What upsets me is that too many college-educated people think that losers can be dumped into the trades. If you speak to most tradesmen, they are smart, mathematically and linguistically adept, many of them own their own businesses (which requires skills that are not taught in college), and they don't want the trades to be used as a dumping ground. Many of them have graduated from college, but they prefer to work with their hands and brains and their actual customers instead of sitting in cubicle talking to a computer all day long. Yes, one appreciates the education and the degree, but it is redundant or useless in many fields. Likewise with the arts. They shouldn't be used as a dumping ground either, and arts training shouldn't be seen as less than a college degree (I'm talking about people who go to specialized schools, not students who study film making at a college). Someone in a post above mentioned European ways of doing things. I've lived in European countries, and US education is better with its general education requirements. A student gets a full education. In Europe, if you are trained as a mechanical engineer, that is ALL you are able to do, and in this volatile job market, one needs to be flexible. How many people on this board have actually USED their degree(s)? Would you have preferred to train in a different subject? Would you have liked to have learned an art or a trade? Would you have liked it if your high school had courses on small business management? My interests and goals have changed throughout my adult life. I'm glad dh and I got our advanced degrees, and we would study the same thing, but they haven't actually been that useful in the job market. We retrained in the trades, and now dh and I are starting a contracting business. We are finding that we have to start from the beginning again, and take a lot of advice from local small business owners.

And Clinton is an old Washington cat. You might as well vote for a Republican as for one of the Clintons.

Look at a diagram of the brain, and you will see a part sticking out in the front of it. That is the retina. It is part of the brain. AND that is the reason why people who have problems with their retinas have trouble doing things like processing numbers and letters.

Has anyone bought their family home from their parents, or bought a house from anyone in their family? Can you tell me the process, and the legal implications please? My parents are quite elderly, and the house will be inherited by the kids. Dh and I would like to buy it out.