On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 12:51:15 PM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:40:24 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
> > wrote:
>
> >On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 at 8:40:09 AM UTC-10, Bruce wrote:
> >> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 10:10:11 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >If you don't view a college education as vocational training, it can be a
> >> >worthwhile goal.
> >> >
> >> >Once upon a time, the goal of college was to turn callow youths into
> >> >men with a broad grounding in the liberal arts, fitting them for a
> >> >future in business, politics, law, medicine, etc.
> >> >
> >> ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts_education>
> >> >
> >> >It has only been the last 40-60 years where college has been seen as training
> >> >for a specific career.
> >>
> >> Yes, I remember that in the 80s people suddenly started studying weird
> >> stuff like business economics at uni. Did they want a job or
> >> something?
> >
> >Most of my slacker friends went into the agriculture field. That was completely unexpected. Evidently, they all wanted to be farmers.
>
> So who's the slacker now, huh?

That would be my OCD Chinese friend. The rest of my friends turned out to be some pretty cool cats. They ask me about that crazy pake. Did he ever get a job? Well, no.