A Harpoon with Business Implications

[somarco]

I had some bills from the Conch Republic a few years ago. I couldn't even use them at Jimmy Buffet's.

 

[Dave020]

I tend to get a lot more clients and have written some of my biggest cases due to my military service, not college education.

I have found a very large number of educated/professional/executive level prospects are also prior military. That bond of common service and "band of brothers" carriers a lot of weight.

A few times a week I will get the "oh, my dad served in Okinawa in WWII so I am definitely going to work with you" cases.

Life experience comes in a lot of different forms.

 

[arnguy]

If Pennsylvania can't get a budget passed this week, I think the state will be issuing IOU's. Right now they are planning payless paydays for the state employees. The state's fiscal year ended on June 30th!

 

[Winter_123]

College (for anyone who has been there) is more than just "book leanin'" it is a "training ground" for later life.

Thanks for the lecturette Al. Actually, I have a couple more degrees than you do.

I also grew up shoveling out the barn before I went to school and working a half shift in the cotton mill after the school day. What is missing for you libs is that it is possible to be educated and to have actually worked for a living at some point in your life as well. You have one out of two pretty will worked out.

I spent a good part of the weekend mowing my field. I imagine you cleaned out your garlic press.

 

[somarco]

Dave, you're not going to tell me you are vintage WWII are you?

 

[moonlightandmargaritas]

Life experience comes in a lot of different forms.

So true. The sanctimonious among us though, who wish they had the credentials to be elitist - but are poseurs -don't understand this.

Can you guess who I'm talking about?

 

[Dave020]

Bob, funny you should mention that. While I am a total baby boomer (1959), I am also a veteran of WWII and such awarded (technically).

I hold and wear the Army of Occupation Medal (Berlin) for service 90 or more days (3 years in my case) in Berlin during the WWII Occupation.

This medal is deemed a WWII medal, is no longer available to be awarded to anyone in the US Military, and allows by it's distinction automatic membership into the VFW for service during WWII. So, technically I am a WWII veteran for service performed almost 40 years after WWII ended

PS - if you turn it over the other side has Army of Occupation Japan and if you accidently invert the ribbon with red on the right, you are a member of the Japan occupation.

 

[Winter_123]

I guess if you say it loud and long enough people will believe it, especially your neo-con friends who boast of maybe a year of junior college.

So let me see. So far you have worked for the government, you have managed million dollar programs, and you have a doctorate.

Doctor Winter. Yeah, that's rich.

How do you calculate the doctorate? I presume you have no degree at all just as you have not lasted at any job or with any carrier for more than four months. So my bachelor's makes one, and then a master's two. Unless you figure you get a degree for life experience for shacking up in the motel with that hippie chick Lula Belle in SF. If so, I can assure you quite a few other men got a degree there as well thanks to her.

Yeh I know, you allegedly have a masters degree in Physics for Poets from the University of Virginia. Sure, tell us again how you single handedly brought about the civil rights movement and held back the dogs in Selma.

Or maybe you could just continue to explain to all the other folks here what it is like to see the world from the enlightened view of a college grad. Or perhaps your month in VISTA before they booted you out.

 

[moonlightandmargaritas]

Did you forget? He's friends with Donald Trump and Ross Perot too.

 

[Paradigm]

While I have nothing against higher education as I possess degrees of my own; I believe it is the height of arrogance to insinuate that the Ivory Tower bestows a greater quality of intellectectual capability on its graduates than does the school of life and actually applying what you learn in a worthwhile endeavor.

Your attitude is endemic to a certain sub section of psuedo intellectual thinkers that erroneously believe what they think means anything at all. Innovation and progess in society is made by those who apply knowledge not those who think and write about it.