Full-time job? You will be lucky to get one of those in blue shithole states. As it stands, that is only reserved for the peons that served maybe a decade of their time on part-time labor to those who already have a degree.
I know of too many people that have at least 3 jobs just to barely get by. The crazy policies that the communist leadership have made acquiring a full time job significantly harder. Clearly this was by design.
I know two liberals and one conservative who are jobless. The conservative is pissed that he got laid off from his last opportunity due to downsizing, and is job seeking with a passion. The two liberals don't seem motivated and they're also depressed. I've been nudging them both to take it seriously and look hard. One of them is now trying to get into a trade, the other one is still relying on a government service to find them one despite no success for almost six months. I'm trying to meet them in person to try to help them get out of their funk.
Working as unskilled labor for someone w regular work as a mason, drywaller, roofer, painter, etc. is better money and waaaaaay more fun than soy-tier retail. You do have to stop being a little bitch though, so most modern Americans cant take it and prefer being service employees.
Manufacturing is getting too woke. I'm thinking about finding my way into working with this stuff. I'm currently an industrial electrician so learning to wire a house shouldn't be a big leap.
I disagree. I’m a chef. Restaurant work is service industry. Hotel work and convenience store work is service industry.
Trades usually involve the creation of more. House. Infrastructure etc. trades are a net positive (in addition to the fact skilled tradesmen make great money) where as service industry is just static economy.
I am pretty dumb. I also can be correct on something from time to time. When a company builds a house for a client, they are performing a service but they are assembling and manufacturing a finished good on site. That is a special kind of "service" and thus placed in a special category apart from something that is purely a service with no tangible manufactured goods at the end. Plus, I didnt come up with labels but they seem to work, so whatever.
I am in the Soviet State of PA. Been a temp at a major company for 3.5 years with no sign of getting hired. No temps get hired, ever. We make up about 40% of the company's workforce. No sick days. No vacation. No 401k. No future. There are 2 other biotech companies in my area, and they only hire temps too. There are no permanent jobs.
Guys that build block walls, driver commercial vehicles, trim trees, pave roads, repair electric and plumbing, they have work, no? Go waste some time there. Same benefits package and you will learn skills that can carry you somewhere other than pointless office work.
I am a woman and weak as hell. I am a biochemist, so it's not office work. Given the chance, I would rather be a housewife. Trying to sock away some money so I can quit this BS. I was way happier as a stay at home mom.
Have you considered moving? I would think biochemistry might be a useful skill in states with large farming communities, like Nebraska, Iowa, Montana, etc.
No clue what your specialty is though, or of it has overlap with pest control or crop yields.
I would say that outsourcing and importing tons of H1Bs (supply>>demand) drove wages down more than anything. People come from China newly married and go to grad school here, get their buddies to hire them at big pharma and bring the rest of their family to the US. Pharma is happy because they don't have to make any long term commitments/no severance or benefits and can obviously pay much less than a FTE. The FTE positions can go to PhDs in management. I was also fooled into thinking this would be a stable life, and have been spending the first half of my 40s working in an unrelated temp job without any future as well.
Exactly why I am encouraging my boys to go the trade route vs. college. A degree even in a legitimate major like the sciences is not a path to a stable life with decent pay or benefits.
Don’t use the “I am a woman and weak” excuse. Barring a medical condition there is no reason you can’t learn a trade like Commercial driving, or electrician. I drive trucks for Amazon until I get some more OTR experience and am more employable but I see several smaller women driving the big scary trucks.
She said she would prefer being a stay at home mom...trucking isn't exactly a home centric profession.
Although, Manatee, have you considered learning a skill that is more conducive to your abilities and tastes that might garner you a little pocket money? (Odd jobs have been a bit of a sideline for me all my life -- always good to be able to do them during lean times or when you want a little pocket jingle)
If you're white man and expecting to have some office career, you're fucked. It's all about "diversity" and women now. They pay them less, they treat them like shit, and unlike white men, they put up with it.
Learn a trade. Make money. Buy a house. Have a family.
And all the companies that do that type of work eventually get to the size of needing cubicle hamsters AKA pointless office workers. So unless you're a sole proprietor which by definition means you're not creating jobs office work is not pointless. Coming at you from the point of an RGN Heavy Haul truck driver.
