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What's your Major?

Verax said:
If you were born a Millennial and dropped out in the 10th grade, you would likely be making minimum wage and possibly be on welfare. The opportunities for the uneducated starting out in this age are dismal. Getting a bachelors degree is now the bare minimum just to try and enter the job market beyond the service sector.

I'm sure you'll respond to this with some tough talk "I make my own luck", but boomers really have no idea how easy they had it. Anybody willing to work hard could make a life for themselves, that is no longer the case unless you have special advantages.
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Millennials (18-34 years) right? GED's?

I know quite a few who run their own small businesses......"no tough talk needed"

My tile guy is around 29-39 years old and never went back to get his GED until 2 years ago and he owns his shop outright with 5, vans and a crew of eight........... along with a receptionist/accountant.

The no#3 residential fence company in my area is owned by a GED who went back to obtain his after he started getting ahead and had the time. I got him started with his first truck.

There are a couple young GED's in their early 20's who run all the GPS and Laser assisted heavy machinery for grading.

A guy I fish with is a local tug engineer making $275.00 a day while working 14 days on & and 14 days off. He's about 29 now and he started out with a GED. That's 46K annually and only working six months out of the year.

My son's best friend is another GED who has been running his own business doing roofing and siding. He started his company about 6 years ago which made him about 26 at the time.

I also know a few plumbers, electricians, and other tradesmen making solid money who are GED's.

I have known college graduates who are "over the road" truckers. They tossed aside well paying careers to drive trucks which is quite a step down pay wise compared to what they were doing. They basically said that they loved the freedom of not being inside the same building and office everyday. One of them was a Podiatrist who closed up shop, and he and I shared the same fleet manager after he bought his own truck outright.

It isn't about being tough, it's about having the desire to get ahead and applying yourself after finding out what you really love doing.

And by the way, this boomer started out in the 70's when factories were leaving faster than rats jumping ship.......hello Navy!
 
"Education baaad. Social justice a scaaaaam. White people."
 
Learning that universities offer not only classes in the subject but degrees could serve as a wake up for some people. Someone might think, "hey, maybe there's more to this concept than the boogeyman preached by hate blogs. Perhaps I don't really understand; maybe it's not a conspiracy to defraud white people". But, no, that's not what happens. Instead, the discovery leads to "education is a conspiracy".
 
BlackMatters said:
https://www.redstate.com/diary/Fred...al-world-learning-form-social-justice-degree/

This College Is Finally Offering ‘Real-World Learning’ In The Form Of A Social Justice Degree!

If you ever wanted to be a professional, certified, degreed Social Justice Warrior, that dream is now possible, thanks to the educational geniuses at Merrimack College in Massachusetts.

That’s right, you can now get your degree in Social Justice. Seriously.

Why Social Justice at Merrimack?

Flexible program means you may customize your major or choose to double-major.
Required internship in a community-based organization or non-governmental organization provides hands-on learning.
Annual Social Justice Week lets you get involved in on-campus initiatives to address inequality
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Your hatred and mockery of social justice is truly despicable.
 
Fledermaus said:
Or lie your ass of[sic] and become a Conspiracy Theorist.
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And you have become a very good one, supporting the totally zero evidence USGOCT.
 
camlok said:
And you have become a very good one, supporting the totally zero evidence USGOCT.
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It is only "zero evidence" because you lack the ability to do research other than at Conspiracy Theory sites.....

You refuse to study the PENTTBOM, the Commission Report, the ASCE Building Performance Report, etc.

Don't blame your rampant ignorance on others.


The recipe for perpetual ignorance is:
Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- Elbert Hubbard
 
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RetiredUSN said:
Who said education was bad?

You couldn't have a conversation on here without race baiting.
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Interesting that TobyOne liked this post, because he was the first to bring up race directly in post #28:

If you're pursuing a degree in "social justice" you won't be doing any of these things. You'll be working in the food service industry and yelling at white people.
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He of course skipped the opportunity to explain the comment.
 
Fledermaus said:
You refuse to study the PENTTBOM, the Commission Report, the ASCE Building Performance Report, etc.
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On the contrary, those are the things that are studied in depth. And none of them have any evidence. They all do have totally impossible events, science that makes the US official a totally impossible fable.
 
camlok said:
On the contrary, those are the things that are studied in depth. And none of them have any evidence. They all do have totally impossible events, science that makes the US official a totally impossible fable.
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That would be a two lies of biblical proportions.

