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For the life of me, WHY would the county hire people with THESE degrees to perform THIS grunt work?? The only thing I can come up with is “because they can.” :={[/quote]

Maybe they don’t have any skills to do the work that you or they think they should be doing?

I know a lot of teenagers and college students that don’t work and have never had a job. They graduate and think they should start in management–when they’ve never actually had a job doing anything.

Please…

I started working when I was 14 and had various jobs all through high school and college. Even then, I still had to work my way up through crap jobs after college.

I managed to live on my own and pay back my college loans just fine on a low salary. I didn’t get to own a nice car, have nice clothes or go out a lot. I didn’t have the money. I had to live frugally for a long time.

I think a lot of these kids are living at home because they don’t want to give up the lifestyle they’ve become accustomed to so they let their parents pay for it. They are gonna have a hell of a time when they actually get out in the real world and have to pay their own way.

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[quote=bearishgurl]
For the life of me, WHY would the county hire people with THESE degrees to perform THIS grunt work?? The only thing I can come up with is “because they can.” :={[/quote]

Maybe they don’t have any skills to do the work that you or they think they should be doing?

I know a lot of teenagers and college students that don’t work and have never had a job. They graduate and think they should start in management–when they’ve never actually had a job doing anything.

Please…

I started working when I was 14 and had various jobs all through high school and college. Even then, I still had to work my way up through crap jobs after college.

I managed to live on my own and pay back my college loans just fine on a low salary. I didn’t get to own a nice car, have nice clothes or go out a lot. I didn’t have the money. I had to live frugally for a long time.

I think a lot of these kids are living at home because they don’t want to give up the lifestyle they’ve become accustomed to so they let their parents pay for it. They are gonna have a hell of a time when they actually get out in the real world and have to pay their own way.

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[quote=bearishgurl]
For the life of me, WHY would the county hire people with THESE degrees to perform THIS grunt work?? The only thing I can come up with is “because they can.” :={[/quote]

Maybe they don’t have any skills to do the work that you or they think they should be doing?

I know a lot of teenagers and college students that don’t work and have never had a job. They graduate and think they should start in management–when they’ve never actually had a job doing anything.

Please…

I started working when I was 14 and had various jobs all through high school and college. Even then, I still had to work my way up through crap jobs after college.

I managed to live on my own and pay back my college loans just fine on a low salary. I didn’t get to own a nice car, have nice clothes or go out a lot. I didn’t have the money. I had to live frugally for a long time.

I think a lot of these kids are living at home because they don’t want to give up the lifestyle they’ve become accustomed to so they let their parents pay for it. They are gonna have a hell of a time when they actually get out in the real world and have to pay their own way.

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[quote=bearishgurl]
For the life of me, WHY would the county hire people with THESE degrees to perform THIS grunt work?? The only thing I can come up with is “because they can.” :={[/quote]

Maybe they don’t have any skills to do the work that you or they think they should be doing?

I know a lot of teenagers and college students that don’t work and have never had a job. They graduate and think they should start in management–when they’ve never actually had a job doing anything.

Please…

I started working when I was 14 and had various jobs all through high school and college. Even then, I still had to work my way up through crap jobs after college.

I managed to live on my own and pay back my college loans just fine on a low salary. I didn’t get to own a nice car, have nice clothes or go out a lot. I didn’t have the money. I had to live frugally for a long time.

I think a lot of these kids are living at home because they don’t want to give up the lifestyle they’ve become accustomed to so they let their parents pay for it. They are gonna have a hell of a time when they actually get out in the real world and have to pay their own way.

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Even though it’s controversial the use of credit checks in employment makes sense when you consider it from the employers standpoint.

Your credit score is a general reflection of your ability to manage your finances. Yes, there will be the oddballs who pay cash and don’t use credit and thus have a low credit score that doesn’t reflect their financial acumen but seriously, what percentage of people fall into that category? I’d estimate well under 1%.

In general, according to statistics I’ve seen from people in HR, people who poorly manage their finances and are having money problems are more likely to miss work, show up late and steal from the company.

I have a friend who is two months behind on rent and is begging for money on facebook (posting his paypal account link for ‘donations’). He’s solidly middle class and educated but makes one bad decision after another. What kind of credit score do you think he has?

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Even though it’s controversial the use of credit checks in employment makes sense when you consider it from the employers standpoint.

Your credit score is a general reflection of your ability to manage your finances. Yes, there will be the oddballs who pay cash and don’t use credit and thus have a low credit score that doesn’t reflect their financial acumen but seriously, what percentage of people fall into that category? I’d estimate well under 1%.

