Posted on 10/26/2007 6:49:11 PM PDT by VA Voter
Heyyyy! It'sa me, Maa-rio! Wotsa matta? You-a no like-a me no more? @#$%! Why-a donchoo go out and get a steenking job?
My cousin was a history major. He makes a pretty good living as a computer programmer now. Get a life kid.
Shut up crybaby! This is what happens to white males. Blatant job discrimination. Non-white-males get their college tuition at reduced rate and don’t have to pay back as much as white males. Get used to it!
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My thoughts exactly.
He wants to be a liberal elite, not get his metrosexual, manicured hands dirty!
Manual labor is SOOOOOOO beneath him.
A history degree is terrific for anyone already capable of higher-level thinking, working with others, and taking the initiative to make oneself valuable in the modern world.
For those with the worker-Joe mindset that a degree is an automatic ticket to vocational salvation, history is a poor field of major.
My niece graduated from State University at Albany with a liberal arts degree and the intention to go on to grad school and eventually become a teacher. During the summer after graduation she took a part-time job with the NYC office of an Italian bank. Her boyfriend at the time worked there fulltime. Young and smart with discipline and good attitude, within three weeks she was being recruited by every department within the bank. She’s been there now for seven years, working her way up in the industrial finance department. She married the young man who recommended her for the summer job (he had to leave because of anti-nepotism rules and she was making more by then), they just bought their first home, and they’re expecting their first child.
Oh yeah... they not only saved enough money while they were making two salaries for a substantial down payment, she’s also planning to stay home with her baby because they’ve saved enough money to handle the new home with one salary. He’s an IT professional with a local cable network.
No big cars...
No fancy million dollar home in Chappaqua...
No regular trips three times a day to Starbucks...
Just good old-fashioned American common sense.
The American dream is alive and well here in Oceanside, NY.
He’s got potential to become a journalist...
I graduated in 1974 with a degree in Zoology, no money, no car, and a bicycle. I went to work as a welder in a trailer factory and ended up as VP of Manufacturing 17 years later. I would reccommend that this little boy get a job, any job and work hard for about twenty years and see where you end up. He gets no sympathy from me.
I made the same point in an earlier thread.
This is were the rubber meets the road, this cry baby puke doesn't understand the concept of work or the concept of integrity.
His concept of "work" is based on what he can do for society rather than the traditional concept of trading your skills, labor for wages
It's clear his concept of integrity is tied into his personal political belief system rather than his personal moral character.
Maybe that's the underlining base line physiological disorder known as of BDS
I had five semesters of history in college because it was that good (would’ve taken six of it, but all of my electives could not be in the same subject so I took sociology instead, which was boring).
My main history professor is now kind of famous. He’s written some books and I’ve seen him on C-Span a couple of times. One time in class, he started out by saying, “The following is the most financially valuable thing you will learn in this class: Don’t buy on credit!”
After explaining that “financially valuable” is not the same as valuable, he proceded to plow through the motions and debates in various colonial assemblies leading up to the Declaration of Independence. He was right about the valuable part, but he was also right about “Don’t buy on credit.”
My point in this is the young man complaining about being in debt for $32k. He should have paid his way, or he should be willing to get a regular job to pay off his debt instead of whining about it. We don’t need another daggone government program to pay people who aren’t willing to work.
For my part, I’ve long forgotten the names of the non-famous local colonial representatives who voted to break away from England, but I’m glad that I was able to study that. It made watching “The Patriot” much more fun.
Dear Ken,
When you finally find this thread you will discover a wealth of good, solid advice amongst all the well deserved abuse. You can turn away from it and feel even more sorry for yourself or you can embrace it and get on with the rest of your life.
My recommendation is to move out of your parents house immediately (within a few days of reading this)and don’t ever move back. Don’t accept invitations for dinner more than once a month. Moving out is actually the hardest part of the bromide.
Put one foot in front of the other, get a job, any job, find a good woman, make babies and over time all your current angst will seem like nothing more than a distant dream.
Good luck,
This whole article sounds like the author missed the period from 1917 to 1989, and what happened to all the angry young idealists like him who were going to change the world one way or another.
Yes! This is a truly brilliant idea and I wish the U.S. would adopt something similar in our educational system. Not everyone is college material. Why don’t our schools do testing early in middle school years to find out if someone would be better suited attending a technical/vocational type school. Our daughter recently married a young man who is Swiss. He told us that they are tested to find out what type of job best suits their interests and personality types and then are either directed toward votech or college during the course of their education. He worked at a bank during his high school years, later got a college degree and today works as a CPA for Price Waterhouse Coopers. This approach makes so much more sense to me.
Cheers
Society now is breeding a generation of helpless wimps.
Ken, you’re an idiot and I am certain you are a liberal democrat.
Hey, I have a friend with a “pottery” degree. We both have the same job, and she feels that she should make more than me just because she has that degree.
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