Subj : Re: Screens Distract Stud
To   : Rob Mccart
From : Aaron Thomas
Date : Tue Apr 01 2025 09:10 am

 RM> There may be some use for things like that. It introduces you to other
 RM> things and you may decide to change what you will do for a living based
 RM> on this new experience. I've done a huge variety of different jobs
 RM> through my life from running a laboratory to custom painting motorcycles
 RM> to computer programming to plumbing and electrical work on houses and
 RM> property maintenance and selling Real Estate.

I'm glad that electives (liberal arts/gen ed, etc) were useful for you. They probably are more useful to me than I realize, but I just don't see it yet.

 RM> Without some early experince in a variety of skills I might have ended
 RM> up stuck in one job or maybe if that job went away, unable to easily
 RM> find another place to do it..

But can you credit any 101 courses with giving you job skills? I can't, but I've never held a job that requires a college education.

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