In general, according to statistics I’ve seen from people in HR, people who poorly manage their finances and are having money problems are more likely to miss work, show up late and steal from the company.

I have a friend who is two months behind on rent and is begging for money on facebook (posting his paypal account link for ‘donations’). He’s solidly middle class and educated but makes one bad decision after another. What kind of credit score do you think he has?

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Even though it’s controversial the use of credit checks in employment makes sense when you consider it from the employers standpoint.

Your credit score is a general reflection of your ability to manage your finances. Yes, there will be the oddballs who pay cash and don’t use credit and thus have a low credit score that doesn’t reflect their financial acumen but seriously, what percentage of people fall into that category? I’d estimate well under 1%.

In general, according to statistics I’ve seen from people in HR, people who poorly manage their finances and are having money problems are more likely to miss work, show up late and steal from the company.

I have a friend who is two months behind on rent and is begging for money on facebook (posting his paypal account link for ‘donations’). He’s solidly middle class and educated but makes one bad decision after another. What kind of credit score do you think he has?

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Even though it’s controversial the use of credit checks in employment makes sense when you consider it from the employers standpoint.

Your credit score is a general reflection of your ability to manage your finances. Yes, there will be the oddballs who pay cash and don’t use credit and thus have a low credit score that doesn’t reflect their financial acumen but seriously, what percentage of people fall into that category? I’d estimate well under 1%.

In general, according to statistics I’ve seen from people in HR, people who poorly manage their finances and are having money problems are more likely to miss work, show up late and steal from the company.

I have a friend who is two months behind on rent and is begging for money on facebook (posting his paypal account link for ‘donations’). He’s solidly middle class and educated but makes one bad decision after another. What kind of credit score do you think he has?

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Even though it’s controversial the use of credit checks in employment makes sense when you consider it from the employers standpoint.

Your credit score is a general reflection of your ability to manage your finances. Yes, there will be the oddballs who pay cash and don’t use credit and thus have a low credit score that doesn’t reflect their financial acumen but seriously, what percentage of people fall into that category? I’d estimate well under 1%.

In general, according to statistics I’ve seen from people in HR, people who poorly manage their finances and are having money problems are more likely to miss work, show up late and steal from the company.

I have a friend who is two months behind on rent and is begging for money on facebook (posting his paypal account link for ‘donations’). He’s solidly middle class and educated but makes one bad decision after another. What kind of credit score do you think he has?

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[quote=walterwhite]SHOP CLASS AS SOULCRAFT by matthew crawford.

good book on the issue.

i know the title sounds cheesy but the book is smart and interesting. kind of a “zena nd the art of motorcycle maintenance meets this topic.[/quote]

It’s funny because I saw this article the other day:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/22/ground-broken-school-auto-shop/

Looks like auto shop is coming back to schools…

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[quote=walterwhite]SHOP CLASS AS SOULCRAFT by matthew crawford.

good book on the issue.

i know the title sounds cheesy but the book is smart and interesting. kind of a “zena nd the art of motorcycle maintenance meets this topic.[/quote]

It’s funny because I saw this article the other day:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/22/ground-broken-school-auto-shop/

Looks like auto shop is coming back to schools…

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[quote=walterwhite]SHOP CLASS AS SOULCRAFT by matthew crawford.

good book on the issue.

i know the title sounds cheesy but the book is smart and interesting. kind of a “zena nd the art of motorcycle maintenance meets this topic.[/quote]

It’s funny because I saw this article the other day:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/22/ground-broken-school-auto-shop/

Looks like auto shop is coming back to schools…

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[quote=walterwhite]SHOP CLASS AS SOULCRAFT by matthew crawford.

good book on the issue.

i know the title sounds cheesy but the book is smart and interesting. kind of a “zena nd the art of motorcycle maintenance meets this topic.[/quote]

It’s funny because I saw this article the other day:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/22/ground-broken-school-auto-shop/

Looks like auto shop is coming back to schools…

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[quote=walterwhite]SHOP CLASS AS SOULCRAFT by matthew crawford.

good book on the issue.

i know the title sounds cheesy but the book is smart and interesting. kind of a “zena nd the art of motorcycle maintenance meets this topic.[/quote]

It’s funny because I saw this article the other day:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/22/ground-broken-school-auto-shop/

Looks like auto shop is coming back to schools…

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[quote=flu]Just ask QC…and their challenge to meet growth targets….Throwing 10x “outsourced contractors” in one big kitchen with turnover left and right in India isn’t sticking…LOL…[/quote]

Yeah, rumor is…they’ve been calling some of the US contractors that got let go last year to come back and help them with some of the projects they developed. Apparently the outsourced folks don’t have the skills. Imagine that.

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