What essential life skill isn't taught?
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Greatest class I ever took. A room full of girls that wanted to help me figure out cooking and sewing.
Didn’t tell them my grandma had already taught me that.
Just needed to lean into their offers to help. It’s there that I learned women are ultra competitive amongst each other, which has served me very well in life.
Like shooting fish in a barrel.
A work ethic.
As someone who hires university educated people, it blows my mind how fucking lazy and downright useless most recent graduates are.
I know I'm coming across as a cranky old coot, however, I can't believe how young white Canadian males are such cry babies.
They interview well, but within 3 weeks start to whine and complain about having to simply work.
I can teach you your profession, but I can't teach you initiative or a work ethic.
As someone who hires university educated people, it blows my mind how fucking lazy and downright useless most recent graduates are.
I know I'm coming across as a cranky old coot, however, I can't believe how young white Canadian males are such cry babies.
They interview well, but within 3 weeks start to whine and complain about having to simply work.
I can teach you your profession, but I can't teach you initiative or a work ethic.
This reminds me of a woman I once knew. Her children had started grade school, so she was able to work part time. She asked a fellow who was looking for part time help, but she confessed she had no accounting skills. He said I can train you. I can show you which columns to add and all that stuff. What I cannot teach you, is your attitude. Will you arrive on time, put in all the hours I will pay you for? Will you treat the clients with respect? ...etc? Happily, she had the right attitude, and she was hired. I have shared this story with my own, now adult, children. They understand.
When I was in high school, the only guys who signed up for cooking and sewing, were guys who had zero interest in girls. This was at a time when being openly gay was risky.
Boys in school need to learn how to protect themselves from hot chicks. Maybe a before and after picture for 10 years of marriage would help. This lesson can also be learned in anatomy class - how there is not enough blood in a man's body to run the brain and a raging boner at the same time.
I was hopeful but the list is full of flaws Quora is Walmart with a flower in it's har.
LJ
You can say that again.
In 20 years of hiring, the only difference I've seen is somewhat more candidates with entitlement issues. No law says you have to hire them though.
If you don't learn how to satisfy your girl someone else will I say lol. Helps milage too.
That is true, but only because it cannot be taught. However it can be learned, but only by doing. Thus you can also learn grit, determination & perseverance when you are working alone. People who give up too easily will never learn grit, determination, & perseverance. They will also not learn to do new things.
That must be not taught on purpose though. Society needs people who don't have money and cannot manage money.
Students in high-school need to learn the jobs of tomorrow:
A) How to file government paperwork that no one reads.
B) Working at a McDonald's.
C) Working at a Tim Horton's.
D) How to look busy in an office when you have nothing to do, which is usually the entire day.
With this knowledge, people will be job ready for about 85% of the Canadian "jobs" out there, jobs is in quotations because I'm using the term loosely, because a real job is an actual contribution to people's lives, while a "job" is just selling you junk and looking busy, to hide the fact you are USELESS.
A) How to file government paperwork that no one reads.
B) Working at a McDonald's.
C) Working at a Tim Horton's.
D) How to look busy in an office when you have nothing to do, which is usually the entire day.
With this knowledge, people will be job ready for about 85% of the Canadian "jobs" out there, jobs is in quotations because I'm using the term loosely, because a real job is an actual contribution to people's lives, while a "job" is just selling you junk and looking busy, to hide the fact you are USELESS.
