It was just supposed to be all roses and lilies!
Learning how to make it in hard times will better prepare us for the Good Times.
Sacrifice, Humility, and Grit are things many of us need reminding of.
With those qualifications he should consider becoming a pimp.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
“It was just supposed to be all roses and lilies!”
The recession of the late ‘70s/early ‘80s was really something. I remember 22% interest rates on loans, inflation and no money around. We actually had a barter exchange set up where I could trade legal work for wood or gasoline or plumbing/electrical work. Thursdays I’d often go up and down the main street of our town seeing if my clients could pay a little something on their bill! I had left my job as an associate in a law firm and had opened my own practice. We had a new baby by 1980 but I think we were too dumb to be scared. In any event, most everyone we knew were in the same boat. She Who Must Be Obeyed calls those times our “Water stew and chicken liver days.” We survived and so will today’s young folks.
Her reward came at A&T’s December commencement, where she walked the stage a semester ahead of schedule to receive a degree in liberal studies .
This kills me. Liberal Studies? Come on now. What really makes me angry is that about five years ago they were saying that having a liberal studies or liberal arts depending on the name of the degree (both the same) was beneficial because it gives you an overall outlook on things. Those professional advisors did not have any future outlook other than that day apparently. I think liberal studies should only be allowed for those wanting to learn for themselves but not for any sort of career...just for fun!!! lol.
The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts
Education is something I will encourage (and by encourage I mean, if you feel you are grown enough to be out of school, you are grown enough to move out of my house), but it isn’t the guarantee of success that generations have made it out to be. I didn’t not finish college, but many who did came to me on my knowledge of insurance laws that came from just experience of reading and referring to them over the years.
My grandfather (who died in 1965)went to the 2nd grade but was wicked smart. He designed blueprints and had a genius mind for equations and such. When he died, they replaced him with a 4 year college graduate to do the things he did and even lost business because his (my grandfather) buildings were so sturdy and had such a vast use of space he had a reputation for states around. He designed barns for free as his act of goodness the bible spoke of.
College is great, but people place too much emphasis on the piece of paper rather than what the classes taught while earning that paper.
This is not to discredit college as there are many more valuable things to learn there and I wish I had went myself. But I just hated to see freshly grad student waltz into my office with the idea that they knew far more than me and I had real life experience of how the world worked in my field. I usually had them straightened out in a year or so and they ended up being fine employees.
Liberal studeies....... plastic degree in a technical world
And once that first job is landed, then the formula for success is what it has always been---work hard, live within your means, save as much as you can, pay off any debt you have, and avoid new debt.
Ummm..
He’s not even sure how much he owes.
I stopped reading right there. This young woman wants to be a journalist, and isn't smart enough to be reading the news and doing the research that says it's a dying field.
What a pathetic article. These young folks don’t know the meaning of recession or many other kinds of hardships.
She’s hoping for something that will advance a career in her chosen field, print journalism
Brian Miller, 27, is looking for new work, preferably a position that would put his bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies and his master’s degree in public health
Jones, a political science major minoring in ethics.
My god! Doesn't anyone major in practical fields anymore!
Brian Miller, 27, is looking for new work, preferably a position that would put his bachelor’s degree in human development and family studies and his master’s degree in public health to good use.
“I was in the military for a while. When I got out, I just roamed around and wasted a few years of my life,” said Jones, a political science major minoring in ethics.
I think I see a pattern here.
Life is hard, Lanita. Most young graduates your age live in starter mansions and drive Lexus automobiles. It just isn’t fair. ~ sniff ~
Aren't young people entitled to goods times, prosperity and the life of Riley.
I'm almost GLAD we are facing hard times so the 20 something generation sheds their sense of entitlement mindset.
Things like:
You want me to work more than 8 hours a day and weekends !!
I won't take a job for less then $10.00 hr !!
I can't drive a USED car. Are you kidding me!!
What do you mean I can't have the new 360 X-Box for my birthday!!
You want me to pay rent for my room, but I need my money for the weekend !!
Quit whimpering and suck it up, ya bunch of crybabies.
Take a 30 minute walk through a slum in Mumbai or outside of Manila, and watch the people there for a moment, and then come back to the US and its supermarkets with 45 different brands of dog food, and stfu.
1/3 of the people on this planet go to sleep tonight on an empty stomach that aches and growls, and maybe the better half of them will sleep out under the stars with cardboard as a pillow, open sewers a few meters perhaps from their heads at rest.
Or, otherwise, just do us all a favor, button it, and join the US military if you cannot find a job; and put in a few years defending the place that has spoiled you to the inner cores, and give something back to Uncle Sam while you ride this out.
>>[”Overachiever Alexandria Harper’s] reward came at A&T’s December commencement, where she walked the stage a semester ahead of schedule to receive a degree in liberal studies.
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but overachievers don’t get degrees in “liberal studies”. They get degrees in Engineering, Accounting, Pre-Med, etc.
Liberal studies, and most degrees that contain the words “studies” or “science”, qualify you for the job of Starbucks barista, and that only after in-store training.