tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post1452333221356394543..comments2024-03-27T19:38:49.490-04:00Comments on The Silicon Graybeard: On The US Becoming a Nation of Takers, Not Makers - Part IISiGraybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-18392067631732722232011-04-04T12:28:49.533-04:002011-04-04T12:28:49.533-04:00Yep, that's what I was talking about . Why wai...Yep, that's what I was talking about . Why waist your time and money(and take on ahuge debt) with college win you can start working at a lower level and take courses at a trade/vocational school. The only reason for someone going to college in a trade vocation is if they plan on going into managment. Managers have their place in industry but the chances of becoming Upper Management in a industrial buisness are few and take(guess what)experience.<br /><br /> Dennis<br /> III<br /> TexasDennis308https://www.blogger.com/profile/07890267243094484300noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1592992209402300549.post-31080483881162739062011-04-04T01:26:59.313-04:002011-04-04T01:26:59.313-04:00Almost funny, but I worked for government for a wh...Almost funny, but I worked for government for a while because I wanted (as a young man) to be a peace officer, and then, in my fifties when I went back to school and became an RN. I worked for the VA because the only other hospital in our area sucked so badly no one wanted to work there.<br /><br />Doesn't mean I'm sucking off the .gov tit, though. Our VA became such a terrible place to work (after two changes in Directors) that I quit five months short of being able to start drawing my small retirement. Quit in 2008, and won't be able to draw my piddly couple of hundred a month until 2013 - except I know it either a)will evaporate before I can draw it or b) they'll change the rules and make me wait until I am 70 (along with whatever SS I might have gotten if the SS fund hadn't been emptied.) I don't actually expect to see 70.<br /><br />Thank goodness we put every penny we could into my (and my wife's) 401K or I'd still be working instead of retired on a small - but sufficient - income.Reg Tnoreply@blogger.com