Posted on 12/23/2021 8:30:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Apparently there is such a screaming need for tradesmen and women, that if you are good at it, you can pull in a 6 figure income with no problem at all.
Having a marketable skill instead of a degree in sociology or gender studies, is going to put food on your table for your life time.
And if conservatives are the ones who can fix things, they have the liberal snowflakes over a barrel. They will survive if/when TSHTF.
RE: Says the man who was a going to be a Poli Sci major before flunking out after a semester.
I guess you can say he speaks from experience.
Also, one can get into those gender studies and “soesh” classes to upend their lockstep one-sided ideology. Those ideologues don’t have a lock on knowledge.
Cawthon is an idiot.
Not really since I didn't flunk out. But I work in banking, have two degrees in business, and would not have my job without them so I wouldn't agree with Cawthorn's blanket statement at all.
RE: Cawthon is an idiot.
Please elaborate.
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Why would he?
Because he was poorly home-schooled and dropped out after a semester of college, he thinks no Conservatives are going to benefit from a college education? It depresses me that this is what passes for a Conservative intellectual these days. He and Boebert are mental midgets.
Cawthorn’s wife is a pretty sweet girl who had no idea of the pressure of having a husband who is both paraplegic and a member of Congress. Best they part now as both are young and hay no children. Sam Rayburn who went through a similar short lived marriage at the start of his very long career said few women in the small city he was from could juggle a DC political life and small town America. Those he reconned could already had tied the knot
Mr Sam never we’d again.
BS. He is exactly right.
Therefore, we are world filled with people who are dependent upon those who do understand these things and who can repair, maintain and do these things for them.
This way they can go about their busy lives doing their important things, while they depend upon other people to: cook for them, clean up after them, take care of their homes, yards and vehicles for them, educate and sometimes even raise their children for them, and take care of their retirements for them, too.
If you know how to do any of these things, then you are presented with a world of opportunities for life-long income and an undergraduate degree is not required.
I stumbled upon a Reddit called “antiwork”. Reading was genuinely depressing. So many young people are so far underwater with college debt. It’s hard to say who scammed them. Their parents? Teaching them “everyone’s a winner” for the last 35 years? Their high schools? Society itself? The kids themselves? How much common sense can you actually expect out of 17 year olds these days, and why is that so?
“Therefore, we are world filled with people who are dependent upon those who do understand these things and who can repair, maintain and do these things for them.”
This is a large contributor to “the rich become richer” IMO. Simply because I can fix my cars and house, I live a better life and HAVE more than someone making the same money who can’t. The mind-boggling, intricate complexities of a toilet-flushing mechanism would completely befuddle least a third of college students these days.
A less educated US is a weaker opponent.
ALL of those type of jobs will be erased from the “need” list. We are fast coming to a time of austerity, whether we like it or not.
Take a graduate from a Home schooling family today, or a High school educated person from the 60’s, give them a piece of paper saying “DEGREE”, and aside from engineering, physician, scientist or Lawyer they could do any job better than a College graduate.
There is very little to be gained from a University degree that you cannot get faster, cheaper and better from a CC.
My grandmother taught generations of children, with a HS diploma and a teaching College that took two years as an apprentice. Two years, working alongside other teachers, then 40 years on the job,she turned out 100% literate without going to a University. I would put those young men and women against the current product coming out of schools today. What she had was called a “Teachers College” with classes at night, and teaching by day. She had a certificate of completion, but was teaching before the paper was given.
All that generation did was build the industrial world we have today, and went to the moon. I wonder why we haven’t been back? Universities, churning out miseducated idiots for at least 40 years.
There are places besides college to receive education and gain skills.
My oldest met her husband 1st semester of college. He left and took a full time job with a credit union, worked his way up to Branch Manager and is now an independent mortgage officer. He calls his own hours.
Also got his pilot’s license and worked off his hours requirements by flying skydivers on weekends
They married at 22, bought a duplex and lived in half, then bought a single family home a few years later.
They didn’t have a TV for the first 5 yr of their marriage, but they owned 2 houses and 2 airplanes before age 30. Their children have the benefit of both parents being home to raise them.
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