In the US, “first story” is the ground floor. In England, it’s the floor above that.
I never understood why people have trouble with story problems. I see what the jokes are, and it appears that they simply don’t understand how to abstract a math problem from the story. I’ve never had any trouble with that. Does that make me weird?
We’ll-rounded, educated workers for jobs that didn’t even exist when we were kids. Schools can barely keep up. One of the better outcomes of the pandemic is the tech that schools invested in to provide remote learning.
Yes, poor people work harder than rich people and one reason you WANT to be rich is so you DON’T have to work hard. Remember that, kid, because rich people will be telling you differently for the rest of your life in order to get you to work for them.
Gotta have skilled labor – otherwise who would pay off the loans that the will-never-get-a-job-in-a-million-years philosophy majors have to default on?
Why perpetuate the lie that only physical labor counts as “work”? To take the lowest-common-denominator, purely crass view of it, anything you can get paid for doing counts as work. And even that doesn’t take into account homemakers and volunteers.
Got my education to be a hardworking laborer. Figuring stuff out and making the right things happen does count as “work” you know. I go home tired every day. Worked yesterday, by the way.
Concretionist over 1 year ago
In the US, “first story” is the ground floor. In England, it’s the floor above that.
I never understood why people have trouble with story problems. I see what the jokes are, and it appears that they simply don’t understand how to abstract a math problem from the story. I’ve never had any trouble with that. Does that make me weird?
Bilan over 1 year ago
You go back in school so that your stay-at-home parent won’t have to work.
sandpiper over 1 year ago
Educated so you can choose the kind of labor.
gawaintheknight over 1 year ago
Hard-working laborers need education too to find out things like why a hard-working laborer can’t make a living wage and has no health care.
goboboyd over 1 year ago
Skilled workers are in demand.
Doug K over 1 year ago
There’s nothing wrong with being a hard-working laborer.
Education is important not matter what you end up doing.
Working hard, working smart, working to serve, working to make the world a better place are all good things.
MS72 over 1 year ago
We’ll-rounded, educated workers for jobs that didn’t even exist when we were kids. Schools can barely keep up. One of the better outcomes of the pandemic is the tech that schools invested in to provide remote learning.
cervelo over 1 year ago
Ahhh! Word problems. Read, understand, select symbols, translate words into equation(s), solve! That’ll get your whole brain going.
Anaerobe over 1 year ago
Post-COVID response, working workers are in demand.
Ignatz Premium Member over 1 year ago
Yes, poor people work harder than rich people and one reason you WANT to be rich is so you DON’T have to work hard. Remember that, kid, because rich people will be telling you differently for the rest of your life in order to get you to work for them.
Cozmik Cowboy over 1 year ago
Say “Union – yes!”
jimmypetrol over 1 year ago
OMG….the denigration of labor, out of the strip that pretends to Honor Labor? Skilled Labor, denigrated to keep wages low….too bad….you’re fired.
EMGULS79 over 1 year ago
Gotta have skilled labor – otherwise who would pay off the loans that the will-never-get-a-job-in-a-million-years philosophy majors have to default on?
Nick Danger over 1 year ago
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christelisbetty over 1 year ago
Study hard and you too can become a custodian, like Frazz.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 1 year ago
Why perpetuate the lie that only physical labor counts as “work”? To take the lowest-common-denominator, purely crass view of it, anything you can get paid for doing counts as work. And even that doesn’t take into account homemakers and volunteers.
PaintTheDust over 1 year ago
Got my education to be a hardworking laborer. Figuring stuff out and making the right things happen does count as “work” you know. I go home tired every day. Worked yesterday, by the way.
dogday Premium Member over 1 year ago
Get an education so he doesn’t have to work hard? I guess he hasn’t heard of doctors, lawyers, firefighters, police, etc., etc.
Seed_drill over 1 year ago
25+ years into my legal career I wish I’d become a carpenter.
jbarnes over 1 year ago
Be thankful the child labor laws allow you to be in the classroom getting an education.