# Support groups. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 18, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-groups/752605 "2016-04-18T23:46:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-groups/752605/21 "2016-04-19T19:57:19Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Because everyone is unique in some way and yet we manage to make connections with others nonetheless. Everyone is unique in a uniquely unique way. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-groups/752605/22 "2016-04-19T20:07:58Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > > [@Senegoid](#): > > > > What about that 20-hours-a-week job that you got last week? Are you still doing that? How has it worked out? > > I will get on average $10/hr. On average? You know, ten bucks an hour is the minimum wage in the state. And many low-wage employers (McDonalds, Taco Bell, KMart, etc.) pay better than that, as a starting salary, even for the sixteen-year-old in his or her first job. Meanwhile, you’re what? A fortysomething adult with a PhD (never mind that it’s in a field you never fail to remind us you hate) doing programming work. What is wrong with this picture? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-groups/752605/23 "2016-04-19T20:11:57Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > Everyone is unique in a uniquely unique way. Let’s not split biometric hairs. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-groups/752605/24 "2016-04-19T20:28:55Z")
> [@CCitizen](#): > > What has changed? [ul] [li]Seeing how strange the average person tends to be[/li][li]Accepting who I am[/li][li]Honestly not giving a damn[/li][/ul] I don’t know where you live, but there must be some bars around. If you find yourself in western Pennsylvania, I’ll take you out to a bar and in a few hours you’ll be regaling in how much stranger some of your new friends are than you. ---
**Author:** ![CCitizen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@CCitizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CCitizen)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-groups/752605/25 "2016-04-19T20:33:20Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I don’t know where you live, but there must be some bars around. If you find yourself in western Pennsylvania, I’ll take you out to a bar and in a few hours you’ll be regaling in how much stranger some of your new friends are than you. Definitely – on many support groups people are even more strange and depressed then me. Thus I must take care of myself to avoid becoming like them. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-groups/752605/26 "2016-04-19T21:20:12Z")
You can do programming work? Ever consider doing freelance gigs? Some jobs you might not even have to interact with hu-mons. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-groups/752605/27 "2016-04-20T00:24:36Z")
[As discussed previously](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=19016764&postcount=44), this is similar to many threads you’ve started before. Please confine such discussion to the thread where the note was first posted. Thread closed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/support-groups/752605.md?page=1)