@KiwiBird Time spent on anything is time not spent on anything else.
I left school at 16, having learned almost nothing - certainly with no formal educational qualifications. By the time I was 20, I realised that, no matter what power my long legs, round arse, tits and cheeky grin gave me, the people with real power, power over me, had two things I didn't - money and knowledge.
And I also realised that I needed the latter to make worthwhile amounts of the former. So I started to ask questions.
@SchoolBelle Sometimes we just need the formal education piece of paper as a meal ticket even if we learn fuck all. A means to an end.
I thought the BlackFerns 🌿⚫🇳🇿 did really well against South Africa winning the Qtr-Final...in Exeter. Canada next in the Semi. They will be tougher. Ranked number two after England.
@Baremine I think I mentioned that I was raised on a tobacco farm ..and we also had a market gardening sideline where we grew vegetables and sold them to Heinz, which was a canning factory just a few miles down the road. As a teenager, I ran our roadside vegetable stand on weekends.
My Dad told me that I could keep any money I brought into the veggie stand which was his way of keeping me from working at a job in town, but suggested that I wear a bikini while doing that job because the vegetables alone were sometimes marginal! He was right! I sold-out every weekend after heeding his fatherly advice and made enough money to pay for part of my first year of university tuition with the help of an athletics scholarship.
When I started selling old used wooden boats after I'd graduated from high school, the bikini came out once again and my weekly sales went up immediately! 😆 I can't imagine what those guys told their wives after they got back home with a wooden boat that leaked like a screen door!
@Baremine Well, as my Dad use to frequently remind me when I was a teenager running around in cut-off denim shorts on the farm, that I talked way too much for my age... and if I'd just shut up long enough to let my body get a word in edgewise, then all I'd have to do is just show up and count the money without saying a word to any of my customers!
I had no idea what he was talking about at the time, but eventually my mom show me what he meant! Man, was she smart!
That is correct. School beyond high school, doesn't actually teach us anything, particularly if that school is university. At least high school attempts to teach us how to socialize if nothing else.
The only place where learning occurs beyond high school is in a Trade School or in a college of applied technology. University is stupidly expensive and teaches absolutely nothing to it's students, nor are it's students qualified to do anything specific upon graduation from a Masters Program or even from a Doctorate.
About the only thing one is qualified to do with a PhD is become a University Professor which only pays about $160,000 per year the last time I looked which wasn't recently.
Our tax dollars don't pay a University Professor's salary, the tuition fees pay the Professor's salary which the parents of those students pay to the university with after-tax dollars saved for 20 years from the time their kid was born.
I know, my parents didn't save for 20 years anticipating a Doctorate hanging on my bedroom wall either.
@SchoolBelle I think if leaving school 2 years early doesn’t add 2 extra years of education and actually makes it 2 years less because you left 2 years early unless I’m not understanding it and you mean something else.
