philschneider Posted June 22, 2014 Share Posted June 22, 2014 Hi everybody my name is Phillip Schneider and I joined the forum about a month ago, but this is the first time I have spent any time on it. I am from Illinois and I just finished up my Masters degree in Library Science.(my bachelors degree is in history) I am currently employed at Elgin Library and I work at the reference desk. If anyone lives in the Chicago land area and wants to come in and say hi I would be happy to talk to you, or help you with any research needs you have. Right now I am living with my parents because of my debt, but my future plans are to save up money to move out on my own once more. I want to eventually become a library director and stop at least one library from wasting my friends, family, and neighbors money on frills and unnecessary employees. I also have plans of writing a book, or possibly a series of articles on sociopath and prominent figures from history. I have done much of the research on sociopath and must not begin on choosing historical figures and researching them in depth. I personally think most US presidents, especially the "great ones", such as Lincoln, FDR, Nixon, Roosevelt, Jackson, etc. were sociopaths. I want to write this book to help encourage people to stop believing in hero's, and to stop leaving out important concepts about these figures. I believe these peoples short coming and bad decisions can teach just as much as their good decisions. I also want to try to shock people in to realizing how little they think they know about history. Perhaps this will help stop history from repeating one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted June 23, 2014 Share Posted June 23, 2014 Welcome! :-) And great book idea! Post some stuff here if you ever want proof reading advise or comments overall. I'm nowhere near Chicago but definitely have a few friends there.. Good to know we can call upon you for research advise! :-) Later.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melesina Posted June 24, 2014 Share Posted June 24, 2014 Hi everybody my name is Phillip Schneider and I joined the forum about a month ago, but this is the first time I have spent any time on it. I am from Illinois and I just finished up my Masters degree in Library Science.(my bachelors degree is in history) I am currently employed at Elgin Library and I work at the reference desk. If anyone lives in the Chicago land area and wants to come in and say hi I would be happy to talk to you, or help you with any research needs you have. Right now I am living with my parents because of my debt, but my future plans are to save up money to move out on my own once more. I want to eventually become a library director and stop at least one library from wasting my friends, family, and neighbors money on frills and unnecessary employees. I also have plans of writing a book, or possibly a series of articles on sociopath and prominent figures from history. I have done much of the research on sociopath and must not begin on choosing historical figures and researching them in depth. I personally think most US presidents, especially the "great ones", such as Lincoln, FDR, Nixon, Roosevelt, Jackson, etc. were sociopaths. I want to write this book to help encourage people to stop believing in hero's, and to stop leaving out important concepts about these figures. I believe these peoples short coming and bad decisions can teach just as much as their good decisions. I also want to try to shock people in to realizing how little they think they know about history. Perhaps this will help stop history from repeating one day. Hi, Phillip. It's nice to meet you and welcome! I live in the Chicago area, about 60 miles west of the city. There's an active FDR Meetup group in Chicago and we'd enjoy meeting you in person. The Meetups are held every two weeks and posted at http://www.meetup.com/Freedomain-Radio/Chicago-IL/. The next one is July 5th, though we may change the venue. If so, it will be posted there. There's also an FDR Chicago Meetup group on facebook, if you're interested... https://www.facebook.com/groups/FDRChicagoMeetup/. Look forward to meeting you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philschneider Posted June 25, 2014 Author Share Posted June 25, 2014 Awesome thanks for the invite. I am usually quite busy with friend and family events during the summer, but I would love to attend a meeting eventually. I will keep your events on my calender and hopefully I can attend soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melesina Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Awesome thanks for the invite. I am usually quite busy with friend and family events during the summer, but I would love to attend a meeting eventually. I will keep your events on my calender and hopefully I can attend soon. Thank you for joining and welcome to the FDR Chicago Meetup group, Phil! We look forward to meeting you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueechoFeecho Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 When I saw "librarian" in the thread title I thought it was a deliberate funny misspelling. That made me wonder what could be a deliberate funny misspelling to use in place of the word "anarchist"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.W. Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Hey Phil - nice to meet you! I just joined the Chicago meetup group as well - maybe I'll see you there. Your book idea sounds interesting - I'd read it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tasmlab Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 You're a librarian now, but after a few FDR podcasts, you'll turn into a full blown archivist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 You're a librarian now, but after a few FDR podcasts, you'll turn into a full blown archivist. LOL... archivist? :-D ...that would be cool too but I'm guessing you meant anarchist? :-P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slavik Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 LOL... archivist? :-D ...that would be cool too but I'm guessing you meant anarchist? :-P No actually I think he meant Arachno-capitalist Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marina Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Ahh..yes.. you are correct :-P How could I have missed it before..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tasmlab Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Although I hadn't read his comment, my mind went to the same place that QueechoFeecho's did. My pun was a bit of a reach :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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