Bobdaman18

Go back to school and get a degree if you don't find your current job rewarding or if it doesn't pay as much as you'd like. 
 
If you are happy with your career, invest. If you have made at least $5k this year through work but less than $100k i'd recommend you put the $5k max into a roth ira and either max out any 401k type plan you have access to or put the money into a taxable investment account. Mutual funds are the easiest and safest investment for a new investor so you probably want to start with these. Vanguard has a few low cost options that would work nicely. You have to pick an asset allocation that you are comfortable with. The higher the percentage of stocks you own, the better your potential returns will be but it is much more volatile. I just dumped my money into a target retirement account because i don't have enough to buy into all the funds separately and it is pretty easy. You should check out bogleheads forums, they'll give you much better advice than i ever could. 
  
Or buy a beamer.

I just heard on NPR that the neilson reports show that people are spending more time watching tv now than ever before (i think it was including watching tv programming over the internet.) 
 
Also, i think there is some truth to what the OP is saying about people becoming more educated consumers but ads do still play an important role in creating awareness. For example when i saw those mosquito repellent things that you clip onto yourself on tv i got really excited about a product that i had no idea existed. But instead of running about and buying some like i might have done in the past, i went online and looked for reviews and found out they don't work well so i didn't buy them.

Open a roth ira, think of the compounding interest.

Im not thrilled about the poll choices but i'll be 23 tomorrow.

someone dug a tunnel that goes straight to the right from where you spawn on 70.66.154.114 and it goes really damn far, even had torches lighting it the whole way.  not sure how far it actually goes but i probly ran for 5 mins before i stopped a made a fortified little room with a workbench and furnace haha, dig it, i'm goin' back in

Looks pretty solid, i'm jealous. Just curious though, why didn't you go with the 2500k and why so much ram? Is the ram for video editing or something?

I was unemployed for 4 months after i graduated this past december. In that time i submitted well over 500 resumes to jobs all over the country (US). I applied for pretty much anything from walmart clerk jobs to jobs more related to my biology degree. I ended up getting my job through a civil service test. I'd recommend trying to take any civil service test you are eligible to sit for. I got my job mostly because i was just lucky and was at the right place at the right time, but you really need to put yourself out there for that to happen to you. Times are rough, try and not let it get you down and just keep plugging away.

Nah, I live on Long Island, NY and while we have some pretty good tasting tap water we also have a high rate of breast cancer in the region which is thought to be linked to the chemical plants and factories we used to have in the area. I don't know if its linked to the water but ever since being told that at a young age i avoided tap water when possible.

Eating slightly expired breads, fruits, and vegetables usually is ok. Its the bacteria that grows on meats that usually cause the really bad problems.