Learning To Live

All this talk of this huge stimulus bill this week got me excited.  Excited enough to listen to the plans they had to use it in order to create jobs.  I can understand how highway and street projects are supposed to create jobs.  But for how long?  I mean, its only going to be short-term solution to this long-term recession.  We’re going to be using our own resources to create these short-term jobs that’s not going to be around long enough to bring in more money.  Come on, now.  This is common sense stuff.  How are we going to be using those new and fixed up streets if we don’t have the money to go anywhere?  And who is going to buy a home even if loans are handed out if no one can afford the monthly payments simply because they don’t have a job?

Has anybody ever thought of trying to get this country to excel at something that will produce a worldwide need that jobs will just automatically be created?  As in how Japan became known for their advance technology and quality cars that the whole world wanted.  After they got bombed so many years ago, they had no choice but to rely on their own resources as much as possible.  Their plan to only export their products and not import, helped build their country from scratch.   It took many years, but nevertheless, they did it.

Can we get to root of the problem in this crisis instead of trying to come up with a quick fix?  I’m not saying that what they’re coming up with isn’t going to help, because something quick has to happen now to keep it from getting worst.  But let’s be realistic.  We’re a materialistic country that thrives on instant gratification minus all the hard work that comes with lasting satisfaction.  This country has been revolving around that very attitude that has now gotten it to where it is today.  And I’m not just talking about getting loans and credits to get what we want now without paying to for it now.

The very values upon which this country has been built is not what it is anymore.   Belief in hard work, honesty, integrity, respect for mankind and for God, used to be the among the values of the fore founders.  Now its the strong belief of instant gratification - attained at any cause or at any rate - that now rules the economy.  Any kind of job, career or gig that makes easy money with little or less effort are rewarded with such awe that many have try to follow.   Who didn’t envy Bill Gates at one time or another for making his millions the way he did, or anyone else out there that did the same?  These people have been viewed to be geniuses of our time.  I’m not saying that this isn’t great.  Its nice to know that these things are possible.   But the impression that has been embedded is that hard, honest work isn’t valued as much as it should be.  (Nor are they compensated properly.)  The value is found in how fast money can be generated. (To feed the greed from within?)

With the attention that this have generated, other professions had really lost its appeal and worth.  I mean, why would anyone really want to be a nurse when they can get paid for just sitting in front of the computer and using less than half of their motor skills?  And yet, there is obviously a huge need to fill the medical industry in most states that it would eliminate the huge number in unemployment.  Why can’t they try to do something to entice people to get a job in those industries instead of importing more nurses from other countries?   Oh, I remember, its not a money making business.  That says the same for teachers or anyone in the education industry.  They’re not that important to the economy; they don’t generate money.  Who cares if we keep raising kids that don’t master their common sense and problem solving skills to run this country or world someday?  George Bush was able to do it.

So part of the money is also going to developing new ways of creating power and energy so we would not have to be at the mercy of other country’s resources.  I think that’s a great step in the right direction.  But with how the education system has been, this might be long in rearing any usable results.   I mean they’re really gonna have to brainstorm.  Assuming, they know what brainstorm means…

I have never heard of this until the movie had come out.  When I first saw previews on it I was kind of skeptical since it involved a romance between a girl in her teens and a vampire.  I mean, how much excitement can that bring on the big screen?  Its like “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” all over again.  It didn’t seem like it was anything new.

Well, with all the promotion and buzz going on about it, I got suckered into watching it the first week it came out.  And I have to confess, I loved it!

I immediately bought the books and read it all in two weeks.  I literally ignored everyone else around me.   My husband was so relieved when I told him I was almost done.  He said that he can finally have conversation with me again.  I would have read it all over again if it were not for classes.

I know it’s weird, right?  I’m a 30-somewhat year old woman with two kids and I am totally head-over-heels crazy over these books.  Ok, I admit, its Edward Cullen.  The fact that the book is written in from Bella’s point of view really puts you in her place and you can relate to what is going on in her head and how she’s feeling.  The romance you experience through her makes you not want to stop reading.  Whether we like to admit it of not, we can be suckers for romance.  And Edward Cullen can do all the sucking he wants.  LOL

To this date, I’ve seen the movie in the theaters 4 times.  I couldn’t convince anyone else to come with me so I’d have a reason to see it.  My twelve-year old daughter calls me a twerd, I guess that’s what the teenage call the Twilight nerds.  Well, it can certainly make you feel like a teenager.  Its probably because of the clean romance.  Reminds you of your teenage days when just seeing the person you have crush on makes your day.  You didn’t have the need to do anything beyond holding hands or just being with the person to make you feel like you’ve won the lottery.  Simple innocence, ahhh…

Well, after looking it up online, I came upon some forums on it.  I didn’t feel so bad when I found one called, “Twilight Moms.”  Its nice to know I’m not the only fanatic of this movie that is beyond the teenage years.  Hey, stuff like that can make you feel young again sometimes.  So why not, right?

I’m an AA degree graduate in Computerized Business Administration.   My job experience has been in the accounting industry.  I have done all aspects of accounting and some.   Some being that I have had to get into the technical part of if including software conversion of the system to an online based one.  Every job that I’ve had in accounting always put me in the dealing with the troubleshooting part of the programs.  So now I am planning to go back to school to finish my bachelor’s in finance.  I was told by the counselor that I should go for Technical Management with concentration in Finance.  This degree would equal to the bachelor’s in Finance except it covers the technical part of it as well.  So I’m not stuck with just doing the books, etc.

What I want to know is if this seems to be a good degree.  I am not too sure what technical management entails and I’ve tried to research as much as I can.  If anyone out there is in this position or knows anything about it, can you please enlighten me on this?  I would greatly appreciate it.   I don’t want to get into something I’m not too sure of.  Thank you.