omerox wrote on May 3
rd, 2016 at 7:19pm:
Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on May 3
rd, 2016 at 5:17pm:
Lol, so get off your ass and get an education you lazy bugger.
And then, in what sense would I be incompetant? Australia is already inundated with competant workers and a severe lack of incompetant ones. I have no desire to add to this problem and I very dearly wish to live in a community where it isn't so bad; where my incompetent friends, family, coworkers, aquaintances & neighbors are able to flourish.
I'd really hoped to keep this conversation civil and while we seem to disagree over this issue, for some reason your trying to degrade this conversation with insults.
I am not lazy. I have no aversion to working, but only if it is towards a goal worth working for. Injected another educated brainiac into a country & world that is already inundated with such people is not a goal worth pursuing. I would go so far to say that it is a goal worth avoiding at any cost. If you love educated/qualified/trained people so much, then good for you! Your probably already surrounded by them. But the people who prefer the company of unqualified people aren't so lucky. It's those people who I fight for. It's those people who I will work for.
That is a cause worth working for.
Karnal wrote on May 3
rd, 2016 at 5:28pm:
You can in Australia. I didn't do my HSC. I applied to go to uni as a mature-aged student when I was 23.
All I did was send a letter.
Hmm. Maybe the system's changed? That was not my experience when I was in highschool. A lot of my classmates got really stressed out about whether their results would be good enough to let them get in to the college courses they wanted and I remember the teachers spending a lot of time yammering on to us about the marks we needed to get to access certain courses.
good grief omerox, if you dont want to be educated there is still plenty of meaningful work for the unqualified.
i have a 73 yo neighbour who runs cattle . his wife recently died.
he had a woman from the corporate world trying to "find herself" helping him out, but she's gone back to perth.
so, theres a vacancy.
$350 a week, free board, free food, free use of a car. living in an idyllic old homestead and all you have to do is wander round on a quad bike and try not to get bitten by a brownsnake.
i could hook people up with dozens of these jobs.
I have no idea why people work from dawn to dusk in the city to go home to a dingey squat and eat bread and water.
youre not a tree....move