> >If it weren't for the schooling, where would you be? Probably poor,
> isolated, and confused.
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> >Doug
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>Maybe you should have counted to ten before pulling the trigger on that one.
:)
That's kind of silly, Doug. I spent how many years being poor/struggling on the edge before I landed a decent job, which had ZERO to do with my education. 15 years for which a college degree didn't do much for me - and never did, really. The education got me squat, really. I got the job with the help of people like Joanna, Dwayne, and others here who taught me how to make my resume stand out.
I remember Joanna and Jordan telling me to go ahead and list every programming language I'd ever breathed on my resume. I was mortified. It seemed like lying to me. But they convinced me otherwise. Had I not done that, my resume never would have landed in a search on PHP developer. for some reason, I scored as a Sr level PHP developer - possibly a skill learned from schooling: easily passing idiotic multiple choice quizzes? Nah. I never took a multiple choice exam in college, not until took the GREs for grad school. So, I poked around and saw they needed a UI developer. I told them that I wsn't a PHP programmer, but how about that UI dev job? It was a complete fluke, really.
Nor would I have gotten the job had they not been desperate for labor in the IT world. They had to search far and wide to fill the position. the only job offer I had before that was for 35k doing graphic design for AAA. And the graphic design and, later, programming was stuff I learned on my own and certainly not through school.
But the more silly thing about it is the assumption that, by working hard at schooling, by having some kind of critical thinking capacity, everyone who does so is going to land a job and lead lives in which they aren't poor, isolated, and confused.
This is the kind of horse shit leftists are supposed to fight against.
I know a bizillion and one people who bust their ass every day who will end up stuck in crap jobs for which their critical thinking skills are more an impediment than not. There simply aren't enough decent jobs to go around. Peddling the lie that there are, thus you should go to school, makes me sick to my stomach. when I first started making good money, I would be walking to work, filled with the utter joy of the experience of walking on brick paved streets, in the sunshine, to a job I liked, finally able to breath. But what would fill me with sadness, make me ball my eyes out, make me stop in a panic to think that there was absolutely nothing I could do was this: the knowledge that, while I got out, I leave at least 20 people behind who are no different - no less hard working, no less talented, no less brilliant - who will never make it because there just aren't enough jobs of the kind this schooling is supposed to bring you.
shag