You’re accusing menace lying? Good grief! And you get to decide whether or not people are successful according to your own standards? Is that what you are saying? So what do you consider successful? A family where both parents have to work out of the home in order to pay for cable TV, a brand new car every two years, a huge house, long vacations every year because they hate their job and need a vacation? They all have nice clothes and on the outside it looks like they are successful. Bit do they know each other? Do they know their kids?
Compare that to the family that has a mom that stays at home, a dad that has his own bike shop on his own property. He has built up a small but steady stream of clients because he is good at what he does and enjoys what he is doing. He’s home to eat with the family and help out when needed. They are comfortable and happy without all the junk that a lot of people think they have to have in order to be happy. Who is better off? The family that is on debt up to their eyeballs but has great toys or the family that has no debt but may not appear successful? These are just two general examples, by the way. I’m not saying there aren’t other options.
This started with you generalizing that unless you’re older than 24 before getting married and have a degree you can’t be successful. All I’ve been trying to do is point out to you that it isn’t wise to paint with such a broad brush. It doesn’t burn me that people have to get a degree to be an engineer or a doctor. I think you are seriously misreading my posts. And we’re quite happy, thank you. I don’t need a reality show. I don’t need TV, either.
Menace= me of
Sorry. My phone tries to fill in where my thumbs fumble. I’ll try to proofread a little better next time.
You look very successful to me. More successful than most people. Certainly more successful than the malcontent who keeps trying to tear you down.
You can’t reason with people who curse your entire lineage because you believe a person can be well-educated and have a fulfilling life without attending college at 18, or without attending college at all, if he chooses.
My husband hadn’t started college at all when we got married, when he was 26; I was about to graduate. He got his bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering when he was 32 (we had two children) and his Master’s at 34 (third baby on the way). I think having a family to support helps to focus a student’s mind on doing well and being efficient in gaining a professional education or career credentials.
Anoreth started community college at 17, and after a year decided it wasn’t all the meaningful at the moment. Now she’s had two years in the School of Hard Knocks (USCG branch), majoring in pirate-hunting in the tropics. She’s accumulating money for college, reading the Greek and Latin classics and the Scandinavian sagas, converting half the Coast Guard to radical conservatism ... what a life, and she’s just turned 20!
Clicked on your page. You have a beautiful family! Absolutely looks like you’re a smashing success to me!
The older you get the more you realize that in the spiritual sense, all that matters in the end is souls. And in the earthly sense, all you leave is your posterity.
People are what the LORD prizes, and they’re the only thing that will survive this creation after it is renovated in God’s good time.
He died for us, so if we’re wise, we’ll live for Him, and for those He loves.
My husband’s cousin is a successful horse trainer. She and her husband have a ranch in KY, three (soon to be four) beautiful children and are healthy, happy and make a good living.
My MIL said to me one day that she should go back to college and get a degree.
When I asked her “WHY?!?”
She said that everyone should be educated.
I had nothing more to say to the woman.
This is just how some people are. They believe you are nothing unless you have that piece of paper. Well let me tell you, I have a PhD in Naturopathic Medicine. That piece of paper has gotten me nothing but 20,000 dollars poorer and the ability to give my hubby a great massage.
I take being happy with my kids at home and no cable tv any day. You are correct in all you say.