On Feb 29, 8:23*am, John Kuthe > wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:54:11 -0800 (PST), Bryan
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> >On Feb 28, 10:45*pm, John Kuthe > wrote:
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> >> In the time you have worked continuously as a janitor,
> >> I have achieved 3 Bachelor's degrees in two very advanced technical
> >> areas (enginerring and nursing) and worked 7 years for IBM in my
> >> second career, while you continue to live primarily off your wife's
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> >She does make more money than me. *I made the overwhelming majority of
> >the money the first seven years we were together. *She was interested
> >in a career that required graduate school, and we put our eggs into
> >that basket. *The school I went to was primarily because I'm
> >interested in knowing things. *I might not have a lot of earning
> >potential, but I've never been unable to get a job. *I have paid off
> >every cent of student debt. *You know, that debt that can't be
> >discharged by bankruptcy.
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> Yes I know that, but you did not answer my question. If you are so
> smart, why do you have NO college degrees? I've got 3 and you've got
> ZERO! You didn't even finish high scool, and had to get a GED.

I tested out of "high scool" [sic] when I was 16.

> As I told a friend's daughter at the Super Bowl party I went to "High
> school is not that darned hard!" (and she laughed!)

I didn't quit because of the academics. I did go back to community
college when I was 26, and ended up with an Associates with a 4.0 GPA.
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> Stick to the question! Or mnaybe that's why you have no college
> degrees: inability to stay on task!

The degree wasn't my goal in the first place. I know that might be
hard to believe, but I love knowledge for its own sake. Imagine
yourself in an interview, and you're asked what you've been doing.
Imagine saying that you have become fascinated by the metabolic
effects of fatty acids and various ketones and aldehydes on plasma
lipids and lypolysis in white adipocytes, and that you're written some
stuff informally on the internet. Instead, you can say that you
ridiculed this guy who had "become fascinated by the metabolic effects
of fatty acids and various ketones and aldehydes on plasma lipids and
lypolysis in white adipocytes, and [had] written some stuff informally
on the internet." But that's silly, because after they Google you,
you won't get the interview in the first place.
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> John Kuthe...

--Bryan