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kajjffkk | 9 years ago | on: What I Learned from a Stroke at 26: Make Time to Untangle

Many people seem to work solely to earn income. I feel like this is a common work arrangement.

Others work to make income and intellectually and emotionally satisfy themselves. Perhaps you're in this camp? If so, I'm with you on that one.

Granted at some point of income, a certain amount of income without personal fulfillment is preferable to me due to the delayed gratification possibilities.

kajjffkk | 9 years ago | on: ITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down

I dont want my school hustling me down the likeliest path to become corporate cannon fodder at ABC Corp when I'm trying to build a startup. Not everyone goes to school to "get a job".

kajjffkk | 9 years ago | on: ITT Technical Institutes Shuts Down

>No more counselors - just use the online tools!

N=1 here, but I got no apparent utility from the existence of counselors in high school or college.

In retrospect they handled some registering paperwork for me, but they also planned my coursework for me as if I were the median student. In high school I had to press the counselor to let me take more AP courses than she thought was wise.

In college, it was more of a rubber stamp thing, where the counselor just approved my choices because they lined up with degree requirements.

Other than officially validating that my classes met the degree requirements, there was no value add. I'm glad to see someone at the helm realized a computer can do that just as well or better.

kajjffkk | 9 years ago | on: Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons

> Or the utter lack of care for the poor.

In the United States, compared to all countries I know of, there is huge aggregate care for the poor on the private individual, NFP organization, state and federal level.

The baseline quality of life, again relatively speaking, is enormous even if your income is below the federal poverty line. The environment is great, services “just work", and people are generally pretty friendly.

I think its ok to focus on the shortcomings because you can then improve them. But relatively speaking, I couldnt think of a better place to be poor.

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