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But it is useless. The diploma has been useless for about the last nine or so years, you can't really get anywhere with it and it doesn't "open" doors like it once did. I understand being able to go back and get it after all these years, my problem is 'why bother?' Perhaps it's a matter of self esteem or self worth? Accomplishin sumthin finally? 
She had at least 70 years to do it. If you want to cut that down more she had the very least 40-50 years to get it, why now? Why not earlier when it would have meant more and been far more worthwhile? I went and recieved my GED two years ago, lost it in a week somewhere in my room. I'm working a job I could have been working without it and getting paid the same as if I never had it. It has proved to be nothing to me, it has not opened doors and I do not have a "good" job because of it. I am doing the same thing I could have done just fine without wasting my time getting the useless thing. A lot of good that did for self-worth and self-esteem, eh? For someone that came from that day an age that piece of paper meant sumthin to them. True, they ain't worth what they used to be. But the fact remains for her it was a personal disappointment to not have gotten it. I would imagine the reason she didn't get it any sooner was because life got in the way. Much as it has for me an kept me from goin back to college an finishin my degree.
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Edited by
Sojourning_Soul
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Sun 06/07/09 08:17 PM
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I agree beans..... it's about goals.... she sacrificed one for a "greater good" and it may have been a feeling of regret in her life. At 90, who gives a sh*t what she will do with it, she achieved a goal or had it made possible for her.
That 30 day chip at an NA/AA meeting means something even if you don't attend every meeting, but stay clean and sober. She accomplished a life for 90 years..... isn't that what education is for? She earned it! |
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I agree beans..... it's about goals.... she sacrificed one for a "greater good" and it may have been a feeling of regret in her life. At 90, who gives a sh*t what she will do with it, she achieved a goal or had it made possible for her. That 30 day chip at an NA/AA meeting means something even if you don't attend every meeting, but stay clean and sober. She accomplished a life for 90 years..... isn't that was education is for?  she wasn't given this di[loma so she could take jobs away from those that graduated....it's more sentimental than anything
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here i thought this was about an ill 90 yo woman
 
glad it was good news instead |
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 Ill....short for Illinois....dork 
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I agree beans..... it's about goals.... she sacrificed one for a "greater good" and it may have been a feeling of regret in her life. At 90, who gives a sh*t what she will do with it, she achieved a goal or had it made possible for her. That 30 day chip at an NA/AA meeting means something even if you don't attend every meeting, but stay clean and sober. She accomplished a life for 90 years..... isn't that what education is for? She earned it! I completely understand where the woman is comin from. My Mom came from a large family. She dropped out of school an went to work to help her Mom after her Dad passed an left Gran with alot of mouths to feed. Mom got her GED a year after I got my diploma. It wasn't about gettin a better job. It was about accomplishin something she hadn't gotten to finish.
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Ill....short for Illinois....dork
it used to be but two letter abreviations are the norm no al oh tx il ak and so on 
you dork 
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I just received my Bachelors degree in 2007 in Healthcare Management.
It hasn't changed my job or pay. It does however allow me the opportunity to get a different job within my field should it arise. I did it mostly for personal reasons. |
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I just copied and pasted....double dork
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I just copied and pasted....double dork
m not u is copied the dork that makes you the double dork so there 
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Ur both triple dorks
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I'm a dork in training lol. Michiganman...I know some things diplomas don't help....sadly
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I'm a dork in training lol. Michiganman...I know some things diplomas don't help....sadly But my two yrs AAS degree has more than doubled my income, going from LPN to RN. |
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I'm a dork in training lol. Michiganman...I know some things diplomas don't help....sadly But my two yrs AAS degree has more than doubled my income, going from LPN to RN. that is great!!!
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