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You don't want to hear about my jumping on the tractor the same day as the operation!Big, Really BIG mistake. More than all the frozen peas in Northern KY could cope with!
Jack??
Quote from: Flyin6 on August 06, 2015, 07:16:20 AMJack??Oh! You've met him! ;)
Quote from: Wilbur on August 06, 2015, 12:13:22 PMQuote from: Flyin6 on August 06, 2015, 07:16:20 AMJack??Oh! You've met him! ;)I was an Armee A-V-8-orOf course I know him and all his cousins, especially Mr. Bailey!
jack can be a butt head, i like his brother jim better even though he has sold out to the japanese.
I think I must be a 60+ year old soul;
When I go back to school (work) "Mark" is my favorite student/nurse/psychologist as "it" Makers it all better!
I pray your friend find solice with those demons, I have been in both ends of that situation and don't wish it on anybody.
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb. I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
Great picture. I always feel like I need to shave my tongue the morning after a cigar....
I understand the frustration with a reduced summer vacation since I had that as a kid and thought it was awesome. But the flip side is that kids and public school teachers should be happy you still get any vacation at all! In my world of infant daycare and private school through 6th grade we run year round. The parents that use our services work a full time schedule, so their kids need school year round. The only break we get is a 2 week shut down over Christmas. And even then our parents are all angry that we are closed because it forces them to use their personal vacation time.
Bingo Cuda,It frustrates me to see both parents working to keep up with the joneses when it's not necessary. My wife punched out of the workforce at 7 months of pregnancy with our first and never looked back. We believe that the wellbeing of our children trump material gain. Now I get that there are situations where there is only one parent or both parents HAVE to work to make ends meet. But I'm talking about the rest who covet material things at the expense of the kids and expect the school system to raise them. Then wonder why little Billy is on dope and always in trouble...
Quote from: TexasRedNeck on August 11, 2015, 11:09:52 PMBingo Cuda,It frustrates me to see both parents working to keep up with the joneses when it's not necessary. My wife punched out of the workforce at 7 months of pregnancy with our first and never looked back. We believe that the wellbeing of our children trump material gain. Now I get that there are situations where there is only one parent or both parents HAVE to work to make ends meet. But I'm talking about the rest who covet material things at the expense of the kids and expect the school system to raise them. Then wonder why little Billy is on dope and always in trouble...This is why my wife works out of her home office. We had Sophie in public pre-school for about 6 months before we pulled her. She learned plenty; how to talk back, hit, swear, refuse to eat what she was given, demand things, and all other sorts of rude behavior that she never did before. Granted she's almost 5 and some of these things just happen, but the third time she was forced to nap when we had strictly instructed she was not to was the last straw. Oh and after 6 months, she still couldn't spell CAT. She's with my wife every day now as she was before and is spelling her name herself, my name, her mom and brother's, counts to 20 in English and spanish, (and many more words that I've been teaching her), is able to add basic numbers, and is testing in for early kindergarten at the end of this month. Ourschool system here in WA has been on a steady decline, bowing to the new regime's rhetoric and even going as far as to change what is taught in history class. It's disgusting. Last year, my son who just turned 17 and is exceptionally well behaved outside of last weeks antics, was failing math towards the end of the first quarter. He's a bit of a math genius so I was perplexed and asked to speak with his teacher. The "new" algebra they were teaching was a different method then what I remembered and an extremely long route to get to a simple answer. Sam had figured out the shortest route possible, was answering all the questions, homework, tests etc correctly, but wasn't using the preferred method so he was given failing grades. After exhausting conversations with teachers, principals, even district offices, I finally relented and told Sam "I don't care how you get it done, but do it their way so we can graduate." He got on his computer and wrote some code and created a program to complete the superfluous bs legwork they required. Still had to complete the work himself, but finished the year with a B after catching up. Guess this could have gone into CIEMR, but it was relative. I have a feeling we will both still be working through Sam's college years to keep up with the costs, but we stopped chasing the Joneses a long time ago, and as long as Cyndie is working from home and with the kids for all of their at home time we have and will continue to be more successful in my opinion than the vast majority of sheeple. Side note: Since I speak fluent Spanish and have been working with Sophie on teaching her a second language, she's started recognizing that "brown people" (her words) respond to hola in the grocery store. Some pretty hilarious reactions have ensued. 4 year olds just call em how the see em.
