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I've met plenty. They say things like "Those who can't do teach."
Agreed. That has to be the STUPIDEST quote I have ever read in my life. I don't know who is dumber: the guy who came up with the thing or those who parrot it.
Let's face it, todays world of information as commodity is one of the most baffling things to ponder. We see people who need a good fifteen minutes to explain the core aspects of their work, a huge difference from the past when most job functions could be summed up in a word. Yeah, it looks as though these new work functions are a type of BS job but that's only when there is a cursory examination of them, listening to my stepson explain a new gig he's gotten through a venture capital firm in the Bay area is truly a laborious conversation, he tells me it's about creating electronic data collection for home energy use and the subsequent platforms needed for the collection of that info which is then transferred to "the cloud". BS, or something useful but difficult to understand?
The other factor bearing on any conversation centering on work is the rise of notions that denigrate any work not associated with some physical or mental strain. Hard work; just the utterance of that once meritorious term conjures up all of that which was thought to be the reason for our national success, the aggregate of ambition, hard work has been integral to the American dream of a growing prosperity. With machines doing most of the hard work it now appears that we'll need some other mantra to remind us of the necessity for diligence, duty, and national dreams.
Apparently there is some animosity toward teaching that stems from this notion of hard work being it's own reward, of course that isn't true at all, and who's to say that teaching doesn't have some sweat producing component to it. We can't fathom a world where information is valuable enough to hire people to obtain it, maintain it, update it, sell it, and finally, dispose of it. This is our world, and work does look vastly different from those days of one word job descriptions, change......The only thing we can absolutely count on..
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