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Demeter

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5. Some people are born to it

Reply to antigop (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 17, 2015, 09:30 PM

Mar 2015

They really excel, and have only one talent. And they suffer for it in times like these.

I was trained to technical stuff, and have a certain aptitude, but I'm not without other talents. So I can suffer (or be underemployed or unemployed) in a lot of different, ill-rewarded jobs!

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