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InvisibleRandalFlagg
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Technical school is a joke
    #5377513 - 03/08/06 01:33 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

I am about five months into a sixteen month electrician training program. It is painfully easy. I could get A's in my sleep and academic rigor is non-existent there.

Also, the class is full of immature and boisterous people of below average intelligence. Not only is it commonplace for the teacher to be interrupted by catcalls and fart noises every five seconds, but it is a given that every day at least one person will ask how to transfer fractions into decimals. I can't help but roll my eyes when we spend days on some topic that I managed to understand in ten minutes. I don't want to give the impression that I am claiming to be a genius....I'm not even close to that intellectual level. But, my acumen is far superior to most of the people in my class.

I really don't care too much though. The only reason I went was so I could get a monthly allowance from my trust fund. I have no career or educational ambitions and it's nice not to have to deal with a real academic environment (i.e. college) because I'm just too damn lazy.

So it goes.

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5377521 - 03/08/06 01:35 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

Nice to hear that shcool is going well. :-)


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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: kilroy69]
    #5377532 - 03/08/06 01:38 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

Did you expect anything different?


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...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5377542 - 03/08/06 01:39 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

Hit up some college or something. It's great that you will now be certified as an electrician..just like the rest of those dumb asses.

You really sound like you want a challange but got no motivation to go and get it. The world is yours..RUN! (esepcially if you have a trust fund to cover your ass)...I'm coming out of college with a debt and a half.

...not to be harsh or anything man. just my .02c

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: badchad]
    #5377551 - 03/08/06 01:42 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

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badchad said:
Did you expect anything different?




Kind of.

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5377558 - 03/08/06 01:44 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

So do you still suggest I go to tech school and not an apprentice program?


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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5377559 - 03/08/06 01:44 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

It's cliche' but do something you like.

Get biology degree in 4 years, then go work in a laboratory doing psychedelic research. The pay will be squat, but you don't need the money, and you'll be doing something you love.


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Smith, P.  Bull. Menninger Clinic (1959) 23:20-27; p. 27.

...most subjects find the experience valuable, some find it frightening, and many say that is it uniquely lovely.

Osmond, H.  Annals, NY Acad Science (1957) 66:418-434; p.436

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: Tien]
    #5377560 - 03/08/06 01:44 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

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Plutonium said:
Hit up some college or something. It's great that you will now be certified as an electrician..just like the rest of those dumb asses.

You really sound like you want a challange but got no motivation to go and get it. The world is yours..RUN! (esepcially if you have a trust fund to cover your ass)...I'm coming out of college with a debt and a half.






I don't want to go back to college. I was annoyed at how you had to take a bunch of classes that had nothing to do with your major. I was also annoyed at the blatant political indoctrination in most of the classes.

I actually don't want a challenge. I dislike working hard physically or mentally. I would much rather slide through technical school than have to do actual work in college. But, just because I like technical school more doesn't negate the fact that it is a joke.

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5377562 - 03/08/06 01:45 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

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RandalFlagg said:
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badchad said:
Did you expect anything different?




Kind of.




I suppose Electrical Engineering would be more interesting.

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: badchad]
    #5377566 - 03/08/06 01:45 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

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badchad said:
It's cliche' but do something you like.

Get biology degree in 4 years, then go work in a laboratory doing psychedelic research. The pay will be squat, but you don't need the money, and you'll be doing something you love.




I don't like psychedelics. I don't do drugs (except for the occassional blast of cocaine or nitrous).

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: kilroy69]
    #5377570 - 03/08/06 01:47 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

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So do you still suggest I go to tech school and not an apprentice program?




The apprenticeship program through the union is fraught with pitfalls (I listed them in a PM to you). ...But, I surmise that odds are you will be better educated and you will make more money by doing the apprenticeship program.

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5377578 - 03/08/06 01:48 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

I went through a couple of months of Tech school in electricity. It's nice to see things haven't changed all that much.  :tongue:

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: Tien]
    #5377580 - 03/08/06 01:48 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

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Plutonium said:
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RandalFlagg said:
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badchad said:
Did you expect anything different?




Kind of.




I suppose Electrical Engineering would be more interesting.




That's what my major was in college. I was actually pretty good at it but I lost interest. It is boring as hell by the way.

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5377585 - 03/08/06 01:48 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

Glad you're kicking some ass. I suppose it's good that it's too easy that too hard, huh?

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5377587 - 03/08/06 01:49 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

Yea thats what I was wondering. Just thought I would ask someone who is going through it now.


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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: Redstorm]
    #5377590 - 03/08/06 01:50 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

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Glad you're kicking some ass. I suppose it's good that it's too easy that too hard, huh?




Well, I wouldn't consider doing stuff that a chimp could do to be "kicking ass". It is nice that it is easy. I never have to study or do homework.

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5377594 - 03/08/06 01:51 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

Suffer goes to a techincal shcool, he'll be getting his associates in computer and electrical engineering in August/September.  He's currently valedictorian of his class, and does NO homework, NO studying, and gets high before school every day.  Every quarter when they present him with the "Highest Honors" certificate, he laughs and says "You have no idea".

It did get more interesting as the program went on.  Lately he's been learning stuff that actually interests him.  Having met you, you are way too smart for a 16 month program.  Regardless of how lazy you are, get your ass in to college and deal with the core requirements for a few years.  You'll get a 4 year degree in something that actually interests you, that can help  you long term. 

Now go!  :tongue:


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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5377609 - 03/08/06 01:54 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

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RandalFlagg said:
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Plutonium said:
Quote:

RandalFlagg said:
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badchad said:
Did you expect anything different?




Kind of.




I suppose Electrical Engineering would be more interesting.




That's what my major was in college.  I was actually pretty good at it but I lost interest.  It is boring as hell by the way.




I can only imagine all the fucking numbers you had to put up with...hate numbers :nonono:

Pluto

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: Liz]
    #5377628 - 03/08/06 02:01 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

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Having met you, you are way too smart for a 16 month program.

get your ass in to college





Thank you for the compliment Liz. Unfortunately, I do not have the ambition at all. Did you know that I have dropped out of college three times? The first time I left because my dad died. The second time I went back and I quit the first day because I truly did not want to be there. The last time I quit was when I did an online degree program with a university and I just stopped logging in. I just don't want to learn. All I want to do is drive fast cars, drink, play video games, and have sex with easy women.

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Re: Technical school is a joke [Re: Tien]
    #5377633 - 03/08/06 02:04 PM (18 years, 25 days ago)

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Plutonium said:
[I can only imagine all the fucking numbers you had to put up with...hate numbers :nonono:





There were definately a lot of equations to remember.  It wasn't terribly hard once you got into the groove of things though.

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