Eating more than 900 Kcal a day will also help with regularity. If one doesn't eat enough, one won't poop enough.
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Eating more than 900 Kcal a day will also help with regularity. If one doesn't eat enough, one won't poop enough.
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Oreo is dead!
But will he be double stuffed, that's the real question.
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Maybe but it could be viewed as greed by the next generation.
For the boomers, a trade was an acceptable career. The next generations seemed to look down at them and thought that they were better than that and deserved more rewards. So maybe we tricked them but they may have tricked themselves. But then I'm old and rant alot.
Traits are instilled by the parents.
But regardless of cause, this whole "the youths sneer at the trades!" schtick is getting a little old. When an entire state has a cap of less than a thousand students in a specific trade at any given time, you can't exactly blame the hundreds of thousands of younger people who aren't in the trades for having debt and toiling in perpetual functional poverty. Especially when a large portion of those limited slots are filled by nepotism. Many trade shortages are self-inflicted.
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Plus, I doubt that learning a trade is exactly easy for some of them. Its like telling a former factory worker whose never sat in front of a computer to "learn to code."
In Illinois it's gotten so bad that the plumbers union is advertising on TV for applicants. Which includes paid learning and internships.
When I was younger, there was always a long waiting line for applicants.
And of course, neither is easy. If it was, everyone would be doing it.
When I was younger, there was always a long waiting line for applicants.
And of course, neither is easy. If it was, everyone would be doing it.
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I love how the takeaway is that if you take on 100k in debt for an arts degree, you are dumb and stupid even though the reality is that for most 18 year olds the school and often degree choices are made by the parents.
And uh, I have a degree in engineering at 60k. It's a good career field for sure but in who's right mind is this reasonable? Since when did we decide it was OK to place that kind of burden on kids just to access the job market? At some point the American dream turned from work hard to succeed to work hard so you can pay back rich people for the schools and housing they made insanely expensive to begin with. Oh and we're paying you a fraction of what your parents and grandparents made in today's dollars.
I'll be fine but most of my generation won't be if there is not serious corrective action
And uh, I have a degree in engineering at 60k. It's a good career field for sure but in who's right mind is this reasonable? Since when did we decide it was OK to place that kind of burden on kids just to access the job market? At some point the American dream turned from work hard to succeed to work hard so you can pay back rich people for the schools and housing they made insanely expensive to begin with. Oh and we're paying you a fraction of what your parents and grandparents made in today's dollars.
I'll be fine but most of my generation won't be if there is not serious corrective action
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Oh well, nevermind then.
Sorry to hear. But the takeaway is that unions are PAYING for advertising to fill spots where before you had to know someone to get the opportunity.
Heck, truck drivers are in high demand for really decent wages. Granted many fear that it will be eventually automated but short term gains are there.
If you're going to spend money on training, it should at least be something that you know will provide a job when you're done.
Heck, truck drivers are in high demand for really decent wages. Granted many fear that it will be eventually automated but short term gains are there.
If you're going to spend money on training, it should at least be something that you know will provide a job when you're done.
For a brief stretch I managed an auto restoration shop where this was the case but the older guys would usually supply the apprentices there older basic tools for them to get started and then you would buy your tools throughout your career so it wasn't that bad.
Another reason too you're seeing those jobs difficult to fill, is because young people know those will be eliminated before too long, so why would you want to invest your training in for a trade you know won't last for your career?
In order: Socks feeling gross in this weather (34 ºC indoors) is understandable. Maybe you have lovely feet and like to watch them (don't post pics, it's just a thought) but in winter it's self-destructive. You just have to get used to them.
You made it sounds as though your entire lunch was ‘two prunes’. At least that's how I read it. Was I right?
Congrats on the dress?
Bosses gonna boss, I suppose.
Here, at the behest of the US government and other creditors, the old trade school system was partially destroyed.
And the respect. Why get a job that is looked down on by society instead of being a winner™?
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The largest issue I see with the trades is that it's harmful work (for your body). There's the general expectation that you'll go on to manage or own your own company, but that doesn't parse because not everyone can do that (simple question of numbers, really). So there'll naturally be a large section of the trades populace that has to work until their bodies break, and then they have nothing transferable for a desk job. Even if you can get one of the limited slots, the career itself is likely to be temporary even without automation in mind. Finding a way to guarantee a future beyond the limits of your body can be tricky. A "useless" college degree has more immediate concerns, but the skills you learn are at least more broadly transferable (e.g. someone with an art history degree can do data entry or admin work just as well as someone with a business degree, whereas someone with a plumbing license won't know this stuff at all unless they lucked into moving up the ladder and snagging a manager's gig).
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Rant: Windows Update has been whirring away for over an hour now. Would be fine if it didn't lock up my HDD at 100% the whole time. It's supposed to do this outside of my active hours.
Oh within twenty years plumbers will be replaced .. I don't mean like tomorrow, but if you're twenty and you're going to have to work for fifty years, why get into something that won't be around half that time?
And truck drivers will be gone very, very soon. No point at all getting in there.
I'm not going to get used to them, lol. When I walk around my house, I enjoy feeling my carpet and being comfortable, and not having sweaty suffering feet.
And truck drivers will be gone very, very soon. No point at all getting in there.
My lunch is just two prunes, that's what I ate today around noon, and I'm not going to eat again until about six.
I'm not going to get used to them, lol. When I walk around my house, I enjoy feeling my carpet and being comfortable, and not having sweaty suffering feet.
I'm a front end boomer and have never insisted that capitalism is the only path to happiness in work. In addition, I have never criticized anyone for getting a degree even if their degree has little potential economic payoff. I am in favor of education as a rule. I think the question of college debt is more nuanced than you present. Are you saying that boomers deliberately misled younger generations about the benefits of a college degree?
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