Help with floundering son

Ya, same here after 6 years, they still blame it on Bush :-)

Not our king, Obama has a pen a phone and Harry Reed.

and get some new 'leader'

It turns out Gruber is correct, Obama got elected twice! Mikek

I'm surprised you care! Most people could care less about family (yet, expect the perfect kid)

Oh, I think you should change > most < to some. Mikek

Stop supporting him, let him get a job, and figure it out on his own. Pressuring him into college in the first place was probably a huge mistake.

But then years later, he'd be mad at him for not pushing the idea of college. Because on average, people who've continued education after high school earn more.

I fear that you could even carry that thought a little further with all of the divorce and custody battles. They can't even spend time with both parents, let alone visit the places where they work.

Yeah, that and keep up with what his professors are into. Tell them his interests as they change and what opportunities are out there.

Being in the right place at the right time, saying all the right things.

That really depends on what kind of degree you get, doesn't it? I'd expect that a degree in "something or other studies" to be mostly worthless.

On Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 7:37:33 PM UTC-5, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrot e:

Yeah, a lot of people hear stuff like that on hate radio. The AM dial on r adio spends all day telling you that college campuses are brainwashing peop le to become liberals, shed the values they grew up with, etc... So the peo ple are scared that they'll lose their freedoms, so they take up guns, hate the government, etc...

In other words, some people can't learn from lecture. They only learn from experience.

On Thursday, January 8, 2015 at 7:37:33 PM UTC-5, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrot e:

That's a government job. That's OK! He could let his chain of command know that he can go to night school and get a masters. Then he make weekly call s to the local bond broker bigwigs and state lawmakers on what state or fed eral government bond projects near his job site he could chip into (because you need a bond broker in order to buy any government bonds). If he tries to make his bond purchase choices the same as the main government big shot s and business leaders in the town he lives in, he can go very far in gover nment.

(he might even get a country club spot if he has good golf skills and good enough connections)

Everyone starts out in the trashy positions, but the ones who at least try to get on the same page as top government appointees eventually get "cushy" or senior executive level state or federal appointments.

Actually, you do have to be in the right spot at the right time once you ge t your foot in the door of any place you work. Where ever the executives ar e, you (the low man on the totem-pole) have to figure out a way to be there .

The few "low men on the totem pole" who manage to do that throughout their career get those spots. Maybe a friendship with a government and other bond broker (familiar with most state government projects in his area) might be a key to an eventuality like that.

(who knows where it could lead)

Yeah, but kids usually do what their parents did. So I guess he's copying you to a degree, right? I mean your generation had going-out-doors, joking with your friends, reading newspapers and books. All that helped in college.

His generation had Television, MTV and video games. That background makes college and competition tougher.

(so maybe he couldn't have just copied you)