Thank you Sky!
If there was one super important thing I learned from college, it’s the importance and fruitfulness of building and maintaining relationships.
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That is huge. My tree buddy is FREAKIN GREAT at that. He’s never too worried about getting/generating more business.
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Same, but for swimming competitions. Mom dropped me off, Dad was supposed to attend and then take me home. I got really good at grabbing a few extra towels and keeping my swim robe dry, since every time he said he would pick me up, I had to wait in the pines until my mom got off work and checked with him if I had been picked up. Pre-cell phone era also.
That’s just shitty. Sounds like something an angry drunk would do.
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This is why I attended everything my kid was a part of. The last thing I want is to have my adult child going on some message board to tell a bunch of weirdos how much of a loser I was.
From what you’ve posted about him, he sounds like he’s struggling with, as the cliche goes, some demons. He’s your brother and you’re better off just forgiving him. In the end you can only hope he comes to terms with whatever he’s dealing with and it will be him who will regret how he treated those closest to him.
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Don’t threaten me with a good time.
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Congratulations on your graduation, young man.
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Thank you punnyguy I appreciate it a lot!
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I’m not coming to your graduation either but congratulations on a big achievement!
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This.
And this.
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Congratulations - what did you major in?
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Thank you cyclone. I majored in construction management.
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Is there a particular Starbucks you were planning on applying to?
I kid, I kid. I’m glad to hear you are pursuing something useful. We need more people who know how to make stuff.
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Is construction management something that you can get a job in? I’m just wondering what are actually useful degrees. My son likes building stuff and is interested in learning a trade, but maybe also college. Wondering what degrees might be actually useful. He’s 13, so some times still, but just wondering.
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could go into industrial engineering. They do a lot of the layouts of shops for making things and are usually very involved in the build process (more so than many other engineers).
If trades - welding is fairly lucrative.
Where I live they need them so badly they’ll hire you and pay you while they train you. They still can’t get enough people. They’re willing to hire high school kids and train them. These kids would graduate high school and have a job making more than their teachers.
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Bad welds have caused me to expend many engineering hours fixing things. I would pay top dollar for a great welder.
I have been trying to encourage my friend’s son (senior in HS next year) to pursue welding. He doesn’t want to go college and is leaning to trades.
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He’s starting highschool in the fall and he is looking at some options to learn welding in highschool (probably not as a freshman, but starting in 1-2 years). He built a forge in our backyard and makes knives out of scrap metal, so he thinks he wants to weld. I figure if he graduates and is able to get a job in welding, that will give him an opportunity to see if he likes doing that. If he does, great. If not, he has options to go to college for engineering or something else.
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Sounds like a good plan to me, and he is already a leg up having an understanding of metals through forging.
He could also go to school to become a metallurgist if he likes that kind of stuff but decides welding isn’t it.