Everyone has issues Fly, our success is based on how well we control, come to terms with or hide them. Also, the scale of those issues. People today let these issues control them because they are too self centred tbh.
Oh I just recently did a stint at a vocational school, it comes up plenty day to day. So much so that I did a big oral presentation debunking the whole "gender wage gap" thing. Strait up blew my teacher's and classmate's minds when I laid everything out.
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Last edited by darthgoober on Dec 29th, 2018 at 07:34 PM
Well I was studying medical insurance coding, but then they told me that the teacher would be retiring next year so I dropped the class because there's no way I could finish it all since I was only a half day student. Still, it wasn't a total waste. I did end up with mastery level scores in computer fundamentals and Microsoft Word and certified in Microsoft Excel so I came away better off than I entered in.
Go back to school. Don't listen to the haters. Work hard. Don't sleep if you have to get homework done.
I am betting you come from a family that mostly does not have a college degree and they talk down about the college institution, right? (I'm in Oklahoma...so you know I went through something similar growing up)
That's why I say don't listen to the haters. Be the first in your direct family to get a masters or even a Ph.D. You're smart enough. The only thing you need is just the motivation. Extreme amounts of it.
Whirly's next controversial post on this topic. The internet acts as a hive mind connecting men who are not over things and creating "Men's issues", these people instead of coming to terms with things like they would have done before the net find others to validate and wallow in depression with. The same happens with women leading to radical ideas. These ideas have never spread as much before because in the past you might only know one couple splitting up and one depressed guy and/or woman. Now people come across lots of these angry souls and they almost appear normal, making everybody think histrionics, depressed facebook rants etc are standard human behaviour and stopping people moving on.
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Last edited by Putinbot1 on Dec 29th, 2018 at 07:57 PM
Oh everyone was actually very supportive, I quit for practical reasons. I signed up for the medical insurance coding because it was pretty much the only course they had for a legitimate job that one could do from home. If that course isn't available to me, there's no sense in going because my kids mean that I HAVE to find a job that I can do from home. If I don' find a real job like that within a year I'll end up with a job that will end up costing me my equal custody of my kids so it makes more sense for me to focus on finding something I can do from home than studying for some other job that would guarantee I had to give them up.
Yeah I'm kicking around the idea of getting into the whole blogging/Youtube channel kind of thing. I'm good at arguing and pissing people off so it seems like I might be someone who can get quite a few views lol. I'm not trying to be rich or anything after all, I'll be happy if I can just get by.
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Last edited by darthgoober on Dec 29th, 2018 at 08:01 PM
Oh it probably is, I doubt I'll be able to make much even if I'm successful. But I'm looking at it more as a supplementary thing for whatever other kind of low paying "at home" work I manage to find. Plus I'm prob going to become a substitute teacher because there's very little in the way of requirements for that in my state.
Not sure, it's been been quite a while since I was actually in school myself apart from V-Tech, but honestly I can't really see the people around here getting behind the idea of something like common core. I always learned a lot more on my own time at the library and from the set of encyclopedias we had at my house than I did in class.