Lost decade

SlumTodd_Millionaire said:
A lot of that woke brigade that you’re defending would like to see you lose your job, your reputation, everything just because you used the word c-u-n-t, which some of them consider to be misogynistic.

Anyone who defends the woke will eventually find himself a target of them. Nobody can ever meet their fascistic standards.
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Not just that, but used that c word over 20 years ago, and the individual no longer uses that word today.
 
killbilly said:
The book? Meh.

The movie, only loosely, barely based on the book? Brilliant.

The difference is that the movie was satirizing the book brilliantly. Heinlein didn't write the book as a satire. He should have, but he couldn't.

My opinions only.
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1997/98 saw 2 movies based on the book,

One was a campy sci fi satire directed by an anti military pacifist who is best known for putting lots of nudity in his movies.

The other was Saving Private Ryan.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
A high school graduate can at least park a car. What can a BS in basket weaving do? He can park a car - with 80k debt on his head.
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I think it should be pointed out that a BS in basket weaving can get someone to the exact same place as you if their dad can pay for an airline interview with no experience when they decide basket weaving isn’t for them.
 
I was sitting right seat in a CJ and a Beechjet. Now I’m single piloting a Seneca in all kinds of the worst weather I’ve ever flown in 120 hours a month, and having a ball. I’ll certainly get back to jets at some point because the pay is far better and work far easier, but I’m not unhappy where I am, and I suspect that years from now when I’m CA on something big shiny and fast I’ll look back on flying a Seneca 1000’ off Nantucket Sound with fondness.

It’s the journey, not the destination.
 
Roger Roger said:
Silly train, don’t you know only poor people are held accountable for their actions?
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There are some legitimately bad instances of "Cancel Culture" but it does seem like 90% of it is when extremely privileged or famous people are held to the same standard the rest of us have to abide by every day.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Don’t know what your wife does. But YOUR job today did NOT require the degree you got. Same with me. BSE Aerospace Engineering. I’ll compare my W2 to any almost any engineer in America, I make more. But that’s not the point. The point is I could have been hired here with just a degree in art history from a local community college and still be here. Our job is one of the RARE ones where it doesn’t matter what degree. But it’s not exactly fair to advertise to people your philosophy degree makes you 300k /yr. meh. It doesn’t. Your pilot job does.
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So I darn near have a degree in basket weaving (archaeology... and, yes, I can tell you all about several major basket weaving traditions and their evolution over time as well as demo some basic techniques, but I digress...) and it's been instrumental to my success in aviation, even if it isn't directly applicable.

A *good* liberal arts college degree includes a lot of material to hone critical thinking and to refine analytical and communication skills. Maybe those don't take you as far in a seniority-based system, but down here in my corner of Part 91 land, those are among the soft skills (along with some basic tech proficiency and a heaping portion of Don't Be A Jerk) that get you ahead and which--just as importantly--keep you employed when things get rough. Without my "irrelevant" degree I would be a crappier pilot and a much crappier employee.

Now I'm not about to argue that a degree is right for everyone, or that all degree programs are created equal. They aren't. I've met plenty of pilots from box-checking Aviation degree programs who might as well be fresh out of high school. But the value of higher education isn't just whatever is scrawled on your baccalaureate. If someone has the right mindset and the means, almost any quality degree program will benefit them.
 
Yakob said:
There are some legitimately bad instances of "Cancel Culture" but it does seem like 90% of it is when extremely privileged or famous people are held to the same standard the rest of us have to abide by every day.
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That certainly doesn’t seem the case to me. Can you provide examples where you think this is the case?
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
But that’s not the point. The point is I could have been hired here with just a degree in art history from a local community college and still be here. Our job is one of the RARE ones where it doesn’t matter what degree.
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Are you trying to say there is something wrong with studying art? Anyway, I've worked with music and arts majors that have great careers and are doing fine. Probably because they learned quite a bit studying I suspect.
 
Yeah, I am :)

The defensive argument is it made someone a better person, learned a lot, enlightened. If our public schools weren’t so screwed up and teaching to the lowest common denominator, we could have some enlightenment in high school junior and senior years.


Unless it’s a technical degree, medical, math/physics, sciences (real science, not liberal arts), the reality is the ROI isn’t there from a monetary standpoint. And most nearly all those fields yall are taking about end up requiring a masters (or more) in order to land a decent paying job.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Yeah, I am :)

The defensive argument is it made someone a better person, learned a lot, enlightened. If our public schools weren’t so screwed up and teaching to the lowest common denominator, we could have some enlightenment in high school junior and senior years.


Unless it’s a technical degree, medical, math/physics, sciences (real science, not liberal arts), the reality is the ROI isn’t there from a monetary standpoint. And most nearly all those fields yall are taking about end up requiring a masters (or more) in order to land a decent paying job.
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Your engineering degree did absolutely nothing to improve your EQ. A liberal arts curriculum would have probably (although it is you, so who knows) had more success. And while that doesn't directly translate into job skills, it certainly translates into soft skills and the ability to communicate with others, which is pretty critical for being successful in almost any job other than being a pilot or a long haul trucker.
 
BobDDuck said:
Your engineering degree did absolutely nothing to improve your EQ. A liberal arts curriculum would have probably (although it is you, so who knows) had more success. And while that doesn't directly translate into job skills, it certainly translates into soft skills and the ability to communicate with others, which is pretty critical for being successful in almost any job other than being a pilot or a long haul trucker.
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Of course I don't have EQ, I'm an engineer.

Tom Smykowski said it best: "Engineers are not good at dealing with customers."

We knew this in 1999.


 
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