wear that you're too old for that and they don't want to they want to wear what they want to wear so it took a long time not that long but it took a lot of hard work because I had to be in there monitoring all the time and then finally the culture changed and all of the people on the page start addressing any negative comment and now I always ask them questions like I'll say things like I'm the boss of my style and I'm the boss of my life how are you the boss of your life and they put up these pictures and they're doing all these wonderful things so I think it's if you take control over it but a lot of people just put it out and they don't but I found that you can change a culture of it if you want to I'm learning so much and I feel so inspired listening to you on the flip side of negative feedback comes a lot of positive feedback and it can be hard to handle a lot of positive feedback too it can be overwhelming and you can potentially even lose humility or become a different person and let it get to your head so how do you think about handling all the positive feedback that you're getting I'm going to be 100% honest that I still find what has happened to me completely unbelievable that when I wrote that first blog post if anyone told me what would happen I would say you're insane so I think because it still remains so unbelievable that it is easier to have humility but I also don't take myself so seriously and I also know that this could go away tomorrow and so I just am in the moment and I enjoy it and I try to remember when I first started how many people were amazingly kind to me and that's my mantra is be kind so I try to respond to emails and stay engaged with my followers because I do know 100% that if it wasn't for them I wouldn't be sitting in this chair so I think by looking at them and knowing what's important in life you know my family people close to me trying in some way to make the world better I think that keeps you grounded and what is one issue in today's world that is top of mind for you and why? That's a good question there's so many unfortunately I think I've been becoming more concerned about the earth and climate change and what we're doing to the quality of life because at the same time I'm aware that technology and medical advances are having us all live longer it's almost like we have a whole new period of life so my mother just turned 92 and so it makes me think well if I'm like her I could be doing this for 25 more years or 30 and then I think of my granddaughter and I think if we keep on doing what we're doing what is the environment going to be like for her and so I've been becoming more concerned about that issue and looking at how fashion is contributing and what they can do differently and probably I'm going to be spending more time around that issue moving forward that's an important issue to me too we have been very serious and we have really talked about some very important issues and gotten so much inspiration and advice and now this is the part where we spice things up a little bit and play one of my favorite games called Hustle Time so the spirit of the game is that we set a timer for 60 seconds and I have two former school of hustle guests here in the front row tonight thank you for coming these ladies know how it goes we set a timer for 60 seconds and the idea is that you say the first answer that comes to mind Jonathan, we have 60 seconds on the clock beer or wine neither favorite part of a s'more chocolate top quality you look for in an employee creativity camping or glamping camping finish this sentence when I dance I look like when I dance I look like a disco queen New York City tourists help with directions or keep on your own way help with directions if you could have a superpower what would it be fly the best chocolate in the world comes from flank Belgium king size or fun size king size would you rather fly or talk to animals fly favorite holiday Christmas Instagram or Twitter Instagram binge watch, watch weekly binge watch or watch weekly oh binge me too but can I just for good measure ask this next one your go-to outfit oh I want to know jeans sneakers caldron of sweater particular color of sweater just soft comfortable let's see how many we got through that was fun wasn't bad right 11, 12, 13 lucky number 13 nicely done in school of hustle we have a lot of entrepreneurs coming on the show every week and like I said two of them are here today and we ask the same questions to everybody and the idea is that no matter what line of business you're in or your expertise your age or your gender any of that doesn't matter everyone has a thought about this same set of questions and we like to see how that changes from guest to guest favorite part of your day early early in the morning how do you use your career to inspire others well I have two careers that is true I try to inspire my students through the way that I teach and I try to inspire my followers by what I write and how I get dressed ever felt like walking away no one thing you still need to learn how to take selfies I'm really bad at it what do you want people to learn from you that being yourself as you are is absolutely enough what's next for you good question I guess I can't say the answer to that because I just don't know what can possibly happen so I'm just going to be open who inspires you my mother my daughter and my granddaughter who