That sounds like Hewlett Packard. Over 40% are contractors with no benefits and shit pay. They won't even let contractors use the Hewlett Packard facilities like the employee gym.
If the temp workers are given the same access to benefits as a FTE, there are potential legal ramifications. They will try to argue that they are a regular employee if they have the same access. I heard this once when we couldn't let a contract worker even go to lunch with us (not HP).
The entire way we handle employment in this country is bullshit. One shouldn't have to spill their entire life story, have a resume, and enter all of that information again online, just to bag groceries.
I’m applying to jobs right now and the number of employers asking for references with the initial application is too damn high. Giving out my personal info is one thing, but giving out the personal info of others in an initial app is sketchy. I’ve already had one place I applied to (who never contacted me) pass on my contact info to someone else without my permission. I don’t appreciate it.
References are a ton of horseshit anyway. I get it for an executive level position where people need to know that you're legit. However, anything else? Bunch of bullshit.
The only reference a person needs is there work history unless it's an entry level position. But that's why it's called an entry level position so you can build a work history.
Only legal citizens of the USA need to do all that...
If you want a real job, you need to renounce your USA citizenship and move to Central America... and then come back in through the open border as a "immigrant"
Worse than that -- they can go check out your social media too. References are one thing (I don't mind giving them; they've been rather necessary in my profession along with background checks), but combing through your social media is something else.
The highlight of the Obama era economic and healthcare policies, creating regulations for markets that discourage offering any fulltime entry level work. The real entry level then required a Masters and 10 years pertinent job experience.
It certainly was! I know the trailer trash around my area definitely won't blow it all on a new TV, lottery tickets or beer, because I believe in change.
Shame people actually believe it is that easy. Every other dollar they will have the rest of their entire lives will now be so devalued, it makes that upfront $1,400 a really shitty deal.
Free food (SNAP), Free money (SNAP & DOL), free housing (HUD), free healthcare (HHS), free power (DOE), and free education (ED). The list goes on with the lists of free shit from sex changes to iPhones.
Same here. Not all students should remain in school for all 12+ years of faux education. I dropped out, tried college and realized it was a waste of time, started my own business, and have increased my income by 50% year over year.
Amen. Mandatory 12 years of school is a waste of time. All it does is create jobs for teacher's unions.
You've learned all you need to learn by 12 years old to have a good job. The three R's is all you need. If you know that, you can learn the rest on your own.
I have a buddy that's similar. He's the type of guy that back in the day he woulda left school at 12 to work in a factory and would be running it now. It's a rare breed now days, but if i need some work done I call them.
"Vote on eternal principles, not transient feelings? I accept your corrective instinct now i have dirty Dem all over me like a first grade drag queen twerking lesson
Good luck on #8. I forget the exact numbers but I remember hearing that - because of the sheer number of laws and regulations in this country - each of us unintentionally commits multiple felonies every day.
And stop buying Jordan's or other retardedly priced clothing just for a stupid brand while you can barely pay rent. I can afford that stupid shit but I don't waste money on clothing when I can look better than average for cheap
Except thrift stores are more expensive than dept stores sometimes, especially if you have coupons and app deals. I know that they have my purchasing history, but I'm not all that interesting IRL.
It’s interesting because I was a shit student in high school. Graduated, went to community college, transferred to a 4 year university, graduated, got jobs, and now I’m saving up to buy property someday. I’m 25. It didn’t feel that hard to do 😂. Just make good decisions.
As a guy who has taken the path of most resistance, It's really not that hard if you are somewhat competent in finishing school, if you're older and working FT and taking 4 classes it's hard and sucks but if an ounce of effort is put towards it, you can get by with C's and get a degree and go forth.
Oh well Doesn't matter, I want to leave this shithole big city, and get a job w/ an American company and actually get paid real money not these BS dollaridoos.
Bad teachers and bad parenting can hold someone back though.
I know someone who was worried they wouldn't graduate high school because a certain teacher seemed to have it in for them and didn't want to pass them for some reason. I never heard the teacher's side of the story though.
Eh, I don't know about that. Based on my own experience if a student is a real problem, the teachers are more tempted to pass them just to get them the hell out of their hair.
I have seen some that get petty and vindictive, but it's usually fucking up their GPA so they can't get into AP/get scholarships or they have to go to summer school -- never not graduate.
