750k8kev
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Very cool short film about Adam at Liberty Vintage. liberty video
Rocan said:not to mention how many students these days who will be out of a job because of the lack of manual labor available to them.
I know many kids who will never be able to work a desk job, but I'm sure if you taught them to use a lathe, turn a wrench, run a smooth weld, heck; properly mow a lawn- then their lives would turn out a lot better then if they strived to do something which simply didn't fit them.
my father never went to college. He can't tell you 100 theories that youll never use. he can't find the area of a circle given the radius....
but what he can do is THINK. he can take a pile of wood and assemble it into anything you want, and he doesn't need a computer or instructions to tell him how. and you know what? He may spend his days taking out trash, and fixing everything that people break, but he does damn good.... and his 4am alarm has provided him with two children who will graduate college, and who will happily tell people that their parents were not doctors, were not lawyers, were not CEO's, but did damn well for themselves despite their average Joe jobs.
go mama! said:he's a very cool dude. tons of great stories, and happy to open up his shop to anyone interested.
Rocan said:YOU'VE RETURNED!
hows life going?!
NortonGuy said:Colleges are a waste of time. They might have been worthwhile once, but now they are corporate institutions for suckers, taking their money putting them into debt for years and training them to be nothing more than talentless computer hacks working for peanuts, or working on technology that is destructive to the environment and humankind.
Instead of going in debt for school for all your young life so you can go into debt for a house for all your adult life, screw it, just decide what you want to do and start doing it with love and passion and live as debt-free as possible. Then you will be as close as someone in the western world can be to being a "free man". Do something constructive instead of destructive. Every old piece of shit you fix up or repair keeps another one from being built in China. Keep your old bike and car running, and even your old computers and windows etc..
If you are truly talented and meant to operate in any area, then no one can teach you how to do it better than yourself anyway. You can buy any book yourself that any school will sell you.
I walked into a computer repair shop a few weeks ago, the kid who owns it has a science degree and his father owns the plaza it is in and they needed something to fill a unit.
He doesn't know jack about fixing anything. He showed me a DVD drive that did not work and was amazed when I popped it open and unjammed it and got it working while he watched. Then he had a couple of motherboards with bad capacitors and I desoldered and soldered in other used ones I stole from a scrap circuitboard in about a half hour. He asked me "who are you?", like I was Merlin the wizard or something because I had mechanical ability and could use tools as easily as I breath.
Kids with "educations" are not educated. Kids that go to school to fix computers can not fix them if they need more than key-taps. It IS a sad state the USA is in......
I hope this Adam quits smoking so he can be around for his bikes and his wife a few more years....
hocbj23 said:Disagree about college being a waste.The film is great,the guy is right on,and his shop does look like heaven.That being said,college is not a waste of time.If for no other thing,it does teach u how to think-critically-and this world needs critical thinkers,not the 1/2 wits that seem to be running things at times.I grew up in my dads service station,back when there was such a thing.Pumped gas,changed tires,learned to wrench,and to this day love the smell of gasoline,motor oil and 90 weight.I still went to college,got a couple of degrees and served as the CEO of a pretty good sized health care organization. I loved that job as well.The trick is,I think,find a balance somewhere and love what u do to make a living,and love what u do for fun.If the 2 turn out to be the same thing,consider yourself a lucky dude and hang onto that forever.If not always remember what gives u the most pleasure and do as much of that as u can.I "retired" last year,started restoring old bikes,and am having as much fun as humanly possible doing that.I consider myself very fortunate.bj