Reply To: How many skills have you mastered and what are you going to work on this year?

  • Woodsman

    Member
    January 28, 2023 at 2:52 pm

    Dang-it, Don’t you know? I’m a Jack-of-Many-Trades and the Master at none. Listen people when I graduated high school back in the dark ages of walking to the 4 channel rabbit earth TV or staying out and going any where until dark as a child (meaning before the addictive wonder luster world of the personal inter world … known as the box that would not only create more jobs bit amazingly and some how more leisure time? It’s the personal computer dummy).

    Born and raised in snow country (New England) I come to learn later in life my school system sucked moose dick just like all of America’s schools sucked. Only we in the North had my cool stuff. Shop classes for boys wasn’t an option. Hell, at one point Home-Making was an option. So he ole printing press (Ben Franklin style), full industrial sized wood shop, machine shop, etc. was the standard.

    The year I graduated the “Personal Computer” (The U r F’d Box) arrived on the scene). Son- of-1/2” Reaming Bit welcome to your middle class nightmare of no money for college, not the free ride skin color and an economy a like like this one we are in now. Struggle, struggle, struggle with reverse racism (again affirmative action was not my color? A job of the shit-e-out was not to had! Sum-of-bit!

    Hey, Dad, can I barrow the car for a job interview … often it was no. But I was given the ole: “Don’t let the door hit on your ass on your way out!” I can’t tell you if the childhood ass beating shaped me more or the “tough-love.” I sure there some pros and cons to the way I was raised.

    I’ll let you know 🤔 then again being at the end of God’s given human expiration date …. Hmm?

    I can say this; the hard ass childhood years was the was it was for many during the times. In comparison to what I am seeing society today. Sad! Key, is the word or phrase: “the times.” You need not be part of your times whole heartedly. True we are a product of are times. This product of the times would not go wasted on those who are Black and feel the “times” of black slavery in America owes them something. What is the norm in one period of time may not be during another. Stop fishing for a free ride on all of our ancestors backs. Especially, when the times reflected the norms.

    Do YOU owe the future money for not stoping the slave trade taking place today and yes, here I. The USA.

    The moronic theme of the rant: life is real society is not. Deal with it!