Subj : Re: Dating apps
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Wed Aug 20 2025 08:18:23

RM>> That said, when we roughly mentioned what we did, she got into
  >> that 'Are you Engineers??' bit and seemed quite disappointed
  >> with our answers..

MP>Yeah, that reaction would lead me to believe your impression that she was
  >fishing for income info is correct.  ;)

Yes, although she was pretty young so maybe that was forgivable.
Their mothers teach them to look for money once they are past
the 'looking for a bad boy their father will hate' stage..   B)

RM>> Yes, usually the best indicator of how good (successful?) your
  >> education was is your income level. A lot of people who dropped
  >> out of college ended up millionaires, mostly the ones with good
  >> ideas that didn't see their current courses being of any use

MP>Yeah, I was thinking along the lines of people who learn a trade and make
  >good money but, yeah, there are some folks out there who turn out to be
  >real tycoons without a degree.

Yes, there's no real substitute for smart. At one point I was planning
to go to university to take aeronautical engineering, hoping to
get into the space program (young dreams..) until I found out there
were a lot of people with that degree that were working in factories
designing material handling equipment (conveyor systems) because
there were so few positions available to use what they took in school.

Now, I suppose I could have ignored that and expected to be one
of the lucky ones who got the good job but I guess my heart wasn't
into it quite enough to spend 4 very difficult years just to get
a job I didn't want.

About learning a trade, that's the best guarantee of a decent
job if you are any good at it, and often there isn't even much
schooling involved with many trades being apprenticeship based.
A few years at lower pay while you learn the trade and then
you're free to go out on your own.

These days, the service jobs are best. Never enough people around
to look after the aging population or do basic work people need
done around the house or yard that they don't have the time or
possibly the knowledge to do themselves.

For a while I did property management to add to my income and
it paid well and I always had lots of customers because I could
do almost anything around a house after years of looking after my
own without the funds to pay others to do the work. I was pretty
decent at doing plumbing, electrical, roofing and basic structural
repairs as well as putting in/out seasonal water systems and such.

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