Patrice Riemens on Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:43:26 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Edufactory & Debt Deptt: Alex Gavic is our hero! |
>From an article in this week-end's WSJ - available to subs only, but lifted at: http://www.lipstickalley.com/f219/education-slowdown-threatens-u-s-391155/ unfortunately, they left out the last sentences (dutifuly copied by hand for u by yrs truly) which are the most remarkable - esp for an WSJ article... ------- Alex Gavic, 21, is one of those who don't want to take on college debt. As a teenager, he had fleeting thoughts of studying marine biology in college. Instead, he dropped out of high school?eventually receiving a high-school diploma in a second-chance program at a community college. Today, he makes $12 an hour at a Park City, Utah, landscaping firm during the summer so he can snowboard daily during the winter. "The greater society told me I had to go to college if I want to make it in life, but it's not true," said Mr. Gavic, who competes semiprofessionally in snowboarding. "I don't care about making a lot of money because I'm happy. I'm just living the life." rest of article (& end of it) reads: Mr Gavic said he hopes he will have his own landscaping business one day. But in the meanwhile he doesn't envy his peers who went to college, many of whom have debts to repay and still haven't found jobs. "You spend all this time in school, then you are in debt, then you have to find a job to spend 20 years to pay it back" he said. "That never made sense to me." ................... Sponsor Alex Gavic! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dM5Rdyyimc ;-) Cheerio, p+4D!
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