PSA: neither attitude is the correct one to take...although I do understand the first one (the rumors are true; right before the start of a semester that was me, kneeling and praying "please, pluuuuleeeeze Jesus, I don't want to see X in my class again, please!")
I don't believe this at all. Imo it takes hundreds of decisions good or bad, maybe more. Life is literally what you make of it, and if you are a literal homeless bum with no hope because you're so fucked now... you made a shit ton of really terrible obviously-bad decisions.
So many of you people are always ranting about schools indoctrinating the youth, but now because Prager said stay in school, everyone's jumping onto the bandwagon that school=good.
Sure, schools are shit at this point, but job opportunities are almost 0 if someone doesn't have a high school degree. The need for college is debatable considering there are many ways to make a good living without a college degree.
If you need a degree for your personal vision, there are ways to get around most of the programming. For example, you can skip a large chunk of your lower division online, by using the ACE credit transfers, or the similar CLEP exams through a community college transfer degree agreement. Its all possible, but the hardest part is often the physical sciences and similar, since they are often in person.
The true problem of education is the over-selling of it. In many cases, it's simply not required. In other cases, it's a must. FAFSA handing out loans like candy really destroyed the relationship between student and college. That economic balance is toast.
Remember, the reason capitalism is so important is that its the closest relationship between oneself and products/services. While this seems superficial, it truly is not. Think about it, observe it in reality, and then apply those same relationships to the student:college relationship. One will quickly see how one-sided that has become due to the government intercepting that balance.
I would add stay out of debt to that list. Sometimes it’s unavoidable. However, maybe get the 2010 Altima $5,000 used instead of the brand new Range Rover.
1)But imagine being one of five black kids with a single mom growing up in baltimore. Imagine trying to walk through gangs on your way to work every day, hopping on the train or the bus to go make minimum wage when you could just work the corner at night selling crack and making what you make in 3 months in one night.
2)Imagine trying to graduate high school when 1.0 GPA is in the top 25% of your class. System is often broken not always the kids.
The full time job idea is bad to teach kids. Maybe you work full time at your own business, or have multiple jobs. Full time jobs in salary with benefits are becoming rare.
1 - Work hard
2 - Learn something new every day (don't stop at high school)
3 - ok as is
Live below your means. You don’t need the latest/greatest iPhone, car, clothes etc.
Invest 10% of your earnings in an S&P 500 index fund. Do these when you are young and get a 7 figure net worth when you’re middle age. If your employer offers a 401k match, take advantage as its free money.
yeah go to any retaarded/ill informed leftist and pragerU is painted as ALT-Right antisemitic white supremacy organisation.
Also a few days back i read the left is trying to create a leftist version of prager-u, just ike the HoggPillow. I'll bet prog-u will get free publicity from the media whores.
This should be plastered on the walls of every school in America. I'm so tired of cultural relativism... There is wisdom in simple facts and tested traditions like this.
This brings to mind the "Aspects of White Culture" nonsense that was issued by the national black museum. The aspects themselves are not nonsense, of course.....just the museum's ridiculing of them.
I used to get so much flak for stating exactly this on Reddit. They dont want to hear that they are responsible for their own financial success. They refuse to believe they are in control, it is always "the system" or something else not themselves.
A good work ethic, integrity and common sense will take you alot further than watching Springer all day, lying on unemployment websites and being a crackhead drug dealer
Someone may have mentioned it but there was some black organization sponsoring billboards that said this and BLM fought to have them taken down. How anyone thinks BLM's purpose is to help blacks is beyond me.
I wonder why PragerU decided to use 21 as the age for having kids?
That seems like an arbitrary number based on the drinking age. I guess they’re saying that if you have kids you’re going to want to drink, so make sure you can do it legally?
I guess it's carrying on the nuclear family thing where kids are supposed to be booted out on their own when they hit 18 and "find themselves" before settling down.
With a larger family like on family farms and stuff kids can become financially stable and responsible enough to raise their own by the time the rest of us are snorting adderall in college. That'd go a long way toward reversing our failing birthrates though, so gotta make sure we worry more about becoming middle-class and buying our own McMansion in the suburbs
Also, if you're not going to college, working in the trades or other blue-collar fields, the money is a lot better after you have some experience and learn some skills on the job.
