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Yep. My Dad was a Master Electrician, finally let his Colorado License lapse about 10 years ago because he finally got tired of taking and boning up on code for the renewal exam. At one point in time he held a Masters License in 4 states including California which was almost unheard of for a non-resident. He was the fifth of 7 siblings, and the first of those 7 to graduate High School. No college degree but he took a couple semesters of Business schooling at night at a local private university. At one point had 3 self started Companies running at the same time that had totally vertically integrated Traffic Signal equipment manufacturing and installation. He purchased the traffic controllers (basically early computers) from a Boulder tech company but he otherwise produced the control wiring cabinets, the actual traffic signals with an aluminum die casting machine, and the steel mast arm poles that the Signals were mounted on. He also had an electrical contracting company that installed all of this equipment at an intersection for municipalities or the State. No one could out compete him in the Inter Mountain West at his prime.
I know lots of highly educated, people with multiple degrees who are fully vaccinated, dey are smart. I’ll bet Chris not only didn’t get the jab, he thinks Covid is just the flu. Chris is too busy working and making money to worry about getting educated and becoming indoctrinated into communism and being a debt slave. Who’s the loser?
Now do it with chemical engineers.
Ken-Some would argue the chemical industry is part of our problem. Do we really have better living through chemistry?
Probably not.
One of my all time favorite memes. I cannot tell you how many times I saw my Dad disconnect someone who thought it more important to pay the car note than the electric bill.
His company would work with those who gave it an effort, but had no sympathy for those who had higher priorities.
My 19 year old son just got the best lesson in economics and finance a young man could ever get.
He’s a smart kid and graduated from a relatively large high school at the top of his class. He was accepted by a variety of universities to both engineering and business programs. He ended up choosing a well known technical school instead where he did a two year diploma in business communications and marketing.
Between his mother and I and his grand parents we’d put enough money aside for him to complete a four year degree at a school of his choice but he choose a two year program (can be extended into a 3rd year to complete degree) in business because he’s an entrepreneur at heart and after doing a lot of research found that the tech school he attended had a higher job placement rate than most universities offering the same program in four years.
So off he went.
Part way though his first year of education Covid hit and he ended up back at home doing his program from his bedroom. He was pretty bitter about it. He liked living in dorms and relished his independence.
I told him to look at the bright side: he was saving a ton of money on living expenses as his mother and I would not charge him room and board so long as he was going to school. He begrudgingly agreed.
Anyways – in his last semester he ended up in an internship with a solid marketing company and last week, just before he graduated they offered him a position.
He’s 19, has no debt, enough money in his account to put a down payment on a house and a career with a good company that respects his ideas and admires how mature he is for his age.
This fall he will move out as the universities reopen and live with some friends in the city and either work from his apartment or go to the office while they pull student loans on useless degrees.
On top of that we are working on a new start up together with a good friend of mine who is a venture capitalist and angel investor. He’s receiving shares in the company for spear heading the marketing department and assuming it actually gets off the ground and makes money he will be running a good portion of the business.
The reality of this is starting to sink in for him as he realizes he is actually DECADES ahead of his friends financially.
A solid work ethic and good decision on his end put him where he is. Hopefully he continues to make the right choices going forward.
Most excellent Francis, I know you are proud.
That is outstanding. Many years ago, I discovered that the harder I worked, the luckier I got. My work ethic and dedication to the company kept me off of a lot of layoff lists over the years.
In my experience there is a solid correlation between luck and hard work. Imagine that.
Easy to say, just try and find a company and union willing to provide said “apprenticeship”
in the construction trades many employers pay the tuition at trade school as long as the student is employed by them–
My Son is doing an “apprenticeship” right now.
Ironworker.
Who is John Galt?
We have a problem with the collective sucking the life blood out of the individual who is productive. It is time for the productive to go on strike and let this centralized edifice of government control come crashing down.
What we are seeing today is massive sloth in the intellect of the collective who expect the government to take care of them at the expense of the productive individual. To each according to his ability and each according to his need. A communist slogan that fits our form of democracy where the majority takes advantage of the individual that is the minority.
The train of production is coming to a halt. And with that the government will experience a great fall when the lights go out. This is the great reset.
“Disconnected Adam’s electricity” LOL