Thank you for the response. I have always been curious about that. At what point do you get a degree and then decide you need another one and so on. i was never sure if people did it to basically be a career student, or if they truly did it to set themselves up for better positions later in life. I'm sure there are some of both. I was thinking that you had said your health was bad and you had to stop working, but I wasn't positive. It does sound like you have done many interesting things and been able to travel and help others by teaching.FairwoodKing;1080903 wrote:Thank you for asking an intelligent question. My undergraduate degrees are in political science, Spanish, education, and music. My graduate degrees are in Spanish, marketing, and management. My certificate is in software localization. The only area I have never used is political science. Every job I have ever had has required at least some of these skills except my first job which was being a professional figure skater with Holiday on Ice in Europe. I have just published a book about my ice show experiences. It is also an exposé of show business. The name of the book is "Blazing Ice." You can check it out on amazon.com. I taught Spanish at Kent State and marketing at the U. of Akron and the U. of Cincinnati. I was also high school band director at Brunswick for a while. In my most recent job, I was manager of technical publications and software localization at a company that makes high-tech medical equipment. Then my health fell apart and I was forced to leave the company and go on disability.
Back on topic, I have worked for, with, and had employees that are gay. I also have family members that are gay, a couple of cousins. To be honest though, I am not really close with them. I really don't care what people do or want to do. At one time I did, but as I have gotten older I figured out that there are some things that aren't worth worrying about or that really aren't as important as they seemed. That does kind of shoot a hole in the argument that younger people are more accepting, at least in my case. I was the exact oposite. I knew what I knew and never worried about pesky things like facts or listening to older, wiser people that may just have had some experience on whatever topic. I think most kids are like that though. As I got older, I developed a whole new respect for my parents and teachers, etc. I am surprised that nobody ever actually tried to kill me. I am sure they all thought about it though. lol
My biggest problem with the whole "gay rights" thing is that I don't see gay people as being a seperate group. It seems to me that a lot, the vocal ones at least, are constantly trying to seperate themselves and say "look at me, I need something just because I'm gay". I would be one that would agree with marriage, benefits, and whatever else. It's just hard to be vocal in that support when others are out there being belligerent with anyone that doesn't agree. You have come on here and attacked people for their religion, the religion itself, older straight people, and basically anyone that doesn't share your line of thinking 100% of the time. I am not trying to pick on you. You just happen to be the one that does it here. so while I agree in general with most of what you say, it's the way you say it that turns people off.
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