Most people are significantly more mentally and emotionally mature at 21 than at 18. A few years' experience living as an adult probably helps prospective parents make better financial decisions, too.
My family was very poor, so a few dollars had to go a long way, and if we could save money we would always.
married at 28, 4 kids later with a full time job for close to 20 years now, Im still as cheap as I was when I was poor, but I make considerably more than both of my parents did combined, and any big purchases are usually investments in land, stocks, physical assets, etc. My kids are home schooled so they can learn real life skills, not bullshit gender studies.
I am part of the 7%. I mean I have kept a full time job (at the same place) for 16 years now, but up to age 25 I was in and out of full time work. I did keep most of them for a couple years at a time, then had a period of unemployment where I kinda just partied, then got another job. I had a kid at 18, conceived at 17. Did not graduate and technically never got a GED. I did well in school when I showed up; scored high in standardized tests and was always top of the class just behind that one Asain dude or chick. I just dicked around a lot and quit showing up because it was boring...not because I was dumb.
This is just teaching people to be worker drones. They should really be working with the kids interests in life and inspiring them to learn skills and offer value to society. But of course teachers don't actually give a fuck.
They're not saying work 60 hour weeks or even try to work your way to management or executive positions. Honestly, I think people work way too much in this country, but that's the other side of the coin.
I am in the 7% but me and my wife have had full time jobs since 16. We are approaching 40 and have a 20 year old in the air force. Have 2 other kids at home 1 is finishing high school and the other is in jr high. We good though.
Whoah dude you lost me at work a full time job. That's like time consuming and shit. I am trying to find myself and get a high rank in this Valorant game.
Full-time job? You will be lucky to get one of those in blue shithole states. As it stands, that is only reserved for the peons that served maybe a decade of their time on part-time labor to those who already have a degree.
I know of too many people that have at least 3 jobs just to barely get by. The crazy policies that the communist leadership have made acquiring a full time job significantly harder. Clearly this was by design.
As a blue city resident, I totally concur.
I know two liberals and one conservative who are jobless. The conservative is pissed that he got laid off from his last opportunity due to downsizing, and is job seeking with a passion. The two liberals don't seem motivated and they're also depressed. I've been nudging them both to take it seriously and look hard. One of them is now trying to get into a trade, the other one is still relying on a government service to find them one despite no success for almost six months. I'm trying to meet them in person to try to help them get out of their funk.
you sound like a good friend
Working as unskilled labor for someone w regular work as a mason, drywaller, roofer, painter, etc. is better money and waaaaaay more fun than soy-tier retail. You do have to stop being a little bitch though, so most modern Americans cant take it and prefer being service employees.
Manufacturing is getting too woke. I'm thinking about finding my way into working with this stuff. I'm currently an industrial electrician so learning to wire a house shouldn't be a big leap.
I disagree. I’m a chef. Restaurant work is service industry. Hotel work and convenience store work is service industry.
Trades usually involve the creation of more. House. Infrastructure etc. trades are a net positive (in addition to the fact skilled tradesmen make great money) where as service industry is just static economy.
Trades are a service You dumb mouth breather.
I am pretty dumb. I also can be correct on something from time to time. When a company builds a house for a client, they are performing a service but they are assembling and manufacturing a finished good on site. That is a special kind of "service" and thus placed in a special category apart from something that is purely a service with no tangible manufactured goods at the end. Plus, I didnt come up with labels but they seem to work, so whatever.
Finished product is the work done, U Wot m8.!!?
Liberals dont do well in trades.
Except when trading for sex
Get a job, get a house, get a coffin;
Don't stray from the path, remain where you at,
That maximizes our profit;
Is that blunt? Oh well, hell, so's this boot;
We live to hear you say "please don't shoot";
A pure delight, c'mon, make my night,
When I file reports what's right's what I write.
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It's sad. There were jobs everywhere under Trump. Now, those jobs are going away, because that's what Democrats do - give all the jobs to foreigners.
I am in the Soviet State of PA. Been a temp at a major company for 3.5 years with no sign of getting hired. No temps get hired, ever. We make up about 40% of the company's workforce. No sick days. No vacation. No 401k. No future. There are 2 other biotech companies in my area, and they only hire temps too. There are no permanent jobs.