Evidence are not "lies". Evidence is evidence. Facts are not "lies". Facts are. Your inability or unwillingness to understand are irrelevant to that.

What "events" are "totally impossible"?
 
Fledermaus said:
That would be a[sic] two lies of biblical proportions.

Evidence are not "lies". Evidence is evidence. Facts are not "lies". Facts are. Your inability or unwillingness to understand are irrelevant to that.

What "events" are "totally impossible"?
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There are threads where you can discuss this. With more "evidence" than you have shown here.
 
Absentglare said:
Your hatred and mockery of social justice is truly despicable.
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You obtusities are just to obtuse to understand the complex celliliques of social justice and how the phenomenon of higher education in this form might have astounding communal impact on humans has a whole.

Sincerely,

Absentglare
 
BlackMatters said:
You obtusities are just to obtuse to understand the complex celliliques of social justice and how the phenomenon of higher education in this form might have astounding communal impact on humans has a whole.

Sincerely,

Absentglare
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That doesn't make sense. Can you try to rephrase this in a manner that is coherent? For example, by "celliliques" did you mean "soliloquies"?

It is also ironic for you to claim that i'm being obtuse, which means insensitive. You seem to think that defending the concept social justice is an insensitive act, which is trivially false.
 
ecofarm said:
"Education baaad. Social justice a scaaaaam. White people."
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Educating one's self is always a good thing.
You just have to have the intelligence to realize college is not the only place to get "educated".
Professors in the technologies and other disciplines will tell you your real education starts AFTER college.

Learning how to properly tune a PID control loop is something you have to learn by seeing and observing.
Learning how to calm down an angry customer is something you have to learn by knowing the problem and putting yourself in their shoes.

...and lastly, knowing how to see other people's side on any point of view is not something you will ever learn by making posts like the one I quoted. That just means your mind is closed from the very beginning, and you have no interest in what the other person has to say.

Throwing the RACE CARD into the mix closes a second door, and means you are just looking for an internet brawl with no real interest in the thread or subject being discussed.

Fortunately, the system has provided a special place for your type.
 
JMR said:
Interesting that TobyOne liked this post, because he was the first to bring up race directly in post #28:



He of course skipped the opportunity to explain the comment.
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Threads about limited opportunities often go this way I suppose.

College to me is awesome, but just don't go spinning your wheels obtaining a crap diploma.

As far as HS diploma & GED folks go, life still offers a lot of opportunities if you are willing to put in the effort.
 
Cisero said:
Obviously this kind of post will steer the conversation away from the OP and lead to right wingers insulting left wingers, people boasting about their income and defending their education degree.
An another wonderful poo-flinging fest at DP.
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Sorta like that "10 year reunion for GED people" remark tossed out there by a liberal in this thread? Or, the "dismal prospects" that another liberal tossed out there?

Tertiary education is a good thing, and nobody is saying otherwise.

At the same time, it is not a guarantee of success or happiness. The same goes for a person in the trades.

Beginning your adulthood through academia, or through the trades can both be equally rewarding or disappointing. My sister has a hard earned Masters degree, and worked for the state of Maine for 35 years. She was bored to death and was counting the days to retire. She occasionally told me that she wished she had a more adventurous life like mine with all the traveling and all the cool places that my family got to see. And at the same time, I remember telling her on more than a few occasions that I sometimes wished that I settled down in one place back in Maine like she and her husband did. In the end, we both ended up having pretty good careers and families.
 
BlackMatters said:
https://www.redstate.com/diary/Fred...al-world-learning-form-social-justice-degree/

This College Is Finally Offering ‘Real-World Learning’ In The Form Of A Social Justice Degree!

If you ever wanted to be a professional, certified, degreed Social Justice Warrior, that dream is now possible, thanks to the educational geniuses at Merrimack College in Massachusetts.

That’s right, you can now get your degree in Social Justice. Seriously.

Why Social Justice at Merrimack?

Flexible program means you may customize your major or choose to double-major.
Required internship in a community-based organization or non-governmental organization provides hands-on learning.
Annual Social Justice Week lets you get involved in on-campus initiatives to address inequality
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Merrimack should offer post grad job placement assistance with McDonald's for Social Justice majors.





:lamo
 
RetiredUSN said:
This 10th grade drop out makes six figures a year when he's not goofing off............. like I am this year.

Your point is?
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I've had a few six figure years, but then free trade agreements hurt my career.
 
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