challenges you my granddaughter well we also let everyone know in social that you are coming tonight and you did too thank you so much for putting that out in your network I wanted everybody out there to have a chance to ask you something and watch of course we're going to have the final video out later this summer and people were very excited to send questions and I pulled a few of my favorites and again you can keep these short if you'd like to move on through I have six okay so the first question is every look you share looks fabulous on you what is your favorite personal look well I don't have a favorite that's the whole point right so that I am always experimenting and changing so where is a place to shop for good quality clothing while on a budget Beacon's Closet Who is Simon Soros who is your favorite writer that's hard because I have so many favorite Mary Gates Gill you are a fashion icon do you like clothes or shoes more well based on the fact that I have a mountain of shoe boxes that was like a big avalanche the other day I have to say shoes what things deep down are you moved by very simple things actually like the way that the light falls on someone's face just small things inspiring and what is your favorite phrase no effing way the last question in terms of advice goes is actually for our favorite hug noodle hi sweetie how are you look at you so noodle just recently got this adorable bow tie a few people have told him that it doesn't fit his look I know you imagine what advice do you have for noodle to follow his fashion instincts with confidence and what other pieces should he consider to complete his look well noodle when the rare occasion happens and someone tells me that I shouldn't wear something I will respond well it's a good thing I'm the boss of my style so I think you should say that to your friend and I think you should do some polka dots now can he mix the stripes with polka dots okay I think so too completely well yes so remember noodle I'm the boss of my style that's right absolutely the last piece I always like to close school of hustle with a final thought like a good fortune cookie at the end of a great meal and so I'm going to read three quotes and I'd love for you to tell me which quote resonates the most with you and why okay fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable style is more about being yourself number two people will stare make it worth their while number three fashion is like eating you shouldn't stick to the same menu fashion is like eating you should not stick to the same menu and that was by Kenzo yes you knew that though right thank you so much for opening up tonight thank you this was so much fun doing this I know that the audience has so many questions as well hi I'm Haley so I do work for GoDaddy actually but kind of coming from the brand influencer partnership side when you get approached by a brand to work with them what's like the number one thing that you look for when partnering with a brand is it the authenticity necessarily like maybe the product that they have what really what's that number one thing so for me I have a basic bottom line which is if this is not a product that I would use or wear in my own everyday life I don't do it and so for me what was really wonderful about the GoDaddy thing is that it was my story that I started a website which I taught myself how to do and I it changed my entire world so it was a very authentic thing for me to do I believe that authenticity is your big currency so for me my followers would know in a heartbeat when I was promoting something that isn't me and so that really is my bottom line I've also been taking a stand and not doing trying to avoid products that are not inclusive that are targeting a specific group like over 60 because I think that real inclusion means all ages all ethnicities all types of bodies and that's where I'm aiming for so I think I do research brands I see where they're at in terms of their own values and so I do make choices based on what feels like it's a good match for me that's awesome, thank you hi, my name is Kristen Voss it's nice to meet you, my question is I was the granddaughter in the granddaughter-daughter-mother grandmother for a part of my life when I was younger and to be able to be a part of that all four of us being alive at the same time and we had a lot of conversations as women in the different stages of our life even as I was a little girl which gave me a really strong, solid understanding of women and relating to them and I'm just wondering what roles have your granddaughter and your mother played in what you do with your life well I'm the oldest of six children and I have four brothers after me and finally got a sister who's also important to me in my life my mother kind of had this notion that women were strong she had the opposite gender orientation women were strong in her view stronger than men and men needed to be taken care of that was my mother's view but women should be on their own and so I think that orientation really influenced how I thought about myself as a woman and plus I grew up in the 70s where there was women's liberation and gender roles were really changing and I was very, very determined that I would really raise my daughter to be an independent free thinker which she most certainly is there's downsides of having a daughter like that which she is now finding out since