Posted on 05/27/2015 4:47:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
Did you write that essay? If so, its outstanding. In any case its one of very, very few posts that I’ll hang onto.
Sounds exactly like what I did. After the first couple of semesters of failing grades, I still insisted to my father that "I didn't want to waste four years of my life in the military."
After the third semester and a half, I drove myself to the Navy recruiter's office. I enlisted for six years, got some great schooling, advanced to E-6, but then eventually got out.
After the military experience, I was completely motivated. I promptly enrolled back at a decent state school, finished with honors, a technical BS degree, and have been more than gainfully employed for over 20 years. It's a lot easier to get through college when you're motivated and paying your own way. [Because I didn't know I would ever go back to school, I didn't use the GI Bill.]
I heard a man at my church say that his parents had a drug problem when he was growing up, that every Sunday morning they "drug" him to church.
And many of the rest that say they require degrees don't.
With the exception of a few in the medical, science and engineering field most jobs don't need degrees.
I drugged my kids and brain washed them too !
Thank you for posting this!
I pretty much majored in beer and girls, so it seemed like a natural vocation.
My Air Conditioner took a dive the first day I turned it on this year. I live in Georgia, I would have given the HVAC guy my check entire check book to get that joker back up and running.
University exist to make people talk like Krushchev.
Yes..... I wrote it in response to the many threads such as this one
Although I believe it is not really possible to evaluate a college education in $$ terms, some don’t have that view.
“Economist Bryan Caplan argues that there isn’t much evidence that college grads are paid more because they learned anything at college that is valuable to their jobs.”
I bet the kids at Cal Tech and MIT would argue that point.
I am one of those parents who is helping to defray my son’s college costs. He received a 50% scholarship and once complete, providing he decides on getting his masters will cost 100k. The reason I am assuming the loan which he will pay a good percentage of, is he knew what he wanted to do since he was 13, and moved towards that goal.
He got into a school which features an advanced business program which will allow him to get his Masters after 4 years instead of 6. He has selected the right job at the school to help him in his career. His outside activities reflect his career decision.
To me it is a good gamble. My daughter on the other hand is in community college. We pay as we go so she has no college debt. If she shows an inclination to a major which will enable her to earn a good salary, we will go the loan route. If she wants to take liberal arts, she is on her own.
Degrees like Womyn’s and Black Studies is destroying America. The only reason they exist is to give liberals who have no marketable skills the ticket to entry level jobs that require degrees.
I had an associate that had two kids that went to college for two years or so and then dropped out. He would complain endlessly about money down the drain.
Then, he became interested in the Civil War.
His daughter knowing he was pretty much un educated bought him a multi volume series of the history, an expensive and thorough set of books. . She began to use her college learned skills to keep him occupied with materials.
The son gravitated into the studies and became and still is a Confederate reinactor. He is a rebel field surgeon. His endeavor became quite focused on the doctors role in the rebel Camp.
It is impossible to know what a little bit of formal education can do or how it will benefit.
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