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How to meet new people
#14552644 - 06/02/11 08:31 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I'm 19, I'm broke, and I just broke up with my girlfriend. Any suggestions on where I can go to do fun things and meet people?
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briant230


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any local music you can go see? Do you have a job? Getting a job may allow to meet new people and such, do you go to college?
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Anonymous #1
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Re: How to meet new people [Re: briant230]
#14552691 - 06/02/11 08:44 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I have been considering getting a job. And yeah, I go to college, but I have never had much luck making friends in the classroom setting ever since high school ended.
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MeowMix96
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Registered: 04/08/11
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Parties. If you live in a apartment complex party crashing is always an easy way to meet new people or hanging out in a pool area. Most of the people I meet are either at a party, club or in some sort of class that we are both interested in the subject matter. Though, if you can make small talk you can pretty much meet people anywhere. I've never been much good at it, but it can be done easily. I have a few friends that seem to meet people everywhere they go and it's because they are communicating on a level that no one feels uncomfortable with, yet no one is bored by. I think whenever you first meet someone new it's important that they feel comfortable with you and you allow them to open up in their own time. Theres a book and I think it's titled "how to talk to anyone" it gives a lotta good pointers on the presentation of yourself.
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Anonymous #1
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Re: How to meet new people [Re: MeowMix96]
#14555567 - 06/03/11 01:03 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I live at my house with my mom and my sister lol.
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the human abstract
malaka the werewolf



Registered: 11/30/09
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live there and make money
plan ahead, save money
live at home as long as you can.. if youre going to school you will meet like minded people along your career. friends are not really as beneficial as acquaintances.
bang bitches < plan for when youre old
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Humility
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Get a job at Best Buy
Trust me on this homie; pretty much any position will do. Geek Squad (lol trust me), Car Auto and Manager positions will make you stick out. Don't be a gump and just talk to all the pretty bitches (you're likely to see at least 100 women per day you'd be willing to have sex with with NO problems).
Great job, go for it.
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shLong



Registered: 03/04/10
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Loc: 'sconsin
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Re: How to meet new people [Re: Humility]
#14557237 - 06/03/11 07:46 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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to add to Humility's post...
Call centers!
Easy job to land, easy work (sometimes pretty lame though) and there are a ton of people working at em and plenty of time to chit chat between calls. (inbound customer service at least)
Good place to make connections in a non threatening setting while getting on your feet and saving some dough...
and you can usually get dr00gs easily too
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Cannashroom
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Re: How to meet new people [Re: shLong]
#14557367 - 06/03/11 08:15 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Sports! If you like sports join a league or group or something. I recently started rock climbing, and have made tons of new friends and acquaintances though it. Find something that interests you legitimately and you will find like minded people.
-------------------- "A human being is part of the whole, called by us 'Universe'; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely but striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security." Albert Einstein
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the human abstract
malaka the werewolf



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Re: How to meet new people [Re: shLong]
#14557424 - 06/03/11 08:28 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
shLong said: to add to Humility's post...
Call centers!
Easy job to land, easy work (sometimes pretty lame though) and there are a ton of people working at em and plenty of time to chit chat between calls. (inbound customer service at least)
Good place to make connections in a non threatening setting while getting on your feet and saving some dough...
and you can usually get dr00gs easily too
call centers?
as in work force?
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shLong



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I don't understand your post....
Yes, call centers, job, people, money
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the human abstract
malaka the werewolf



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Re: How to meet new people [Re: shLong]
#14557532 - 06/03/11 08:52 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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staffing agencies?
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shLong



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I've never had to go through a staffing agency to get a job at one. From 18-24 I worked at 5 different ones, lol, "the circuit" we'd call it. Lose one job, go down the road to the next.
By call center I am referring to huge places with computers and phones where you all sit around and wait for a call to come in, do the biz and repeat.....you know, customer service type shit
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shLong



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Re: How to meet new people [Re: shLong]
#14557570 - 06/03/11 08:59 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've sold phone service , taken credit card apps over the phone, defended fraudulent magazine charges on credit cards , worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield talking to doctor offices about customers health benefits, so on and so forth...
There are usually like 200 people per shift working, so it's a good way to meet people.
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John
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Re: How to meet new people [Re: shLong]
#14558689 - 06/04/11 02:20 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Classroom is one of the easiest places to make friends short of maybe a bar past 12. If you have problems in that setting there's not going to be some other mystical place that it will be much easier. You should try to make friends in your classes rather than just say "I'm not good at it" Can't be afraid of embarrassment or bothering people, just put yourself out there and be confident and pussy will line up for you in especially in college.
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I_was_the_walrus
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Re: How to meet new people [Re: John]
#14558834 - 06/04/11 04:06 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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Wwoof or something similar (google it). You work on an organic farm for room and board with fellow travelers. Odds are theyre traveling for the same reasons you are. Wwoof farms are like love connections....its crazy. ShLong is right too. I worked at a call center when I was like 16. I didnt progress much in the social scene, but the older guys were pushin chicks out of the way with both hands.
I would also recommend going back to school. Not only a great "mingling" tool, but great for learnin yourself some smart shit. Get a good education, turn 21. Be the smart guy at the bar with a "future". This way, you can play both sides. You can pick up on the drunk idiot scene chicks, but if theres some ritzy stuck up educated hoe looking for that diamond in the rough....youre good to go.
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