she is a mother raising a very strong-willed girl so I think also I was always around nuns who in their own ways were really strong women and so I think all of that I went to an all girls Catholic high school all girls Catholic college but there was something about that environment that encouraged you to really just soar and interestingly my daughter went to an all girls college not a Catholic one but she had the most rigorous amazing experience in that kind of setting so I think all of that and my mother and my daughter and my sister and now my nieces they inspire me all the time thanks we've got time for two more questions I'm going to throw this up here hello I'm Callie I've loved listening to you something pinged when you said the word authenticity because being in front of you it's so clear that you really are an authentic person and I feel like authenticity is now this catchphrase it's being thrown around everywhere and I'm a little bit curious about when you are on the other side when you're consuming absorbing getting inspiration from other people like what's the how do you know when something's real and when something's just that brand because I have this like allergic reaction even though I know you are authentic because it's such a thing I feel the same way about the word influencer right it's such an annoying word and I think you can influence people to buy things or you can influence them and influence culture and so I think of the word influence in its dictionary definition yeah and now authenticity is becoming a buzz word so for me again because I've been a social worker I've been working with people for many many years I have a good ability to assess when someone is being real I mean that's much more like the word I think and so I can pick up on it pretty quickly but like you said you're having a gut reaction now to that word and that is a true authentic moment your gut reaction and so I trust mine also and so when I'm around someone I know not matching the words, the behavior not matching and that's how you can always tell hi my name is Jules I was kind of a two parter do you personally like to follow trends and are there any for this spring that you've seen that you really like no I don't do trends I'm very clear I don't do trends that was a simple one what was the second part was your second question are there any trends that you've seen that you think that you really enjoy like for this spring well I think I like the colors so it's giving me a lot of choices and I will do a color story based on what I think is a good look for me so I think again it goes back to what I said earlier about my orientation to style it really comes from inside of me and what I hope is that designers will give me a whole ton of choices and then I will be the one who decides what the trend is for me Lynn thank you so much for being here today my pleasure I really enjoyed our conversation and I know that everybody out here did too I'm sure school of hustle out every week with fabulous entrepreneurs and inspirational stories every week on GoDaddy social so follow GoDaddy and we'll see you soon bye


news update. Hi everyone, Basel Chapman here, Tiger Financial News Network, 10am market update, and we're looking at the Dow down 228 to 35,842, really good candle turn around yesterday, but once we get into halfway into the wick of this particular candle, it says you'd be real careful because it's going to be a struggle to get to a higher high than yesterday's high, and you might even retest the low, you just got to be real careful in this particular point, and for the Dow we do have a sell signal upgraded to a sell mode at this point because we've gone down below the 14-speed reading average in the daily weekly nothing yet, and the S&P on this Tuesday the 11th of January is down 18 at 4651, really good candle from yesterday's low of 4582, we were at 4818.62 on the 4th of January, yesterday the 10th, we got down to 4582, really good turn around, I think this is an attempt to turn around, my suspicion is, and we'll see this in a moment, that the, I'd say to subscribers to my opening call that there's a good chance that the Dow type stocks are still going to be somewhat weak, but the NASDAQ is going to see those really beaten down, in fact we've attempted to get along, one really beaten down fantastic Dow, sorry, NDX100 type stock, and it's actually having a rally, although I put in a tight stop, we got stopped down, that's okay, we know exactly what's going on here, that rotation is in place, look at the QQQs, hit that bottom part, almost the inside track propellant zone, and now the Qs are down just 42 cents, the 379.64, I think there's going to be an arch formation, they can even get to the 382, 384 level in the Qs before turning down again, IWM, Russell 2000 very weak, down a 92 cents at 214, Gold is attempting a rally up at 1807, I think if we can start to see 1820 on a closing basis, two out of three sessions, that's going to be a good sign, we'll just have to follow this crude oil, did have a rally early on, it's given back some, but it's still up a dollar 7926, good action there, and the TL team spoke about that a whole session yesterday in my Tiger technicians hour at 10 o'clock yesterday, but let's see what happens okay, ponds are running just at 10, I'll be back, Tiger technicians hour, check out my opening today, hope to see you in a few minutes.


