Posted on 12/14/2008 4:39:43 AM PST by Rebelbase
It was just supposed to be all roses and lilies!
Learning how to make it in hard times will better prepare us for the Good Times.
Sacrifice, Humility, and Grit are things many of us need reminding of.
Young adults live through their first recession.
To many that still have jobs it’s a recession.
To many that have lost lost their jobs it’s a depression.
With those qualifications he should consider becoming a pimp.
Parents have been so busy making sure their kids had what they didn't have, growing up, that they forgot to pass on what they did have.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
“It was just supposed to be all roses and lilies!”
The recession of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s was really something. I remember 22% interest rates on loans, inflation and no money around. We actually had a barter exchange set up where I could trade legal work for wood or gasoline or plumbing/electrical work. Thursdays I’d often go up and down the main street of our town seeing if my clients could pay a little something on their bill! I had left my job as an associate in a law firm and had opened my own practice. We had a new baby by 1980 but I think we were too dumb to be scared. In any event, most everyone we knew were in the same boat. She Who Must Be Obeyed calls those times our “Water stew and chicken liver days.” We survived and so will today’s young folks.
Oh, c’mon, cut her some slack. After all, I’m sure there were kids looking to break into the horse & buggy whip industry in the ‘20s.
Those liberal art PC degrees aren’t going very far are they? We are infested with illegal alien labor And worthless college grads with social sci. degrees.
Then again, might be “Lord of the Flies.”
Her reward came at A&T’s December commencement, where she walked the stage a semester ahead of schedule to receive a degree in liberal studies .
This kills me. Liberal Studies? Come on now. What really makes me angry is that about five years ago they were saying that having a liberal studies or liberal arts depending on the name of the degree (both the same) was beneficial because it gives you an overall outlook on things. Those professional advisors did not have any future outlook other than that day apparently. I think liberal studies should only be allowed for those wanting to learn for themselves but not for any sort of career...just for fun!!! lol.
While she writes, she can still get a job at McDonalds or Walmart etc.
The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts
Education is something I will encourage (and by encourage I mean, if you feel you are grown enough to be out of school, you are grown enough to move out of my house), but it isn’t the guarantee of success that generations have made it out to be. I didn’t not finish college, but many who did came to me on my knowledge of insurance laws that came from just experience of reading and referring to them over the years.
My grandfather (who died in 1965)went to the 2nd grade but was wicked smart. He designed blueprints and had a genius mind for equations and such. When he died, they replaced him with a 4 year college graduate to do the things he did and even lost business because his (my grandfather) buildings were so sturdy and had such a vast use of space he had a reputation for states around. He designed barns for free as his act of goodness the bible spoke of.
College is great, but people place too much emphasis on the piece of paper rather than what the classes taught while earning that paper.
This is not to discredit college as there are many more valuable things to learn there and I wish I had went myself. But I just hated to see freshly grad student waltz into my office with the idea that they knew far more than me and I had real life experience of how the world worked in my field. I usually had them straightened out in a year or so and they ended up being fine employees.
Liberal studeies....... plastic degree in a technical world
“Those liberal art PC degrees aren’t going very far are they?”
Well, I majored in Classics and had a minor in theology; hardly what I would call “practical”, but they stood me in good stead because I had a broad enough worldview to know I could make it on my own, with my own business. Liberal Arts education makes the graduate flexible and gives him some perspective. Just my opinion, but I think we have become plagued with “specialists” who are too intellectually brittle to successfully respond to changed economic circumstances.
“We are infested with illegal alien labor And worthless college grads with social sci. degrees.”
Illegal aliens, like the legal ones of my youth, aren’t much competition for college grads.
And once that first job is landed, then the formula for success is what it has always been---work hard, live within your means, save as much as you can, pay off any debt you have, and avoid new debt.
Agreed! The really bad thing is that’s she’s waiting for graduate school to start!
Ummm..
He’s not even sure how much he owes.
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