| RE:Great meeting today re/ the new job |
Subject: RE:Great meeting today re/ the new job by bogus on 2008/1/28 2:01:17 don't feel bad... I was much like you. I never felt school did anything for me. It wasn't until college that I rediscovered computer programming that it hit me, this is pretty cool. That and the fact that 98% of those there WANTED to be there. All the burnouts and malcontents were gone... except for Carl, but he was a special case... he was one messed up coke head with a rich daddy. I really wish I had been exposed to more real things in school. I wanted to design cars, but gee, mom would have nothing to do with such a fantasy... and I didn't know where to go to school to learn that. My guidance councelors were utterly useless morons. All they saw was my interest in history, make me major in History in college then go to law school... at least that is how mom spun my future. Yes, it is a bit annoying, as I look back. But I am not complaining, really. I enjoy my life, have a wonderful wife and any other decision I made in the past would have meant I didn't get to meet her. So that's that, eh? And yes, you sound like me... someone that learns best on their own. Who needs a lecture when there is a perfectly servicable book and a set of tools? That is EXACTLY how I learned mechanics... and I think there is truth to the belief that certian people are more prone to mechanical things than others. My dad was a great mechanic (fixed P51s during WWII) and I know I inherited his gift. And I refuse to let it go to waste. |
