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Snakebabies

Snakebabies

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Are absolute engineering geniuses when they are young. Then for some reason when they hit their teens, all that genius goes in the sewers....(for some kids that is)
 
These days there are way too many 'failure to launch' young people, so the statistics show.
Then again, it is so expensive to live, in the US anyway, that many of our young people cannot launch.
 
cplmac said:
Many are not raised to launch, way too many.
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The way I see it some of us grew up believing the bullshit we were fed. If you study hard in school, go to college Get a job and work hard you will be okay. But I doubt that works for more than 20% of people.

I love how the schools like to advertise for each of these industries where there is always work and there is a deficit of workers. 5 years later those industries are laying people off not hiring.

Then I love the people not smart enough to give up. Whether they failed to launch or were given the chance to fail the game of life later and refuse to take a different career.

I admire my father. He was a communications analyst and a database engineer for 21 years and one day the government contractor he worked for screwed him over. Unfortunately everything he has experience in now requires degrees he doesn't have. To this day he still puts his resume out there. But he took a job selling guns and excelled at it.
 
You can't have winners and losers, someones feelings might get hurt. Mediocrity is the goal.
 
cplmac said:
You can't have winners and losers, someones feelings might get hurt. Mediocrity is the goal.
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Mediocrity is the goal only most aren't shooting that low and for the world to succeed many need to not reach it.

Me personally I'm just looking for a roof that doesn't leak and a way to keep the power on. I grew up lower middle class and after my parents split I actually given the choice wanted to live with my impoverished mother. I think being broke gave me skills I wouldn't have now. To have a car meant working on it myself. To have a computer meant learning how To make shit people were throwing away work again. I was telling kubla the other day my parents way of teaching me life lessons was working on a tobacco farm until I was 13. I don't think kids really learn that much that young though. It doesn't really hit you until later. I worked under the table after that for a tech company which is actually where I learned to code on my own time.

What's funny to me is how lazy I have turned out and where the rest of my priorities are. I spend way too much on technology but then again I wouldn't be here with you guys if I was responsible.

Necessity may be the mother of invention but kids ingenuity often comes from their lack of resources. It kills me when a broke person asks for ideas to accomplish something and people act like the only way to do it is with money. People act like they've never been broke telling me all my life there is one way to do something. If I did shit their way I would have never accomplished anything.

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