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Why can’t I find a job...I went to college!

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I think to be student is not bad as many trink. I am student too studying law. In the future I want to work as a lawyer in one of the companies. The studying is interesting but sometimes I have problems with writing some essays. Now I working on my informative essay tips and examples i got on this page
 
Thingfish said:
well that’s good, then when the stuff hits the fan, and infrastructure needs rebuilding, maybe you can find some part time work...cause computers will be down and we’ll effectively be back in the 1800’s reading by candle light.
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I don't need work, I'm retired. My grandfather was an electrician, my father was a truck driver, my son is an electrician - they all did what they liked. I liked solving puzzles so I was a software engineer. A few of the things I coded were a drug infusion pump, a portable blood analyzer and a congestive heart failure treatment device. I hope you never need treatment when the power is out.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
All the more reason I am actually tempted to purchase a roller chassis with no engine or trans at all.
I am not looking to own a collector's item, just a nifty looking classic daily driver.
As such I would be better served with a relatively new Chrysler 3.6 L Pentastar V6 out of a Jeep Wrangler or Chrysler 300 with the 8 speed auto trans and discs all the way around. If I get the AC unit with it, off to the races we go.
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If it is not nostalgia that is a much better way to go. The modern engines need little or no maintenance for 5 years and 100,000 miles. Back in the 60's every one was a shade tree mechanic because you had to. The vehicles wouldn't run more than a few months without some kind of adjustment. I have V-8 in my 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee and I only get 10 to 14 mpg. My Dodge Caliber with a V-6 gets twice that. The only nice thing about the jeep is it plows snow and gets my boat to any lake. That is all I use it for anymore. It actually has 275,000 miles on it and runs great. Plus it cost nothing to insure.
 
AmNat said:
Very irresponsible of 17 and 18 year olds not to know that their parents, teachers, and guidance counselors were selling them a load of crap.
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They're morons and they ought to pay their loans to the lenders and schools who knew better and took advantage of the situation. Ripping people off is perfectly fine. That's just good business, you know. Getting ripped off is the real evil. Everyone knows that. If you get ripped off you deserve it. All responsibility falls on the ignorant and foolish.
 
Thingfish said:
Why can’t I find a job...I went to college, I spent $225 grand and my nieghbor who’s a grease ball mechanic in the building trades is making three times what I used to make.

Well Boo hoo hoo, suck it up cup cake, you bought into it, go back to night school and pick ya up a wrench, we can’t all sit behind a computer and produce nothing for the Country opting to push money and information around. Wait wait wait!...you can always teach, bwahhaaa
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Spicy take. I like seeing attacks on banks and other finance companies.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
If you have any reclaimed Freon-12 handy I may call upon you. I have a continuing dream of buying an old Chrysler Imperial, hopefully 1965 or 1966 vintage. I might drive it with the original engine for a while until I get tired of 8 mpg, then replace it with something more efficient but until then I'm looking at ancient Freon-12 air conditioning, of course.

Yeah, I know it's terrible stuff and terribly expensive, but it is still cheaper than replacing an entire AC system on an antique vehicle.
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Ebay will get you squared away. Take the exam and get the R-12 license.

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PIPEWRENCH said:
If it is not nostalgia that is a much better way to go. The modern engines need little or no maintenance for 5 years and 100,000 miles. Back in the 60's every one was a shade tree mechanic because you had to. The vehicles wouldn't run more than a few months without some kind of adjustment. I have V-8 in my 1996 Jeep Grand Cherokee and I only get 10 to 14 mpg. My Dodge Caliber with a V-6 gets twice that. The only nice thing about the jeep is it plows snow and gets my boat to any lake. That is all I use it for anymore. It actually has 275,000 miles on it and runs great. Plus it cost nothing to insure.
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My thing was 1950s vehicles. They are like carrying a cross. One had a cast iron A/C compressor that weighed 40 pounds. The A/C might last 2 or 3 months after a repair. Ditto for the power steering and the same for the generator.
 
Checkerboard Strangler said:
I don't even understand what point you're trying to make.
You mean "college is useless and worthless" ?
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That depends. If you spend a lot of money and graduate from a top school and get a job making big bucks so that you end up in the top 1% of earners then you will be then seen as a dirtbag rich guy who is greedy, selfish, and insensitive towards the little guy and who refuses to pay your excessive share of taxes.

Bottom line. Skip college. Get a skilled job. Sink you earnings into a home, two cars, a boat, on vacation, and maybe another home, but not much more, and let others fight the public for being rich.
 
