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25k+18.4 yrs OP
~ 1 week, 5 days ago

See people facing struggle today.
When looking for a job, do you end up finding what you're seeking? As costs skyrocket, those who have retired may wonder if what they thought was enough is truly sufficient. Many spend years investing in expensive education, only to end up sitting unemployed. What they rely on is crumbling in its structure. Educated people working in jobs like flipping burgers or waitressing often face the harsh reality that life doesn't always match what they were taught in school. Even after paying all those college fees to get an education.

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25k+18.4 yrs OP
~ 1 week, 4 days ago

It's nice to be able to see and discuss these things. Don't you relate to people who have problems dealing with day-to-day struggles?

It's nice to have you back disparaging that education you never got. #msg1948988

@PeoriaIllinoisan : While seeing all the smiling faces produced by these unreliable sources.

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10k+18.8 yrs
~ 1 week, 4 days ago

@tntrecycling : My education may have gotten me through the door, but it took hard work and dependability to keep me in the job or advancing. I see a lot of people struggling. Many are actually struggling, but some refuse to live within their means. Rather pay off credit cards, balances increase. Instead of taking coffee from home, a Starbuck's stop is chosen

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25k+18.4 yrs OP
~ 1 week, 1 day ago

@RambleOn :
Hard work and education are what is important of life. While one may take this course to learn many will call them stupid or ignorant. So what's important to that person isn't really the same for them. Yet people will say things holding them to their high standards.

10k+19.5 yrs
~ 1 week, 1 day ago

Is there a translator in the house?

I'll tell you though, I'm taking an upper level Marketing class shrunk down to four weeks. Talk about tough! Thank goodness the subject isn't foreign to me because this has a near impossible timeline.

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10k+14.4 yrs
~ 1 week, 1 day ago

@PeoriaIllinoisan :
I remember back in the day I took a summer course (already shortened timeframe) and it was a double. 4 hrs on Saturday mornings. Luckily it came easy to me (Accounting).

As far as education goes, we need both college-educated and trade-educated people. I see far more people on the trade-educated side of the fence on their high horse saying college education is a stupid choice. We need plumbers and we need scientists.

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10k+19.5 yrs
~ 1 week, 1 day ago

@AverageSue : I could have used your help taking calculus!

10k+14.4 yrs
~ 1 week, 1 day ago

@PeoriaIllinoisan :
My favorite class! Loved all calc levels I took. And Differential Equations ("Diff E-q's", as we called it). Not so much Discrete Math though.

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10k+19.5 yrs
~ 1 week, 1 day ago

@AverageSue : I wasn't expecting to run into a brick wall when I signed up. Oh well, you can't win em all. In the grand scheme of things it was just a hiccup, but boy oh boy I have never been so frustrated in my life!!!

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25k+18.4 yrs OP
~ 1 week, 1 day ago

calculus #msg1949629

@PeoriaIllinoisan : So, after learning what will you use this for.

10k+19.5 yrs
~ 1 week, 1 day ago

PeoriaIllinoisan : So, after learning what will you use this for. #msg1949673

@tntrecycling : Like I said, calculus it was over my head and I had to drop it, so I won't be pursuing my accounting degree.

In general I am taking college courses to keep my mind sharp and to finish what I started many years ago.

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25k+18.4 yrs OP
~ 1 week, 0 days ago

@PeoriaIllinoisan :
Honestly, like most jobs, if you can complete the task at hand, do you really need that piece of paper that says you can do it?
I've always been more of a hands-on, action-oriented person, most of the work industry I have worked. Asking for a meal from shifts managers to pick up the paper in the parking lot. Leave the office skills to them who acquire that work.

10k+19.5 yrs
~ 1 week, 0 days ago

To each his own. The world needs both physical and mental labor, for lack of a better term.

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25k+18.4 yrs OP
~ 6 days ago

Not all are equal to that knowledge. Unloading a truck with 48,000 pounds of frozen chunks of beef at 60 pounds a box 6 times a day. I'm sure they are thinking about sitting at the office chair soaking up the air and coffee. One job is in demand because of labor. While the other if you want paid is needed.

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10k+14.4 yrs
~ 6 days ago

@tntrecycling :
Some jobs require strength while others require smarts. I was at a desk job that required my mental attention. It seems you look down upon those that aren't working on a loading dock.

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