Posted on 07/15/2019 4:29:09 AM PDT by reaganaut1
A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat, eh?
I went year-round carrying a full-load of classes, starting with summer school a week after high school graduation.
I was the first person from my high school class to graduate college early, in only three years.
And I worked three part-time jobs and played in two sports. Always busy and starving.
I got out with a business degree and no student loan debt.
Life was good back then.
Trying to decide which professions are worthier than others is like the parts of the body arguing over which is the most important. It takes all kinds to make a world.
Jesus started out, supposedly, as a carpenter, and abandoned a perfectly good trade in order to enlighten mankind.
I took 21 hours/sem and went summers to get out in 3 years. I hardly ever studied. Finals were an excuse to have week long card games.
I went to a more competitive school evidently...lol
The kids get constant “nudging” and pressure from social media. The sheer numbers or persistence there have more effect than your weekly reminder to study.
Found your candidate for President for 2020 yet?
Every semester a new crop of fresh faces come in, and by the time finals roll around the campus is much more sparsely populated. If you are trying to save your other grades, and you are already at capacity, you are going to adjust your expectations downward. If you are working 20 hours, studying 40 hours, and going to classes 15 hours, that’s a fair amount of time without dealing with the extra stuff they might dock you points for not doing. They make a big deal out of campus leadership and apparently employers also pay attention to that stuff, but I think mostly the aspirational stuff winds up being an evolutionary pressure that wrecks academic performance for a lot of American students.
They listen to podcasts all day while working.
If I’m hiring someone to do technical work, they should be focused on the job at hand, like a laser beam.
There may be a few that can actually multitask, I’ve never met one. Many claim the ability, but performance is questionable at best.
Multitasking is BUNK.
IIRC Persig addresses this in “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”.
How they screwed up his bike, with the radio blasting.
As a student I can tell you that the “nudges” are prevalent and probably viewed by most people as obstacles that it is justifiable to game by any means imaginable. If you come up with a good strategy than share it with others.
> one of the lowest aspects of America’s elite culture is its denigration of anyone who works with both his hands and his brain.
Not all, MIT’s motto is “Mens et Manus,” which translates from the Latin to “Mind and Hand.”
Some of us can taste the plastic in supply lines, whether it’s PVC or Pex.
I replaced all the supply lines in my house with copper.
Our daughter was not completely happy in school, an electrician friend talked her into becoming a union apprentice electrician.
She has done very well, even climbing cell towers for a couple of years, and completed her degree at night.
Now with three kids, still an electrician she works closer to the ground, and I think she goes to work to relax?
Her electrician friend (super smart) joined the NAVY for nuclear school, moved up the ranks like a rocket, loves it!
Only ten more years for a nice even thirty.
“You can lead a person to knowledge but you can’t make them think?”
The internet is the greatest collection of knowledge ever assembled in the history of mankind. What do the vast majority of people today use if for in their personal lives?
Entertainment and sex.
Digital bread and circuses.
The point still stands: society needs the skilled trades, and we need a revival in that.
The point you make is absolutely true. Every small construction / trades business here in North Idaho needs ten good people today. The people they hire often quit in ten days because the work is too hard, they can’t stroll in whenever they want, and they can’t yak on their phones. And that’s not even considering skills.
“Multitasking is BUNK.”
Exactly
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