SDET said:
My thing was 1950s vehicles. They are like carrying a cross. One had a cast iron A/C compressor that weighed 40 pounds. The A/C might last 2 or 3 months after a repair. Ditto for the power steering and the same for the generator.
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A mechanic back then was a miracle worker. Today you replace a part and either it is working great of not at all. Back then all we did was adjust things to keep them working. I had a 1972 Datsun pick-up. I took it to every mechanic I knew and we could not get the dual point ignition and the carburetor working right on that thing. I worked at a gas station then and I had several family members that were mechanics. I took it to every one of them including the dealer. The dealer put a brand new carburetor and distributor on the vehicle and got in running until that winter and we were back in trouble again. I push started that truck with my 69 charger more than it ever started on it's own. That was the worst vehicle I ever owned. I bought it to save gas and it cost me more than I paid for it in repairs. It got good gas mileage because you could never get it started.
 
marke said:
That depends. If you spend a lot of money and graduate from a top school and get a job making big bucks so that you end up in the top 1% of earners then you will be then seen as a dirtbag rich guy who is greedy, selfish, and insensitive towards the little guy and who refuses to pay your excessive share of taxes.

Bottom line. Skip college. Get a skilled job. Sink you earnings into a home, two cars, a boat, on vacation, and maybe another home, but not much more, and let others fight the public for being rich.
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Do you think that the jobs college graduates do are not skilled jobs? Where do you think most jobs are? The economy is not based on tradesman, it can't be. The economy has changed to a focus on service jobs instead of manufacturing, many requiring a college education.
 
Carjosse said:
Do you think that the jobs college graduates do are not skilled jobs? Where do you think most jobs are? The economy is not based on tradesman, it can't be. The economy has changed to a focus on service jobs instead of manufacturing, many requiring a college education.
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I was talking about those 'greedy selfish kids' who go to college with the intention of getting wickedly rich while their neighbors still suffer under considerably less wealthy circumstances. Inequality of wealth and all that cap.
 
Carjosse said:
Do you think that the jobs college graduates do are not skilled jobs? Where do you think most jobs are? The economy is not based on tradesman, it can't be. The economy has changed to a focus on service jobs instead of manufacturing, many requiring a college education.
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Yes indeed.Those who serve coffee at Tim Hortons must be highly skilled.
 
ecofarm said:
College is about so much more than finding a job in a specific field. One can, on the job, learn whatever is necessary (given capacity) in months. But what one gets in four years of college is not something one gains quickly on the job or anywhere else in life. College is about growing up around people that also wanna learn and succeed. And I mean to a greater extant than a restaurant or garage has to offer.

College is about accelerated growth. That growth, in critical thinking and self awareness and other crucial skills that we all wish were common sense, gets the job and the promotions and the life one wants.

Classes don't change a person. Time does. Experience does. In some ways, college wasn't so different than the army. A concentrated learning experience. And grad school is a totally different level.
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Is this why college kids go to the beach in crowds during spring break 2020?
 
avatar said:
Is this why college kids go to the beach in crowds during spring break 2020?
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College is the opportunity to put off adulthood for many.

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Is this why college kids go to the beach in crowds during spring break 2020?
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That's about being 20 somethings. 50 year old college grads didn't go to the beach. Now, if you had college, you coulda figured that out. You coulda seen, all on your own, that education was not the driving factor. However, someone without an education is doomed to make such mistakes forever.
 
ecofarm said:
That's about being 20 somethings. 50 year old college grads didn't go to the beach. Now, if you had college, you coulda figured that out. You coulda seen, all on your own, that education was not the driving factor. However, someone without an education is doomed to make such mistakes forever.
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There is little one can say to this. :lamo
 
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There is little one can say to this.
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That's right because your claim is moronic. You made a mistake I would expect from an elementary school child, not someone with even a high school education. Correlation does not equal causation. It was a pathetic mistake, one which ought permanently relegate someone to the small table.
 
ecofarm said:
That's right because your claim is moronic. You made a mistake I would expect from an elementary school child, not someone with even a high school education. Correlation does not equal causation. It was a pathetic mistake, one which ought permanently relegate someone to the small table.
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I was wrong. There was even more that could be said. :2razz:
 
ecofarm said:
College is about so much more than finding a job in a specific field. One can, on the job, learn whatever is necessary (given capacity) in months. But what one gets in four years of college is not something one gains quickly on the job or anywhere else in life. College is about growing up around people that also wanna learn and succeed. And I mean to a greater extant than a restaurant or garage has to offer.

College is about accelerated growth. That growth, in critical thinking and self awareness and other crucial skills that we all wish were common sense, gets the job and the promotions and the life one wants.

Classes don't change a person. Time does. Experience does. In some ways, college wasn't so different than the army. A concentrated learning experience. And grad school is a totally different level.
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What utopian college did you attend? I saw more persistence, ambition, useful knowledge, and common sense on a construction site than I ever did in college. People actually building something, taking pride in what they built, and having the feeling of having accomplished something afterward. And learning real, marketable skills.

Have you ever painted an old house? It looked like crap at the start, but you scraped and sanded and filled and caulked, and then primed and painted. And what emerged really looked great. And you did something useful. Something real. And you learned real skills. Real work is what makes you grow up, Real responsibilities is what makes you grow up. College was enjoyable for the most part, an interlude, but even at the time I knew it wasn't real life. It is a sort of cocoon.
 
Waddy said:
One is a product of what is experienced.
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I recommend diverse and wide experience to include living in other and developing countries.
 
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