The Second Coming (of bailouts)

[Shawnee123]

I rocked when we got to take shop in Jr Hi. Got an A on my trivet. Sewing, not so much...

I guess I'm in a good place: I don't think jobs in higher education will go away, but I also have years of experience in electronics and other things, mainly for defense contractors, and skills such as mil-spec high reliability soldering, testing, building, and supervising and teaching such skills.

When the machines take over, I'll be in a good spot.

[glatt]

I just got back from a tour of the middle school my daughter will be attending next year.

She will have a choice of joining their band, which is a really very good program and well known in the area, or participating in the "Admiral's wheel" where she gets to have a bunch of rotating electives like shop and home economics and a bunch of other similar stuff. (Except they don't call them that.)

The shop, or technological arts, as I think they call it, is pretty cool. I saw 1 table saw, 2 drill presses, a small CNC router, a table top wind tunnel!, numerous PCs, some sort of presses for maybe doing t-shirts, and some other stuff that I can't remember now. When we poked our heads into the room, the students had a bunch of cheap looking cameras set up on tripods and connected to the PCs. It looked like they were playing with the cameras.

I wish it wasn't an either/or scenario. The band would be really good for her, since she enjoys playing the trombone, but I think the Admiral's wheel would teach her more life skills.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I rocked when we got to take shop in Jr Hi. Got an A on my trivet.

A trivet? A three legged stand? What is that? What does that do?

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by tw

A trivet? A three legged stand? What is that? What does that do?

You have access to Google, right? A trivet. Something you put a hot plate or pot on. But mine was handcrafted from wood, no hot plate or pot saw the surface of my trivet. Ethan Allen himself could not have constructed a finer trivet. (I stole that last line from a TV show, I admit.)

I was in 8th grade, dude, getting to work with saws and things. I found I had a knack.

I'll see if my 'rents still have my trivet (bet they do) and I'll photograph it for you, in all its fine workmanship.

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I was in 8th grade, dude, getting to work with saws and things. I found I had a knack.

I was in high school when The Knack released that god-awful My Sharonna.

[tw]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I'll see if my 'rents still have my trivet (bet they do) and I'll photograph it for you, in all its fine workmanship.

With age, it is sometimes interesting to pull out something I built so many decades ago that I hardly remember it. In some cases (only some) I am impressed by how good I did. A response that goes, "I did that? ... Oh. ... Yea."