<OT> One more reason I am glad I don't live in CA

[Alma J Wetzker]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 11:45:18 -0500 (EST)
>>Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>>>
>>>>meant to do something else. Perspective and all that. If you travel the
>>>>world, ever wonder why there are all those damned Swedish kids between
>>>>18 and 20 roaming the airports of Kaula Lampur, Auckland and Bali?
>>>
>>>mommy & daddy have a lot of money?  :)
>>
>>Well, there is that. Sweden is not a poor country. The kids tend to travel
>>with a backpack and a book. Air in those parts, is, from what I gather,
>>rather nourishing. Having moved here after grad school, I missed out on it.
> 
> 
> I would have loved to be able to spend a year traveling immediately after
> high school (ugh, i feel old, that was almost 10 years ago).  But the
> educational system in the US really isn't all that conducive to it.  I
> know that my options would have been severely limited had I not gone
> straight from HS to college.  Perhaps things have changed in the past
> decade.

They haven't.  I flunked out of HS and still don't do real well in traditional 
education systems.  I was able to spend some time bouncing around the country 
and the world.  Then I was able to turn my obsession with computers into a 
reasonable job.  That is not really an option any longer.  During the late 
'90's boom I was unable to find a job that paid a living wage because I lacked 
a college degree.  I still wouldn't trade the travel for the degree or 
anything else.  I learned too much.

     -- Alma