Sometime within this past year, my parents suddenly started to leave the back door open. At first, I didn't really notice it. I spent most of my time in my room with my cat, door closed, doing important stuff, browsing web forums, chatting with friends, playing nostalgic games from high school. I have better things to do than subject myself to my parents getting on my ass about my lack of job, never mind the fact I've applied just about everywhere, but this isn't about that. This is about the back door. I live in a relatively safe area.  That doesn't make my parents' actions any less disconcerting. When I first tried to ask them about it, during the day, they were their usual defensive selves. I think I phrased it something like, hey, what's up with the back door hanging open? You trying to let all the AC out? I'd gone to close it, only to have my dad come speed walking at me to yank it back open before the thing could touch the frame.   We have five of them, which, might I just say, is just over the limit of what is considered legal in my state without a kennel license. I think I remember rolling my eyes about the flimsy excuse and waiting for my dad to go sit down before closing the door. I retreated to my room with a drink and toe before they could say anything further to me. When I went to go put my dirty cup in the wash later, it was open again. It wasn't until a couple days later that I saw it was open at night, too. Just hanging a jar. I'd gone out for a cup of coffee. I drink the stuff like it's gone out of style. It helps me focus on my writing. I'd stopped in the entryway of the kitchen and just stared. In all my life, I had never, and I mean never, seen the back door open at night, not when nobody else was up. I caught a glance to my parents room, blackest pitch, door also open. It was eerily quiet as I stood there. I couldn't even hear them snoring, which they did a lot of despite their claims Otherwise, I closed their door first, not all the way. Just enough that my rustling around in the kitchen wouldn't wake them up. My mom's always been a light sleeper. Next, I tackled the bigger problem at hand.  Why was it open? The dogs were in their crates for the night. I remember thinking as I stared out at the porch. I closed the door then slowly. I don't consider myself a pansy, but there's something about the dark that can still put a chill down my spine. Much less the dark where anything could be hiding. I tried not to think about it too much as I made my coffee. Maybe they just forgotten to close it before they went to bed. They were getting older, so it wasn't out of the question them forgetting every once in a while. While I was stirring my sugar into my drink, I got this feeling. I'm sure you know the one. The one where you feel like you're not alone anymore.  It was my dad.  I'm not ashamed to say I yelped a bit. Anybody would have. Okay. I didn't even hear him come out of his room. I remember licking my lips and smiling nervously at him in the low light. He didn't smile back. He didn't say anything. Just turned away from me after a second and went and opened the door. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. I'm pretty sure my jaw dropped at some point as I watched him slowly pull the door open and then stand there for a moment before turning almost mechanically and just walking away back to his room. I didn't even stop to put milk in my coffee. I just went back to my bedroom. It's on the opposite side of the house and I'd never been so glad for it. I wanted to get as far away from the back door as possible.  It's just the backyard out there. But there was no dismissing that the midnight encounter I'd had with my dad was definitely bizarre. It was going to get so much worse though. I had no idea. Is it childish that I stopped coming out of my room more? I mean, I never did much anyways. I don't know how clear it is, but my folks and I, well, we don't get along very much. I don't hate them or anything.  Every time I tried to close it, one of them would just show up behind me somehow and stop me. Tell me the dogs needed to be open. I hate it. I hate the stair they've started fixing me with. Every time I go to the kitchen now, watching me. I got used to bringing my phone with me to the kitchen at night. I used it to just flip the switch over by my room and use the light that made it across the house to get by. That was before. Again, I don't like to say I'm afraid of the dark. I don't. I'm not. This is different. Every time I go out at night, which is more often than I care for, I take my phone with the flashlight app on. This doesn't help with the door situation, but at least I can see if anything has gotten into the house. That night, God, that night, I was making myself a cup of coffee and some food. I was doing my damnedest to ignore the feeling I wasn't alone. I hadn't touched the door. I didn't want to go near it. But after that weird incident with my dad, I kept telling myself to cut it out and relax. I was getting myself worked up over nothing. Then I heard something hit the counter of the kitchen island behind me. My heart immediately started to race. A million thoughts going through my head. Rabbit bat, raccoon, a really confused bird, a particularly big moth. Is someone else in my house? I don't know what exactly I was expecting when I turned around, but it wasn't this. It was a dog, I think. Its face was wrong. I don't know what about it was wrong, mainly because I was too busy vividly recalling the events of the movie Kujo to really bother with pinpointing why this strange dog that was standing on the counter in my kitchen at who knows what time looked bad. The staring contest I had with this thing was legendary. I stood there feeling faint and wobbly, yet too terrified to let myself faint. I couldn't look away from its eyes. They were these. They were like pits. They seemed to just swallow the light of my flashlight. I don't remember passing out. I don't remember anything actually. Just that one second it was dark and I was having a staring match with a pooch from hell and next it was morning. I was covered in cold sweat. My phone was dead.  It was still wide open. The dog, if that's what it even was, had disappeared. I remember swallowing painfully and trying to remember how to breathe. It felt like I'd stopped at some point and my lungs hurt as I forced air back into them. When I looked towards my parents bedroom, they were just standing there, watching me. I abandoned my long since cold coffee and food and retreated to my bedroom, mainly to write this, partially to pet my cat until I could calm down enough to write. That dog, is that why my parents have been leaving the door open? For that thing, I don't know how I've never run into it before. I don't know if I want to again. I can't stop thinking about its face.  I don't want to leave my room anymore and I just wish my parents would close the backdoor.


