Re: Gone for awhile

"Nev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I'm studying primarily 3D modeling & animation ['Softimage XSI' for those
> interested] in college, and the last half of my all-important Senior
Project
> runs from January until graduation in late April, so I'm dropping out of
> this newsgroup until sometime after then... can't afford even now that
small
> amount of time to look in, especially since I occasionally get caught up
in
> the discussions or pose new ones.
>
> I'm also having to take a class or two that has absolutely nothing
> whatsoever to do with my career, so am fighting them tooth and nail. This
is
> not the first time for doing so since I already have two degrees from
three
> previous colleges, and thus know from decades of experience that such
> classes haven't added one dime to my salaries. In my career --technical &
> medical illustration & graphic design-- I've worked everywhere from a
> four-person light industrial advertising agency to impossibly large
Boeing,
> yet none of my employers have ever shown one iota of interest in those
> classes... in fact never even asked about my grades.

I know the feeling.  Its kind of like taking a Physical Activity class in
college when you're major has nothing to do with Physical Education.  I had
to take Karate and Bowling for a Professional Aviation degree.
>
> So why pay for and take classes which I have no interest in, have no
> demonstrable practical/professional value for me, and that the time spent
on
> them could be much better spent on classes in my chosen field? To be "well
> rounded"; to be "educated"? Well, by anyone's standards I'm highly
educated.

M-O-N-E-Y.  More time spent in classes means more money for your college.

> I've also been without work and medical insurance for two years now. From
> that sense, except that after April I'll be able to casually mention I
have
> three degrees [puffs up chest and struts around] "education" has no
> practical value.
>

I went to college to learn how to fly airplanes.  Now I fly a desk, working
in software support.

> Rant, rant, rave, rave.
>
> PS: I didn't go to a technical college because none have that particular
> program nor the instructors... and the State/Fed's paying my tuition, as
> they are for the 40,000 other employees Boeing [conveniently] hemorrhaged
> out after 911.
>

State/Fedgov ain't paying for it.  You and I are paying for it, Fedgov and
the state just play middle man.