Posted on 05/19/2020 1:39:09 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
If there’s one piece of advice graduating high school seniors are probably hearing a lot of these days, it’s this: take a gap year.
Calls encouraging the class of 2020 to defer college for a year continue to mount amid the coronavirus pandemic and resulting lockdown.
“Dear High School Seniors: It’s Time To Consider A Gap Year Thanks To Covid-19,” writes Eric Brotman, a financial planner, in Forbes.
“Waiting a year may be the best move in order to ensure you get the traditional college freshman experience, both academically and socially,” Brotman writes. “Taking a gap year may not have been your original plan, but it can present you with a lot of new opportunities.”
He suggested getting a job to save up some money or...
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Nonsense! Here's my advice for graduating seniors wishing to continue onto college: "Pursue your degree. But look very closely at doing so online for at least your "freshman" year. Doing so can avoid a great deal of expense while permitting you to complete required courses. Following that, you can plan to physically attend college...or not. This is your golden opportunity to control your education!"
But that's just me.
Doing the grocery shopping for those cowering at home.
That job has been pretty much taken over by Ditch Witch type machines. Last summer, saw a small tracked trench digger with tethered controls for walk along operator, guy must have done about 200 yds in half a day, could have done more but that was all the job required.
Of course there might be government openings where five guys stand around leaning on shovels....but knowing which end is which might be a real problem for the marshmellow generation.
Thanks for for the advise, Judge Smeals. I always wanted to enter the priesthood.
Better yet, take those online courses at community colleges or regional state universities and save a fortune.
Normally I think this “gap year” nonsense is some rich liberal utopian fantasy. But in this case, if it helps bankrupt some of the worst institutions of less than higher learning I’m all for it.
I’m old, two kids through college - great careers..
Last kid is an 11th grader with no college ambition (gonna be a manual laborer like me) - the thought of sitting on your butt for a year is a non-starter...
Oh, you’re a Catholic? You can’t come...
Go for it.
Fifty bucks says the Smails kid picks his nose...
Double or nothing he eats it.
I only see Lacey in that picture.
Madonna with meatballs...
“I enjoy - skinny-skiing, going to bullfights on acid.”
Get a job at Amazon or Wal-Mart.
“She’s been plucked more times than the Rose of Tralee. Biggest whore on Fifth Avenue, I’m told.”
Now that’s a mighty big assumption that there will be jobs in 2024. What if we are all still hunkered down, sheltering-in-place with hair down to our knees?
Contact Tracers.
Hitler’s Youth
Indeed!
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