Hello, everyone. Welcome back to another tutorial. In this one, we're in ChatGPT, that open AI or Artificial Intelligence. In this one, I'm going to show you how to use this free tool, at least it's currently free, to help you write essays and answer questions in college, in high school, in university. So it's amazing, but I want to start first off. I do not recommend using this to totally, you know, use these as essays and answers to your questions. They're just prompts, ideas to help send you along the way. So here's how you do it. You go to openai.com and when you get there, you're going to see this here.  When you do that, chat.openai.com. Here we go. You get a little chat bar. Now I want to show you how unbelievable this is. So let's just start with an English one. Why? And I'll just type in, why did Hamlet not make up his mind? He was always thinking about things. Watch what this does. In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, the titular characters portrayed as indecisive and unable to make up his mind. A great way to start an essay. This indecision is a major theme of the play and is motivated by several factors. Excellent. One factor is Hamlet's grief over his father's death and his mother's quick remarriage to his uncle, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. This writes unbelievably good essays in terms of giving you prompts and ideas on how to start writing essays.  All right. Here we go. You can actually, by doing multiple prompts and just typing it in plain English, you can actually go in and create not essays necessarily, but you can create amazing answers by going through this and getting real quick, real high quality responses. And then you can then create your own content on top of this. Again, I do not recommend copy-pacing this and stuff like that. These are not college-ready essays, but for a quick way to learn about a topic, let's see. I'll give you a history. When did Napoleon invade Egypt? All right. He went into Egypt. I don't know this off the top of my head. Bang, 1798. And then it goes on to tell you what he did, all this other stuff. This is an incredible tool. It's free if you're in college or if you're in high school and you need help with your homework and you can't reach your tutor or you can't reach your teacher. This tool right here, guys. This is how you do it. Combine them answers, ask questions, combine them, write your own content. This is the way of the future. Thanks for watching.


Is an animal science degree worth it? That's what we're gonna be talking about today, but before we do that, let's make sure to gently tap the like button in order to defeat the evil YouTube algorithm. On this channel, we talk about personal finance, college degrees, careers, and opportunities that are gonna lead you to success, and we also go over how you can avoid some of the common traps that so many people end up falling for. Now, if that sounds like something that interests you, then go ahead and hit that subscribe button and ring the notification bell so that you never miss out. Now, with that being said, let's jump right into it. Is an animal science degree worth it? That's what we're gonna be going over today. So first of all, let's talk about what exactly animal science is. So it's the study of animals and the biology of animals that are gonna be under the supervision of humans. So this could include your pets, animals that are in a zoo, as well as farm animals. So let's be real here. Everybody loves animals, okay? If somebody doesn't like animals, don't be friends with them. Don't trust them, okay? What? I'm just kidding, but everybody enjoys walking their dog or walking their friend's dog. And so you know this is gonna be a really popular degree. So every year, around 5,800 people graduate with a bachelor's in animal science. So you can work as a farmer, a zoologist, or a wildlife biologist by getting this degree. So if you love working with animals, this might be a great direction to go down. However, the most common career path that people go down is working with farm animals. So not working with our furry pet friends, unfortunately. But with that being said, let's talk about the kind of salary that you would be making with this type of degree, which makes sense because this is a personal finance channel. I think that's what most of the people are here for. So when it comes to the salary, you can expect to make around $38,000 a year in your first five years after graduating and 64,000 in mid-career pay. Mid-career pay means 10 years after you start working and then after that. Now to compare that to a really good degree and a really bad degree when it comes to salary, with a petroleum engineering degree, you start off making 94,000 a year and mid-career pay is 176,000, whereas with a recreational therapy degree, you start off making 35,000 and mid-career pay is 51,000. So you can definitely see that animal science is on the lower side, unfortunately. And that kind of makes sense because let's be honest, everybody loves animals and so this is probably a relatively popular degree that a lot of people wanna go in because they want to be able to work with animals professionally. And unfortunately, the laws of supply and demand, which is just basic economics kicks in. If lots of people want to do something as a career, it's probably gonna get saturated relatively quickly, which means there's gonna be lower pay. So one career path you might go down is becoming a farmer and they make around $71,000 a year, but technically, you don't actually have to get a degree to become a farmer, you can do it with just a high school diploma. Another career path you could get into is becoming a zoologist and they make around $63,000 a year. And when it comes to salary, obviously this is not the most important thing, but I always