Killer kitchen remodel. I really like the stamped ceiling and garden window.
I was a remodeler during a couple of boom/bust cycles and we hardly noticed which part of the cycle we were in as there was always work. When not buying new houses, people remodel or expand the old.
Over the years I set myself up with both long-term and short-term jobs. Of course, short term jobs have to get done right now, and the long-term jobs get held back. But when the short-term jobs dried up, I had the long-term jobs to work on.
I may have mentioned it here before and if I did pardon my bringing it up again. But I am so darn proud of my husband and what he has done with his life, and therefore ours, on just a high school and vocational school education.
He was raised on a farm and so grew up learning so many useful things and skills. He knew he was not destined for college. Went to vocational school for welding, took an apprenticeship, and over the years became certified in fabrication/erection and inspection. In the last 40 years he has never been unemployed. Not even during the worst of financial times. We owned our own business before he retired at 57- making a nice six-figure income. We went back to ranching and farming for a while until he unretired and is now running a large steel fabrication shop, again making over six-figures.
I remember how people used to look down on him for not having a college education. For not being the most eloquent of speakers or having calloused hands and burns on his arms.
In 2009, when so many of our college educated friends lost their jobs it was schadenfreude when I got to offer them apprenticeships at our iron shop. Of course, nice of them accepted.
God Bless our tradesmen without whom the world could not exist!!
Several males in our family who barely made it through high skool have been very successful. They all found skool boring to the max and had great lives since they did what interested them, stayed out of debt, lived within their (quite substantial) means, and made good money at the same time. Money was just a by-product of their crafts and none ever really cared much about it.
Then there's this,
Benjamin Franklin attended school for two years, and his schooling ended when he was ten.
This is Ben Franklin (as Silence Dogood) at age 16 :
“…I reflected in my Mind on the extreme Folly of those Parents, who, blind to their Childrens Dullness, and insensible of the Solidity of their Skulls, because they think their Purses can afford it, will need send them to the Temple of Learning, where, for want of a suitable Genius, they learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a Room genteely, (which might as well be acquir’d at a Dancing-School,) and from whence they return, after Abundance of Trouble and Charge, as great Blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited.
…[and] he, without much Study, presently interpreted it, assuring me, That it was a lively Representation of HARVARD COLLEGE, Etcetera. I remain, Sir, Your Humble Servant,
A corollary of that is that I've become very suspicious of, to positvely sneering at, anything promoted or hyped, whether it be some new "wonder" drug, some politician, or the need for "advanced" skoolink!
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Killer kitchen remodel. I really like the stamped ceiling and garden window.
I was a remodeler during a couple of boom/bust cycles and we hardly noticed which part of the cycle we were in as there was always work. When not buying new houses, people remodel or expand the old.
Thanks for the compliment.
Over the years I set myself up with both long-term and short-term jobs. Of course, short term jobs have to get done right now, and the long-term jobs get held back. But when the short-term jobs dried up, I had the long-term jobs to work on.
I may have mentioned it here before and if I did pardon my bringing it up again. But I am so darn proud of my husband and what he has done with his life, and therefore ours, on just a high school and vocational school education.
He was raised on a farm and so grew up learning so many useful things and skills. He knew he was not destined for college. Went to vocational school for welding, took an apprenticeship, and over the years became certified in fabrication/erection and inspection. In the last 40 years he has never been unemployed. Not even during the worst of financial times. We owned our own business before he retired at 57- making a nice six-figure income. We went back to ranching and farming for a while until he unretired and is now running a large steel fabrication shop, again making over six-figures.
I remember how people used to look down on him for not having a college education. For not being the most eloquent of speakers or having calloused hands and burns on his arms.
In 2009, when so many of our college educated friends lost their jobs it was schadenfreude when I got to offer them apprenticeships at our iron shop. Of course, nice of them accepted.
God Bless our tradesmen without whom the world could not exist!!
Yes, you did say it before, and I hope you KEEP saying it, non-stop!
I'm a big fan of individual effort, hence my penname.
Several males in our family who barely made it through high skool have been very successful. They all found skool boring to the max and had great lives since they did what interested them, stayed out of debt, lived within their (quite substantial) means, and made good money at the same time. Money was just a by-product of their crafts and none ever really cared much about it.
Then there's this,
Benjamin Franklin attended school for two years, and his schooling ended when he was ten.
This is Ben Franklin (as Silence Dogood) at age 16 :
“…I reflected in my Mind on the extreme Folly of those Parents, who, blind to their Childrens Dullness, and insensible of the Solidity of their Skulls, because they think their Purses can afford it, will need send them to the Temple of Learning, where, for want of a suitable Genius, they learn little more than how to carry themselves handsomely, and enter a Room genteely, (which might as well be acquir’d at a Dancing-School,) and from whence they return, after Abundance of Trouble and Charge, as great Blockheads as ever, only more proud and self-conceited.
…[and] he, without much Study, presently interpreted it, assuring me, That it was a lively Representation of HARVARD COLLEGE, Etcetera. I remain, Sir, Your Humble Servant,
Silence Dogood, (No. 4)
Printed in The New-England Courant, May 14, 1722.
https://thefederalistpapers.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Letters-of-Silence-Dogood.pdf
Excellent!
I'm happy you found it of value.
A corollary of that is that I've become very suspicious of, to positvely sneering at, anything promoted or hyped, whether it be some new "wonder" drug, some politician, or the need for "advanced" skoolink!