I think I'll answer the comment made on my earlier post with another post.

There are places in the world that you have one chance at things. You are given an opportunity for further education based on how well you have done in the course of study you have just completed.

If you did well, it's on to further studies. If you didn't make the cut your education ends and you're stuck in that rut for life.

It ain't that way here. We have second chances. You can go find schooling or training and pick up a skill at any age. 

The truth of the matter is that nobody is stuck in a career they don't want. You can change jobs at any time.  If you are in your mid 20s and still flipping burgers and not in some kind of schooling or training program than you are probably not very motivated. When you are unsuccessful and wind up flipping burgers for a career you have nobody to blame but yourself. The opportunity was there.

Drop out of high school? No problem. Go back to school in adult education or take a GED course. The opportunity is there.

Have good hands? Open yourself a home repair or office cleaning business. Good handymen are hard to find these days and a pickup truck, ladder and toolbox can make a guy a halfway decent living.

Get laid off from a job? It's going to be tough but you can do what the HVAC guy that installed my furnace did. He took his savings and invested in himself. He was smart enough to realize that his prior career wasn't going to come back so he went back to school for HVAC. He was hired well before he graduated but finished the course, anyway.

I entered an apprenticeship when I was 38. In less than a year I was making twice what I had started at.

Programs to get ahead are out there and easily attainable. It's really quite simple. Get yourself a skill.

Incidentally, choose wisely. The woods are full of college idiots that graduated with useless degrees and are trying to pay loans off by working at Starbucks pouring coffee. They chose poorly.

A person defending the unsuccessful by blaming the rich and or the so-called unfair distribution of the wealth is just making an excuse for those that are not motivated enough to make a life for themselves. They don't need covering for. They need motivation.

Raising the minimum wage or giving them welfare only goes to keep them down because life becomes too easy for them. It makes it PAY to be unsuccessful.








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