Ha! Thank you.
Hi! Congratulations to your daughter on her successful completion of the vet. tech. exam. Maybe some day you’ll come on here and introduce a brand spanking new doctor to us! Good luck to daughter of Chef lysie!
FWIW- My son could not stand school, therefore- he did not apply himself, although he was quite capable. College was out of the question. He chose to go to work. First a paper route, which he actually did for 3 years during junior high school, and high school, then he sacked groceries and rounded up grocery carts, and finally, landed a job at a corrugated box factory. He has been there for over 15 years, and received a number of promotions of one sort or another.
Would I have liked him to go on to higher education and land a job more in line with his desires, where he could flourish and earn an equitable wage or salary for the discipline chosen? Yes.
While he didn’t choose to go on to college, I take great pride in the fact that he gets his butt to work- every day, and is a good human being and a productive member of society. I influenced him as best I could, and appreciate greatly the work ethic that was bestowed on him in the 3 years he delivered newspapers, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year, rising at 5 AM on Sat’s and Sun’s, rain or shine- and gittin’ er’ dun’! Of note- Sundays; the kids had to deliver the big city newspaper that was about the size and weight of a 2 liter soft drink bottle. My kid had 84 customers. It took 5 stuffed newspaper bags to get the papers delivered.
Ol’ dad got some time in the saddle helping sonny boy on a number of those days slinging papers!
That’s a lot of words... to say this-
Great job mom! Great job dad!