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I played this out back in 1976. I was fortunate to graduate from college with no debt (had a 75% tuition discount with dad's job at Penn State, and I lived at home, and worked while in school.) Got a job after graduation working as a writer for a medical newspaper group. Paid $8500 per year, and quickly realized I'd never be able to afford a GTX on that pay. Saved my money for a year, then quit and went to truck driver school.
Three years later, I was making $30k per year, and owned my first truck. My parents were distraught that I was no longer using my degree. For me, making 50% more than my tenured college professor dad, made it easy to take. My parents breathed a sigh of relief when I sold the first truck and used the money I'd saved to attend law school, rather than buying a new rig.
Six months after I passed the bar exam, I was back driving full time. Although I finally managed to use my education at the peak of my career, I eventually ended up behind the wheel again, for my final 20 years. I think every potential college student should go through vocational training as a prerequisite to enrollment.
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YY1
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No way was I ever going to college.
I don't have the patience for it nor did I have funding.
Took a while to find something I enjoyed enough to pursue full time.
Paid $350 each for three semesters of electronics and then computer servicing at the local vocational school.
(I already knew what I was doing, but figured a $350 paper saying someone else also thought that was a good deal)
Back then "educators" thought electronics was a prerequisite for computers (dumbasses), so I had to sit through that.
Did learn a few things though, so not wasted.
Computer teacher said I could have easily taught that class.
My first year as a "computer installation tech" I was "teaching" people with degrees (including doctorates) how to operate computers.
Later on I was "teaching" people with masters and doctorates how to allocate funds, budget for lifecycle, and plan complex computer networks.
But enough about me, let's talk about me.
I don't have the patience for it nor did I have funding.
Took a while to find something I enjoyed enough to pursue full time.
Paid $350 each for three semesters of electronics and then computer servicing at the local vocational school.
(I already knew what I was doing, but figured a $350 paper saying someone else also thought that was a good deal)
Back then "educators" thought electronics was a prerequisite for computers (dumbasses), so I had to sit through that.
Did learn a few things though, so not wasted.
Computer teacher said I could have easily taught that class.
My first year as a "computer installation tech" I was "teaching" people with degrees (including doctorates) how to operate computers.
Later on I was "teaching" people with masters and doctorates how to allocate funds, budget for lifecycle, and plan complex computer networks.
But enough about me, let's talk about me.
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barnfind
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Although Nikolai Ezhov signed the Order n° 00447, its instigator was Stalin himself. On July 2, 1937, Stalin sent a top-secret letter to all regional party secretaries (with a copy to NKVD regional chiefs) ordering them to present, within five days, estimates of the number of kulaks and “criminals” that should be arrested, executed or sent to camps. As First Secretary of the Moscow Communist Party, Nikita Khruschev wired to Stalin, on July 10, 1937: “41,305 kulak and criminal elements have been posted in Moscow and Moscow region.
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