Really interesting - I never thought about it in that context. Granted, I know higher education institutions are currently profit driven, just like medicine; they are, in 2011; first and foremost, a business. In the past, medicine and educational institutions were about scientific breakthroughs and progressive knowledge and thinking...
Today, they're a for profit business.
Maybe you're right, money is God.
Trucking can be like a bad marriage...
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But I think most already get the implication...
But yet money is entrenched into everything now...and you see that the minute you walk into an institution, as I did today...
And business and Government are totally entrenched or practically wooven together now...
And money is the life blood they suck, take, away from us...
And certifications are nothing more than another way to sck that life blood out of you, us....
For instance...$400.00 = a week of Joes life...
It took Joe a week, 5 days, to generate a check for $400.00...
Yet, in less than one 3 minute financial transaction...that money is gone...
A week of his life, gone in 3 minutes or less for state fees in the form of A,B or C....
Society begins to shift when the cost of living, exeeds the time you have to earn it...
Now your on 'dead mans time'....or debt....
Cause it's assumed you will be alive and healthy, to earn what you owe...but it's not garunteed....
But the system is set up on just about every level that you will pay homage to the 'state'...which includes business...cause their interwoven...
Kind of like the Dragon and the Beast...their both talked about as two differnt entities in the bible, yet have a working relationship with one another...or firmiluarity....
Republicans and Democrats are simple the dancing girls on stage...
Dem and Rep side show...they both dance and
sharade around on stage, for your attention..
designed to distract the audience, from seeing what's occuring in the back rooms and down the side halls...
If one really knows what's going on...than politics is simply entertainment...and has little to do with nothing.... -
I'm not anti-education at all...just want to make that clear...
But as I start to probe back into the prospects of school...I really start to see how many are being cut out of the system...in a variety of ways...
And I would only encourage drivers out there...even those who love to drive...to really consider taking on line classes in whatever field you might be interested in...
Look out for yourself down the road, expecially you younger drivers who just started, and not sure if you'll make a career out of it...
Let's face it, with the way modern trucking is...not many want to make a career out of spending 30 years living out of the cab of a truck...
That's just not happenen these days...
In the old days ye, cause it was fun, you had support out there, drivers spoke with each other, hung out, it was like a family away from a family...(not that I was around during the bulk of that time, cause I wasn't, but did happen to catch the very last tail end of it...and met enough drivers out there who told me many things)
But in todays enviornment...being out there for 20-30 years...nah...
You might not always want to drive...you might want to cross over into management or supply or even become a air-traffic controller, or at least have the certification to when you get bored of driving...
Air traffic simulator for training purposes...
Just don't hem yourself in...
Or if you dont' have any kids yet...and arent married...think about when you do get married and have kids...
After your kid is born, you'll feel a heck of a lot different about being away for 20 days...
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He also starred in Dragnet...and hundreds of other roles...
I never really got into M.A.S.H. the TV show...but loved the movie....
Ok...you know when one goes...a slay of others follow...or they say '3'...we shall see....
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Deliberatly choose this crude TV version...to give it that home like feeling...the way some watched it back in the day...
Oh the memories...what happened...before we all became so poisoned and spiteful... -
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Actually I never knew this artist was 'black' or A-American...
I always imagined them as some bearded mountain man or Lynard Skynard type...wow...
All these years I never knew....
RIP fella.... -
Boy, when it's cold like this, it makes you just want to stay in the bed
or under the blankets or sleeping bag or anything...
I can't believe I spent most of my youth growing up in frosty cold weather, terrain, and back then it did not bug me one bit...not one single bit...
Infact, I loved it....
But then again back then I had a lot more 'love' in my life, friends, family, direction, purpose, hope, ambition (back then ambition was always trying to find a girlfriend) that was enough to get me out of bed every morning...
All those things make you warm on the inside, so you haven't time to notice or feel the cold tempurature outside....
But without those things, cold is just cold, there is no deflection....
Love, and purpose, and good friends is like whiskey running through your veins....
It just warms you up...makes ya feel good, that initial burst....
That's what love does for ya in the morning...
But without love, hope or support....
Your bodies stiff, as if your waking up in a meat locker...
This may sound weird to some of you...but there have been times in the past where I've wanted to go down to a homeless shelter and spend the night...just for the commradity, just to get in on what others are going through...sometimes being around or hearing what others are going through can 'dwarf' your own issues and re-motivate you...
And or remind you where you may end up if you don't get your act together...
I'm a fun person, but right now things aren't all that fun...if that makes sense...
Again...without all the social elements i described above....waking up every morning in the cold is like waking up inside of a meat locker, all alone, only hearing the hum of the giant condenscer blower...blowing more cold air in...
Yes...it can be cold cold cold...without love, life can be very cold....
Anyhow...time to get up and out...back in a bit...U4EA Thanks this. -
Not my fault they came walking past me while I was minding my own business...
The daisy duke shorts, should indicate to you the type of weather down here right now...or at least during mid afternoon....
Just Holla holla...
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Hello and goodnight...
Last post....
But I want to leave you with a smile on your face...
One of my favorite commedies is the new Pink Panther with Steve Martin...
Whenever I'm feeling down, he makes me feel better...
I don't feel so bad about my mess ups, after watching the Pink Panther character...
The 'Yori the trainer' scene is one of my favorites...although the video cuts out the best parts, that follow...and when he kicks the soccer ball and it bounces off a beam and hits him in the head...
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guy just can't catch a break. -
Hello, and goodmorning...I think....
I have to write how I feel...and I can't come at you with this bright glitter goodmorning today...cause that would be disingenous...
But acknowledging doubt and uncertainty is a virtue...and one some will come to appreciate after a while...
If I'm happy I'm happy, if I'm uncertain I'm uncertain, and when I'm mad I'm mad...
But right now, when I look out me perbabial window...that's what I see...
And sometimes I wonder if I have the 'guns' to fight it...
Some times I feel I do, other times I feel I do not...
Regardless, you just keep seeming to get moved forward, whether your ready or not...
Like being on a convyer belt of doom...
Courage is not pretending you don't ever have doubt or concern about your future...
Courage is admiting those doubts and faceing them head on or best you can...beyond that, what can you do?
Time just seams to steam roll forward regardless of our little issues...that's for sure...
My thoughts have been distracted...back soon...U4EA Thanks this. -
Help...i ran into this monster person again...
twice...
Everywhere I go they are there, either coming or going...
I can't even look at them, they send chills through me...
How do they always know when I'm coming or going??
And today they got me twice, to make up for yesterday when i didn't
see them at all...
Now they're all in my mind again after I finally stopped thinking
about it...
It's like they own me or something...or some spirit that's guiding
them...they are a monster to me...and I wish they would stop crossing my path....
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