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| ChrisDfer 2002-11-25, 8:35 pm |
| I was talking a guy I know who is in highschool and taking a CISCO CCNA course through them from free. Which is cool if you ask me I wish I had enough sense in highschool to even think about my future. But the thing that really bugs me is the way he complains about it. He complains how much work it is and how its all useless facts that he will never need. And how he wishes he didn't have to do it. Now my first thought is "well then drop the class" but he says he likes networking and wants his ccna. But he doesn't want to have to work for it. HE also says he wants a "cool computer job where he sits around and does nothing" He says he doesn't think he needs to learn new things because he knows enough(because he can setup a microsoft peer to peer network, WOW and thats all he will ever need to know)
These type of people just piss me off to no end. Little punk, if he doesnt want the cisco class for free then let me take it for you.
Just my little rant. | |
| chodan 2002-11-25, 9:29 pm |
| Don't worry
with a work ethic like that I doubt he'll make CCNA and if he does snow some hiring manager and gets a job he won't work for long. | |
| darthfeces 2002-11-25, 10:50 pm |
| job security | |
| davidbeecken 2002-11-26, 6:31 am |
| I know its shitty, but for the most part one day he will learn, and grow, it just takes time/ btw, I would find that damn annoying too | |
| ANDRONDA 2002-11-26, 10:16 am |
| It is indicative of the generation to be sullen and ungrateful.
I am 35 and came form a small town. I have worked every day since I was 14. My first car was a 1967 Plymouth that I worked all summer to afford (it cost my $350 plus insurance). When it came time to go to college I had to sign away five years of my life to the Service in order to afford it, which I proudly served.
Now a days, kids get everything they want and complain about it to boot. I would like to get ahold of some of these kids for a summer and put them out in the fields tending crops for less than minimum wage or put a 50 pound ruck sack on their backs and force a 15 mile march. Then maybe they would appreciate what they have.
If there is one thing I am teaching my children is that everything we have is a gift from the Man Above and not an entitlement. | |
| MaulerJ 2002-12-14, 11:34 pm |
| Wah Wah, just jealous of how easy they have it   ,
I am just kidding, just thought a rise would do. It is shitty, how easy it is getting for these kids these days. What's bad for someone my age, is that I just barely missed those chances, in high school. The sad thing, is I once believed in Karma, for these cases, but not anymore, I have seen too many lazy azz punk $##$@$#@% move up the ladder while others, go to school, and work on IT training, and maintain a family. BREATHE, BREATHE! Ok, I am done | |
| darthfeces 2002-12-15, 12:14 am |
| i agree
i have 3 kids and currently am trading shorter hours and benefits for the potential of making
30k or so more based on my certs.
i hope to make that up when i get ccie
i have 2 kids under 5 and it's what is best for me for now.
btw
i used to walk to work
uphill
BOTH ways. | |
| MaulerJ 2002-12-15, 12:31 am |
| Work, Walk, in my day we used our toes for balancing the budget, and worked 15 hours a day, and crawled to the job.................. and we liked it!! | |
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| Yep, and how would you like to teach them....bloody hell...that's what it is like. I'm trying to reskill with computer skills because I'm sick and tired of dealing with spoilt 'I'm the centre of the Universe' kids of today. They appreciate nothing you do for them...they have it too easy...and if you don't pander to their wishes, some of them have the gaul to send their stupid parents up to harrass you. The clear message is....DON'T DO TEACHING...80% of good kids don't compensate for the 20% who try to put you in an early grave. There, I've had my whinge also...sorry..stop that! You are rubbing your fingers together. I know that joke. It's the worlds smallest violin and you are playing it just for me!!! | |
| edmonds_robert 2002-12-15, 4:44 pm |
| MaulerJ,
You had it good. I used to get up in the morning at 10:30 at night, a half hour before I went to bed, work 29 hours at the mill, pay the mill owner for the privilege of working there, and when I came home my father would feed me a handful of poison, then kill me and dance about on my grave.
But tell it to kids these days, and they won't believe it. | |
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| Gotta understand that he is a high school student. Which, they don't pay for any bills, and only need to watch out for themselves unlike majority of us, we have a family to take care of (yes, i have a baby boy). I believe he has no sense of direction towards his career, and how much hard work it would take to get there.
I graduated from high school about two years ago. Until last year, the school that i graduated from started offering the cisco program. But, I compared their training to the cisco academy, and it was no where close to it.
I can say that I was ignorant in high school, but until i graduated from high school and moved out of my parents home, I've realized how hard life is.
-Just my 2 cents |
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