POLITICS Democrats More Positive About Socialism Than Capitalism

Discussion in 'Politicants' started by VolDad, Aug 13, 2018.

  1. MWR

    MWR Contributor

    I guess you showed them. :)

    When I was a young man, I enjoyed working outside. Ran a lot of heavy equipment, hung a lot of drywall, built some houses, etc. Come home dirty as a dog. But as I got older, I found that I liked being inside with the temp around 70 and a lot less dust and dirt.
     
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  2. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    Your teacher doesn't sound like good college material.

    It's unfortunate you felt forced. You have found success though, and at least got a college football team to root for that used to be pretty good.
     
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  3. The Dooz

    The Dooz Super Moderator

    I have two kids left in this year’s TN Achieves class.

    One is going to Pellissippi for history (with aspirations to eventually complete a 4 year degree so he can teach) and the other is going to TCAT to be a diesel mechanic. I think both are noble and important professions while be near opposite of each other and they are worth any support I can give them to reach their goals.

    I think it’s unfair to the kids to think otherwise.
     
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  4. IP

    IP Super Moderator

    And bad for society. I hate the classist BS like kmf's teacher was spewing. Work is good. Being a master of your craft and working for a living is honorable. Belittling a worker for what they do is not.
     
  5. kmf600

    kmf600 Energy vampire

    I had no idea what I wanted to do when I was 18. Seems like I took the armed forces exam, and they came up with a couple of jobs they thought I would be good at. I can't remember for sure though.
     
  6. awebb7

    awebb7 Contributor

    You know this as well as I, but there’s a lot of kids I see who bust their ass out of high school working concrete or hanging rock making $22/hr. Five years in if they can stay sober and smart are running a crew. 10 years at 30ish they are rolling in a company truck making $7o-90K+.
    Trades are desperate for people who are eager to learn and show up on time.
     
  7. ptclaus98

    ptclaus98 Contributor

    I actually liked it, but I'm a [uck fay]in weirdo anyway.
     
  8. ptclaus98

    ptclaus98 Contributor

    Agreed. When I was young I was a master at multiple choice tests, because I learned how to eliminate wrong answers easily. This meant that when I took my entrance exam to get into HS, I was in the top 1% even though I was a shitty student. That didn't get better through HS and I ended up with a 27 on the ACT but barely had enough to scrape by on GPA. Going to a private school, theres a weird type of pressure to go to a university. If I could go back to being 18 year old me with only one bit of info, it would be to go to community college. I wasted like 25-30k thinking I was ready for college life with no one there to give me any sort of reality check.
     
  9. ptclaus98

    ptclaus98 Contributor

    This was like forbidden knowledge when I was in high school.
     
  10. fl0at_

    fl0at_ Humorless, asinine, joyless pr*ck

    Private schools suck like that; ours, if you went military, you were a failure. Even academy appointments were considered lesser. Still pretty much that way, too. It's gotten so stupid, the seniors have a day where they pick hats, and then wear those hats in a photo of the graduating class.

    I don't know what the ones that don't want to go to a university even do, I guess just attend?
     
  11. justingroves

    justingroves supermod

    Yep
     
  12. JohnnyQuickkick

    JohnnyQuickkick Calcio correspondent

    honestly if i had it all to do over again i'd be fluent in some foreign language and be doing something that had me traveling and so forth. that kind of thing just didn't occur to me coming out of Humboldt. When they'd talk about study abroad stuff I'd be like, "I could never do that," for no reason in particular
     
  13. Ssmiff

    Ssmiff Went to the White House...Again

    The kids at our recent HS graduation going into the military got standing ovations from a packed arena when names announced. Pretty cool. Class of several hundred.
     
  14. kmf600

    kmf600 Energy vampire

    I agree 100%
     
  15. smokysbark

    smokysbark Chieftain

    This is my nephew ... spot on. Could have went to college but just didn't want to go that route. He ended up in Nashville working for a commercial construction company as a welder. He's 25 now, been there for 6 years and has his own crew.
     
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  16. VolDad

    VolDad Super Moderator

    Great advice.

    I would also take a typing class. It has been 40 years of hunting and pecking.
     
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  17. NorrisAlan

    NorrisAlan Founder of the Mike Honcho Fan Club

    My sons were taught how to type in the 5th grade.
     
  18. CardinalVol

    CardinalVol Uncultured, non-diverse mod

    I did take a typing class and it's still been 15 years to date of the same.
     
  19. CardinalVol

    CardinalVol Uncultured, non-diverse mod

    I kind of fell backwards into accounting. Went to UT pre-med (because that's what you are supposed to do when you are one of the smarter kids from a small town), quickly realized that I didn't want to do that and was stumped. Actually went through advising in College of Engineering before spring semester, then decided I didn't want to do that. Finally decided to go business school with a eye on law school, took accounting, liked it, and stuck with it.
     
  20. CardinalVol

    CardinalVol Uncultured, non-diverse mod

    Friend of mine from home went to Nashville Auto Diesel School.

    He's doing all right.
     

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