Poor construction worker

Yep. Misread. Was reading as cost.
Thanks to @philnotfil as well above.

 

My niece, who tested high, but did not particularly care for conventional school transferred to a high school in Broward County that is half basic classes (math, English, Science) and half professional/vocational school. They also have job placement services and have paired every graduate not going on to college with a job. My niece has gone the JUCO route, but her specialty was photography and has a part time job as a photographer's assistant in Palm Beach county now.

I see nothing wrong with creating more schools like this in place of traditional high schools.

 

Similar story here. Some have heard it. Got accepted to UF but went into the family construction business. Went to a trade school and got certified in something I never ended up really using. Instead, I ran the business for 15 years until the recession hit. Fortunately someone gave me a shot in the private sector based on my experience running that business.
I parlayed that a couple times to where I am now.

I'm now in management in the non profit sector and am doing fine and love what I do. Most of my staff has has more education than me. BUT...I've had to work harder and longer though. My wife got her degree in a field that required it, but no longer works in that field.

That said. I have pushed our daughter to get her degree and will do the same with the other two when they are older.

My gap year turned into 25 gap years and so it goes.

I want my kids happy and enjoying what they do. I will encourage the degree because it can flatten the path.

 

Heading there for move in next week.
They told us that she needs to start looking now to get off campus next year.
Build some freaking appartments Boone!

So help me if my kid meet yours and you and I end up at Saban's house every Thanksgiving together, Im gonna disown her!

 

No retirement or benefits? You clearly were not union then.

 

Nope. Not a whole lot of union work around my area. Mostly just short term gig stuff. Which is why I changed direction in life. If I did have those things, I might still be doing it.

 

UCF has a great computer school... You must be very proud of your son.

 

Thank you. I am. He said the masters was easier than the bachelors.
He was always a well rounded student.

 

ok, but the degrees are just from UCF

 

We have some union staff that max out the employer yearly retirement contribution limits and get taxed on excess. For reference, that limit is $58,000 this year. They do extremely well.

 

We hire 15-20 kids every summer. They enjoy it, our shirts are becoming common place at the high schools. Lol. Anyway we just hired a welder about 3 months ago. He was a prep guy for a welder his summer before junior year. Came back to do the same before senior year. Went to welding school at the tech and came back to us.

 

LOVE IT. Glad to hear about more schools offering these options. My step-father taught industrial arts for decades and taught in some situations where kids in rural Georgia were transitioned into careers in machinery, etc. I totally agree that the U.S. educational system needs to de-standardize (my suggestion, if not yours) and offer more options for career tracks in the trades.

 

HS counselors work all these angles. This notion that HS’s are pushing all to college is nonsense.

My previous one had a “meat judging” team, and a robust AG department that might of course lead to college, but more likely a trade.

I’m moving to a fancy Fairfax school this year, but even this one has trade routes.

 

You got a new gig? Congratulations. Tell us about it - you teach science?

 

Yeah. UF dropped their IT program when he decided to go down that path. WTH is up with that??

 

Really? Perhaps they renamed it

 

Garbage strikes aren't super common anymore, but yeah. Talk about bringing a city to its knees.

It's probably the easiest industry to make sure your collections are up to date. You tell someone you aren't picking up their trash they're pretty quick to pay.

 

Yeah, mostly geosystems (that’s fancy talk for Earth science) and astronomy here. Only one section of astro. Which is a bummer, because that one’s more fun. I had a sweet iSTEM Academy gig at the previous job, this one will take some time to move up into our cooler options.

And I just started this week, so it’s all honeymoon stuff so far. But the difference one county over is striking, so far. My previous coworkers are having a hard time believing my reports.

Our new hires are badasses (not me) from literally all over the country and world. Humbling, TBH. My “shoulder buddy” this week was a college professor in Korea. Another “table mate” was a nuclear engineer in Israel. My NASA internship was so weak I resorted to self-deprecating humor during my intro.

And thanks!

 

Garbage truck drivers in Chicago make about the same as my sister-in-law who teaches 6th grade in Bay County.