As someone who went to a typical middle class suburban public school district during the 2000s I find it kind of sad that none of the "Popular People" went into "High Powered Careers".
The "Jocks" tended to go into the military or construction. The "Popular Girls" tended to hairdressers, and MLM. One became a flight attendant. One dropped out of college. Only a couple became nurses.
What promoted low ambition to 2000s kids?
I want a a future where all hairstylists are replaced by AI controlled robots and all nurses are paid six figures, nice, kind, and science believing! I want a future where all "Construction Workers" are paid six figures, science believing, and have at least a 4 year engineering degree!
I want anyone who ever made fun of "Nerds" in 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s American schools to be totally on board with my vision for the future!
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NurseManFlorida said:
I would say the same thing to all the people who thought a drunk Kamala would defeat The Donald in the Presidential election but it just wasn't even a nice try. Lmao
I never took Philosophy. It was considered an alternative to algebra, but I liked math. Gender studies might have been an interesting elective. I had to take something that fit my schedule, so I ended up in Fairy Tales across different cultures, which also dabbled in comparative religions. Did it make me a better nurse? I don't know, but I think it made me a more rounded person.
I definitely sense that there is less connection between people. I blame technology: video games, computers, ready access to telephones. There is less and less opportunity for face to face interactions, and in turn, people don't develop interpersonal skills. That makes it much easier to label and denigrate others, because they are no longer sentient beings, just things or objects.
This is just too weird for AN. There's no question being asked, and it sounds like a flight-of-ideas if I have ever seen it.
What does replacing hairstylists with AI-controlled robots have to do with the nursing profession?
nursej22 said:
I never took Philosophy. It was considered an alternative to algebra, but I liked math. Gender studies might have been an interesting elective. I had to take something that fit my schedule, so I ended up in Fairy Tales across different cultures, which also dabbled in comparative religions. Did it make me a better nurse? I don't know, but I think it made me a more rounded person.
I definitely sense that there is less connection between people. I blame technology: video games, computers, ready access to telephones. There is less and less opportunity for face to face interactions, and in turn, people don't develop interpersonal skills. That makes it much easier to label and denigrate others, because they are no longer sentient beings, just things or objects.
Now this is interesting. Where did you go to school where philosophy was an alternative to algebra? 😅 That's funny.
I wonder about that. I am not so sure philosophy instruction is as standardized as mathematics.
I took both philosophy and algebra as a part of a prior degree. I think philosophy taught me more about understanding human behavior and considering alternative perspectives than reasoning, which I 100% learned from algebra.
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