Ever since I traded my sports coat for some Carhartts . . .
I often lament, as I’m performing some menial task on my job site, that I’m really putting that Master’s Degree to good use.
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July 23rd, 2013 at 8:42 pm
“my job site”… “MY” being the key word… You’re makin’ your own way… don’t ever lament that…
I teach at a university where most of what I teach I didn’t learn in grad school, but the real world… and I’ve met so many idiots in my lifetime with Ph.D.’s who could change the oil in their cars if they had to…
Keep up the good work…
Dann in Ohio
July 23rd, 2013 at 10:55 pm
Well, while doing that menial task, you can think of something smart. Pity the poor uneducated who may be limited to thinking about sports or girls.
July 24th, 2013 at 7:21 am
I’m about to join you, Uncle. From Economics to Industrial Welding.
July 24th, 2013 at 7:31 am
As I was lying on my back under a commercial sink with water dripping in my face while trying to fix the drain in the 15th hour of that work day, my partner walked by and I said, “Start your own business and use ALL your skills!”… got a pretty good laugh.
July 24th, 2013 at 1:31 pm
shoveling dirt is always more respectable and dignified than shoveling BS, which way too many do for a living.
July 24th, 2013 at 2:11 pm
There’s nothing wrong with manual labor. There’s nothing worng with being educated. And finally, there’s nothing wrong with combining the two.
July 24th, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Look at it this way: while most all of higher learning venues required to attain that master’s spend years doing all they can to educate God right out of your soul, one week of doing real work in His real world will teach you who the real Master is.
July 24th, 2013 at 5:39 pm
You can’t frame happiness and hang it on a wall. I look at my degree everyday and wonder if I would have been happier as a plumber. I love plumbing.
July 24th, 2013 at 7:13 pm
I practice law (tax, estate planning and probate), and I raise beef cattle and help run our farm.
We lease out a good bit of it for crop cultivation.
I am better at law than I am at agriculture, but I love them equally and am grateful to do both of them.
July 24th, 2013 at 7:59 pm
Wait till you retire with way-more money and your intellect intact – better than most Masters-Degree types who spend their pale lives in a cubicle farm having their minds milked dry.
July 25th, 2013 at 10:44 am
Time to watch ‘Office Space’ again as a reminder.
July 25th, 2013 at 4:28 pm
I was at a high end store getting my wife some Ugg Boots a couple of years ago at Christmas time and I was wearing my overalls and my work boots.
While waiting in line with a lady for help by the store’s sales employee, I commented that the matter was taking longer than I anticipated and that I needed to get back to work.
She asked me what I did for a living, and I told her I was a tax attorney.
She looked surprised and told me I didn’t look like one (it didn’t occur to me to thank her) and I told her that I was also a farmer.
It reminded me of the lyrics to a Bocephus song (the name of which escapes me):
“Some high society lady said “is your horse outside?”
No, ma’am, he’s between my legs but you’re too fat to ride.”
July 27th, 2013 at 12:36 pm
I have a Bachelors in Wildlife Biology to Corrections/Detention Officer at the Regional Prison