Since When....?

I've decided to apply for the RT program. I've already told too many people, so I'm beyond jinxing myself. So, hello world! I turned in my Application for the Respiratory Care program!! HA

-Check back in about 4 months to see if there was a jinx.

Anyway, I like to peruse blogs of RTs. One of them is G's Spot where she talks about an article she read: Here.

And I have a point also on this.

Okay, when I went to school, I had to get up at 6 or 7am to go to school. I graduated in 2000. My parents graduated in 1972, they had to get up early too. A hundred years of getting up early, often before the sun came up, to get an education whether it was free and public or whatever.

So then, it's been like, 10 years now since I graduated high school. Where, in that 10 years, did it become an issue to get up early for school? That's one of the things the interviewee in the article said that just baffled me. "I'm not a morning person" she said. OH WELL. I guess you can hope you can find a job in the real world later that will let you sleep late, much less an education process (if you get one) that will cater to your sleep needs to get you to that awesome too-good-to-be-true-and-it-probably-is job. Or, you could continue to not be gainfully employed, it's whatever.

My cousin also had this problem. She didn't like to get up early in the mornings. A high school graduate, didn't have a job at the time, all the free time in the world all day, perfect for someone who could go back to school during the day and sleep/work in the evening. NO. She sat around all day or hung out with her friends until she drove herself to school at night and had class from 6 to 10pm. Just because she didn't want to get up in the morning hours. OKAY, fine. Will you still have this stipulation when you're looking for a job in your field? "What are the hours? 8 to 5? Hmm, is there any way I can come in from noon to about 6 or so?" Get real!

I'd love, love, LOVE to know what happened with kids in a matter of 10 years. Sure, there were times I didn't want to get up for an obligation/privledge of going to school. There were times my friends were dog tired or might have slept in class (hey, even I think I did ONCE), but they still dragged their sleepy ass to school and soaked up a little information. They still made the EFFORT. Hey, and I bet some of them tried to stay home, but Mama or Daddy put their ass out and gave them a little shove, whatever it had to be, to get them to school.

Spoiled. I think that's a lot of it. Parents are spoiling their kids rotten so that when they get into the years where it matters (early adulthood) they still want to get their way and if they don't SO WHAT or someone will pay.

In reality, in the end, it's the spoilee that will pay.

I'd love to see statistics of people ages 21-30 still living with their parents. Just curious.