Does your gastroenterologist need to know calculus? How many existentialists does it take to change a light bulb? You do not need to be a well-rounded individual unless you're Chris Christie. Many conservatives like Charlie Kirk are now making the case that you do not need a liberal arts college education to get ahead in life. Worked under a young and talented chef back in the day. He had a little higher education under his belt but he preferred to dive into the labor market at an early age. You learn by doing. Teach kids how to make money. I vastly recommend trade schools over college unless college is your thing. I'll never forget the tour our chef friend took us on at the famed Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park New York. Young people zeroing in on their passion that's what it's all about. In France our chef friend said chefs are practically revered. He also said if you're a chef you'll never be out of a job. College graduates on the other hand often have trouble landing their dream job right away. Paying back student loans another current issue although the CIA costs a pretty penny too.
College. What a racket.
I agree. Absolutely. Plumbers, electricians, carpenters -all needed and good jobs. Knew a girl that majored in French literature. She was a secretary. Sacre Bleu! Brain surgeons, on the other hand, need pre-OJT training. I know some of the skilled labor guys that started their own businesses. Maybe a Z-Man Cordon Bleu featuring brandy based couture ?
ReplyDelete& you you went to Explosives University?
ReplyDeleteHeck no. That's in Tehran.
ReplyDeleteWhat does one do with a degree in art history?
ReplyDeleteOur Dr's daughter got one. She works at a local museum.
DeleteSon got a degree in History. Works starting at 4AM in a bakery. He probably blames August Zang, an Austrian artillery officer who started a bakery in Paris in 1838. Son ran own artisan bakery for some years in N Idaho, liked it, did well. Sweaty logger, "I'd like a brioche sprinkled with sea salt."
Those bakery hours are ungodly hours. Gotta proof the rolls. I might be getting up to go to the bathroom at 4 AM. The owl is still hooting.
DeleteEarly to bed, early to rise. Warren Buffet says if you think all night, you
ReplyDeletedon't have to work hard in the daytime to become rich.
What a load of hooey. Half of aphorisms don't make any sense.
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ReplyDeleteSome of them contradict each other -
Opposites attract. Birds of a feather flock together.
Too many cooks spoil the broth. Many hands make light work.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Out of sight, out of mind.
Clothes make the man. You cannot judge a book by its cover.
- as far as early to rise, it's a circadian rhythm thing - day people, night people, early risers, late sleepers. Been early all my life,
still usually up before 5, sometimes before 4. If I sleep until 6, wife checks to see if I/m dead.
"Too many cooks" though gotta agree with that one. Every cook thinks they're right. Every cook seems to have a different opinion but like politics it's their way or the highway.
ReplyDeleteAccounting degree. Ammo plant was doing inventory - had the 22 cal dept weigh a basket of cases they counted out to 10,000 to get a parts per lb factor. Took them days to do. Told the supervisor to bring me ten. I could weigh them on a micro balance and get the same figure in seconds. Head accountant (Stockburger - people called him stock-bungler) storm into lab "You can't do that!". Told him I had the weight out to 3 digits and did algebra. "Algebra?
ReplyDeleteYou can't do that, it's not in accounting -just adding and subtracting"
Another time, lady accountant comes in to evaluated the new Gas Chromatograph I bought. "Is that real property?" I tapped the top,
it made a sound and I said "Sounds real to me" What do they teach in accounting, Shakespeare?
You can't be smarter than the people above you. It's a rule.
ReplyDeleteWife finally made Grandma's shrimp salad with the tiny o pasta. Huge-
ReplyDeletestill eating it. Good stuff, you need a recipe for your place?
Personally I like air fried shrimp. First time doing it the other day. Pretty good.
ReplyDeleteWhat the heck is air fried? A sieve and a flame thrower?
ReplyDeleteAsk Emeril.
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