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Let's see now. This is a bit difficult cause self pride and ego could hinder an honest appraisal. It would be nice to say I am a self made man, but who the hell is? First of all, what the hell did I have ot do with being here in the 1st place? Now, as a child I don't remember having a whole lot of power over my circumstances. Ok, then I became an adolescent in the 60's/70's and God knows where the hell I was. Then I joined the Army during Viet Nam. Saw too much and saw nothing. Took a few years to shake that all off and did some studying trying out a few girlfriends and generally listing her to there. At one point about 30 I began to think this life thing could get serious maybe I should pay attention. So I tried some honest effort and did some more studying. Went through a series of jobs doing well but less than satisfied with the paltry oppressive results. Did some more studying, went into computer sciences, lived though the dotcom boom farcical financial bullcrap. Hit the streets and leveraged my learned skills to survive till I could find more rewarding work. Yep, in that synopsis I could claim to be a "self made" man. Whatever that gives you. But there were plenty of transition periods where the government either gave me unemployment or further training that helped me to the next spot. So, IMO the gov't has its place. Wall Street and some company sure ain't gonna help you get to that next spot. Nope. once they use you up and suck every thing they think they can get out of you, it is all over with them.
Let's see now. This is a bit difficult cause self pride and ego could hinder an honest appraisal. It would be nice to say I am a self made man, but who the hell is? First of all, what the hell did I have ot do with being here in the 1st place? Now, as a child I don't remember having a whole lot of power over my circumstances. Ok, then I became an adolescent in the 60's/70's and God knows where the hell I was. Then I joined the Army during Viet Nam. Saw too much and saw nothing. Took a few years to shake that all off and did some studying trying out a few girlfriends and generally listing her to there. At one point about 30 I began to think this life thing could get serious maybe I should pay attention. So I tried some honest effort and did some more studying. Went through a series of jobs doing well but less than satisfied with the paltry oppressive results. Did some more studying, went into computer sciences, lived though the dotcom boom farcical financial bullcrap. Hit the streets and leveraged my learned skills to survive till I could find more rewarding work. Yep, in that synopsis I could claim to be a "self made" man. Whatever that gives you. But there were plenty of transition periods where the government either gave me unemployment or further training that helped me to the next spot. So, IMO the gov't has its place. Wall Street and some company sure ain't gonna help you get to that next spot. Nope. once they use you up and suck every thing they think they can get out of you, it is all over with them.
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