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Re:Military Veterans and Their Spouses Can Teach Public Scho... by hotpotamus on Thursday July 28, 2022 @10:43PM (#32272592)
My paid work isn't all that relevant, but I'm a volunteer docent at a fire museum actually. The museum was actually an active fire station where my father worked about 50 years ago. He did not need a degree to do the job.
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Re:Military Veterans and Their Spouses Can Teach Public Scho... by PraetorianGourd on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:59PM (#32284170)
A lot has changed in 50 years my friend. You should relegate your dismissive snark to a museum and in 50 years somebody will marvel at how you didn’t need a degree to talk shit on the internet.
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Re:Military Veterans and Their Spouses Can Teach Public Scho... by hotpotamus on Saturday July 30, 2022 @09:41AM (#32286753)
How about this - I talk to a lot of active firefighters (what do you think they do on vacation?), and they tend towards a very right-wing view of the world, and they share a lot of dismissive snark about post-secondary education in general too. I didn't say they don't need any training and they wouldn't say that either, but they'd find the idea that one needs to take on tens of thousands of dollars in debt to get a four year degree in order to fight fires (or perform basic EMT functions) ludicrous, and they'd happen to be correct.
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