Subj : Re: Screens Distract Stud
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Thu Apr 03 2025 01:52:00

RM> I've done a huge variety of different jobs
RM> through my life from running a laboratory to custom painting motorcycles
RM> to computer programming to plumbing and electrical work on houses and
RM> property maintenance and selling Real Estate.

RM> Without some early experince in a variety of skills I might have ended
RM> up stuck in one job or maybe if that job went away, unable to easily
RM> find another place to do it..

AT>But can you credit any 101 courses with giving you job skills? I can't,
  > but I've never held a job that requires a college education.

Most of my skills were self taught. I did take college courses for things
like licensing to sell Real Estate and such but mostly, if I couldn't sort
out something I wanted to try on my own, I'd find a book to show me.

So, I don't have a degree as such.. In comparison to the USA I would
have the equivalent of 1 year of universtity, plus a few college courses
to learn a specific thing.

In high school I did the hardest thing, took both the courses required
to get into university plus I took all the Technical courses as well,
things like automotive repair, metal working, carpentry and drafting..
In my final year, which was for university prep only, I took 3 maths,
2 sciences, history, english and (briefly) a health sciences course.

But after all that, plus SAT scores in the top 6%, I never did
apply to a university after I found out that most people who took
the course I wanted to take (aeronautical engineering) were mostly
all doing other jobs because so little in that field was available.

Maybe I'd have been one of the lucky ones but, by that point, I
was starting to be disillusioned with life in general.
Too many years of never missing school while still working close
to full time hours at the same time.  Burn out..

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