Joe Biden should pass executive order to cancel student debt, Schumer says

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5 hours ago, Prizm123 said:

our building at work has foosball tables in every breakroom.

WHY?

no one EVER uses them.

they would be better off just giving people raises than to put useless things everywhere in some sad attempt to look like they care or to try to show how fun it is to work there.

 

sorry got into a rant there when i saw the stuff about gyms and tvs lol

We see that as well as putting greens.  We also have treadmills set up where someone can do a meeting/conference call while walking or running, ever been on a call with someone on a treadmill?  I also have never witnessed anyone using these items.  I blame Google and the movie The Internship.  

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10 hours ago, yuna628 said:

There is value in all sorts of education. Life doesn't always land you in the job for the degree you have though. I remember growing up, I wanted to follow in my uncle's footsteps and attend a prestigious art college and be a fashion designer or photographer. My uncle of course went to that school in an age long before it now costs... something around 80k+ for a masters I think these days. Did he become some kind of famous artist for his degree? Nope. Absolutely not. He was a great painter, even better photographer and sketch artist and those skills back in the day meant he was in high demand from all sorts of people. Ultimately he ended up with a job in a completely different career field, but he used the skills he honed every day. As a poor gal going to that college was really a pipe dream and as I got older other things took higher priority in my life. Still, I think had there been greater accessibility and affordability I'd have been very happy there.

 

There are many kids that know what it is they want to do, but they can only dream about doing it. There are also many kids that were never given the tools they needed to figure out what it is they might be good at, interested in, or wanted to do with their lives.

 

My husband always knew what it was he wanted to do, and was the first in his family to graduate. His degree has given him valuable skills, but the truth is what he does now has nothing to do with his degree. He needed a job, any job. He took that job and has moved through the ranks. Now they want him to be a teacher with no experience in teaching because they're desperate! That being said we're still paying the loan, and will be for years. I don't think anyone else should pay for it either.

Yes, thee is value in all sorts of education, and there are many ways folks can learn in their lives and not all of them involve going to college.  I am always amazed at the condescension we get from some college grads relative to those that take other paths.  Just being in college and getting a degree does not imbue some sort of extra intelligence on anyone.  It is still up to the individual to actually learn on how they choose to learn.

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20 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

We see that as well as putting greens.  We also have treadmills set up where someone can do a meeting/conference call while walking or running, ever been on a call with someone on a treadmill?  I also have never witnessed anyone using these items.  I blame Google and the movie The Internship.  

I think that's a matter of social differences.. in the Bay Area we're loudmouths. While the plex's fitness center is smaller than people expect, it would be worse than a call center during busy times, which is why I went very early in the morning to lose the obligatory Google 15.

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8 hours ago, laylalex said:

Not something you see in the US -- our drinking age is 21, of course. Which is why when I arrived in the UK age 20 I promptly got legally legless on my first night.

Fortunately, or maybe not, when I went off to college the drinking age was 18.  I was only 17 but that was close enough.

 

I may have gotten a little crazy the first week there.

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10 hours ago, laylalex said:

Not something you see in the US -- our drinking age is 21, of course. Which is why when I arrived in the UK age 20 I promptly got legally legless on my first night.

were you able to glue them back on?

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2 hours ago, Neonred said:

Fortunately, or maybe not, when I went off to college the drinking age was 18.  I was only 17 but that was close enough.

 

I may have gotten a little crazy the first week there.

You sound like my brother's age.  He actually turned 18 early in his senior year in HS.  He was quite popular until the others caught up.

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20 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

You sound like my brother's age.  He actually turned 18 early in his senior year in HS.  He was quite popular until the others caught up.

LOL  I'm old.  Probably almost as old as Layla's father!  

 

When we were in high school there was a small mom and pop corner store close by.  We used to buy beer there as the old man running the store was half blind and really didn't care anyway.

 

The good old days...

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21 hours ago, Dashinka said:

Just being in college and getting a degree does not imbue some sort of extra intelligence on anyone.

Oh, but it certainly did with Rep. Alexandria Occasional-Cortex!  She has a degree in Economics or something, and it shows.