25 years old and deep in debt

[merithyn]

Which is all well and good.  Project management is very trendy and meaningless, but won't you be pretty old by the time you finish?  Corporations hate old people.  They love young people.

Luckily, I look younger than my years.

[Neil]

Which is all well and good.  Project management is very trendy and meaningless, but won't you be pretty old by the time you finish?  Corporations hate old people.  They love young people.

Luckily, I look younger than my years.

That is good.  But age coupled with inexperience is dangerous combination for employers.

But then again, who am I to say?  I decided a long time ago that any career choice I made would be the wrong one, and so I would just do random things until I died.  Maybe your over-optimism is better than my supreme pessimism.

[alfred russel]

Doesn't IT project managment involve being underbudgeted and understaffed and then staying on weekends and past midnight to meet the deadline?

And then everyone being pissed off when the deadline can't be met and needs to be pushed back 3 months.

[The Brain]

Doesn't IT project managment involve being underbudgeted and understaffed and then staying on weekends and past midnight to meet the deadline?

And then everyone being pissed off when the deadline can't be met and needs to be pushed back 3 months.

Not anymore. "Early access", baby. Deadline schmeadline.

[Caliga]

Doesn't IT project managment involve being underbudgeted and understaffed and then staying on weekends and past midnight to meet the deadline?

And then everyone being pissed off when the deadline can't be met and needs to be pushed back 3 months.

Sounds about right.

[Ed Anger]

You and Meri could end up working together. It would be like the "Odd Couple", only with project managment. 

Not likely. I've no desire to move to Ohio. Ever.

Good.

[derspiess]

You and Meri could end up working together. It would be like the "Odd Couple", only with project managment. 

Not likely. I've no desire to move to Ohio. Ever.

Good.

People seem to tend to visit one part of Ohio and conclude the whole state is like the part they visited

Which I guess is sort of how you are with Cincy

[DGuller]

People seem to tend to visit one part of Ohio and conclude the whole state is like the part they visited

Can you blame them for not wanting to visit the other parts afterwards?

[Ed Anger]

You and Meri could end up working together. It would be like the "Odd Couple", only with project managment. 

Not likely. I've no desire to move to Ohio. Ever.

Good.

People seem to tend to visit one part of Ohio and conclude the whole state is like the part they visited

Which I guess is sort of how you are with Cincy

Cincy is the inflamed boil on Ohio's ass.

[Malthus]

People seem to tend to visit one part of Ohio and conclude the whole state is like the part they visited

Can you blame them for not wanting to visit the other parts afterwards?

Sorta like Newark / New Jersey? 

[Darth Wagtaros]

Doesn't IT project managment involve being underbudgeted and understaffed and then staying on weekends and past midnight to meet the deadline?

And then everyone being pissed off when the deadline can't be met and needs to be pushed back 3 months.

It anyway.

[derspiess]

Cincy is the inflamed boil on Ohio's ass.

[Savonarola]

Just to make Ide's head explode:

Colleges Focus More on Professional Training Than Transformation

JEFFREY BROWN: "If you want an education, the odds aren't with you,"

They weren't with Henry Adams either.

It was amusing that the interviewer referenced Keats (who was denied a liberal education because he was apprenticed to an apothecary at age 14 due to his family's poverty) and the author referenced Thoreau who berates colleges for teaching political economics rather than the economy of living.  "The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably."

The argument that everything has gone to hell in the modern university and the solution is to refocus on the humanities as they were taught in the recent past is interesting.  It's largely the same argument as Alan Bloom makes in "The Closing of the American Mind" and Robert Hutchins makes in the "The Great Conversation" in 1987 and 1952 respectively. 

[MadImmortalMan]

If it were still possible to get a job in non-humanities fields with a humanities education, it wouldn't be a problem. Instead, we've got public colleges subsidizing our businesses' training costs and calling it education.

[alfred russel]

It is never wrong to know all there is to know about the Bar Kokhba revolt. 

It would be interesting to work with a couple of Languishites such as yourself. Having discussions shift toward topics like the Bar Kokhba revolt every once in a while would blow people's minds.