The life of an artist is a very hard one in the USA. If you have other skills, you use them to earn a living and persue art on the side. Those who stick with art for a college degree and then beyond rarely leave the college student payscale or lifestyle. Sad but true. Regards, Bob S.
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Bipin Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been visiting America since 1978, and have great praise for its > Institutions of Higher Learning. I trained with General Motors, was a > Management specialist, an MIS Manager for some time and then went back > to General Management till I retired as an Advisor in one of the > world's biggest conglomerate. > 1978 through 1987 I visited many ancillary and small industries and > was astounded at the skills of American workers of all colors, > including women. These folks were very humorous and kind too as seen > by the beer and soda bottles left in the cartons shipped to us in > India. > But then America decided to move many of these ancillary industries to > China loosing many of the basic skills. Now there are no more > apprentices being imparted these basic skills like making knives, > scissors, glass bottles, cans etc, as these have all been > sub-contracted abroad. > And without these basic skills one cannot learn the higher skills > required for a nation to grow and sustain itself. > Asian kids have overtaken the world with a storm at schools and > colleges, whereas others need calculators to add 12 + 17. > God Bless America and wish it wakes up to the hard reality - bring > back manufacturing - every thing - toys, needles, spoons .... > including Computer Science at the Florida College that has dropped it > from the curriculum. > Bipin - from a far away enchanting land > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
