What the hell? It's after 4 AM here in Minnesota and my brain just won't shut down. Of all things....in the middle of the night,algebra is bugging me. I haven't thought about algebra since 1960 when I was in ninth grade. For some reason, the school system felt that algebra was something that you had to learn in order to be useful in your later life. I never was able to grasp it. My teacher had another student tutor me in this archaic mathematical crap. It didn't work! I still could not understand it.
Years later, I learned that trigonometry and geometry was very easy for me to grasp. As a journeyman machinist, trig and geometry was something I used quite often. The trade is now dead thanks to computers that figure all calculations for any idiot who can touch a button.
I was able to make a decent living with benefits without having tens of thousands of dollars in student loans. I am now retired with a somewhat decent pension and social security that I paid into for my entire working career. Not an entitlement that liberals say, but what I actually earned.
My heart aches for young people today who have to be in debt for most of their lives paying student loans for a degree that will get them a job at a fast food restaurant.
My advice...……..get your damn hands dirty and shovel shit if you have to. You will be better off becoming a plumber, carpenter, electrician, or any number of craftsmen jobs rather than falling into the trap of the useless lazy ass academia people who tell you that a degree is everything. I say BULLSHIT! They need young people to fall for their marketing in order to sit back and receive their paycheck for screwing over you. Wake up!
Have you ever used algebra in your life?