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Eisboch wrote:

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On Feb 1, 10:21 am, "Eisboch" wrote:
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I think "liberal arts" is code for indoctrination...

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Naw. Back in Harry's day (and mine) one elected "liberal arts" as a
course of study when you were entering college but didn't have a clue
what
you wanted to do with your life.

It's meaning has changed over the years.

Eisboch

So, when your parents kicked you out and you didn't want to go to work?

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That was one motivation for some, I am sure.

I always envied the high school juniors and seniors who, with the
assistance of their "guidance consolers", had chosen a field of future
employment by the ninth grade.

I was too busy investigating other things at that age to decide.

Eisboch

About all I was investigating in the 9th grade was ways to work after
school and on weekends to save up enough $$$ for the mandatory driving
school lessons I could take in the 10th grade to get my license.

My father said he would fix me up a car, but that paying for the lessons
was my part of the deal.

There were limited ways for those under 16 to work legal jobs in
Connecticut in those days. I mowed a lot of lawns and shoveled a lot of
snow off sidewalks.

ditto.

I worked part time at a garage in Bethany. I didn't have a license at
first, the owner knew it, but didn't care.

He used to have me drive customers home who left their car there for service
and even had me drive into New Haven a couple of times to pick up parts.
15-1/2 years old, no license. If my parents had known, I'd have been dead
meat. He used to do maintenance work for the CT state police cars at the
barracks up the street from the garage. I used to drive the unmarked
cruisers with 429 Cobra Jet police package engines back and forth to and
from the barracks and knew many of the state troopers. Nobody ever
questioned if I had a license. I know at least one knew I didn't.

Eisboch