baddog

I don’t know what the job scene is like today. In the early 70s, there were plenty of jobs available, even for the trade schools. I went undeclared for a couple semesters which was a huge mistake. Unless you know your life’s ambition, paying to go to school is like a merry-go-round. There are lots of kids graduating high school who don’t have a clue what their job interests are. I was one of those kids. Should have stayed with the A/C field. There were like 10 jobs available for every graduate, but economics was a problem and I still wasn’t sure that’s what I wanted. Even back then, I couldn’t believe the ease of the basic subjects in the trade schools. Both math and English were on 4th or 5th grade levels. Math tests would have 1/2 + 1/4 equals……I would actually have people looking over my shoulder for answers. Maybe I should have tried engineering….lol. Long story short……economics was a key factor in my not finishing at Lamar. Nowadays, and probably back then, process operator classes would have been the best route for this area. Actually, back then, you could hire on in the plants straight out of high school. Nepotism ran rampant back then, so who you knew was a great application attachment. I submitted several and got no calls. Today’s youth don’t know what work is. If you want to test a person’s determination in keeping a job, let him hire on pouring concrete. Give him some rubber boots and jump in the middle of a form having to use rakes to move the pour. At the end of the day, you’ll know where he stands. I apologize for the meandering.

Texas to the MCWS!

The whole 8 years? What kind of cop-out is that? You got called out for your hypocrisy. Deal with it….Biden.

6 pitches….2 HRs

Told my wife that same thing yesterday……scored too many runs and probably won’t score tomorrow.

Is this a copy/paste?

Yes, and very rich for the taking. I’ve dozed off with company over, while in my favorite chair. Walked them out when they were leaving. Asked my wife if I was asleep and she said I was snoring. Not something I am proud of, but it happens in later years. It reflects Trump’s age. I really don’t see how any president gets a good night’s sleep.

Maybe they came here for the education then went back home.

Biden was asleep when he was a wake. Huge difference.

Texas takes game 1 from Oregon 11-3. Oregon blew several chances to score some serious runs. Texas pitching bailed us out of most of them.

Texas escapes 2nd and 3rd, no outs, 2 Ks and groundout to 1st. 4-0 Texas middle 4th.

Texas gets out of a bases loaded jam. Leading Oregon 4-0 in bottom 3rd.

That’s very scary. Our local college was top 10 in the nation for engineering degrees back when I was attending. Lots of foreign students there to become engineers. Too bad a few bad apples have to spoil good educations.

Alvarez spoiled Morris’ debut…….Grand Slam.

He voted too.

Well, I kinda hit on something. Jobs requiring degrees and America has been dumbed down for years. Sad.

Georgia down 7-0 comes back to win 13-12. Most games where I don’t really care who wins are not very exciting. This one was.

That’s gotta be a record for total HRs.

3 run HR. 13-12 Georgia. Again, unbelievable.

HBP with bases loaded. Unbelievable. 12-10 State.

This so far, and while I am typing, Miss St. hits another HR making it 11-10. [Hidden Content]

Anybody else watching this Georgia/Mississippi St. game? It has to be the wildest back and forth I’ve seen.

Well, of course it was not intended to cover them all. Just something I found. I think a lot of it could be that Americans are spoiled and believe that they should make $20 per hour working at McDonald’s. I’ve built scaffolds, poured concrete, done remodeling (including roofing which I hated), was a swamper for pipe liners, and dug ditches for plumbing. I ended up inspecting, which kept me out of the weather and saved my back. Worked beside blacks and Mexicans, but never encountered any other races doing the manual labor jobs. I would like to see what these jobs are that Americans are not being hired to do. If they’re high tech or required educations, maybe we should stop graduating high schoolers that can’t read, write, or do even basic math. Colleges aren’t doing much better. Just me two cents.