Bgriffin856 Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 And I'm only 32 ... 2 1 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iowaboy1965 Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 2 minutes ago, Bgriffin856 said: And I'm only 32 ... X2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poor farmer/logger Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 Yup 21 years ago since I graduated. Time flies. Summers are just a blur now. Least winter lasts 6 months so I get a tiny bit of downtime here lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike newman Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 1 hour ago, poor farmer/logger said: Yup 21 years ago since I graduated. Time flies. Summers are just a blur now. Least winter lasts 6 months so I get a tiny bit of downtime here lol. ...very fortunate there, Ryan..... ...when you belong in the ''School of Hard Knocks, '' ....you never seem to graduate......Just get a few reminders, for example...'''Could have done better '' etc .... ....always interesting when some dim witted ,bloated bureaucrat....armed with a ''printed card'' to remind him and the peasants of his importance in this world, has a go at the machine operating peasant.... I do a lot of private river work....as distinct from municipal and or council river work...thus I get involved with these wankers quite often.. ,....I just love those verbal exchanges .... Mike 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomH Posted August 16 Share Posted August 16 I have been working full time for 40 years...... Yikes.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poor farmer/logger Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 4 hours ago, mike newman said: ...very fortunate there, Ryan..... ...when you belong in the ''School of Hard Knocks, '' ....you never seem to graduate......Just get a few reminders, for example...'''Could have done better '' etc .... ....always interesting when some dim witted ,bloated bureaucrat....armed with a ''printed card'' to remind him and the peasants of his importance in this world, has a go at the machine operating peasant.... I do a lot of private river work....as distinct from municipal and or council river work...thus I get involved with these wankers quite often.. ,....I just love those verbal exchanges .... Mike I wouldn’t call myself educated that’s for sure mike bit I did pass all 12 grades and kindergarten on the first try so I’ve got that going for me lol. Never carried onto any post secondary education. Seen people go through get university degrees and end up as car salesmen or some other job where a fancy education isn’t necisarnaly required. Not that those are jobs aren’t good jobs but people are coming out of university making with a 100k plus student load are barley getting by making their payments and trying to live comfortably. Trades are where it’s at in my opinion unlike what a lot of guidance councilors used to say. Go to school for a year and then apprentice and pay your way through the rest of the schooling as you work. Come out with a journeyman’s certificate making 100-150,000 a year. Yes you have to work your but off to make that but what you make is yours(aside from our nosy governments😡) School of hard knocks is one of the best schools there is too. Nothing like experience. Only way to learn is by making mistakes, growing from them and not making them again. Sometimes takes a while but eventually you get it figured out. That’s about the time that some young bloke comes in and tells you you’re doing it all wrong though and thus carries on the cycle lol. Somehow I can picture you politely telling them to go pound sand in maybe not as polite terms mike lol. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellowrosefarm Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 And my 2002 Silverado is the newest truck I've had. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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5288IH Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 I am an accountant, and now everytime I put DOB 2005 for client I have panic attacks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CC_Ranger Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 6 hours ago, TomH said: I have been working full time for 40 years...... Yikes.. Right there with you Tom ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardtail Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 4 hours ago, poor farmer/logger said: I wouldn’t call myself educated that’s for sure mike bit I did pass all 12 grades and kindergarten on the first try so I’ve got that going for me lol. Never carried onto any post secondary education. Seen people go through get university degrees and end up as car salesmen or some other job where a fancy education isn’t necisarnaly required. Not that those are jobs aren’t good jobs but people are coming out of university making with a 100k plus student load are barley getting by making their payments and trying to live comfortably. Trades are where it’s at in my opinion unlike what a lot of guidance councilors used to say. Go to school for a year and then apprentice and pay your way through the rest of the schooling as you work. Come out with a journeyman’s certificate making 100-150,000 a year. Yes you have to work your but off to make that but what you make is yours(aside from our nosy governments😡) School of hard knocks is one of the best schools there is too. Nothing like experience. Only way to learn is by making mistakes, growing from them and not making them again. Sometimes takes a while but eventually you get it figured out. That’s about the time that some young bloke comes in and tells you you’re doing it all wrong though and thus carries on the cycle lol. Somehow I can picture you politely telling them to go pound sand in maybe not as polite terms mike lol. necisarnaly I see what you did there 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poor farmer/logger Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 2 minutes ago, hardtail said: necisarnaly I see what you did there 🤣 Lol. I really should do more proof reading I guess lol. Fat fingers and speedy typing don’t always go together lol. Add in a stupid autocorrect and it really makes me look dumb sometimes 😂😂 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardtail Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 I thought it was quite clever actually 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Beale Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 12 hours ago, mike newman said: ...very fortunate there, Ryan..... ...when you belong in the ''School of Hard Knocks, '' ....you never seem to graduate......Just get a few reminders, for example...'''Could have done better '' etc .... ....always interesting when some dim witted ,bloated bureaucrat....armed with a ''printed card'' to remind him and the peasants of his importance in this world, has a go at the machine operating peasant.... I do a lot of private river work....as distinct from municipal and or council river work...thus I get involved with these wankers quite often.. ,....I just love those verbal exchanges .... Mike At one stage there was a worry about the lack of updating of university degrees with further refresher training. One idea was that the print on the degree should fade and you had to do such training to get it restored. That is how the University of Hard Knocks works. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
