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LearningTree.com
03.20.08
LearningTree.com in RockVille, Maryland
I am at a LearningTree.com Class. I think my questions are the best in the class, but I am probably not the smartest guy in the class. Yesterday, lunch was provided. I am partnering with this Chinese geek. He is from Hong Kong. This guy is so awkward. I like him, though. He has many annoying habits. I do as well, so I am not going to slight him for it. Thomas is cool. He is a young, intelligent, Black man with a college degree and a real profession. I want to be like him when I grow up. I think I pissed him off today when I asked him what Fraternity Life was all about. Chris (the instructor) is awesome. The guy has a mind like a steel trap. When most people speak, it is less like a playback of a recording, and more like a stream. When he speaks, he utters well formulated words that are less in the way of “utterance” and more to do with true “communication”. I think that it is easy for normal people to communicate their understanding of a particular matter, but truly intelligent people can communicate a holistic view of a scenario devoid of their understanding. A good communicator will communicate the scenario worded for your understanding (not according to their understanding) in hopes that you will get it. He reminds me of Joe Thomas, who knows what he said a minute ago, a day ago, or a year ago. Joe expects you to know as well. Chris reminds me of a trainer I had while working at a collection agency, named Jason. He is an all around good guy, and I think highly of him. Aleein is an intelligent, Black, cheerful (overly perky) woman. She is married to an IrishMan and has two kids. She speaks geek fluently, and has an annoying habit of correcting everyone (even me) on technical terms. In the conversations I have had over the past few days, one common theme is that of no loyalty to the job. I think we have all communicated the fact that we are loyal in personal relationships, but when it comes to employment, we are perfectly willing to jump from ladder to ladder, if only to go up one rung. This is detrimental, but it is not entirely our fault (in my opinion). I bet everyone here knows someone who has been “downsized”, or “chopped” from the payroll for the sake of the bottom line. It is in the nature of honest business. Business thrives on efficiency, and having a “Rank and Yank” mentality is the most successful method of existence. With that being the case, businesses hire intelligent people, who will also seek to better themselves by any means necessary. That can easily mean dropping the job that pays your way through school for another position, just because they will pay you more for having gone to school. If (when) I employ people, I will hire people who are undereducated, if they can convince me that they are undereducated by circumstance, and not by choice. If (WHEN) they leave my firm for another, I will not be resentful or taken advantage of. I will consider it a cost of doing business. If I were to hire well educated people, and pay them for their education, I would still be expected to contribute to their betterment. I would imagine that hiring less educated people and contributing to their education would cost less in the long run. Education is priced to be just out of reach. The educated people make just enough to send their children to school. That is kept in check. The salaries of the educated are controlled by so many other factors that it would be senseless to try to identify a controlling factor. A person can leave college and make $35K, or $350K, depending on the interpretation of the need. Salary increases are expected. Salary decreases are unheard of. Secondary education is pricing itself out of existence. As this happens, other forms of education come into practice. This is evident with the number of “certifications” one can get without stepping foot on a college campus. Colleges are meant for the children of the college educated parents. Tuition assistance does not, could not, and should not keep up. It only assists in allowing the price of tuition to outpace the ability of the student (or the student’s family) to pay. Unfortunately, tuition for self or child does not count as a significant reduction to the tax burden of the working family.
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