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Originally Posted by topekarain
For all who have questions, doubts, who dont or cant understand cuz your not blessed with a brain and are less fortunate, or people who have let paranoia creep up their spine and get the best of you, and all else...........Please mentally note that I AM A SMART SUCCESSFUL WOMAN.....Don't insult my intelligence!!! I was an International Honors Society Member for holding a 4.0 average and made the DEAN'S LIST IN school I have accolades, references, credintials to show for my actions in this Lifetime. Do You? Point being is DO NOT COME TO ME, CALL ME, THINK ABOUT ME , STEP TO ME , however you want to put it if your NOT ON MY LEVEL OF INTELLEGENCE OR SPIRTUALLY FUCKED BECAUSE I ALREADY SMELL YA OUT. Good people demand, want, have to have other good people around them in life. So ask yourself which one are you? FYI for men that pay attention and are good men this shout out is for YOU!!!! I APPRECIATE AND LOVE GOOD MEN!!!! mmmmmm NOW THATS A TURN ON..THANK YOU. My Bullshit sifter is on. Peace love and happiness....~~~~~Rain~~~~T-Town.
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Well Sweetheart, where do I start?
My qualifications to comment: I'll stack my number of pieces of paper, in several fields, up against yours and trump you every time; but that is not the point, and college is not the point.
College should teach us one thing: how to keep learning the rest of your life. College should teach us how to learn. Sadly, some see it as an end to learning. Once upon a time, I was in the home of a sweet couple. The wife had finished high school and helped her husband as he started his career. When I saw the number of books, and the titles of the books I asked her what college she had attended because most were required readings that I had completed during my classes.
Her response was profound. She had not been able to attend college because she was raising the babies. So, she went to the bookstore and asked for a list of what every well educated person should have read. She bought every book on the list and more - and read all of them several times to understand them. She received more of an education that most students get when they just sit through the classes and work for a grade.
I think I wasted a lot of money attending some of the classes I took, I could have just read the books. I had one graduate professor read from the text book for the class lecture. This was after the Marine Corps, so I dropped the class, a professor should bring more to the class than you can get from the text book. But, sadly, most of them just do not care enough to really teach. So, today a lot of college is a waste of money; it does get you a piece of paper. But, if you can't perform on the job, you wind up without a job.
Life should be an adventure where we continue to learn about everything.
I have had PhD people work for me that couldn't drive a stick shift, or wire a simple electrical wiring on a 120 Volt system. They had no desire to learn. Very sad.
I had two different guys that I had to put in the warehouse, and latter fire: one had a 4.0 grade average on two masters degrees the other had a master of something in Political Science with almost a 4.0 overall.
Both were nice guys, and I liked them, but they simply could not relate to the real world, or follow simple instructions. Sad, but they existed in a make believe world. Today, the best they can do is the temporary labor pool.
I worked hard for the education I received, but it is what you learn for yourself that matters. I worked hard on the sciences, all of them, and on as much math as I could get. I learned a lot of applications for research methods using statistics. I am very good at it. Not because I am super smart, but because I love it.
The first time around I did not get a 4.0 in organic chemistry, and no one should the first time around because there is just too much to grasp. Anyone who gets an A in the first two courses of organic (first time around - most of us repeat this again, and a again) has gotten a free ride and is fooling themselves. The grade means nothing. What counts is what one comprehends.
I went back to school after the Military and got an MBA because I was introduced to some of the management methods at a large defense contractor.
I got a straight A for the business degree. Simple stuff, even with advanced math courses.
I have never used the MBA, it just doesn't matter to me except for a couple of courses in investing. Those courses I use a lot. But the psychology courses are only for filling credit hours for that piece of paper.
What matters, is how do I work with and motivate the employees. Praise and rewards help a lot, and they did not teach that in class. Being interested in the employees, and how they grow professionally is important. At the same time value their strengths and look past the weakness (while making a note about it). But, the management courses taught us to value employees the same as other assets, such as machinery and buildings. That is just wrong. Terminating an employee is the hardest thing I have to do.
In the end, all we have is each other. Management is about leadership, not control. Professional Sales is about working with your customers, not about the cheapest prices.
Someone will always have cheaper prices, and cheaper goods. But they do not obtain customer loyalty, or repeat customers, by being cheap and insulting.
JR
