: Let me digress here for a moment. This is a plea to any
: of you without degrees. GET YOUR DEGREE!!! If you
: don't have one, or if you're not out of high school,
: or if you're lazy, PLAN ON GETTING ONE!! If at all
: possible, please people, get a degree. Now, with that
: out of the way...
I just want to chime in here and emphasize Zan's message: SCHOOL IS VERY IMPORTANT! My grandparents were all rich (one still is) - one grandpa was an aerospace engineer, the other is the contractor who built half the housing in this county. Most of thier kids went to college at least partially, but never did anything with their educations, and most of them are middle-class now. My parents both skipped college, had me, and got married in their 20s, and both are dirt poor now.
That means that *I* am poor now, and struggling my way through school (financially, not academically - getting good grades in school is easy for me) so I can have some hope of MAYBE getting back up to middle-class with the help of the inheritance from my one still-rich grandparent. I'm still out here looking for girls in my free time, but believe me, I am taking EVERY precaution to make sure I do *not* wind up like my parents, bringing a new life into the world before I can financially and emotionally support it (not to criticise you, Zan - I dunno the specifics of your life, but I know my parents were certainly not ready to have a kid).
So yeah, we're getting way off tangent here, but to all you kids out there enjoying your summer break from school... please, for the love of god, go to college, get a grant if you need to (but beware of loans - my parents COULD have been lower-middle-class if it weren't for credit sucking all their earnings away), get a good education, get a good job making enough money to support yourself thrice over, and THEN settle down and have kids. That's not to say you have to neglect your social life along the way - you could even get married like Zan if you're sure that s/he's the one - but please, don't subject any more kids out there to my life.
