Posted on 02/25/2014 9:40:01 AM PST by virgil283
We just finished a new house and all the fixtures in the master bath are Grohe. They have great looks and quality and the price difference wasn’t all that much.
I grew up in the suburbs south of Buffalo. We had shop classes in our town high school. However, we also had a regional BOCES vocational high school where they taught cosmetology, auto repair, carpentry, electrical, and plumbing trades. The kids would go there in the afternoon. Even back then, the kids who did those programs were always looked down on to some extent because they were kids that were not going to go to college.
Mike’s a good guy. Scratch that, he’s a Great Guy. I’d be proud to hoist a few beers with him, any time.
True. I own two Henry .22’s and they are the best shooting rifles I have ever owned.
I used to always buy Moen. The Grohe are much better quality and they are not that much more expensive.
How far back is back then?
Take a look at the frozen shrimp bags. The ones in my grocery store all come from Vietnam or India. Who knows what crap(literally)those shrimp are fed?
I graduated from Orchard Park, NY public high school in 1981.
I’ve read about halfway down the page full of responses by Mike Rowe and am impressed with the consistency and courtesy with which he answers.
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Mike and I were employed at the same place in the mid to late 80s, just as his tv career was starting to gain some momentum.
He is a super nice human in real life.
There is no specific vo-tech school in my district, but shop, auto repair, woodworking, cosmetology, culinary arts and several others are offered at 2 of the 4 high schools. The other 2 schools are on islands and have very small student bodies, so those kids come to the mainland for their classes.
One of the projects one of the classes is working on this semester is building a new storage building for my church. The barber/cosmetology classes also offer haircuts once a month to the community. The kids earn money and get hands on experience.
Hate to tell you, but it’s customers that killed small businesses. They CHOSE to go for cheaper, lesser quality items in lieu of more expensive, better quality items.
Walmart is just a business, not the anti-Christ.
That’s before I was born.
Yeah, figures people would be looked down upon for not going to college. The way I see it though, I equate the value of education to the places our legislators go. If the so-called “best” institutions of higher learning have been churning out Communists for so long, then what is the value of an Ivy League education, when so many stupid people come out of those universities? Better off going to a trade school, and having a job right after, so you can pay that off, while still putting something aside for yourself?
If it was me, anyway, my priority would be paying it off as soon as possible, instead of over a few years.
Funny thing is many of the kids that were in vocation classes ended up with their own business and were far more successful than many that went to college. For some reason this country has looked down on manual labor for many years. Our politicians even announced that we were all too good to do manual labor- we would all be working technology based jobs. That is what they tried to sell to support illegals working here. Some bought it, some never did.
I mean one of the neighboring towns high school has a restaurant.
Very true, although a Harvard Law or Medical degree will still get your foot in the door of a better job more often than the SUNY degree that I got way back then.
One of the best deals going is go into the US Air Force and get them to train you to be an air traffic controller. Starting pay $75 to $90K with no debt.
Your pretension toward irony is in fact the dumbest response on the thread.
I”ll bet you know some of my in-laws who also went there ....... last name Glaub ring a bell?
Rowe should run for PRESIDENT. At least he mentions the word JOBS. Nobody in Washington seems to give a dam.
I understood :-) They do have various functions here where the culinary students do the food and serving, reasonably priced and decent fare.
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