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Keyser Soze Wrote in message:
On 1/13/17 11:02 AM, wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 08:29:27 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote:

On 1/12/17 8:28 PM, wrote:

I said this before and the bet still stands, I bet I have far more
hours of classroom instruction than you do and the amount of "distance
learning" (computer aided classes) and self taught courses will triple
that. In the 60s and early 70s I was averaging 700-800 hours of actual
class time a year, not hanging around the student union or working at
some bull**** part time job. When my daughter was in college, her BA
worked out to about 800 hours of actual class over the whole 4 years.
I started doing as much as I could remotely but I was still 300 to 500
a year in class after that (over 30 years) I was also an instructor
for a while.

As I have stated any number of times, I was not interested in trade
school. I did take a couple of those kinds of courses as electives in
college, in typography, if memory serves, but the only actual "job
training courses" I took were in welding in the summers and in editing
during my 40-hour weeks the first two years I worked at the newspaper as
a reporter and then as a reporter and copy editor. I'd do my assignments
from the city desk and features desk when I got to work in the
afternoon, and when I finished them up, usually by 9 or 10 pm, I'd get
an invite to work on editing wire copy under the tutelage of some
hard-nosed newspaper copy editors.

I guess that explains why I am comfortably retired after a rewarding
career and you are still riding the bus, trying to hustle up a living.

This is about the sixth time you've repeated this moronic catechism of
yours. I'm still working because I like to work. It gets me into a
business suit every couple of weeks, I ride the bus to downtown DC every
couple of weeks, I do lunch every couple of weeks with some really
bright people, I get to contribute ideas and work product for which I am
nicely paid, I get trips to Geneva, Kenya, Rome and other interesting
places...Looks like a nice client-paid trip to London is coming up later
this year, a trip that will also allow us to attend several performances
of The Proms.

I'm not and never have been the kind of guy who needs an endless supply
of make-work handyman projects, as you do, to stay busy.

So you just sit around like a bump on a log?
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