I used to live 4 blocks from here. Great school, I’ve been told it’s the ‘Harvard of the west’.
That should have read “no one has onced looked at my education, on my resume…”
This.
Respectfully disagree, but I have an undergrad and three grad degrees, so I am probably not objective.
Don’t mean to call you out, but, do you have a degree? It might help me understand where you are coming from. I gather you are smart as fuck and work really hard. My brother is looking to invest in Oregon, think the two of you might hit it off.
Humbly disagree but recognize I am a part of education. I think learning for learning sake is valid, but not necessary to make a living. I think it helps us be enlightened. To get a four year degree you have to take Liberal Arts classes that round you out, make you more tolerant and give you more experience.
So riddle me this. You’re 28 and I know you are kicking ass. Do you have a degree? If so, is it in Construction Management?
Let’s say it is.
So you can GC a project. Do you have accounting? Finance? Can you run a business? Do you have marketing experience? Marketing training? Can you write a pro forma statement. Do you have a line of credit? An LLC? A lawyer?
Did you realize you need these things to blow up?
I think you need to hook up with my friends at Dalton Management and my brother. I think it’s time you went out on your own, flip houses, do some development.
I’ll have a huge announcement in the next three months when a deal closes, you’ll be shocked.
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I’ve been drinking on a beach, off the coast of Thailand, but my wait for a massage table is up. I’ll respond - in my log - after a 2 hour drunk massage.
Looking forward to that response, lol.
“massage”
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I get it, but from the perspective of drumming up interest, participation, and excitement for the average gym goer it works pretty well. I have a simplistic view of the gym, myself, and it bites me alot in our marketing, ha. “Why should I have to advertise a gym and run silly promos? Shouldn’t people just want to be here? Why should I have to decorate it…it’s a gym, don’t people just come to workout and train?”
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Time to pull out the participation trophies/ribbons/certificates.
I’m pretty pro education and happy endings.
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A drunk massage in Thailand, bold move @dchris
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Imagine what doors being a coat hanger at a top firm will open too, though.
I agree with you and @The_Myth Education is what you make of it whether you go to Harvard or a community college. The best educators in the world can’t educate an unwilling student. However, all things being equal an employer is going to take a Harvard grad over a Hood College grad 99/100 times. That’s just how life works.
Now, would I spend 15x more to get a degree in accounting from Harvard Vs. an average state school, hella nah. I probably learned more about accounting getting my CPA than from undergrad degree (not my master’s, though). If I have the money will I send my boys to Harvard vs an average state school, you bet your ass I will because it’ll open doors my degrees from Towson simply don’t.
The best gym’s I’ve ever been too are exactly as you describe. I don’t like gyms with all that BS.
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Absolutely agree, initially I tried to run our gym that way, simple, chalk filled weightlifting…turns out that’s not a huge hit for the average gym goer haha so, here we are 
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That’s not surprising in the age of men wearing gloves and leggings, right @Yogi1
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Do tell…
People get lulled into a false sense of security with 16oz gloves. They think “oh man, it’s 16oz of PADDING”. Sure, but know what else it is? 16oz of WEIGHT. Suddenly you’re throwing a fist that is 1lb heavier than it was before. Know where else we see that technique? Putting a roll of quarters in your hand before punching someone.
16oz gloves will protect your hands good, and you won’t get your face cut up like a set of smaller gloves, and your punches will be slower, but you can still get plenty messed up with a pair. No shame in getting concussed there.
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I can’t help but think of the movie “Click” when I see the reference of being a well educated coat hanger at a big law firm.
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Common misconception with all boxing gloves - they’re there to protect hands, not people’s faces. Repeated blows to the head have essentially the same effect.
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When I was a kid we used to box in the back yard by wrapping folded bandanas around our knuckles. That was our rationale for it. I was a dumb kid the more I think about it.
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Don’t sweat it: I did the same thing when I was a kid and I turned out perfectly glorp.
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