A lot of people in the trades did go to community college to get started. They have a huge advantage over someone with just a HS diploma walking onto a job site and asking for a job.
Funny thing is, I know a whole bunch of gen Z type people. Their struggles and difficulties look a whole lot like what we boomers went through at that age. From a distance I can sit and watch them slowly morphing into what we boomers are today.
The gen Zs I know don't complain about a 40-hour...
I guess Mr. Scott, If I may be so presumptuous to call him Mr. or him, thinks that us boomers were all making $30,000 at age 27. Personally, at 27, I was just three years out of doing my military duty, working full time, starting a family and going to college on my $8,000 a year. 40-hour work...
I remember when if a person had a net worth of a million dollars, he was a very wealthy person, and the average Joe could only dream of such riches. Now if you're worth a mil. you're middle class. Now the average Joe is wondering how old he will be when he is worth a mil. But it doesn't really...
For many years I had a connection to a guy that worked in a hatchery. He would give me 50 lbs. of frozen fillets every year. Some batches were better than others but generally speaking, if you smoke them, they aint half bad.
I really enjoyed Tom, He always gave me a good laugh even though he wasn't trying to. Never did see what folks had against him.
Of course, I kinda like Bill Cristy too.
Yeah, I did swell up pretty good for a bit but other than that, a piece of cake.
Just remember, when it's all over and done with you're going to be recognized as a very impotent person.
Sitting here thinking about it, I realize that the largest American city I have ever spent even one night in, is Eugene Or.
I've led a very sheltered life.
I don't think too many were out for blood. Bots don't have blood or feelings, and folks were getting more and more convinced that Bill Christy was indeed a Bot. At first, I figured he was a person with a very strange writing style but when he would not respond to the question of whether or not...
There are a lot of us old farts on this site. So, share a story or two but share them in a manner that you might do it with a lifelong friend. Not as a professor on the first day of class. Posting unsolicited hunting advice to a bunch of seasoned hunters, written in a style that appears to be an...
I know I am a fossil, but why do people feel a need to mark their honey hole, fishing or hunting, on some kind of app or even as a pin prick on a map? I can still remember exactly where all my past and present honey holes are or were even if they aren't honey holes anymore. Don't need GPS to...
I think the correct answer is, whatever amount you happen to have at the point your wife gives you the ultimatum. " Either you stop buying ammo or I am outa here."
The real cost of grazing cattle on public land.
https://www.thewildlifenews.com/2015/02/27/hart-mountain-refuge-miracle-recovering-cow-free-for-two-decades/
At that time the antelope population on the refuge was suffering due to very poor fawn survival. The plan was to shoot coyotes from the...