Generation Limbo

I've always been a believer its more about the capacity to learn vs. what you learned.

 

I hope so.

Mock all you want. Was talking to a customer yesterday. He owns a couple of franchises. He's new to the business.

He realizes now that he could have saved over $50,000 on equipment alone if he had bought directly instead of through his franchiser.

There's a million ways to make money. If you're interested in a particular field, work in it.

Figure out how to do it better. Figure out how you can save them money. Be their supplier. Provide a service for them.

You think it's funny, but I'm making money. I don't have a degree.

I'm betting these kids are smart enough to find their way once they get going.

 

Neither Ray Kroc nor Howard Schultz founded the companies they are so closely associated with.

Both were sales guys. Kroc called on McDonalds. Schultz was selling to the founders of Starbucks.

They both did pretty well. I bet they're also pretty happy they took the initial, crappy sales job.

 

And you can learn in any situation.

Learn from your circumstances. Learn from the people around you.

I learned plenty working in a warehouse and in a boatyard.

 

Good for you, yankee fan. I read way too much about the 'woe is me' bullshit on this board and others.

 

Not looking to pick on you, podunk. There've been several posts despairing of business majors.

I must have missed the transition when business majors became unemployable. Can someone pinpoint it for me?

 

There was a report on NPR this morning about a few of the stories that ran in today's NY Times.
One of them was an editorial by some black writer (Shelby? Something-or-other) who was criticizing President Obama for several shortcomings.
He wrote something to the effect Obama has not "challenged this American society to do anything spectacular" and thereby is existing and governing amid a docile U.S. populous.
That's sort of the direction several posters here are pointing. And it has a good chance of being true.
But people are allowed to also motivate themselves if they so desire.

I will look for a link.

 

Blitz, I think that may be Shelby Steele's piece in the WSJ. He writes that the President "came of age in a bubble of post-'60s liberalism that conditioned him to be an adversary of American exceptionalism" and about "his passion for redistribution, and his scolding and scapegoating of Wall Street—as if his mandate was somehow to overcome, or at least subdue, American capitalism itself."

 

Sure.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/education/edlife/edl-17business-t.html?pagewanted=all

 

Right-wing stereotype stacked upon right-wing stereotype. In a WSJ op-ed.

That's almost cliche.

 

If you major in pre-med, you're an idiot. That's one of the worst majors if you want to get into med school.

 

That "bubble of post-'60s liberalism" also held Nixon and Reagan and all the Bushes. It was a very, very big bubble indeed! Shelby Steele, defending Wall Street no matter the odds against him!