like to talk about studies on happiness. Studies have shown that the more money you make up to a certain point, the happier you are. Another way you could think about this is when you make more money, you decrease your unhappiness because you don't have financial stresses. Now, usually it's gonna peak out around $75,000 to $80,000 a year in terms of your maximum amount of happiness and then past that, making more money isn't gonna make you any more happy. Now, of course, that's gonna be different depending on where you live, what your lifestyle is like, et cetera. But overall, I like to say, generally speaking, you wanna aim for a career where you can make at least $75,000 to $80,000 a year just so you can maximize your happiness. Now, unfortunately, a lot of these careers are gonna be on the lower side and so when it comes to salary, I have to give this one a pretty low score. It's gonna be five out of 10. Next, we're gonna be talking about satisfaction and I always like to break this down into meaning as well as job satisfaction.  Now, when it comes to meaning, this one does have a relatively good score. It has a score of about 64% and just to compare that, radiation therapy has a very high score at 90% and plastics engineering technology has a very low score at 30%. So it's definitely above average and this makes a lot of sense because people who love animals really love animals and honestly just about everybody loves animals, but people who really love animals really, really like animals. We're talking like cat ladies here, you know? Nothing wrong with that by the way, okay? Cat ladies are great. Here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. I like ferrets, maybe someday I'll be like a ferret man, okay? Now, when it comes to job satisfaction, when you look at a zoologist, for instance, it also scores relatively well. I like to use the same website just to compare apples to apples and their score is 77% which if you look at a really good one like clergy, for instance, that's 90%, I think that's the highest one on the list and then one of the lower ones would be a parking lot attendant which has a relatively low job satisfaction score at 41%. So 77% is definitely on the higher side there as well. Now, another thing I like to talk about is how much people regret getting their degree and unfortunately the biological sciences which is what animal science falls under has a really high regret rate. So it's the second most common type of degree when it comes to regret at about 35% of the people getting the degree saying they wish they didn't get it. And the biggest reason for that is because it was very hard for them to find a job with just a bachelor's level degree. This is relatively unknown and I talk about it all the time on this channel but a lot of people who get science degrees think that they're gonna be able to get a job with just a bachelor's and then they find out unfortunately at the last moment that they have to go back to school and get a master's or a doctor at a lot of the time just to get an entry level job. Now, I also like to mention here that satisfaction is completely subjective. It could be one out of 10 for one person and then the same exact job is 10 out of 10 for another person. Some people like fast paced jobs, some people like super slow easy jobs. So it's always difficult for me to give a satisfaction rating because it's so subjective. But with that being said, another thing that's really going to influence the outcome of your satisfaction is gonna be the industry that you work for as well as the company that you work for. Sometimes it's not about the job itself. A lot of the time it has to do with how well your company treats you or how much opportunities in the industry that you're in. So if you're in a dying industry, one that's really struggling, it's being disrupted right now, people are getting laid off left and right. Chances are you're probably not gonna get treated as well as if you were in a flourishing industry like tech or finance. And same thing goes for a company. If you work for a company that's really struggling, they're gonna be pinching pennies left and right. They're gonna work you really hard and you're probably not gonna get paid as well and you're not gonna have as many opportunities for promotions, et cetera. So with all that being said, keep that in mind, I'm gonna go ahead and give this one a relatively good score of 7.5 out of 10 when it comes to satisfaction. Next on the list, we're gonna be talking about demand. And in my opinion, demand is the most important out of all of the different factors. Now, when it comes to farmers, for instance, this industry is currently being disrupted by technology. They are expected to grow at negative 6% over the next 10 years. Zoologists, on the other hand, are expected to grow at a positive rate of 4%, which is around average over the next 10 years. Now, when you search the keyword animal science degree on monster.com, which is a neat little trick you can do just to get an idea of how many people are actually advertising job openings for this type of degree, what I got was 1,292 listings. Now, compare that to a relatively bad degree like anthropology where you get 829 and then computer science where you get 141,000. It's definitely on the bad degree side of things, unfortunately, so that is kind of a sign that it doesn't have very much demand. It's not a perfect test by any means, but it's generally a sign because if people aren't putting the degree as a keyword in the description, then that probably means that they're not really looking for people who have that degree. So when it comes to demand, this one is gonna score relatively low, a little bit below average. I'm gonna give this one a score of 4 out of 10. Next on the list, we're gonna be talking about X factors and