OT: Calling all straight F students..., Don't ever give up Options

[BigD9146gt]

I was never good at homework. I liked being in school learning, just never could remember any of it when the time came to barf it back to the teacher. This is an email my old man sent me, he's a pretty sucessful mechanical engineer who also didn't do all that well in school. Enjoy.

Charles Kettering invented no knock self-starter, diesel locomotive and paint for cars.

Intelligent Ignorance:

The more education you have the less likely you are to become an inventor. The reason why is this: from the time a kid starts Kindergarten to the time he graduates from college, he will be examined two or three times a year and if he flunks once, he’s out. Now an inventor fails 999 times and if he succeeds once, he’s in. An inventor treats his failures simply as practice shots.

He believed a problem was more than willing to be solved provided the researcher remembered who was boss, by which he meant the problem, not himself. The only difference between a problem and a solution, he used to say, is that people understand the solution. Solutions only involve a change in perception, since the solution must have existed all along with the problem itself. A researcher, he argued, was there not to master the problem but to make it give birth to its solution.

[Toast]

I agree with Quarl in the fact that the most successful people have drive, will and determination.

I have had 8 years of post high school schooling, have a AS in Science and a Certificate in Geographic information systems. I have a Scuba Diver Certificate, and have worked enough on vehicle that I could probably be an entry-level mechanic.
Yet I still work at the same dead-end job that I started at in 98. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/huh.gif)

This is because I do not have the drive, courage, or determination to apply what I have learned and to do something else.

My colleges and friends keep pushing me to get more school. Granted, that would probably help get a better paying job, but, will I apply myself afterwards, or will I just be in tremendous debt from school and stay stagnet?

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