It does happen occasionally. My father was an engineer at Lockheed but
didn't have a college degree. I have a friend that became an engineer at an
elevator company five or ten years ago with no college education. He started
at the bottom and worked his way up. He's now a trouble shooter that gets
the jobs no one can solve. I don't think a college trained engineer could do
what he does because they wouldn't have the hands on experience from
assembly to repair that he does. He's well paid and he really enjoys solving
the hard problems. All that you could ask for in a job.
Karl

"Harold and Susan Vordos" wrote in message
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"George" wrote in message
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Harold and Susan Vordos wrote:
snip Too bad I didn't
have the foresight to get an education, so they could have served me
even
better. sigh!~

Ah well, life has been good, and I can't complain.

Harold


Harold,

Though others got the assembly line style of education, I rather think
you got just as good if not better and more practical, though seldom
recognized as such, an education. You just assembled yours in smaller
bites and spread it out over many more years. Never denigrate what has
shown itself to be of value. Got mine the same way.

George Vigneron

George,

True, I suppose. Problem is it's hard to sell the school of hard knocks
to
a prospective employer, very unlike conditions when I was a young lad. I
started my machining career in a missile facility, in which several of the
engineers had no degree, but could do the work. I'm of the opinion that
such people would find it impossible to find employment in that capacity
in
today's environment.

The place I feel I'm woefully lacking is in general education. I'm not
well
rounded, and I feel it shows. I was a bit of a mule as a kid, paying
attention only to things that interested me. As a result, I've never
learned the art of learning about things that may have an affect on my
life,
but I find boring. Politics, for one. Had I been "forced" to learn to
learn, maybe I'd be better rounded. The forcing didn't work in my
early
school years--at which time I did nothing. I have no recollection of
hauling books home. I was tested when I was in the 5th grade because the
teacher felt I wasn't able to learn. The results were shocking----for I
was found to be performing at a 9th grade level. I was lucky. I could
pretty much sleep through my classes and still get passing grades (note I
didn't say good grades). Only when I got into high school and could
choose
things that held my interest did I do good, and then only in the classes
I
chose. Truth be known, in my case, it's a personal problem that resulted
in my poor education. I fault only myself, not the system.

But then, as I said, life is good! :-)

Harold