Guys that build block walls, driver commercial vehicles, trim trees, pave roads, repair electric and plumbing, they have work, no? Go waste some time there. Same benefits package and you will learn skills that can carry you somewhere other than pointless office work.
I am a woman and weak as hell. I am a biochemist, so it's not office work. Given the chance, I would rather be a housewife. Trying to sock away some money so I can quit this BS. I was way happier as a stay at home mom.
Have you considered moving? I would think biochemistry might be a useful skill in states with large farming communities, like Nebraska, Iowa, Montana, etc.
No clue what your specialty is though, or of it has overlap with pest control or crop yields.
I would say that outsourcing and importing tons of H1Bs (supply>>demand) drove wages down more than anything. People come from China newly married and go to grad school here, get their buddies to hire them at big pharma and bring the rest of their family to the US. Pharma is happy because they don't have to make any long term commitments/no severance or benefits and can obviously pay much less than a FTE. The FTE positions can go to PhDs in management. I was also fooled into thinking this would be a stable life, and have been spending the first half of my 40s working in an unrelated temp job without any future as well.
Exactly why I am encouraging my boys to go the trade route vs. college. A degree even in a legitimate major like the sciences is not a path to a stable life with decent pay or benefits.
Don’t use the “I am a woman and weak” excuse. Barring a medical condition there is no reason you can’t learn a trade like Commercial driving, or electrician. I drive trucks for Amazon until I get some more OTR experience and am more employable but I see several smaller women driving the big scary trucks.
She said she would prefer being a stay at home mom...trucking isn't exactly a home centric profession.
Although, Manatee, have you considered learning a skill that is more conducive to your abilities and tastes that might garner you a little pocket money? (Odd jobs have been a bit of a sideline for me all my life -- always good to be able to do them during lean times or when you want a little pocket jingle)
This is the new way.
If you're white man and expecting to have some office career, you're fucked. It's all about "diversity" and women now. They pay them less, they treat them like shit, and unlike white men, they put up with it.
Learn a trade. Make money. Buy a house. Have a family.
And all the companies that do that type of work eventually get to the size of needing cubicle hamsters AKA pointless office workers. So unless you're a sole proprietor which by definition means you're not creating jobs office work is not pointless. Coming at you from the point of an RGN Heavy Haul truck driver.
That sounds like Hewlett Packard. Over 40% are contractors with no benefits and shit pay. They won't even let contractors use the Hewlett Packard facilities like the employee gym.
If the temp workers are given the same access to benefits as a FTE, there are potential legal ramifications. They will try to argue that they are a regular employee if they have the same access. I heard this once when we couldn't let a contract worker even go to lunch with us (not HP).
The entire way we handle employment in this country is bullshit. One shouldn't have to spill their entire life story, have a resume, and enter all of that information again online, just to bag groceries.
I’m applying to jobs right now and the number of employers asking for references with the initial application is too damn high. Giving out my personal info is one thing, but giving out the personal info of others in an initial app is sketchy. I’ve already had one place I applied to (who never contacted me) pass on my contact info to someone else without my permission. I don’t appreciate it.
I'm also pretty sure some of those places turn around and sell your references contact info.
Because why wouldn't they? Ethics? lol!
References are a ton of horseshit anyway. I get it for an executive level position where people need to know that you're legit. However, anything else? Bunch of bullshit.
The only reference a person needs is there work history unless it's an entry level position. But that's why it's called an entry level position so you can build a work history.
Only legal citizens of the USA need to do all that...
If you want a real job, you need to renounce your USA citizenship and move to Central America... and then come back in through the open border as a "immigrant"
Worse than that -- they can go check out your social media too. References are one thing (I don't mind giving them; they've been rather necessary in my profession along with background checks), but combing through your social media is something else.
The highlight of the Obama era economic and healthcare policies, creating regulations for markets that discourage offering any fulltime entry level work. The real entry level then required a Masters and 10 years pertinent job experience.
Many places require a PhD for scientists now. Supply>>demand.
Yup. The goal is to make it impossible to have a wife and kids. Destroy God and destroy the family. After that, all else crumbles.
I'm shocked that unemployed losers live in poverty off my tax money.
Don't worry, Xiden will tax you more so they won't be in poverty anymore!
You got the first part right.
Tax you until you are just as impoverished. Yay equality!
