Comment on Me this morning
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoI can play 25 different instruments, record and produce music at a professional level, I can direct photography for a motion pictures, write television news copy, code in 5(ish) different languages, mill lumber from raw timber, gut and fillet SO MANY different types of fish, build structure out of earthen building material, I can wire photovoltaic panels in series or parallel and am familiar with both 13v and 24v system, and I can do pretty much anything to a car that doesn’t require a lift or a hoist.
But are any of those special without the little paper that says you can do them?
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
so why dont you get a trade school diploma for one of those?
should be simple enough if you already have experience
the reason they ask for diplomas is because it’s difficult to prove someones competence if they dont have that piece of paper, unfortunately
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Because school is expensive and time-consuming and I’m already working full time to BARELY get by. I love school (well, I love learning, but it’s simply not an option for me at this point in my life. Obviously I’ve looked into it (and have a fair amount of student debt to prove that I’ve tried more than once), but I always have to make the choice between going to school or eating and paying rent, and I usually want to eat and have a place to live.
kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
agh, that really sucks. i thought trade school was free in all western countries
i know university education isn’t always free, but trade school costing money is news to me and news that doesnt make any sense in my head
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
We have a federal program in the U.S. called Job Corps that does provide free technical training in a WIDE variety of trades, but it’s woefully underfunded these days, and not well known due to having a reputation as the sort of place wayward youth go to instead of juvenile hall, and you have to be between the ages of 16 and 24 at the time you start.
Free education isn’t really a thing here.
architect@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
Everything costs money in America. Everything.
architect@thelemmy.club 2 days ago
They give that piece of paper to rapist celebrities like Bill Cosby for no reason than they are famous.