More barbarity in the Middle east

You may very well have had far more education in the Army than your wife did for he first computer job. But the question is what education was required to get a particular job (which could potentially be an entirely different kettle of fish than what education a job holder actually has)?

Actually, no, I had never thought of boycotting graveyard shift at my friendly neighborhood local convenience store. I've actually worked quite a few graveyard jobs at the convenience stores in my day. And, given the dearth of jobs in rural Ottawa County, Ohio, my next job (if I could get the hell off disability) will likely be working graveyard in a convenience store. And, by the way, while convenience store clerks don't make all that much money, the shift differential is nice.

I don't condemn people for taking the dirty work jobs. I simply point out that people take their risks, reap their rewards, and live their lives.

Well, when you specify that leaving behind a fatherless family is one of the reasons the guard's death was a bad thing, that (whether for good, bad, or indifferent) is one less reason why my death would be a bad thing.

 

Re: Ha Ha

An innocent question on my part, with the goal of clarifying your position, was twisted around to "making up stuff to back my point." That's weasely in my book.

 

You misunderstood...

I am a computer geek and to qualify for it I needed only 20 hours of computer classes. As an officer in the military I needed more than that and an officers as high as a major will make less than I do now. That was the point I was making. The CIE course my wife used to qualify was simply to further demonstrate the point.

The other point is reward and risk do not go hand in hand even most of the time. Somebody has to do the hard and dirty jobs. Be glad it isn't you and thank those who do...

 

Re: You misunderstood...

Why do computer professionals call themselves geeks? I seem to remember looking up "geek" in the dictionary a while back and finding that the definition was "one who bites off the head of a live chicken."

 

Geeks are buried in their computers..

My first job post retirement from the Army was as an information systems guy at a small family owned livestock supplies sales firm. I also had to act part time as a salesman (I liked that far more than the IT stuff). My daughter's referred to me as "the computer geek who sells pig stuff". I guess there are worse trades...