Don't blame the messenger. I'm a proponent of Repealing the 16th.
Poverty? That's a thing of the past now that everyone got a one time payment of $1,400 from Potato Joe. Who knew it was this easy?
Wasn't that an awesome headline? My girl told me about it and I had to go read it for myself because it sounded too insane.
It certainly was! I know the trailer trash around my area definitely won't blow it all on a new TV, lottery tickets or beer, because I believe in change.
Nah they'll pay Rent and invest that money.
Shame people actually believe it is that easy. Every other dollar they will have the rest of their entire lives will now be so devalued, it makes that upfront $1,400 a really shitty deal.
He will grant you equity by removing your surplus funds and allowing you to join them in the bread line.
Free food (SNAP), Free money (SNAP & DOL), free housing (HUD), free healthcare (HHS), free power (DOE), and free education (ED). The list goes on with the lists of free shit from sex changes to iPhones.
And still they can't find a way to succeed past all that oppression
McDs might not take the EBT.
SHOCKED
I'm a high school dropout who makes more money than my college educated friends and family. What to know my secret?
Hard work.
Hard Work is White Supremacy
People who work hard, attend to details and accuracy, are on time to work -- what are they, Nazis?
Same here. Not all students should remain in school for all 12+ years of faux education. I dropped out, tried college and realized it was a waste of time, started my own business, and have increased my income by 50% year over year.
What business you in mate, Totally agree. School is mostly a waste.
I'm not the person you asked, but I'll tell you what you need to know,
It doesn't matter what business you're in, so long as it's yours.
Yes and no. I agree overall though.
Amen. Mandatory 12 years of school is a waste of time. All it does is create jobs for teacher's unions.
You've learned all you need to learn by 12 years old to have a good job. The three R's is all you need. If you know that, you can learn the rest on your own.
Are you also mixed-race and grew up on the south side of Chicago?
I have a buddy that's similar. He's the type of guy that back in the day he woulda left school at 12 to work in a factory and would be running it now. It's a rare breed now days, but if i need some work done I call them.
The only alphabet crap they need to teach in school is BBQ.
Kek!
That reminds me..... I need to lose some fucking weight this summer from too much BBQ
This is a good start, but we could add a few more to get it to a 10 Commandments:
Do not use alcohol or drugs to numb emotional pain.
Choose your spouse with extreme care.
Save more than you spend.
Vote in your own interests.
Do not commit a crime.
Pursue moral/spiritual education within a community.
Be a strict parent.
No, don't vote for your selfish interests; Democrats do that. Vote in the interest of a free, fair, moral country.
But that is in my interest.
That's the mark of a true patriot
"Vote on eternal principles, not transient feelings? I accept your corrective instinct now i have dirty Dem all over me like a first grade drag queen twerking lesson
Good luck on #8. I forget the exact numbers but I remember hearing that - because of the sheer number of laws and regulations in this country - each of us unintentionally commits multiple felonies every day.
Maybe change to "make friends with a lawyer in case you unintentionally commit a crime"? :)
Part time jobs are good too. The idea is to not spend more than you make and to not keep quitting jobs.
And stop buying Jordan's or other retardedly priced clothing just for a stupid brand while you can barely pay rent. I can afford that stupid shit but I don't waste money on clothing when I can look better than average for cheap
There's wisdom in that stupid Maclamore song.
Except thrift stores are more expensive than dept stores sometimes, especially if you have coupons and app deals. I know that they have my purchasing history, but I'm not all that interesting IRL.
Or own your own business, instead of setting them on fire because a cop shot a criminal.
It’s interesting because I was a shit student in high school. Graduated, went to community college, transferred to a 4 year university, graduated, got jobs, and now I’m saving up to buy property someday. I’m 25. It didn’t feel that hard to do 😂. Just make good decisions.
As a guy who has taken the path of most resistance, It's really not that hard if you are somewhat competent in finishing school, if you're older and working FT and taking 4 classes it's hard and sucks but if an ounce of effort is put towards it, you can get by with C's and get a degree and go forth.
Oh well Doesn't matter, I want to leave this shithole big city, and get a job w/ an American company and actually get paid real money not these BS dollaridoos.
Bad teachers and bad parenting can hold someone back though.
