Army forces 50,000 soldiers into extended duty....

Post by **Roofus** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:47 pm

fatheadpi wrote:[qoute]Working overtime at a job you can go home from is a little different from being stuck in Iraq indefinitely.[/qoute]

Yeah, it usually doesn't come with 50k for college and the chance to shoot automatic grenade launchers. And it's rarely as rewarding.

Not quite the angle I was going for, but yeah. Blowing up ragheads for liberty could be quite rewarding.

farrell2k · Post by **farrell2k** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:59 pm

Roofus wrote:
I am a bargained employe at the company for which I work. I work 48 hours just about every week. I am normally scheduled for 40, but I am often forced to do overtime. It is something to which I agreed when I was hired. Refer to FatheadPI's response.
Working overtime at a job you can go home from is a little different from being stuck in Iraq indefinitely.

Of corse, but that was not the point. The point is that they agreed to do what they are now doing....God's work through George W. Bush!

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:33 am

Not quite the angle I was going for, but yeah. Blowing up ragheads for liberty could be quite rewarding.

I meant the real job you do in general. I look at the job I have, and I look at the jobs my civilian friends and the guys I went to highschool with have. I look around the US for what there is to do. Outside of running my own business (which I do on the side anyways), I can't think of many jobs as rewarding as what I do. Plus, I do my job NOW, not in another year or two after racking up 20 - 60k in debts to a college for a piece of paper that doesn't mean anything.

But yeah, blowing stuff up is always an added plus. You find your own cause in everything you do. Me, I like to improve things and make our satellite communication systems perform better.

[qoute]Of corse, but that was not the point. The point is that they agreed to do what they are now doing....God's work through George W. Bush![/quote]

That's one way to look at it. Another is that we're exercising the will of the American people through the man they allowed to be their leader.

Me? I voted for Badnarik.

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 1:25 am

A paper from college will get you no where if you didn't want/need it in the first place.

Yeah yeah not everyone is cut out for college but that doesn't make it worthless. Some of us actually go to schools and well ya know LEARN.

fatheadpi · Post by **fatheadpi** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:39 pm

[qoute]Yeah yeah not everyone is cut out for college but that doesn't make it worthless. Some of us actually go to schools and well ya know LEARN.[/quote]

Good to see some people to. Looking at the college that's close to me, it looks like most kids just see college as the next thing in life, not what it's supposed to be. They might as well have saved their parents / scholarship funds some cash for a worthwhile student and gone off the McD's-U.

Lartrak · Post by **Lartrak** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 6:54 pm

fatheadpi wrote:[qoute]Yeah yeah not everyone is cut out for college but that doesn't make it worthless. Some of us actually go to schools and well ya know LEARN.

Good to see some people to. Looking at the college that's close to me, it looks like most kids just see college as the next thing in life, not what it's supposed to be. They might as well have saved their parents / scholarship funds some cash for a worthwhile student and gone off the McD's-U.[/quote]

Yeah, this is one of the things that bugged me about a lot of my fellow high school students. They looked at college as a required step after high school, not a chance to learn a lot of valuable stuff.

A degree is useful, though. I've known too many qualified people who can't get the best jobs because of a lack of a degree. Any degree. It doesn't matter which.

It's stupid, but that's the way it works in many places now.