Subj : Re: Screens Distract Stud
To   : DR. WHAT
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Mon Apr 14 2025 01:24 am

DW>Then they didn't do their homework.  You should know that before your
  >senior year of high school.

RM> Again, in a perfect world. A lot of people just figure they need a
RM> degree to get a lot of jobs out there,

DW>I'm not talking about a perfect world.

DW>I'm talking about doing your homework.  Do you buy a car, or house without
  >checking things out?  No.

DW>Why would you spend thousands on a college education for a career that
  >1. you hate
  >or
  >2. won't pay enough to pay back the student loans and allow you to live.?

But it gets beaten into our heads that if we get a Univrsity degree
then you'll get a good job. So those who don't know what they want
to do for a living yet still think it's smart to stay in school and
get a BA degree or something. Unfortunately a lot of people with
those degrees spend much of their days asking, Would you like fries
with that?..

DW>When I was in high school we a thing called MOIS.  I think it stood for
  >Michigan Occupation Information System.  But it was an aptitude test coupled
  >with information about colleges and jobs.

DW>Basically, it allowed you to learn what you would enjoy doing.  Then allow yo
  >to research what education you needed, how much it would cost, and what the j
  >is like and how much it will cost.

I'd heard we had something similar here but it was never actually
offered seriously in the school I went to. You got appointments
with a Guidance Councellor but they didn't push too hard to get you
to choose one thing, or didn't with me anyways. In my case he just
went on and on about how with my I.Q. I could do anything I wanted
and to make sure I went on to University, and how easy it should
be for me to win academic scholarships to pay my way.

DW>A "perfect world" would be that everyone would know in the 3rd grade what the
  >would like to be - but what would we do with all those firemen and ballerinas

Yes, I wanted to design aircraft and be a fighter pilot in the airforce
and maybe become an astronaut some day until I discovered that most
people with the engineering degree I needed to head that way ended up
doing mickey mouse jobs because there were so few openings.

It didn't help when I discovered that my eyesight wasn't quite good
enough to be a pilot anyways..

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