--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My sister and I are always complaining about the > "get > an education" stuff. Well, I majored in French. Big > fat > lot of good that did me - although I was lucky for a > little while (right place, right time, right job, > right > company...) Since I got laid off from there a few > years > ago, I've been miserable at work (well until I got > diagnosed, then I've been on disability - which I'm > SO > grateful to have.
Sometimes things happen for a reason (so *they* say). I majored in French too, but it does a lot more good in Canada, especially since everyone got onto the bilingual bandwagon in a big way which was right around the time I graduated from university so I got a job right away. > Russ started out as a plumber, is now a plumbing > inspector and has all the perks that go along with a > city job. (Not long hours, pension, security, > etc...) > So, which one of us has it better in the long run? > He > does... My Dad always encouraged us to "get an education" too. He wanted us all to become "professionals", like teachers, nurses, etc. so we'd always have something to fall back on. He discouraged us from taking anything but academics and we were all kind of wimpy kids so, even though I wanted to take art and music, I ended up taking things like Latin. I also studied lots of languages and I'm happy for that. And I learned to play guitar on my own, but always wanted to learn classical guitar, so about 8 years ago, I started taking lessons (still am.) But the plumbers do make a lot more money than I do - I've had to hire one here and there to fix stuff in my house and I just about had a cardiac the first time I had one in to fix something - yeesh! ______________________________________________________________________ Post your ad for free now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
