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in a few years japan will sell a hydrogen vehicle that really works. while washington spends billions trying to convince the people that green energy will never work, the japanese dream and make new products.
in a few years (now) americans wonder why all the manufactures are overseas. it does not seem fair somehow.
here is my take: in all the overseas places that i have been, people go to school because they want to work. they go to school to get a job.
i don't live in america, but i once did, and i once had a genius for a roommate and he told me that most of the things people majored in in america didn't lead to jobs. he said he looked at the want adds. i mean who would think to look at the want adds before going to school. he told me all the biology majors would end up behind a microscope doing stuff that a high school drop out could do.
now. some 30 years later i still think about what he said. a study of MBA students revealed that 84 percent of them had no goals. i mean if you have no goals, why are you going to school? the study also revealed that the 16 percent that had goals made a pretty good living. those who had goals and kept them in mind did okay. those who had goals and wrote them down went on to found apples etc.
now i hate to say it but those americans that i meet overseas that want to further their education often don't have goals- i know one guy whose only goal is not to work, so he wants to go to school.
the reason why people who don't want to work go to school is because uncle sam pays them to go to school. it's 'free' money. if they go to school long enough, they never do actually have to work.
i mean i met one guy who is approaching 60 who has gotten about 50,000 dollars in student loans to get a doctorate. i see others who promised america that with a four-year degree they would get a job and repay student loans. and i see many who graduate with a four-year degree and have not yet paid back the money-looking for more 'free' money to go to school.
this issue is a complex one, but one thing i know for sure is that a college graduate that has gone to school on the back of others should have to pay back one loan before getting another one. if a person can't make it in the great big world with one degree, they certainly won't make it with another.
i am old enough to have heard all the stories about the uneducated immigrants who came to america and somehow made it. i am too old to believe that pampered people who don't want to work ever will.
in a few years japan will sell a hydrogen vehicle that really works. while washington spends billions trying to convince the people that green energy will never work, the japanese dream and make new products.
in a few years (now) americans wonder why all the manufactures are overseas. it does not seem fair somehow.
here is my take: in all the overseas places that i have been, people go to school because they want to work. they go to school to get a job.
i don't live in america, but i once did, and i once had a genius for a roommate and he told me that most of the things people majored in in america didn't lead to jobs. he said he looked at the want adds. i mean who would think to look at the want adds before going to school. he told me all the biology majors would end up behind a microscope doing stuff that a high school drop out could do.
now. some 30 years later i still think about what he said. a study of MBA students revealed that 84 percent of them had no goals. i mean if you have no goals, why are you going to school? the study also revealed that the 16 percent that had goals made a pretty good living. those who had goals and kept them in mind did okay. those who had goals and wrote them down went on to found apples etc.
now i hate to say it but those americans that i meet overseas that want to further their education often don't have goals- i know one guy whose only goal is not to work, so he wants to go to school.
the reason why people who don't want to work go to school is because uncle sam pays them to go to school. it's 'free' money. if they go to school long enough, they never do actually have to work.
i mean i met one guy who is approaching 60 who has gotten about 50,000 dollars in student loans to get a doctorate. i see others who promised america that with a four-year degree they would get a job and repay student loans. and i see many who graduate with a four-year degree and have not yet paid back the money-looking for more 'free' money to go to school.
this issue is a complex one, but one thing i know for sure is that a college graduate that has gone to school on the back of others should have to pay back one loan before getting another one. if a person can't make it in the great big world with one degree, they certainly won't make it with another.
i am old enough to have heard all the stories about the uneducated immigrants who came to america and somehow made it. i am too old to believe that pampered people who don't want to work ever will.
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