"I wouldn't be where I am now..."

It doesn't make any sense.
Anything.
Honestly, I don't think I landed on the right planet.
Last night my nephew was telling me that he's going to go to mechanic school. This is PERFECT for him. AWESOME.
I have some news to tell you- not everyone is driven to go do more school after finishing 12+years of the shit. There are some people, like my niece, who are serious geniuses and love the shit. Or at least DO IT and mean it. Most of us probably don't give that big of a shit and just get through it.
I was happy for him. Here's why- there will always be shit to work on. He'll have to learn the new as well as the old because things are changing. This is America, where we are spoiled and dependent on getting around on wheels vs our feet/bike/whatever. In general, of course. He wants to work with his hands. This is all good stuff.
His mom wants him to go to bootcamp.
My sister and brother in law were all over him about NO, he has to go to a "REAL" school. I said "Most people don't even use what they went to school for" and SIL says "You're right, but I wouldn't be where I am now without having been where I was, and I needed to go to school to even get in."
Where are you again?
OH that's right. You hate your job and say every day that you wish you could stay home with your baby. Instead *I* get to stay home with your baby.
Interesting. I'm glad you paid for that.
But, of course, no one there understands me other than Cullen. They are all still so focused on getting the money, instead of the happiness. Time is just flying by. Her baby is 9 months old suddenly. She gets very defensive about "he likes me best"---as he SHOULD since she is his mother, but he acts differently around me than he does around her because he already works her.
I see him more than she does if you don't count the time he sleeps at night.
BUT I am so glad that she has money going to a job she doesn't like that much.
I know, we can go on about college all day. The opportunities etc. It's just too bad, all of it. University should be free, we'd be putting more educated people out there who can make better choices about how to use the shit they learned.
It still wouldn't give people balls though. People, in general, are still tied to "I need to make money even if I hate what I'm doing."
So...in the end...lose, lose. I hope Matt does whatever it is that HE wants to do. And that at least ONE adult will support him. Is he being "lazy"? Nope. Well, this is just my perspective, but I think it's a little ...ew when a man doesn't know how to change his oil or tires. I'm not saying you have to do it all the time, but know how to for the love of God. I'm a GIRL and I know how. COME ON!
Okay, morning rant OFF. For now.
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