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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-09 08:52 AM
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29. What are you going to tell the laid off worker? Go back to school?
Uh . . . FOR WHAT JOB?

What do we tell the blue collar worker who just lost his job? "You gotta retrain!" Uh, that's nice, except when he/she's seeing people with bachelor's and master's degrees getting shitcanned from their jobs just like they are.

With every MBA that these colleges churn out, that only means you don't stand out anymore. One has to keep running on a constant treadmill of school and work just to survive, and it's not even guaranteed.

All we're doing is giving money to someone else in the hope that we can make money for someone else. "Well, BECOME that someone else!" Riiiiiiiiiight. You know, because I have tons of start-up capital, a product to sell, an audience for that product, money to pay for medical care, repeat business and an insane amount of luck which will drive me to be the 1 out of 10 small businesses that DOESN'T fail. I can sure pay the bills on THAT crapshoot.

It's just POINTLESS and HOPELESS.
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