Preach on brother. I had initially wanted to teach music when I was a fledgling, but saw that part of education rapidly being removed from the curriculum and at the same time realized that I had a talent for making friends with total strangers and therefore a great leg up in sales. Higher pay won out over higher education, but these days should I lose my job I have nothing to fall back on. My truly valued teachers and mentors, many of which I am still in contact with to this day actually talked me out of a career in education as I believe they saw the future and it wasn't bright. All of the teachers I had respect for retired shortly after I graduated in '99, so they were part of the old system that actually gave a crap about educating students, not shoving them up through the system to achieve numbers worthy of federal funding. Students today are as you stated, starting out dumber and leaving dumber than previous generations, and I for one will not allow that to happen to mine. Sam successfully completed a computer tech program through running start early college class this last school year and will apply for grants, loans and scholarships and work for 1/3rd the cost of his tuition. His collective grand parents will provide him with another 3rd and we will pay for the last 3rd. Providing he maintains his grades/employment we will continue this until he has graduated. My stepfather has worked for Microsoft for 20+ years and has taken him under his wing as well and has advanced his knowledge and understanding of that field above what most of his college level interns are at, so he has a good head start. Most of his peers are already on the fast track to lifelong careers at Mac & Don's steakhouse or Wallyworld, and he's taking notice. Last weeks extra curricular activities and the subsequent conversations he has had with us, and multiple friends and family members has enlightened him to the path he was starting to take and an about face seems to have taken place. I plan to report here to his continued success and lean on you all for insight and help as well. It takes a village, but it's better to pick the smarter village.
I'm hoping for that re-boot someday too. But until then I'll continue to shore them up the best I can physically mentally and spiritually because it's obvious no one else will. >:(
Quote from: EL TATE on August 12, 2015, 10:36:54 AMPreach on brother. I had initially wanted to teach music when I was a fledgling, but saw that part of education rapidly being removed from the curriculum and at the same time realized that I had a talent for making friends with total strangers and therefore a great leg up in sales. Higher pay won out over higher education, but these days should I lose my job I have nothing to fall back on. My truly valued teachers and mentors, many of which I am still in contact with to this day actually talked me out of a career in education as I believe they saw the future and it wasn't bright. All of the teachers I had respect for retired shortly after I graduated in '99, so they were part of the old system that actually gave a crap about educating students, not shoving them up through the system to achieve numbers worthy of federal funding. Students today are as you stated, starting out dumber and leaving dumber than previous generations, and I for one will not allow that to happen to mine. Sam successfully completed a computer tech program through running start early college class this last school year and will apply for grants, loans and scholarships and work for 1/3rd the cost of his tuition. His collective grand parents will provide him with another 3rd and we will pay for the last 3rd. Providing he maintains his grades/employment we will continue this until he has graduated. My stepfather has worked for Microsoft for 20+ years and has taken him under his wing as well and has advanced his knowledge and understanding of that field above what most of his college level interns are at, so he has a good head start. Most of his peers are already on the fast track to lifelong careers at Mac & Don's steakhouse or Wallyworld, and he's taking notice. Last weeks extra curricular activities and the subsequent conversations he has had with us, and multiple friends and family members has enlightened him to the path he was starting to take and an about face seems to have taken place. I plan to report here to his continued success and lean on you all for insight and help as well. It takes a village, but it's better to pick the smarter village. If your boy ever needs any help with building/refining his resume or has questions about school programs and things like that, by all means I'd be happy to help. I look at tons of resumes, as I hire lots of interns and people fresh out of college into full time positions, so I can give you some ideas of what I look for at least. On the school front, I got some bum advice when I went into undergrad by a ho-hum adviser, and it really limited my options later...
Mind you I am just a farmer... but in today's world that's becoming a pretty sophisticated business.
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are. Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!
The more we get over educated kids with no work ethic to the more the basics become the basis for the cut.I hire highly compensted employees and I could care less about advanced degrees that their parents paid good money for to spend 8-10 years in college only to graduate and have zero common sense (street smarts)I look for competitive sports, military service, employment history (no gaps and more than a year or two with each company), and I've gotten good at vetting out the embellishments in the resume. I want someone who has realistic expectations: They must outwork the people around them and bust their hump if they are to get ahead. Manners, work ethics, and street smarts, and a good attitude mean much more to me than some sheepskin.Herb Kelleher, SW Airlines said. Give me someone with a great attitude and I can train them to do anything.