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…this morning I accompanied my newly unemployed wife to the unemployment office to start the paperwork process and this afternoon I have to do something for a friend. I hope to get some more stuff up later in the day.
Meanwhile judging by the hit count most of you have missed my latest examiner column so feel free to go check it out.
Don Surber reveals a lesson about college degrees:
First up is Jackie Mroz, 22, of Oregon City: “She put everything she had into her studies at the University of Oregon, graduating in 2009 with degrees in international studies and sociology and a double minor in nonprofit administration and African studies. She studied abroad in Senegal, took challenging courses, earned a 3.8 grade point average and raced through college in three years.”
I am no expert, but I cannot see much of a market for sociology or knowing how to run a business that doesn’t make money.
While on the other end of the scale:
Next up is “John Yeier, 24, who graduated from the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls on Saturday. He’s the sole member of his class with a degree in embedded engineering, which integrates computer software and hardware in cell phones, cars and other machines. He will work on small plane navigation system software for Garmin AT in Salem.”
Take a look at his conclusions which make a lot of sense. I think that our society’s attempts to insulate our children from the realities of life is counterproductive. We may be able to delay those realities, but they can’t be repealed. If we don’t teach them this, then life will do it for us, without favoritism or mercy.
This call as highlighted by the Lonely Conservative is the type of call that SHOULD get on the air.
Until folks understand what people are actually thinking. Until people understand that many of the folks actually believe that their checks are coming from some magical stash rather than taxpayers pockets there will be nothing to stop us from becoming Greece.
I guess that WSJ wasn’t just whistling dixie about liberals and economics..
My latest examiner column is now up. It’s called The Butcher the Baker the Candlestick Maker:
The administration is proclaiming the economy heading in the right direction. Republicans proclaim the administration’s moves a failure. The Tea Party trusts neither and feels the government is spending money they don’t have, but movements and parties’ aside what are actual businessmen saying?
As the title suggests I ask the butcher the baker and the candlestick maker how they are doing in a slow economy. The answers surprised me.
As always you can find my complete batch of examiner articles here. If you can’t afford to kick in to the Am I half as good as Andrew Sullivan fundraiser consider checking out those articles as every hit helps.
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