this is basically gonna cover anything that we haven't talked about before but that I think is still important. So things like automation, outsourcing, the skills that you learn, how flexible the degree is, et cetera. So when you look at biological sciences as a whole and you see how much people make over a lifetime, it's a little bit below average. They make $2.3 million over a lifetime with a biological science related degree. The average for all types of degrees is $2.4 million over a lifetime. So that's a little below average. However, some of the skills that you learn with a science related degree are going to transfer both the soft skills as well as the hard skills over to different types of careers. So one great example of that is let's say you went into the technology industry and you became a software developer. According to this chart, if you worked with computers, you'd make around $3 million over a lifetime. So you could argue that some of the skills you learn as a scientist in general, you know, biological science, do transfer over to other types of careers. You could also make the argument that if somebody is smart enough to do a science related degree, which is on the harder side, you know, it's definitely not one of the easier degrees, then they're more likely to make more money throughout a lifetime no matter what career path they go down. So it's kind of the question of chicken or egg, you know, which one came first? Did the person make more money because they're smart enough to do the degree? Or did they make more money because they did the degree? itself help them to make more money? It's the classic question of correlation and causation. And I think usually it's a little bit of both. Now, when it comes to skills, I always like to look at these zip recruiter skills index and the closest skill that I could find would be farming and that scores around 27 out of a hundred, which is on the lower side. Compare that to the best one, which is software engineering and one of the lower ones, which is industrial sewing at 88 and eight respectively. So the skill itself, when you're thinking monetarily in terms of how much companies are willing to pay you for those skills doesn't score very high. That doesn't mean that it's not a valuable skill to have. Obviously farming is extremely valuable. We owe everything to farmers, they're the ones who feed us. But in terms of how much companies are willing to pay for that skill on the open market right now, it doesn't score very well, unfortunately. However, like I said before, some of the soft and the hard skills that you learn getting a science degree can carry over into other types of careers. With that being said, science-related degrees are not as flexible as a lot of other types of degrees like business degrees, for instance. With a business degree, there's so many career paths you can go down, you can work for almost any company and almost any industry. Unfortunately, with science-related degrees, it's not always the same.  And it's not gonna be as easy for you to switch careers as if you got a business degree, for instance. Now, when it comes to how likely something is to be automated as well as outsourced, science-related degrees do tend to shine here. So for instance, with an animal scientist, you only have around a 6% chance of automation, which is really low. Now, when it comes to difficulty, I always like to talk about this. Science-related degrees in general can be pretty difficult. They're not the most difficult, in my opinion. I was somebody who took a lot of science classes. I'm pretty sure engineering is quite a bit more difficult. Mathematics is more difficult as well. So for instance, this list I found on thetab.com, I'm not sure how accurate this is. They kinda use dropout rates and things like that to calculate the list. They ranked animal science 31 out of, you know, 55 possible degrees. So overall, when it comes to X factors, I'm gonna go ahead and give this one a five out of 10. So some of the pros here is that if you get into a career where you're working with animals, you're probably going to feel very satisfied. It's also not likely to be automated anytime soon or outsourced. And it is gonna teach you some soft and hard skills that might not directly translate into you being successful and getting a good job. But indirectly it might translate, you know, you might do something that has absolutely nothing to do with animal science. But the skills that you learn there are going to help you in other parts of your life. Some cons here is that relatively low salaries, especially for the types of careers where you'd be working with animals, it's a pretty niche degree, you know, that's pretty narrow career paths that you're looking at. And so, you know, the skills that you learn, et cetera, are probably not gonna translate all that well to a lot of other types of careers. At least they won't directly translate.  You know, especially if it's for an unrelated career. And then unfortunately the job growth also isn't gonna be amazing. And so overall, I'm gonna give this one a score of 5.375 out of 10. If you do your research, you really know exactly what you're getting yourself into. You talk to people that are in the positions that you're going for, sure, this one can definitely work out for you. But I think it's super, super important when it comes to these types of degrees specifically, you know, these science degrees where people think that they know what they're getting into. But, you know, they find themselves four years in a situation where they're like, well, I can either be jobless, not be able to get a job or get a minimum wage job or a job that has absolutely nothing to do with science, or I can go back to school for a bunch more time, get a master's or a doctorate, get hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and spend a ton of time. And a lot of people end up choosing the other option, unfortunately. And sometimes it turns out well for them, but a lot of the time it doesn't. And I always like to say that it's a good idea, generally speaking, you know, not for everybody, but it's a good idea to secure the bag, you know, get the bag and undergrad. Make sure that you can get a job with just a bachelor's level degree. 