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03-27-2014, 02:57 PM #176Education must be the answer, we've tried ignorance and it doesn't work!
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03-27-2014, 03:48 PM #177
i realized that 30 years ago when I dropped out of an under grad geo program. I was a junior and talking to my friends that graduated, they were headed to grad school, or working in the service industry, or not making any money in their first gig.
it was fun, but I wasn't going to grad school - I was barely scraping by as it was - the bottom fell out of the oil industry - there was no work
so I waited tables, which is what I did during the summer. lived life until I thought I had a clue. in reality I was lucky - I hated accounting but got through the program and was able to migrate to IT a year and half after graduation. IT fits my personality and out look. I am not really that successful but I like the work. every day is different, and I work for the most part by myself
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03-27-2014, 03:50 PM #178
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03-27-2014, 03:55 PM #179
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03-27-2014, 04:04 PM #180
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03-27-2014, 04:46 PM #181
So her expectation of getting a job as a result of going to college in "hippe arts" is what? Maybe she took that stuff because she liked it and she doesn't have any expectations that it would lead to a job. Maybe she does but the only thing I get is that you have that expectation.
I'm not intended to be glib, but that's the part of what I'm getting at: don't have the expectation.
How much of this system was based on a class society? Once if you were rich enough to go to college, you didn't need to get a job afterward. You went to make connections and become a good conversaionalist. If you weren't rich, you learned a trade.
Now we see so much slipping away to countries where the focus of post secondary is to learn engineering or chemistry while we slowly become more of a service society.Merde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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03-27-2014, 04:49 PM #182
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03-27-2014, 06:08 PM #183Flying the Bluehouse colors in Western Canada! Let me know if you want some rad skis!!
"He is god of snow; the one called Ullr. Son of Sif, step son of Thor. He is so fierce a bowman and ski-runner that none may contend! He is quite beautiful to look upon and has all the characteristics of a warrior. It is wise to invoke the name of Ullr in duels!"
-The Gylfaginning
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03-27-2014, 06:32 PM #184
My sister-in-law majored in Ancient Greek Lit. and Philosophy.
Seriously, what can she ever expect to do with those two degrees? An archaic language and a degree in bullshitting. NOICE.“How does it feel to be the greatest guitarist in the world? I don’t know, go ask Rory Gallagher”. — Jimi Hendrix
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03-27-2014, 08:14 PM #185
Yes, but that is what is fed to high school students. Go to college (no mention of what degree) and get a reasonably well paying job (that requires little physical labor) and it's your ticket to the middle class.
And statistically they are right, college grads tend to do better than non-college grads financially.
I think that a huge number of students would be better off if our system required 2 years of community college course work (cheaper) that allowed them to figure out if a) what they are interested in and b) allow them to test the waters without racking up 10k in debt.
We would also be better off if we had a system to track student into non-college technical programs like Eurppe."These are crazy times Mr Hatter, crazy times. Crazy like Buddha! Muwahaha!"
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03-27-2014, 09:53 PM #186
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03-27-2014, 10:02 PM #187
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03-27-2014, 10:14 PM #188
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03-27-2014, 11:16 PM #189Registered User
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none of you are making any sense whatsoever. biology is not a liberal art. its a science. arts is not political, therefore not liberal or conservative. And your grammar is atrocious.
How about you all PM your company details (accomplishments etc.), and I'll decide which one of you I'm mostly likely to be able to tolerate working for. Then the lucky winner can have the privilege of paying me to perform whatever menial task it is that you do.
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03-28-2014, 01:41 PM #190Registered User
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im so ending up in construction... if I'm lucky. either that or the streets
never go full retard
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03-28-2014, 01:54 PM #191spook Guest
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03-28-2014, 01:56 PM #192spook Guest
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03-28-2014, 01:59 PM #193
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03-28-2014, 01:59 PM #194
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03-28-2014, 02:01 PM #195
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04-05-2014, 04:21 PM #196
http://m.theatlantic.com/business/ar...anyway/359927/
Saw this article and thought it belonged here.Flying the Bluehouse colors in Western Canada! Let me know if you want some rad skis!!
"He is god of snow; the one called Ullr. Son of Sif, step son of Thor. He is so fierce a bowman and ski-runner that none may contend! He is quite beautiful to look upon and has all the characteristics of a warrior. It is wise to invoke the name of Ullr in duels!"
-The Gylfaginning
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04-05-2014, 06:35 PM #197
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04-05-2014, 06:42 PM #198
Nothing, if the student pays there way or mommy and daddy flip the bill, and afterwards they become a productive member of society.
Where the problem starts is when the taxpayer subsidizes little Suzie's 5 years of finding herself. Where is the ROI for society if she is no farther ahead than when she got out of high school?Originally Posted by Smoke
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04-05-2014, 07:00 PM #199Flying the Bluehouse colors in Western Canada! Let me know if you want some rad skis!!
"He is god of snow; the one called Ullr. Son of Sif, step son of Thor. He is so fierce a bowman and ski-runner that none may contend! He is quite beautiful to look upon and has all the characteristics of a warrior. It is wise to invoke the name of Ullr in duels!"
-The Gylfaginning
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04-05-2014, 07:05 PM #200
The ROI for society is really high for people reading Plato and Hume, etc. It did lead directly to the founding of this country. It's a relatively new phenomenon that we act like a person can be a truly educated and responsible citizen in this country without a grounding in its first principles. It's also a relatively recent phenomenon that we have allowed Congress to go full retard. Coincidence?
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