Your school years

[Echo_419]

Steve, I went onto university and afterwards was forunate to get a job. Yes though, your right, there was mass unemployment. When compulsory school finished for me in 1978 me and my went to the local signing office to go get 'the dole'. I remember there was a mass of people. It was like saturday morning at the turnstiles at United game. Callaghan was still hanging on but about to get kicked out to be replace by Thatcher.

I don't know how old you are but it was another UK. The country was about to go through profound change that would lead all sort of upheavels. Being a teenager I did not know what was coming around the corner. I think I got about £28 and I used it to buy some records ( John Lennon "Imagine" ) and all that summer we looked for jobs and there was no point. There was thousands of young people walking around looking for jobs but all the old industries were closing down and the new economy was yet to evolve.

Just on a separate note hardly anybody identified as "Muslim". It was more like "Pak**" which is what I was known as. Islamic radicalism was unheard of. This began to raise it's head from mid to late 1980s and took off in mid 1990s. I can't believe those innocent days are gone. If news reported about any "bomb" going off the first thing that came to mind was "Irish" or "Paddy" or in my neck of woods "Tinkers". There were some Irish lads and when something happened ( like the IRA Warrenpoint Ambush ) the Irish lads got the stick. I knew quite a few guy's who left school and signed up to join the army and many did tours in NI.

I never imagined that one day the Irish/terrorism connection would vanish it would be me that would be getting fingers pointed at. Amazing ....

@Akheilos If you don't mind how old are you and are you student In US? If you don't feel comfortable saying so I will understand.

Ps. Steve to give you an idea if you wanted to pay for your phone bill you had to go to PO in town centre and there was a que always to pay your bill. Can you imagine that? If you wanted another line it was like asking a favour. Now the private companies run after you then it was other way around. Soon after privatization under Thatcher started.

Oh and a little titbit. When I went to signing office they gave you UB40 ( a pice of paper with your name and signing dates ) which of course was inspiration behind the group UB40.

Damm you are old,any advice for a young lad like me (19 years old) & 2nd year old college

 

[ACE OF THE AIR]

Stop encouraging bad behavior, nobody listen to him.

Please check this...
Famous Dropouts, Celebrity Dropouts - Celebrity Research Lists

Stop encouraging bad behavior, nobody listen to him.

DROP OUT:
George Washington....1st U.S. President; former general; Chairman of the Constitutional Convention; U.S. nickname: "The Father of Our Country"; face is pictured on the U.S. one dollar bill and twenty-five cent coin (quarter) (no formal education; home schooling/life experience; went to sea in his youth).

Andrew Jackson......7th U.S. President; face is pictured on the U.S. twenty dollar bill (13, U.S. Continental Army; orphaned at 14; little formal education; home schooling/life experience; studied law in his late teens and became a lawyer).
Martin Van Buren....8th U.S. President (little formal education; later began studying law at age 14 while an apprentice at a law firm and became a lawyer)

Zachary Taylor......12th U.S. President (little formal education; home schooling/life experience).
Millard Fillmore.....13th U.S. President (little formal education [six months]; home schooling/life experience; later studied law while a clerk with a judge and at a law firm and became a lawyer).
Abraham Lincoln.....16th U.S. President; face is pictured on the U.S. five dollar bill and one-cent coin (penny) (little formal education [Lincoln himself estimated about one year]; home schooling/reading books/life experience; later received three honorary law degrees after becoming president: 1860, Knox College; 1861, Columbia College [now Columbia University], 1864, College of New Jersey [now Princeton University]).
Andrew Johnson.....17th U.S. President (no formal education; home schooling/life experience).

Grover Cleveland.....22nd and 24th U.S. President; face is pictured on the U.S. one-thousand dollar bill (no longer printed) (dropped out of school to help family earn income; later studied law while a clerk at a law firm and became a lawyer).

Walter Nash.......New Zealand Prime Minister 1957-1960; knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Walter Nash).
John Major.........British Prime Minister 1990-1997; author.

William Shakespeare....British playwright; best-selling British author.

 

[jamahir]

School Drop outs became power players!!!

exactly !!

Please check this...
Famous Dropouts, Celebrity Dropouts - Celebrity Research Lists


DROP OUT:
George Washington....1st U.S. President; former general; Chairman of the Constitutional Convention; U.S. nickname: "The Father of Our Country"; face is pictured on the U.S. one dollar bill and twenty-five cent coin (quarter) (no formal education; home schooling/life experience; went to sea in his youth).

