School

Well I might as well tell all of you that I'd much rather be learning than not.

Digging your heals in while in school will never get you anywhere, or rather, it'll get you flipin' pancakes at the waffle house.

I mean, I see kids that are just going to school because its the law and they never try to achieve anything. Those kids probably wount get far these days. A lot of them think that they'll become video game testers or movie critics, but there just isnt that big of a demand for people like that, once a producer has two or three they dont need any more.

My piece of advice to you people that still have a bit of school left is: Give it the best and all that you got. After high-school go to college. If you dont know what you want to be, go to a community college and just keep studying until you find something you want to specialize in. And above all: If you dont give a rats hind parts about your education, dont put any money into it and get out your apron and spatula.

Anymore its easer to get a job if you at least have a high-school diploma, and much easer if your enrolled I a college or have college diploma of some kind. It shows the person that you have taken the time and put in, or are putting in, the effort to make something out of yourself. That counts a great deal to an employer.

And a word to those who are at present looking for what they want to become or study: Get out some paper and list as many of the fun things that you have enjoyed doing in the last year or so. In practically any of those things is something that could be developed, maybe not into a career but something that you could do while expanding into a career or figuring out what you want to do.

When I think of the things I could do out of high school and live off if I didnt go directly to college, I think off all the people that are always saying that they dont have any skills what so ever. They DO! They just dont realize it. I had never really thought that I could make enough money off of building lawn chairs to make anything out of it other than a hobby. But I see a demand in the community for them, and if I wanted to tap into that demand I could make at least a partial living.

Other things that people overlook are things like child care, pool maintenece, law care. You can make a living off that, but what I'm trying to drive at is that its worth while to get a good education. If you have one and your other jobs or whatever fall through, it will be easer to get by then if you had less education.