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my phone is ringing let's take this call good morning good morning how are you proud we are talking to dr proud good to have you thank you for calling we want to assure we talk about he should to tell us you you are going to come back as a pf what is developer are you getting about it was in the time where jackie was born not to tell him we are you being there but now i'm going to come up and just give us what did you do with  racist is that despite報告  bracken                                                                                but the approach in knocking down all these heel of problems is wrong. Do you know a bird called a parrot? Yes. If you walk into a house, a parrot will greet you. Good morning. That's what a parrot is. To spend time, you know, to respond to a parrot. He's responding to a parrot. He's level of understanding of what I'm trying to explain. He's just not there. Okay? His politics is H.H. and in Ampundu. And the Mansa batteries. And the Kawe textiles. That is his politics. How do you judge? How do you judge computers? That is as far as proud can go in understanding this world. We are discussing fundamental issues here of geo-politics. And my brother proud does not get anywhere to understand how this world is constructed, where it is and where it is going. Okay? When I was town clerk, he can go and ask the people that worked with me in the council. We used to pay salaries and wages between the 18th and the 25th of every month. By the end of the month, the council workers were broke. Proud, I think, was still in the village. I think he got a banalism very recently.  You don't talk about Russia, because it doesn't understand. So we have to take him by his level of understanding of this world. He was honored by HH. Out of all the most important people that HH had in this country to honor, the first one was proud. To reward him for being a parent. So I respect him for that. The man who has raised the point is the second one that takes message you read. That's exactly the point that I was making. I was actually agreeing that the problem that UPND finds itself in today is not of their making. Okay? It's not of their making. The backlog of pupils and school places is not of UPND's making. The diminished teacher-pupil ratio is not of UPND's making. But all these things proud doesn't understand. Okay? But that man understands. The point that I am making is how the UPND is attempting to solve this problem. That's the point I am making. Okay? The point I am making is starting with the infrastructure and the teacher recruitment and then creating spaces for school children. That's the point I am making. Let's proceed.


Have you ever thought about what sandwiches can teach us about speech organization and structure? If your mind works like mine then the answer may be yes. In case it doesn't though, let me explain. How many of you like sloppy joes? If not then maybe you should move back to Mars or whatever distant planet you came from because they're awesome. I love how the meat, sauce, onions and other ingredients all mix together so much that you can't tell where the meat ends and the sauce begins. If you're really lucky it might even seep into the bread so that you have to eat it with a fork. De-lish. While this kind of mushy goodness makes for an amazing sandwich, it doesn't make for a good speech organization. When your main points all blend together so much that you can't tell where one ends and another begins, it makes the critical ideas of your speech indistinct and it's confusing for the audience. When it gets really bad it's even hard to identify when the speaker has moved from the intro into the body of the speech or from the body into the conclusion like the sloppy joes seeping into the bread. You need to create some separation between each of these parts and between the main points themselves so that they're distinguishable from one another.  It's easy to see the different layers in a BLT because the ingredients are solid and don't run together. The delicious bacon stands apart from the tomato which holds its ground against the lettuce. Even the mayonnaise does a pretty good job of not getting mixed up with all the other items. The bread also keeps from getting soggy because the ingredients are able to remain distinct. Like a BLT a well organized speech will have clear and distinct structure with easily identifiable main points. The best way to accomplish this is with a strong preview statement in the introduction well-defined connectives meaning transitions and signposts and a thorough review in the conclusion. All of these things will work together to give your speech sharply defined structure emphasize the main points and make it easier for the audience to follow along. So as you prepare your next speech remember sloppy joes are good for eating but not ideal for public speaking order up a nice BLT instead.


The Fuse Research and Research Support Directorate is a unit of integral that is dealing mainly to provide investigative support to countries in order to locate and arrest fugitives. Our main work is to organize fugitive operations, operation infra, which stands for international fugitives roundup and arrest. And of course, we have a big part of our work, is series of international crimes fugitives wanted for war crimes against humanity in general.