I was expelled in tenth grade from a private international school overseas for using the name of the Lord in vain (good for that school!). I nearly completed the required credits for HS graduation with home study courses from the Univ. of Iowa and adult ed courses, but became impatient and took the GED in the late 70's. The plan was to put my fiance (who was 2 yrs older) through college for her Associates, then she would work fulltime while I went to college for a BS in engineering. She got hers and split.

My parents saved not one nickel for my college education, and after all that I couldn't have cared less. Wasted many years on crab and fishing boats, then in construction and truck driving. Let nobody tell you a college education is not necessary. That's a fool's advice in this day and age.

I have had my own business for the last eleven years, and we've seen decent earnings, but never so much as to save anything, and now in this economy we are out beyond the edge and circling the drain financially.

My nephew just got hired with his AS and a security clearance for 73k at age 23. More than I've ever earned in a year at age 49.

Don't buy any of this swill that a college degree is unnecessary. I have found many college grads to be complete idiots, but paid more than I simply due to the degree for the same work, which is a large factor in why I work for myself. These days I call it self-unemployment, and I'd bet the farm that most of you folks have not the faintest idea what that is really like.

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Brad
PCA Member
Virginia

Pro 16:33 The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the LORD.

Isa 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.