It would be nice if you didn’t have to change your career midstream, wouldn’t it? Get a great job, work it your whole life, and be rewarded for faithfulness and hard work?Yeah, I know. I hallucinate a lot.
Everyone seems to be recounting what are called day jobs. How about all the others jobs one handles, i.e., parent, babysitter, fix-it man, gardener, side business owner, military service person, part-timer, and so on. They also affect our lives, usually in positive ways, if we’re lucky. Gotta be part of the equation, when it comes to changing direction from time to time.
In the kid’s case, I met that kind of extemporaneous mental dodge ball at least weekly for 25 years in the classroom. The purpose never changed and never worked, but the variations were always fun to hear.
How exactly does changing your career preference (or intention) change the answers on a fourth-grade exam?
I don’t see a different career path resulting in different results in adding fractions, or different state capitals, or different conjugations of verbs.
Ha, yeah, my great job(90+hrs/wk. then on call the rest of the time, usually at night) destroyed my health, & I have nothing to show for it. BUT, God is still good, & I am still blessed!
It used to be assumed people chose a profession. I think it was the millennial group who decided to move around, as a choice. Now it’s EXPECTED? Maybe the young alpha group will consider it mandatory. Or make a complete 360 change and choose a profession. W?
Paying attention in school gives you some basic tools for later life. The most important tool is learning to learn new things on your own. These days, very few jobs stay the same for more than a few years. In the early 1960’s, the slide rule was the technical calculator. By the 1980’s, the desktop computer had arrived.
I think the best answer I ever heard to the “I’ll never use this in real life” rant went something like, “How would you know?” The second best was, “If you don’t learn it you never will.” The only mitigation for uncertainty is preparedness.
onespiceybbw over 3 years ago
It would be nice if you didn’t have to change your career midstream, wouldn’t it? Get a great job, work it your whole life, and be rewarded for faithfulness and hard work?Yeah, I know. I hallucinate a lot.
Bilan over 3 years ago
But we never study for life. So her argument is still good.
whahoppened over 3 years ago
I think I went through 7 different jobs. All in the same theme.
sandpiper over 3 years ago
Everyone seems to be recounting what are called day jobs. How about all the others jobs one handles, i.e., parent, babysitter, fix-it man, gardener, side business owner, military service person, part-timer, and so on. They also affect our lives, usually in positive ways, if we’re lucky. Gotta be part of the equation, when it comes to changing direction from time to time.
sandpiper over 3 years ago
In the kid’s case, I met that kind of extemporaneous mental dodge ball at least weekly for 25 years in the classroom. The purpose never changed and never worked, but the variations were always fun to hear.
rlaker22j over 3 years ago
worked 40 years as a repairman never out of work
The Brooklyn Accent over 3 years ago
How exactly does changing your career preference (or intention) change the answers on a fourth-grade exam?
I don’t see a different career path resulting in different results in adding fractions, or different state capitals, or different conjugations of verbs.
daisypekin01 over 3 years ago
Ha, yeah, my great job(90+hrs/wk. then on call the rest of the time, usually at night) destroyed my health, & I have nothing to show for it. BUT, God is still good, & I am still blessed!
Moonkey Premium Member over 3 years ago
It used to be assumed people chose a profession. I think it was the millennial group who decided to move around, as a choice. Now it’s EXPECTED? Maybe the young alpha group will consider it mandatory. Or make a complete 360 change and choose a profession. W?
Moonkey Premium Member over 3 years ago
Who knows? – not W. Slip of the fingers on keyboard.
Billy Yank over 3 years ago
Paying attention in school gives you some basic tools for later life. The most important tool is learning to learn new things on your own. These days, very few jobs stay the same for more than a few years. In the early 1960’s, the slide rule was the technical calculator. By the 1980’s, the desktop computer had arrived.
Thinkingblade over 3 years ago
I think the best answer I ever heard to the “I’ll never use this in real life” rant went something like, “How would you know?” The second best was, “If you don’t learn it you never will.” The only mitigation for uncertainty is preparedness.