I ended up graduated six months early. Although I was college prep all the way, four more years of school going for a college degree wasn't for me. I quickly discovered that I needed something to do with my life, so I joined the Marines. I finished boot camp two days before my offical high school graduation, and attended in my Dress Blues.
Because I had a thing for computers I ended up going to college later in life. I learned more from the other students than I did from the classes.
My girl was class of 2000. I remember watching on the news when the class of 2000 entered Kindergarten. They were making a big deal about it because they'd graduate at the change of the millenium. The thought of that gives me a really weird feeling sometimes.
I was supposed to be a Senior of 1978, but shit hit the fan in '76 when my Dad died of a sudden and unexpected heart attack.
I had to drop out because I went out on my own after that. Went back to high school for one more year while working two full time jobs. Dropped out for the second time because I started making too much money to justify the hours for school. In 1982 decided to do a G.E.D. test just for the hell of it. In Texas, it was a five part test that was supposed to take 8-hours. I took it as pretty much a walk-in, no studying at all after being out of school for 4 years. It took me only 3-hours to complete, my scores in the first 4 of 5 tests were high enough to pass without doing any more.
So, before I was 21, I had worked and had made lead technician or lead engineer with two different companies. Doing systems engineering, design, and research/development in the fields of robotics, computers (before IBM did their originai PC), and satellite communications transceivers.
I did get some degree's after that, now I have some extra things to use if I ever experience a toilet paper shortage!!
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Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
think about that
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