Posted on 05/12/2016 9:02:45 AM PDT by fella
They have a list to fill and what ever comes up when it’s your turn is what you get.
Counselors in schools do pretty much the same thing, they have majors and classrooms to fill so that tenured professors can pass the work down to the TAs.
Puritan Work Ethic:
“The Puritans declared the sanctity of all honorable work. In so doing, they rejected a centuries-old division of callings into “sacred” and “secular”…
This Puritan rejection of the dichotomy between sacred and secular work has far-reaching implications. It judges every honorable job to be of intrinsic value, and integrates every vocation with a Christian’s spiritual life.
It makes every job consequential by regarding it as the arena for glorifying and obeying God and for expressing love (through service) to a neighbor.”
Puritan Work Ethic: the Dignity of Life’s Labors
Christianity Today, October 1979, p. 15
Most of the angry “forgive my student loan debt” crowd should have gone to vo-tech instead.
It also raised the commoner higher in esteem, enabling democracy by the common person’s vote, because they were equal in worth both spiritually and socially to the nobles and rich.
I think so. I paid cash (well, my parents did) for my management degree. My kids have gone into the military, to business school (after basics at community college), and now we’re exploring the trade programs.
My father was a Navy officer for 30 years. My brother, an Air Force NCO, once asked, “Dad, are you disappointed that I wasn’t an officer?” Dad said, “No. I would only have been disappointed if you hadn’t worked hard and done well in the career you chose.”
That’s how I feel about my children. Anoreth joined the Coast Guard at 18 and has 7 years in. Bill will soon graduate with a business degree. Tom will learn heavy equipment mechanics. Elen’s starting academics at community college. Sally wants to take the auto-body and paint course ...
It’s a big old world out there, with a lot of ways to make an honest living.
I guess I was lucky...they must have needed mechanics, and that was what I scored well on.
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