What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[Ack]

That said, why must education (at any level) simply be about landing a job? Is there no value in paying for education for the sake of broader intellectual development?

Hey Ds, I like Luke and all, and he knows it, but he thinks like a businessman.

[MrPopo]

That said, why must education (at any level) simply be about landing a job? Is there no value in paying for education for the sake of broader intellectual development?

Getting an education for the sake of broader intellectual development, I'm totally on board.

Not so sure about paying for it, or at least paying for the prices involved with college. There are too many free or cheap resources out there to get your learn on.

[dsheinem]

That said, why must education (at any level) simply be about landing a job? Is there no value in paying for education for the sake of broader intellectual development?

Getting an education for the sake of broader intellectual development, I'm totally on board.

Not so sure about paying for it, or at least paying for the prices involved with college. There are too many free or cheap resources out there to get your learn on.

Sure, but not everyone can self-educate and a good degree experience sometimes functions as a way to train you to self educate for life. There's also something to be said for engaged learning with peers and experts that isn't the norm for self education.

The price/value of that experience will vary by person. Some will find it not worth the price of college, others will see the college experience as a bargain.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Seriously rough day for me mentally. I'm really kicking myself over my weight right now. You see, when I have a shirt on, depending on the shirt, I don't look that bad. Some even think I'm skinny. Tight shirt, or shirtless? I look like shit, and all kinds of awkward. Beer gut and man boobs everywhere. After a quick self-detrimental joke, the whole class agreed I wasn't overweight. I argued with them, they asked to see my gut, show I showed them. The looks on their faces said it all.

[Luke]

That said, why must education (at any level) simply be about landing a job? Is there no value in paying for education for the sake of broader intellectual development?

Hey Ds, I like Luke and all, and he knows it, but he thinks like a businessman.

Some have said my education has been detrimental to my line of thought, I say my education has only reinforced my core train of thought.

I can't help but think like a businessman. ROI has been programmed into my mind since birth.

[indecks]

HEY HEY NOW... it was good with ranch dressing, ALRIGHT?

If you have a Krogers, you might try that chicken bacon ranch pizza in the store branded ones. I didn't care for it, but it might be up your alley.

We dont here in Austin (that im aware of). I remember down in the valley we did have one when I was a kid. I'll check em out, maybe they can be ordered online or something.

[lisalover1]

Who pursues a higher education in engineering? Lol, I am only half joking. Some go and get their masters in business to become project engineers or managers. But higher education in engineering is generally worthless with a few exceptions:
- becoming a professor
- university research
- foreign students extending a visa

You're... you're joking, right? There's no way anyone could be serious about a statement like that.

[Hobie-wan]

We dont here in Austin (that im aware of). I remember down in the valley we did have one when I was a kid. I'll check em out, maybe they can be ordered online or something.

Yeah, I think you're Krogerless there. Even if you can order them online, it won't be worth it. Was just a thought since it had ranch instead of tomato sauce.

[Fragems]

(RANT): Came to find out that the policy has changed at my usual summer job. No longer are Summer employees at the DoH allowed to perform traffic control aka flagging. Hell they weren't even sure if they were going to allow summer employees out of the garages period this year .

So basically the 4 summer employees are going to be stuck at the main garage 90% of the time since flagging was basically our main purpose . To give you an idea of how exciting the days are going to be here is what we did today.
1st We emptied the garbage-5 Min
2nd We swept the floor- 5 Min
3rd Weed Eating. - 7 Hours 50 Minutes. We only had one weed eater so two of us had to scavenge brush axes from the tool shed. We ran out of stuff to chop with the axes about an hour in so we ended up having to pretend to pick up garbage(We had already cleaned the lot out of boredom the day before) for the rest of the day while taking turns on the weed eater every time it ran out of gas.

Here is what we get to start tommorrow:
Painting 1/2 a mile of perfectly fine chained link fences with........

Sponges

FML.

On a side note expected cost of this BS 4.5K(Or at least I hope that is what they said heard it as 45k, but there is no freaking way). Seriously why the hell are we doing this?

/ : My brother comes home from college Friday. So does my 360. he is the 4th summer employee meaning there will be even less work to go around.


: On a side note got a third party power supply to test my Atari 2600 systems and my woody, vader, and Jr. all worked fine even before cleaning. Played the hell out of pitfall .

[Jmustang1968]

Who pursues a higher education in engineering? Lol, I am only half joking. Some go and get their masters in business to become project engineers or managers. But higher education in engineering is generally worthless with a few exceptions:
- becoming a professor
- university research
- foreign students extending a visa

You're... you're joking, right? There's no way anyone could be serious about a statement like that.

I said I am half joking. But it doesn't really do much for you in the industry beyond getting a bachelors in an engineering degree. If you really want to, then more power to you. And when I say higher, I mean beyond a bachelors. That is a given necessity.

You are much better off getting some specialized training and/or certifications.