Andrew Jackson......7th U.S. President; face is pictured on the U.S. twenty dollar bill (13, U.S. Continental Army; orphaned at 14; little formal education; home schooling/life experience; studied law in his late teens and became a lawyer).
Martin Van Buren....8th U.S. President (little formal education; later began studying law at age 14 while an apprentice at a law firm and became a lawyer)

Zachary Taylor......12th U.S. President (little formal education; home schooling/life experience).
Millard Fillmore.....13th U.S. President (little formal education [six months]; home schooling/life experience; later studied law while a clerk with a judge and at a law firm and became a lawyer).
Abraham Lincoln.....16th U.S. President; face is pictured on the U.S. five dollar bill and one-cent coin (penny) (little formal education [Lincoln himself estimated about one year]; home schooling/reading books/life experience; later received three honorary law degrees after becoming president: 1860, Knox College; 1861, Columbia College [now Columbia University], 1864, College of New Jersey [now Princeton University]).
Andrew Johnson.....17th U.S. President (no formal education; home schooling/life experience).

Grover Cleveland.....22nd and 24th U.S. President; face is pictured on the U.S. one-thousand dollar bill (no longer printed) (dropped out of school to help family earn income; later studied law while a clerk at a law firm and became a lawyer).

Walter Nash.......New Zealand Prime Minister 1957-1960; knighted (United Kingdom: Sir Walter Nash).
John Major.........British Prime Minister 1990-1997; author.

William Shakespeare....British playwright; best-selling British author.

michael faraday -- didn't go to college.

elon musk, bill gates, steve jobs -- dropped out from college.

Stop encouraging bad behavior, nobody listen to him.

schooling should be done but it is in fact ideal behavior to drop out of college.. it gives one more maturity than one's peers.

 

[nForce]

exactly !!



michael faraday -- didn't go to college.

elon musk, bill gates, steve jobs -- dropped out from college.

umm..they dropped out of college because they accomplished something and they believed it would work.

It's not like one has to drop out of college to make things work. In fact the number of successful people with proper education outnumbers the drop-outs by far margin.

 

[XenoEnsi-14]

Please check this...

schooling should be done but it is in fact ideal behavior to drop out of college.. it gives one more maturity than one's peers.

Both of you missed the sarcasm.

 

[ACE OF THE AIR]

Both of you missed the sarcasm.

I did rate you for that ... you can recheck the post you initially wrote...

 

[jamahir]

umm..they dropped out of college because they accomplished something and they believed it would work.

yes, they had confidence in themselves despite being surrounded by nay sayers... but if they had listened to the nay sayers and therefore stayed in college, it would have been painful to them, knowing what they can do but having to force themselves to ordinary lives.

It's not like one has to drop out of college to make things work. In fact the number of successful people with proper education outnumbers the drop-outs by far margin.

the "properly educated" either work directly for the drop-outs or they use systems created by drop-outs.

 

[nForce]

yes, they had confidence in themselves despite being surrounded by nay sayers... but if they had listened to the nay sayers and therefore stayed in college, it would have been painful to them, knowing what they can do but having to force themselves to ordinary lives.



the "properly educated" either work directly for the drop-outs or they use systems created by drop-outs.

Does not mean dropping out is the way to success. Problem with such statistics is they are only a handful, but their presentation makes others to think of them as role models. They are not.

 

[ACE OF THE AIR]

Does not mean dropping out is the way to success. Problem with such statistics is they are only a handful, but their presentation makes others to think of them as role models. They are not.

Yes ... But one should not lose hope that success can not be gained if one is a drop out...

 

[nForce]

Yes ... But one should not lose hope that success can not be gained if one is a drop out...

That's a different case. One may have to drop out because of many issues including but not limited to financial.

But one should not think that dropping-out is the stairway to success just because Bill Gates did so either.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Damm you are old,any advice for a young lad like me (19 years old) & 2nd year old college

Yeh, after I typed MCMLXII even I screamed. Advice? Well don't forget while your making money to enjoy it as well. Pleasure gained out of spending £100 when your 20 is more then you get if you spend £1,000 when your 50. Other than that never forget the most important thing is your family.

Oh and never ever, ever, ever forget this advice given by Al Pacino to a cat ......

 

[Echo_419]

Yeh, after I typed MCMLXII even I screamed. Advice? Well don't forget while your making money to enjoy it as well. Pleasure gained out of spending £100 when your 20 is more then you get if you spend £1,000 when your 50. Other than that never forget the most important thing is your family.

Oh and never ever, ever, ever forget this advice given by Al Pacino to a cat ......

Tyx for the advice

 

[Jf Thunder]

yahan kya kar raha hai phir..

crying

so the path of bill gates and elon musk beckons you... walk that path, my friend... i am a proud college drop-out... not many of my kind in india nowadays.

p.s : do share your school years.

NEVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THERE IS SOMEONE IN MY UNI WHO I MUST AND WILL BEAT EVEN IF I DIE STUDYING

 

[jamahir]

NEVA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THERE IS SOMEONE IN MY UNI WHO I MUST AND WILL BEAT EVEN IF I DIE STUDYING

well, there are other ways too... getting socially/politically/economically getting the better of this person.

 

[Jf Thunder]

well, there are other ways too... getting socially/politically/economically getting the better of this person.

NO I MUST BEAT THE PERSON IN MY EXAM RESULTS
THIS IS REAL JIHAD