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Re: A sign of the times?
« Reply #15 on: June 11, 2017, 10:07:58 PM »

I asked my daughter which is more important to her. Her phone or car.    She said phone.

Imagine that.

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Re: A sign of the times?
« Reply #16 on: June 12, 2017, 05:12:58 AM »

Kids in their lower twenties having to take "life skills" classes.  WTF is that.  You can't even do your laundry  and so on.  We have folks around here that learn and do great work. Most of those don't speak English well but they can figure stuff out.  Unfortunately those who want and will do some of that skilled laborer aren't in vogue now........

Yah, no sh*t. they also learn how to balance a check book in those classes…

Seriously, are you f*cking kidding me, my mom was a CPA, Dad always did his own books for the farm, I knew how to balance a checkbook before I ever had a checking account. I’ve heard people complain because schools aren’t teaching common sense stuff anymore like that…

Wanna know something? Balancing a check book and doing laundry is something the parents should have taught em while they were home, period.
Balancing a checkbook is almost a waste of time nowadays.
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Re: A sign of the times?
« Reply #17 on: June 12, 2017, 10:07:44 AM »

Kids in their lower twenties having to take "life skills" classes.  WTF is that.  You can't even do your laundry  and so on.  We have folks around here that learn and do great work. Most of those don't speak English well but they can figure stuff out.  Unfortunately those who want and will do some of that skilled laborer aren't in vogue now........

Yah, no sh*t. they also learn how to balance a check book in those classes…

Seriously, are you f*cking kidding me, my mom was a CPA, Dad always did his own books for the farm, I knew how to balance a checkbook before I ever had a checking account. I’ve heard people complain because schools aren’t teaching common sense stuff anymore like that…

Wanna know something? Balancing a check book and doing laundry is something the parents should have taught em while they were home, period.
Balancing a checkbook is almost a waste of time nowadays.

I suppose, maybe. On both my business’s everything gets run thru the check book and actual checks are wrote.
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Re: A sign of the times?
« Reply #18 on: June 12, 2017, 12:49:54 PM »

Kids in their lower twenties having to take "life skills" classes.  WTF is that.  You can't even do your laundry  and so on.  We have folks around here that learn and do great work. Most of those don't speak English well but they can figure stuff out.  Unfortunately those who want and will do some of that skilled laborer aren't in vogue now........

Yah, no sh*t. they also learn how to balance a check book in those classes…

Seriously, are you f*cking kidding me, my mom was a CPA, Dad always did his own books for the farm, I knew how to balance a checkbook before I ever had a checking account. I’ve heard people complain because schools aren’t teaching common sense stuff anymore like that…

Wanna know something? Balancing a check book and doing laundry is something the parents should have taught em while they were home, period.
Balancing a checkbook is almost a waste of time nowadays.

That's very true if you're like me who uses a debit card in place of the checkbook, but old habits are hard to break.  A few times I've found fraudulent charges to my account that wouldn't have been found if my OCD hadn't kicked in.  Roger 
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Re: A sign of the times?
« Reply #19 on: June 12, 2017, 04:32:59 PM »

We didn't have life skills classes we had life.  Many times that came with a kick in the ass, life skilllesson learned.


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