849: The Pick-Up Artist

[sully_04]

Originally Posted by Sajizzle

The real point to a liberal arts education is not the actual material you learn, it's the process by which you learn. Being able to think at a higher level, analytically, and in an organized, effective way is the best skill you can have outside of learning a specific trade.

exactly.

employers want to be able to know that a person can stay committed to a task, put forth effort, feel compelled to complete something.

Nothing I learned in college has applied to any of my jobs on a consistent basis. I need 2 classes to graduate and have over 15 years experience working in my field and I have to out perform to get a job that doesn't pay as well as the one I could get if I had not been as those two jackasses who are so smart they are going to drop out of college because they already know everything.

[Grapist]

Originally Posted by sully_04

exactly.

employers want to be able to know that a person can stay committed to a task, put forth effort, feel compelled to complete something.

Nothing I learned in college has applied to any of my jobs on a consistent basis. I need 2 classes to graduate and have over 15 years experience working in my field and I have to out perform to get a job that doesn't pay as well as the one I could get if I had not been as those two jackasses who are so smart they are going to drop out of college because they already know everything.

My degree is in computer science. However, while most others didn't bother to broaden their educational horizons, I took it upon myself to take extra tech writing and composition classes, as well as public speaking. Although I do use my CS degree in a technical/consulting sense, I do find I use my communication skills quite a lot as well.

One reason to take college course is to learn the "true" versions of American/World histories and politics that are portrayed in a somewhat unicorns and rainbows fashion in High School.

[darksun3173]

Originally Posted by sully_04

exactly.

employers want to be able to know that a person can stay committed to a task, put forth effort, feel compelled to complete something.

Nothing I learned in college has applied to any of my jobs on a consistent basis. I need 2 classes to graduate and have over 15 years experience working in my field and I have to out perform to get a job that doesn't pay as well as the one I could get if I had not been as those two jackasses who are so smart they are going to drop out of college because they already know everything.

For me, college was a waste of time and money. Because I work in the technology sector, it would have served me better to have gone to a technical school, such as : York Technical Institute. I was planning on going to that place, but my parents could only pay for a instate school. So I ended up going to West Virginia University.

[sully_04]

Originally Posted by darksun3173

For me, college was a waste of time and money. Because I work in the technology sector, it would have served me better to have gone to a technical school, such as : York Technical Institute. I was planning on going to that place, but my parents could only pay for a instate school. So I ended up going to West Virginia University.

I should have gone to an art school for what I am doing now, but I had reasons not to, but you make the best of your situation. You didnt, it seems, that isnt the colleges fault, it inst a flaw in the system, its your fault it was a waste of time.

It is not an unalienable right that you get to do what you want or what you like in life, you choose to or not. Dont blame you choices on the institution.

[darksun3173]

Originally Posted by sully_04

I should have gone to an art school for what I am doing now, but I had reasons not to, but you make the best of your situation. You didnt, it seems, that isnt the colleges fault, it inst a flaw in the system, its your fault it was a waste of time.

It is not an unalienable right that you get to do what you want or what you like in life, you choose to or not. Dont blame you choices on the institution.

Of course I didn't make the best of my situation. I will be the first to admit that. However, in my personal experience college in general does not prepare you for life unless you work as an academic. After, I went to WVU, I then went to a school where your studies are treated as an eight hour workday. For me college gave me too much of a temptation to screw around all day than to actually get some work done.

[andyoureuglytoo]

Originally Posted by sully_04

exactly.

employers want to be able to know that a person can stay committed to a task, put forth effort, feel compelled to complete something.

Nothing I learned in college has applied to any of my jobs on a consistent basis. I need 2 classes to graduate and have over 15 years experience working in my field and I have to out perform to get a job that doesn't pay as well as the one I could get if I had not been as those two jackasses who are so smart they are going to drop out of college because they already know everything.

First-of-all, I'm not dropping out of college. I'm finishing it. Kicking and screaming, but I'm finishing it.

Second-of-all, the first place I worked was a place that I began volunteering at in 1998. Yes, I was 11, but the public library let me do things like straighten out books and help with stamping, etc.

That was after I worked in the school library all through elementary school.

Then when I was 16 I got a part-time job at the public library. I worked there until 19, when I quit to work at a theatre and at the library on campus.

I only quit the library on Campus to further pursue my education and career in theatre.

Follow-through is important, but I think I showed that I have it.

Third-of-all, I understand about liberal arts education being about process. I wasn't as frustrated with college until my junior year when almost everything I was being taught, I had already learned from on-the-job experience. I am one of the only theatre students at the university who is going out and working in the community.

I take my work and education very serious. Theatre is a competitive field. I know what's out there. But for me, classroom learning is not enough and, frankly, moves too slow.

[andyoureuglytoo]

Originally Posted by sully_04

exactly.

employers want to be able to know that a person can stay committed to a task, put forth effort, feel compelled to complete something.

Sorry, I was summarizing this statement as "follow-through."

I meant as far as staying committed to a task and putting forth effort. I spent more time working at a library than I will at college.

Even if I go back for a masters.

[Astigos]

I'm not sure what everyone is talking about because I don't have the attention span to follow through boring things.

I don't want to finish my liberal arts college because it holds no tangible value with what I want to do with my life. I just want to get out and get started on what I actually want my life to be.

I'm not trying to make a living, I'm trying to make a life.

[Manx]

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[Rufio]

this book the game reminds me a lot of another book, 48 laws of power, which is basically a broader book of the same thing, while the game teaches u how to dominate women, 48 laws teaches u how to manipulate people overall in life and work. not really my cup of tea but im sure someone on this will find it interesting