When I was in college, we ate sliced turkey with mashed potatoes and white gravy five days a week. Stop wining, maybe you should take a year off.
One problem with everyone taking a “year off” is that those students will now be competing for spots next year with current HS seniors (I have a HS senior and he’s worried about this).
The other problem with gap years is that they can permanently delay economic prosperity for that cohort—they will kind of languish for a year as internships are way down, they can’t travel as would be traditional during a gap year, and the economy is bad (hard to find employment during the gap year).
When will ‘they’ realize that the degree in ‘ancient habits of cats’ doesn’t even get you into the Veterinarian Work Force.
Of course one of the real problems is JOBs ‘requiring’ a degree of sorts, even on the lower echelon (IMNSHO it is to ‘restrict’ who they ‘have’ to hire in a lot of cases)
Used to be one would get out of the Military in decent shape and a ‘working mind’ and LEO opened its arms to you.
Somewhere along the line the standards dropped and LEO started requiring some college credits etc.
Yes, the ex GIs turned out some head knockers but people had a ‘respect’ for the police when they were policing.
Now too much emphasis on a para military Police Force, pushing the Andy Griffiths out while embracing Barney Fife and a bevy of out of shape women.
Look at MOST of our D Led Metropolis’ today.
At the top— Mayor or Chief of Police there is either a Female/Female of Color/and in some cases Males that either think they are Fs or are ‘scared of their own shadow’.
While they have their OWN paid for ‘protection’ (Pols and ‘upper management elitists’) they are wanting to take OUR guns away and defund the Police.
After making Urban police forces into Military Units, ‘they’ discourage the people that can actually use them and too many times recently, the Cops in large cities are instructed to back down even though they have more fire power than a lot of outfits in WWII combat zones.
It is reminiscent of back in the day when ALL departments of cities ‘needed’ 4WD SUVs for when having to work in ice and snow conditions. Good idea BUT the general rule of them is that if it is bad enough to NEED the 4WD a lot of cities shut down, leaving the 4WD ‘fleet’ parked while requesting private citizens to ‘go pick up people who are necessary’ etc....
Yet, these same ‘leaders’ and ideas keep getting reelected and people have even got out of the wringing of hands and asking ‘Why?’, just going along to get along.
I agree, Babba Gi! STOP YER WHINING! Poor muffins (not)
When I was in college, we lived on the trifecta...
no-name brand mac n cheese, no-name brand hotdogs, and canned tuna...Think of the combination:
just mac
mac ‘n dog’s
mac ‘n tuna “casserole”
just dogs
just tuna
then repeat the cycle
All prepared in a Roly Hot Pot that we snuck in - no microwaves around then - and plug in appliances were a no no