I know someone who was worried they wouldn't graduate high school because a certain teacher seemed to have it in for them and didn't want to pass them for some reason. I never heard the teacher's side of the story though.
Eh, I don't know about that. Based on my own experience if a student is a real problem, the teachers are more tempted to pass them just to get them the hell out of their hair.
I have seen some that get petty and vindictive, but it's usually fucking up their GPA so they can't get into AP/get scholarships or they have to go to summer school -- never not graduate.
PSA: neither attitude is the correct one to take...although I do understand the first one (the rumors are true; right before the start of a semester that was me, kneeling and praying "please, pluuuuleeeeze Jesus, I don't want to see X in my class again, please!")
There are plenty of homeless people who made "nearly" all the "right" decisions.
The difference between a millionaire and a homeless beggar is one or two partially less "good" decisions. Life is like a chaotic attractor
Not sure i believe that. I have some family that has made a lifelong habit of shit decision and they have never been on the streets homeless.
To become homeless and stay there for any length of time takes drug addiction or mental illness.
I don't believe this at all. Imo it takes hundreds of decisions good or bad, maybe more. Life is literally what you make of it, and if you are a literal homeless bum with no hope because you're so fucked now... you made a shit ton of really terrible obviously-bad decisions.
Finish school, work, and don't be a whore.
Is school good or bad?
So many of you people are always ranting about schools indoctrinating the youth, but now because Prager said stay in school, everyone's jumping onto the bandwagon that school=good.
Sure, schools are shit at this point, but job opportunities are almost 0 if someone doesn't have a high school degree. The need for college is debatable considering there are many ways to make a good living without a college degree.
Praeger said finish High School or Equivalent. Not go to college for the sake of going to college.
If you need a degree for your personal vision, there are ways to get around most of the programming. For example, you can skip a large chunk of your lower division online, by using the ACE credit transfers, or the similar CLEP exams through a community college transfer degree agreement. Its all possible, but the hardest part is often the physical sciences and similar, since they are often in person.
The true problem of education is the over-selling of it. In many cases, it's simply not required. In other cases, it's a must. FAFSA handing out loans like candy really destroyed the relationship between student and college. That economic balance is toast.
Remember, the reason capitalism is so important is that its the closest relationship between oneself and products/services. While this seems superficial, it truly is not. Think about it, observe it in reality, and then apply those same relationships to the student:college relationship. One will quickly see how one-sided that has become due to the government intercepting that balance.
School as a general concept (a place of learning) is good, the public school system is shit. Home or private school your kids.
I guess its my white privilege that I followed all 3 and am in the middle class. Oops.
I would add stay out of debt to that list. Sometimes it’s unavoidable. However, maybe get the 2010 Altima $5,000 used instead of the brand new Range Rover.
Yup.
Should be posted on every vertical surface in K-12.
That's no good. If people did that, the Democrat Party would be extinct within a generation and we just can't have that.
Nah, they have 4 billion people living in poverty around the world to eventually import as voters.
That's nice and all.
1)But imagine being one of five black kids with a single mom growing up in baltimore. Imagine trying to walk through gangs on your way to work every day, hopping on the train or the bus to go make minimum wage when you could just work the corner at night selling crack and making what you make in 3 months in one night.
2)Imagine trying to graduate high school when 1.0 GPA is in the top 25% of your class. System is often broken not always the kids.
If you leave for work in the morning as most people do, the dregs of humanity are still in bed.
Its almost impossible not to graduate high school in a poor part of town. They know they have to push the kids through for the money.
Remember the huge cheating scandal in Philly where the teachers were cheating for the students?
It's really that simple. Unfortunately, blaming white people is easier.
I would be okay with Prager U running the country. Everything they put out is spot on.
except when it comes to israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ-Km7RfBEs
The full time job idea is bad to teach kids. Maybe you work full time at your own business, or have multiple jobs. Full time jobs in salary with benefits are becoming rare.
1 - Work hard 2 - Learn something new every day (don't stop at high school) 3 - ok as is
Can confirm personally that this works.
yeah go to any retaarded/ill informed leftist and pragerU is painted as ALT-Right antisemitic white supremacy organisation.
Also a few days back i read the left is trying to create a leftist version of prager-u, just ike the HoggPillow. I'll bet prog-u will get free publicity from the media whores.
Or you know... Parents could teach their kids...