756puller Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 I still think of myself as a young tech but the guy that owns the shop i work at for my weekend job called me an old tech since I've been in this circus for almost twenty years now. Kinda makes you stand back and think. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxrunFarms02 Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 17 hours ago, Bgriffin856 said: And I'm only 32 ... Where I work we get a lot of seasonal high school kids come help during the summer. In my mid 30's I realized they could've been my kids if I " slipped one past the goalie " at a younger age. They look at us extremely weird when we quote movies like Tommy Boy, Twister, Jumanji.......... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxrunFarms02 Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 11 hours ago, poor farmer/logger said: I wouldn’t call myself educated that’s for sure mike bit I did pass all 12 grades and kindergarten on the first try so I’ve got that going for me lol. Never carried onto any post secondary education. Seen people go through get university degrees and end up as car salesmen or some other job where a fancy education isn’t necisarnaly required. Not that those are jobs aren’t good jobs but people are coming out of university making with a 100k plus student load are barley getting by making their payments and trying to live comfortably. Trades are where it’s at in my opinion unlike what a lot of guidance councilors used to say. Go to school for a year and then apprentice and pay your way through the rest of the schooling as you work. Come out with a journeyman’s certificate making 100-150,000 a year. Yes you have to work your but off to make that but what you make is yours(aside from our nosy governments😡) School of hard knocks is one of the best schools there is too. Nothing like experience. Only way to learn is by making mistakes, growing from them and not making them again. Sometimes takes a while but eventually you get it figured out. That’s about the time that some young bloke comes in and tells you you’re doing it all wrong though and thus carries on the cycle lol. Somehow I can picture you politely telling them to go pound sand in maybe not as polite terms mike lol. My first two years of high school I took all the necessary required classes......barely passed them. 3rd year was nothing but shop and ag class. Sr year 1 required history class, and the rest of the day was work release on my parents farm. The school guidance counselor was on me for 2 years " you didn't sign up for s.a.t's" " you're not applying for college " " you need to go" " you won't be anyone is life" I think that's the problem, kids get that drilled into their heads and go to a 4 year school where they don't like or know what they're supposed to do, get a basic job not related to their degree(if they got it) don't want to do over time....let alone work 40 hours to pay off their debt, then it's supposed to be our problem? I told the counselor I learned more by listening to my dad and grandpa talk at the elevator, wrenching on equipment, and planting corn than I ever did at a desk and whatever I decide to do I'd be making more money than him..........never got called in his office again lol 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudfly Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 1 hour ago, FoxrunFarms02 said: I told the counselor I learned more by listening to my dad and grandpa talk at the elevator, wrenching on equipment, and planting corn than I ever did at a desk... I went to 4 years of college (Mechanical Engineer), and grad school while working a full time job (Have an MBA) and I will confirm the statement above is still true for me. Even in my real job as an engineer on large construction projects I still fall back more on what I was taught by my dad, both my grandfathers, several uncles, and a few people I worked for when I was a teenager. Yes I have the technical and math background to prove out a lot of things, but honestly common sense and knowing how to work and how things work goes a long ways. I mean, if you can understand how a baler knotter works, how much more complicated can something get mechanically... 🤣 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5288IH Posted August 17 Share Posted August 17 Same here I work as an accountant but prior spent 13 years swinging spanners. Comes down to one fact if it looks like crap, smell like crap, tastes like crap, it is usually crap I must be getting old common sense is hard to find 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wes806 Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 Done my 12 years in school. To be honest I don;t know I ever passed. Spent as much time as I could out working. I'll be the first to admit I'm not a good speller or with my grammer. I still go back to alot of things my Dad and granddad taught me along with what all the fellow that I workrd for on his farm along with what I taught myself. Heck bet I could still run a old D6 Cat dozer with the hand clucth and all it's controls. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaredT Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 On 8/16/2023 at 3:23 PM, TomH said: I have been working full time for 40 years...... Yikes.. Me too and I'm only 41.🤪 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bgriffin856 Posted August 18 Author Share Posted August 18 On 8/16/2023 at 8:44 PM, Reichow7120 said: This is it 😂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bgriffin856 Posted August 18 Author Share Posted August 18 Being a 90's baby I might be a millennial but I definitely identify as the silent generation. I don't remember much education past the 6th grade. Not much of it was useful at home on the farm or in the woods. My h.s experience killed any reason to go on to higher education. I have learned a lot of things not because I wanted to but because I had to. It just blows my mind how dependent people are on having people build, fix or just do something simple for them. Anyhow also as a 90's baby especially a early 90's one I feel bad for kids these days. We got to have the last of anything good everything has went downhill rapidly since Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cattech Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 Around here, all the stores that sell tobacco or alcohol have that little calender on the wall that say you have to have been born before this date, in whatever year.... to purchase said items. The day I looked at that calendar and realized I was old enough to buy a case of beer before the 21 yr old kid in front of me was even born... huh, where'd them yrs go? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IHKeith Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 I had a childhood similar to a working farm kid, but at my parent's farm equipment repair shop which progressed to a dealership, working with family since I could. In 2005 at 19 I started my automotive mechanic career which is still my occupation. I'm almost 38 now and I've seen a lot of situations and people in my time, by no means have I seen it all. Recently, I have thought the sign that one has some significant experience in their field, is when they can remember when the cost of a job was 30% of today's price 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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