I don't think the future is so bright...

[Anonymous]

As I get older, I often think it may be important to upgrade my skill set.  The only marketable skill I have, is that I can legally drive any and all types of motor vehicles, and have experience in doing so.  While this isn't a bad thing (a driver can always find work doing something, somewhere:  For instance, there is only one (1) job opening at Suncor Ft. Mac, and that's for an industrial rock truck driver), but it is limiting...



These days, virtually anything requires a massive amount of schooling, often unrelated to the field:  Park Ranger even, requires schooling, rather than on the job training.



So tonight I look into Real Estate Appraisal.  My High School Diploma isn't good enough to begin training...  I need two fucking years of UNRELATED post secondary education, before I can pay for schooling to learn this, which in itself is hundreds of hours and years of working under somebody else's guidance.



All Trades are a four year thing, full time.



It seems to me, that there are few opportunities to achieve any sort of recognized training in anything, without years in school.  And why would two years of unrelated post secondary education even be a prerequisite?  Why not just learn what's involved with the fucking job?



I don't know why modern society must complicate things, other than to make schools rich, and ensure one amasses a huge student load debt...



I don't think a Park Ranger in the 1950's needed specialized training in a school.  I doubt the vast majority of anyone that did most of the heavy lifting needed years of schooling a few decades ago...  University was for people like Doctors, Scientists, etc.  Not the grunt on the ground!  The grunt on the ground was taught how to do his job by the boss or foreman.  Now they want four years of schooling so that same boss or foreman can tell you how to do that job.



Look how fast the World rebuilt and advanced after WWII...  The advances were truly astonishing.  I doubt most of the men involved had more than a high school education...  Maybe not even that?



Now you need a three month fucking course to be qualified to tie a fucking garbage bag closed, pull it out of the steel bin, and reline said bin with a new garbage bag.  What the fuck!

[Anonymous]

Never mind I found something.



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[Anonymous]

I honestly think self employed is the only way to go for people like me...  Property maintenance, shit like that...  I already have the truck and all the equipment needed, since I need it for my yard!

[Frood]

[Renee]

Welcome to the world of self realization, Mel.



While you were swimming in bullshit and Fleischmann's the world passed you by.

[Frood]

Welcome to the world of double post...

[Odinson]

We are wayyy ahead of you with the schooling and course thing..



You need a diploma for lifting boxes around here.

[Renee]

Welcome to the world of double post...

Thanks for the heads up.

[Anonymous]

We are wayyy ahead of you with the schooling and course thing..



You need a diploma for lifting boxes around here.

I think we are pretty close to Finland in that regard.

[Anonymous]

I did pretty good with only a high school education. But, upstream oil and gas is one the last industries a person can do that. I took a shitload of courses along the way.

[Anonymous]

Become a gunsmith.

[Anonymous]

I am looking forward to my future. Retire in three years and eight months. Than I am out of Canada for good.

[Anonymous]

I am looking forward to my future. Retire in three years and eight months. Than I am out of Canada for good.

Enjoy your time in Yemen. Experience the wonderment.

[Anonymous]

I am looking forward to my future. Retire in three years and eight months. Than I am out of Canada for good.

Enjoy your time in Yemen. Experience the wonderment.

That's not where IHJ is going Mel, you know that.

[Anonymous]

I am looking forward to my future. Retire in three years and eight months. Than I am out of Canada for good.

Enjoy your time in Yemen. Experience the wonderment.

That's not where IHJ is going Mel, you know that.

I am not Mel, you know that!