➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[RUNuts]

Is college really difficult? More so than High school?

Depends. You have more freedom. Freedom to succeed. Freedom to fail. If you are goal oriented, define your goals and go. If you are easily distracted, save your money.

Also, High School teachers are motivated to get you to pass to make themselves look good, unlike colleges. There are college classes, freshman level usually, that are called "cut courses". Like cutting cows out of the herd, they cut the low performers out. The college wants only the best and brightest to represent their alumni. Not everyone should go to college.

It is really up to YOU whether you succeed or fail in all things. Intelligence is certainly one part. Dedication and ability to understand new concepts is another. Plan on teaching yourself.

Yep, I went to college and graduated. I'm now gainfully employed. Choose your major carefully. Arts, business and psychology are harder to get well paying jobs. Do able, but more difficult. DD#1 is freshly graduated in biology and doing the internship rounds. It pays, but isn't consistent or comfortable. Look at the publications that advertise the highest paying college graduates fresh out of school, if that motivates you.

What is the opposite of gainfully employed?

 

[Kiki]

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Not pictured was my Art Hist quiz and exam from Chem as well as me having to stay until 6pm because of a competition that my science poster has 0 chance of winning since the printing place made it so blurry that even 20/20 people can’t read it.

Um ..what do you do in the maybe class?

 

[Kiki]

We processed the last of the meat box heroes yesterday. After culling one early for impacted crop, the remaining 22 all did great. They got more active as the weather cooled and were nice, healthy chickens. We've been butchering them in groups over the last month. At one point my husband hurt his hand, so I had to get involved in the actual axe-meets chicken part. It was harder than I thought. I nearly dropped the first chicken I did. I have even more respect and gratitude for DH now, who does it so quickly and so stoically.

The last group is always the hardest to do, as I was definitely getting attached. I almost moved one "small" hen into my laying flock, but realized I had enough going on there right now without adding another body.

They were huge. The rooster in the last group was 10.5 lbs dressed. He was almost as big as our Thanksgiving turkey. The largest hen was 8 lbs. I'm sad, but glad all the chicken meat is in the freezer for the year, and I could clean out the meat bird house and open up their half of the yard back to my laying flock.

Good for you! I can't wait til I can get to your level of chickening.

 

[RUNuts]

By the way, veterinarians usually get unpaid internships for the first several years while delaying the loan payback. They then either buy a practice or start their own. They are small business owners and are blessed with ALL that entails.

8 years of school. Followed by more years of gaining experience, then landing a job and trying to pay it all back. Not easy for animal doctors or human doctors. Specialists are paid higher, once they have gained experience.

 

[Cyprus]

By the way, veterinarians usually get unpaid internships for the first several years while delaying the loan payback. They then either buy a practice or start their own. They are small business owners and are blessed with ALL that entails.

8 years of school. Followed by more years of gaining experience, then landing a job and trying to pay it all back. Not easy for animal doctors or human doctors. Specialists are paid higher, once they have gained experience.

I understand this.
We still need animal doctors, though.

And that really mostly applies to small animal veterinarians, which I cannot be.
I'm looking into either specializing in African wildlife or being a research veterinarian, which is the highest paid veterinarian there is.

I'm about having a job that doesn't make me miserable. Depending on my satisfactory quality of life and values, money does not have to control my life.

 

[R2elk]

What is the opposite of gainfully employed?

Deadbeat? I am not gainfully employed.

 

[Molpet]

What is the opposite of gainfully employed?

Broke




or
retired

 

[Cyprus]

The opposite of gainfully employed can also be people who do not have an acceptable standard of living due to conflict displacement, war, lack of resources etc.
I hate when people say it's all about money. There are people in this world fighting for their lives, LITERALLY, just because they happened to live in a worse off area of the globe. Meanwhile, our current message to the youth is that if you're not padding your pockets, you're nothing.

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Wow! That is fascinating, thank you for the cliff notes! Is genealogy what you studied for a living?

Best of luck, and congrats on the new job! Stay safe and warm.
It’s back up to the 60’s in Texas, good weather for moving.

When do you take possession of the house?

 

[The Farmers' Daughter]

Depends. You have more freedom. Freedom to succeed. Freedom to fail. If you are goal oriented, define your goals and go. If you are easily distracted, save your money.

Also, High School teachers are motivated to get you to pass to make themselves look good, unlike colleges. There are college classes, freshman level usually, that are called "cut courses". Like cutting cows out of the herd, they cut the low performers out. The college wants only the best and brightest to represent their alumni. Not everyone should go to college.

It is really up to YOU whether you succeed or fail in all things. Intelligence is certainly one part. Dedication and ability to understand new concepts is another. Plan on teaching yourself.

Yep, I went to college and graduated. I'm now gainfully employed. Choose your major carefully. Arts, business and psychology are harder to get well paying jobs. Do able, but more difficult. DD#1 is freshly graduated in biology and doing the internship rounds. It pays, but isn't consistent or comfortable. Look at the publications that advertise the highest paying college graduates fresh out of school, if that motivates you.

What is the opposite of gainfully employed?

My aunt used to say that a BA stands for Bugger All.

And what do I have? A BA in English lit. Whoopie! I know how to read a book