We only needed school when parents were uneducated. Now we offload all of our parental responsibilities off onto the State.
Am black. Can confirm.
Also don't be Les White.
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This should be plastered on the walls of every school in America. I'm so tired of cultural relativism... There is wisdom in simple facts and tested traditions like this.
This brings to mind the "Aspects of White Culture" nonsense that was issued by the national black museum. The aspects themselves are not nonsense, of course.....just the museum's ridiculing of them.
I'd be amused to see the reaction of Brookings Institute folks when their research appears on a PragerU infographic posted at TDwin.
They actually did teach this in health class and a few other things. Teachers would bring stuff up occasionally too.
I think the issue is culture. We expect something to be taught but if it's not reinforced teaching is futile.
I used to get so much flak for stating exactly this on Reddit. They dont want to hear that they are responsible for their own financial success. They refuse to believe they are in control, it is always "the system" or something else not themselves.
A good work ethic, integrity and common sense will take you alot further than watching Springer all day, lying on unemployment websites and being a crackhead drug dealer
Someone may have mentioned it but there was some black organization sponsoring billboards that said this and BLM fought to have them taken down. How anyone thinks BLM's purpose is to help blacks is beyond me.
I wonder why PragerU decided to use 21 as the age for having kids?
That seems like an arbitrary number based on the drinking age. I guess they’re saying that if you have kids you’re going to want to drink, so make sure you can do it legally?
I guess it's carrying on the nuclear family thing where kids are supposed to be booted out on their own when they hit 18 and "find themselves" before settling down.
With a larger family like on family farms and stuff kids can become financially stable and responsible enough to raise their own by the time the rest of us are snorting adderall in college. That'd go a long way toward reversing our failing birthrates though, so gotta make sure we worry more about becoming middle-class and buying our own McMansion in the suburbs
It’s also the age the average person graduates college.
Also, if you're not going to college, working in the trades or other blue-collar fields, the money is a lot better after you have some experience and learn some skills on the job.
Most people are significantly more mentally and emotionally mature at 21 than at 18. A few years' experience living as an adult probably helps prospective parents make better financial decisions, too.
this is true.
My family was very poor, so a few dollars had to go a long way, and if we could save money we would always. married at 28, 4 kids later with a full time job for close to 20 years now, Im still as cheap as I was when I was poor, but I make considerably more than both of my parents did combined, and any big purchases are usually investments in land, stocks, physical assets, etc. My kids are home schooled so they can learn real life skills, not bullshit gender studies.
https://ugetube.com/watch/powerful-pedophiles-exposed-pizzagate-part-i-and-ii-of-ii_Tmtua9mLrzP6dbu.html wait until you get to the part about Obama
I am part of the 7%. I mean I have kept a full time job (at the same place) for 16 years now, but up to age 25 I was in and out of full time work. I did keep most of them for a couple years at a time, then had a period of unemployment where I kinda just partied, then got another job. I had a kid at 18, conceived at 17. Did not graduate and technically never got a GED. I did well in school when I showed up; scored high in standardized tests and was always top of the class just behind that one Asain dude or chick. I just dicked around a lot and quit showing up because it was boring...not because I was dumb.
What about “dont do drugs”??? Should be #1.
This is just teaching people to be worker drones. They should really be working with the kids interests in life and inspiring them to learn skills and offer value to society. But of course teachers don't actually give a fuck.
They're not saying work 60 hour weeks or even try to work your way to management or executive positions. Honestly, I think people work way too much in this country, but that's the other side of the coin.
I only wish they'd mentioned that #3 affects sperm donors too.
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I am in the 7% but me and my wife have had full time jobs since 16. We are approaching 40 and have a 20 year old in the air force. Have 2 other kids at home 1 is finishing high school and the other is in jr high. We good though.
And some lesser subpoints.
Ok racist
Whoah dude you lost me at work a full time job. That's like time consuming and shit. I am trying to find myself and get a high rank in this Valorant game.
CHANGE THE SYSTEM! THE SYSTEM IS UNFAIR!
The ‘poverty’ they live in off the taxpayer is still probably more comfortable than 99% of humans who have ever lived.
Keeping a fulltime job in the current economy is utopic. This graphic was maybe appropriate 30 years ago.
How dare the LGBTQ++ marginalize the ++
Truth