Granny's gone and done it again

[CapricornFarm]

Hubby painted two walls today in the great room. Looks good.

 

[jane s chickens]

What color?

 

[CapricornFarm]

What color?

A very pale grey.

 

[h2oratt]

Well heck. At risk of sounding like a pompous donkey, I did a two year “legal assistant diploma” program up north. And you know what? I sure as excrement would pit my admin minionry skills against “university educated” peeps down here. I mean my gosh. They want you to have a university degree but so many of them have no bearing or no ability to do anything with once those four years are over. One of the guys at my bank just graduated with a....I want to say photography major with a Japanese minor? Or the other way around....I think the other way around. And it’s like...ok great. You have all this student debt what are you going to do with it now? (Guy is an awesome teller at my bank. He’s good people. I guess I’m just way too much a realist)

My BossLady is all proud of herself she has a history degree. And yet....the typos that go out on emails....the little mistakes....(am I perfect? No but...)

I truly believe vocational/trade schools need to be more of a thing down here.

YEP and there is no reason to go into debt for your education

 

[bruceha2000]

My kids never had a chance in hell.

Luck of the draw I guess. You once said I was lucky and to some degree you are right, pure chance was in my favor. I chose the right stork to ferry me to a family Things could have been a lot different if it dropped me too soon.

It's a generational thing. No college for my grandparents. Grandpa didn't even graduate high school... the Depression got in the way. My parents both had a bit of community college, but neither went on to get degrees. They both decided that all of their kids would go to college. We didn't have a choice! All we ever heard growing up was "When you go to college..." It took more than 3 generations.

Similar here. My paternal grandparents immigrated from Spain in their teens (met in So. Cal). My maternal grandmother came from Spain with her father when she was about 3. This was all 1910 or before. My father's parents never graduated high school (or equivalent), not sure they had the opportunity even to get to high school. I think my mother's mother did graduate HS. My maternal grandfather did graduate high school, don't know that he went to college. He taught drafting and wood working (a class where he met my grandmother, I have the cedar chest she made in class). My Dad's father was a farmer, his mother a farm wife. Both sets of grandparents had 2 kids, Mom and her sister, Dad and his brother. All lived through the depression. All went to college and like you, I don't think my sisters and I ever thought there was a question about going to college.

 

[bruceha2000]

That’s what we need here. Not everyone needs to go to college. Trade schools are good.

Totally agree!! We'd be in a world of hurt if everyone went to college/university to get a desk job. We NEED tradesmen/women and for a lot of people that sort of work comes naturally and is something they enjoy.

Most parts of the house are clean (bedroom is a mess however lol) sooo...

So don't show them the bedroom.

 

[prostar]

Totally agree!! We'd be in a world of hurt if everyone went to college/university to get a desk job. We NEED tradesmen/women and for a lot of people that sort of work comes naturally and is something they enjoy.


So don't show them the bedroom.

You’d be amazed at how many office desk jobs they want a bachelors for. Blew my mind when I was job hunting down here. And the joys of it all being computerized and all that...nuts to my experience in BigLaw(tm) I didn’t have a bachelors of bull poop ergo I was not wanted.

Our guests still haven’t arrived. Should be within the hour. It’s almost quarter to six. Sigh.

 

[h2oratt]

You’d be amazed at how many office desk jobs they want a bachelors for. Blew my mind when I was job hunting down here. And the joys of it all being computerized and all that...nuts to my experience in BigLaw(tm) I didn’t have a bachelors of bull poop ergo I was not wanted.

Our guests still haven’t arrived. Should be within the hour. It’s almost quarter to six. Sigh.

That is annoying.

 

[bruceha2000]

A guy I used to work with had a 2 year degree. That pretty much capped his progress "per the rules" but somehow someone somewhere figured out that the 4 year degree wasn't important given his "on the job" education, classes taken at work and drive. He made it 3 levels above "stop here if you have a 2 year degree".

 

[Granny Hatchet]

7 worlds one planet coming on. Looks good. AMC here.
Bruce, I understand we make our own luck for the most part but some of us just cant get out of that hole. My SD did collage for medical assistant , couldnt find a job went back for office ?? Ended up working in a cafeteria at a hospital trying to get a foot in the door.
I MADE trade school take Robert. I had to holler loudly . If nothing else it gave him a sense of pride.
This is gonna be a good program yall.