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Originally Posted by TOMAHAWK9521
As for other higher learning, I have 3 out of 4 years in Industrial Design but knew I would never complete the program because I had no intention of being someone's intern bitch or working and designing stuff for someone else's benefit. Ironically, I opted to go back overseas and provide direct material support to ODAs via rapid fabrication, but everything we developed was immediately tagged as Lockheed's IP. As much as that annoyed me, it was still a fantastic job and it really helped me focus on how to start setting up my own operation.
BINGO People lose sight of what many degrees are for...white collar vs blue collar essentially an MBA or any other degree is training to work for an entrepreneur with less chances of getting dirty and hopefully more pay...kind of like really expensive trade schools IMO
I'd like to set up my own custom fab shop and eventually bring in other willing and able veterans who either need to learn a trade or craft or improve on the skills they already possess. It's ambitious, to say the least, but I believe there needs to be an alternative to college, especially for veterans. I'm sure Starbucks or McDonalds could use the bodies And any "lesbian philosophical basket weaving" or "Interpretive Harry Potter Studies" degree graduates can go play Hide-and-Go-F*ck-Yourself"..
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That is exactly the point about education these days....a Bachelors or a Masters should never replace the experience and knowledge of real life experience, natural intelligence and aptitude...it can't I have seen too many idiots with degrees whom perhaps are great in a school setting incapable in real life here in SF even we have them as well
that are not even gifted enough intellectually to compete for the armorer gig....but as you know the Army has given up its thinking caps and they too place a premium on formal education instead of ability.
College at one time was for the intellectual elite the driven....today its for everyone so why are we not treading lighter on degree over ability? especially now that we see the products coming out of these institutions with little to no valuable skill, no enhanced intellect, no enlightenment on practical things that effect our lives? they have come out delusions of grandeur and a fanatical belief that we are all wrong and the radicals have it right
Obviously their are trades that require the highest level of education as science advances such as scientist, physicians, Lawyers, Engineers etc.....but most of these degrees seem to be just a way to get substandard minds into the higher institutions of indoctrination...to create soldiers for the radical agenda.