Re: Oh The Irony Of It All...
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> The one I heard most recently is they're all pissed off because they have a lot of debt from college loans. And thats whose fault? You got a fucking college education for christ's sake.</div></div>
You hit the nail on the fuckin head!
When I was 18 and 3 months out of high school I took a job digging ditches, laying pipe, making taps,and running a root cutter. I worked my way up the ladder and eventually transferred to the wastewater plant. I completed the requisite training and certification tests and became one of the youngest to ever certify grade IV in my state, all without a college education.
Now I have worked with many who had a biology degree or chemistry degree that thought they were hot shit because of that piece of paper....still work with some of them.Still make more money than most of them. We had 2 in our lab who wanted to stiffarm management because they had a masters degree and their big peeve, no shit, was they needed a raise to pay their school loans. I said boo fuckin hoo. Management shut down the lab and farmed it out. I guess the lab geeks showed management. I would bet those two are protesting right now, thats the kind of assholes they were.
Part of being smart and useful to society is knowing what is and is not a marketable skill. In the current climate I am telling my kids to learn a skill or trade and lay off so much emphasis on college. The problem with most of these pro"testers", they are from the have part of society and now that they do not "have" all they thought they should have they think they are entitled to mine. I say come and get it!