It is really important to be well educated; it doesn't mean that everyone has to go to university although has its good points. You learn a lot at university and after you are done there you can pick whatever you want to do and then go and train to do it. I am not criticizing universities for not making you job-ready as I believe that all the students should go to university and learn as much as they can. There is no benefit to them not to do so really. Most live at home into their late 20s studying and preparing for the job they want to do. I think it is a good thing; no need to rush out the door into life until you are completely equipped and ready to go. In the past people certainly studied whatever was the exciting topic of the moment and then went on to work at what they wanted to do and it didn't always follow what they had spent perhaps as many as eight years like my husband in undergraduate Chemistry and then graduate school still in Chemistry graduating with his PhD. No jobs so he was back again to become a Librarian (a Masters Program). He was a librarian technically although most of his time was spent on knowledge organization in a big way which is very important (and shouldn't have been sold to balance a budget! however no more on that). I used an expression a couple of days (or it could be weeks ago as I haven't looked it up) where I said our youth had "fire in their bellies." If one just takes the time to look that expression up in the Oxford dictionary (and it is online) one discovers it means: a powerful sense of ambition or determination. I always thought it grew out of the building of the railway from sea to sea here in Canada because it was mostly the youth who were out there sleeping on the hard ground and getting up every day to lay more track (I remember my uncle saying that his father said that about these young men). John Pincombe wanted to do so many things and it especially included going to university and becoming a Civil Engineer like his mother's grandfather Thomas Routledge. He was thrilled by the railway and wanted to be part of it but he had to run the farm; it was his inheritance.All that youth of Canada worked hard on the railway and they did it (that railway went from ocean to ocean). I found the comment that life was hard for our youth to be undermining their independence; their abilities and their desire to strive and be ahead. They can do it all we just need to provide is our investments to help produce jobs for them. I do not like to see anyone think they need a crutch; they are strong and they can do this. But back to the expression it was referring I thought to the trains with their huge furnaces burning coal all across the country dragging those trains up and down through the Rockies and across the plains and then Northern Ontario wasn't exactly a treat either.
Finished the cleaning and it gave me a Cardio Load of 467 which was right on target apparently. Then on to Chromosome 8 and looking at the matches and working on the cross over points. Life is busy.
Total Cardio Load for the day 728 which was slightly above target (target was 689 but it was cleaning day and that is a lot of work for sure).
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