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What Happened....
I almost could have written this. I was laid off six times in eight years when I was in engineering & construction. People said I was overqualified for admin work, but my feeling was that I was overqualified to work in a crappy industry. I read The Millionaire Next Door and decided to work in...- Paisley
- Post #259
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
Interesting--at the engineering firms where I worked, it was mostly middle-aged men. There were very few people in their 20s. I've noticed that admins of a certain age do find work, though. In fact, admins in their 20s are the exception, maybe because it's perceived as dull, low-status work. I...- Paisley
- Post #252
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
I never felt engineering school didn't emphasize problem solving; my education was nothing BUT problem solving. In the mechanical design courses (which were required), my classmates and I came up with some interesting stuff. Some of us female students even came up with a new unit of measure: the...- Paisley
- Post #245
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
Good grief. When my cousin's daughter was thinking about going to college in the Denver area (back when I lived there), I offered to let her stay with me if she paid for her own groceries and half the utilities. I only had an 800 sf house, but renting an apartment would have easily cost her...- Paisley
- Post #227
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
Given that, it seems incredibly unfair to encourage young people to take on a mountain of debt for an education that may or may not work out from a financial point of view. Even more so since those loans are very hard to default on. As for paying rent, my ex-jerk's mom tried that. My ex-jerk...- Paisley
- Post #222
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
Re: engineers who can't engineer. Maybe they're complete knuckleheads, but IME, at least, that's pretty rare. I'd venture to say there's no training or professional development where they work to get them from the theoretical to the practical. Vendor lunch & learns don't count. Rather, they're...- Paisley
- Post #220
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
Hey, I read your posts, FF! Unfortunately, I feel like my degree in engineering was just four and a half wasted years. There was no concept of lattices of knowledge of various subjects, no study of critical thinking, and not much of a market for the degree. And unless you're working as an...- Paisley
- Post #218
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
One of my gamer buddies was a college physics teacher. He's written programs for the game that I can barely understand. He's unemployed and living with his parents now. :confused:- Paisley
- Post #211
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
An engineering degree (in my experience, at least) is a whole lot of theory and very little practical application. Engineering is such a broad field that there's no way you can prepare someone for anything they might encounter. Further, engineering companies (again, IME) simply aren't willing...- Paisley
- Post #210
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
There was a big push to get every kid into college and the myth that not only would a college degree be a ticket to financial security, but the lack of one meant penury. Not so then, and not so now. A college degree doesn't necessarily make you smarter, give you critical thinking skills or...- Paisley
- Post #205
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
A former coworker told me about her husband's son or daughter, who got a $100,000 liberal arts education and now prepares bills for a law firm. It's a lot more complicated than it sounds (I interviewed for the same job at another firm) and it pays pretty well...but still. If your young friend...- Paisley
- Post #184
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
Former mechanical engineer here. BSME, military veteran, passed the FE exam, won a design competition, excellent communication skills--I had all the things companies swore they couldn't find. Result: I made $7.50 an hour my first year out of engineering school working at Sears warehouse. I later...- Paisley
- Post #183
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Am I the only member who doesn't wear a hat?
I don't wear a hat anymore except for wool caps in winter. Fashion has improved tremendously since this place started in the early 2000s, when people were walking around with three inches of pant leg dragging on the ground, muffin tops, and uncombed hair. I'm a lot happier wearing current styles...- Paisley
- Post #18
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What Happened....
The tackiest aspirational/entitled thing I've ever seen was when the office manager of a place where I used to work had a family emergency (her husband suddenly and unexpectedly died). Her friends set up a web page for donations for housecleaning, catered meals and lawn care. This, even though...- Paisley
- Post #162
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
I remember hearing on a talk show many years ago that the Trumps were not in the Social Register. There was also an article in The Atlantic a few months ago on the middle class living paycheck to paycheck, and land-rich, cash-poor aristocracy comes to mind, too.- Paisley
- Post #147
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What's never mentioned is people (especially young adults) getting money from relatives, especially parents.- Paisley
- Post #144
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
Ah, I didn't live anywhere near downtown, but near Woodmen and Academy. The area looked like it was built in the 50s or 60s based on a meandering residential suburban street plan. In the Denver area (actually Englewood), I lived near the Civil War general series in the college series, which...- Paisley
- Post #128
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Dinner and Dancing
Here's a fella in blue jeans Dancin' with an older queen Who's dolled up in her diamond rings and Twistin' the night away Man, you oughta see her go Twistin' to the rock and roll Here you find the young and old Twistin' the night away from "Twistin' the Night Away" by Sam Cooke- Paisley
- Post #10
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Dinner and Dancing
My aunt and uncle in California went dancing back in the 50s and 60s. My aunt picked up my uncle from wherever he was working--he worked as a lineman--and go straight to a dance place. He was still in his work clothes--no ermine and pearls in that scene.- Paisley
- Post #8
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
I don't think there's any system to the street names in Colorado Springs. I lived there for 2.5 years and it seemed like a hodge-podge of randomly drawn names and words. In Denver, OTOH, the streets west of Broadway are in alphabetical order and avenues north of Ellsworth are numerical. In the...- Paisley
- Post #121
- Forum: The Golden Era
