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Old 09-21-2012, 11:22 PM   #78
polishshooter
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Default Re: Let's do our own poll....

And KY, I love you to DEATH...don't misunderstnad me..

"Education" is RELATIVE....you PAY for it ONE way or another...

It doesn't matter whether you work your @ss off in a coal mine or work your @ss off to go to college...

EACH of us has our own "Education" if both of us has WORKED for our experiences...

Yeah I may have more "Book Learning" than most guys have but I can STILL use a chainsaw and read a tree because my Dad was a logger....and I can STILL mix concrete and pour a driveway or sidewalk because my dad was ALSO a concrete man and I can STILL roof a house or do MOST carpenter work because Dad was ALSO a carpenter and my brother was too and I WORKED for him when he was a contractor...I can STILL turn a wrench and tear down an engine because Dad said you had to do it BECAUSE you couldn't afford to pay someone else to do it for you...

..and I CAN drive a Mack dump truck and operate a paver and grade at least a lttle with a John Deere grader and a maintainer and work a loader and tamp and shovel and lute and run a heavy and a finish roller with the best of them laying asphalt since I HAD to do it when I lost my job for a few years that my EDUCATION got me....

And yeah I have raced, fished, hunted, built guns, shot in competition, golfed, landscaped, downed trees, cut and sold firewood, worked on cars, and a bunch of OTHER stuff I can't even begin to remember, in my life that had NOTHING to do with my formal "Education..."

I do NOT EVER begrudge anyone their "Education," formal or OTHERWISE.

The school of "Hard Knocks" is as much of a school as ANY school of "higher learning."

All I ask is for anybody NOT to begrudge the " Book Learning" I worked for and EARNED....

Yeah, I have been in the trenches with enough "College Boys" that couldn't find their @ss in the dark with both hands in the "Real World..."

But not EVERY "College Boy" does not have the same "Real World" experience that YOU do...
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