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Sounds like you guys have read my biography. All I can say is, "the country I live in today is not the country I grew up in." But that is true of the world in general. That is how I knew when it was time to retire. The examples I would give my students began going right over their head and they would look at me like a bunch of little puppies. They could not relate to no cell phones, no air conditioning, cars with clutches, etc. I realized that Vietnam was to them what WWII was to me. Time to "turn out the lights, the party's over" as Dandy Don (who?) used to say.
My first sales job I was on the road with street maps, state maps, lots of quarters for pay phones, no gps, no cell phone, no computer. Sales people today are blessed with great tools. In some ways the old ways are better, but in many ways today's conveniences are tough to beat. I of course got off the road years before I could take advantage of all the modern tools, too bad for me. lol
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The good part was easily getting time to myself w/o a mobile phone. I would push all my appointments early, finish the day early, and then hit the beach. You can't get away with that today.
Even though some of the old ways may be better, doesn't mean you can't evolve and grow. I now speak into my Droid for the destination I need, and it talks back to me with directions on how to get there.
One of the big reasons we have such a bad unemployment problem (aside that the economy just sucks and confidence is low) is that too many people have not evolved to have the skills employers need. There are unfilled jobs because they can't find people that know how to do the jobs. This is a fact, not an opinion.
There is certainly some pleasant nostalgia for the past (which is part of the appeal of pipe smoking for some), but you can't live solely in the past and be successful in the present at the same time.
Same here. I used to travel the country. I had a Road Atlas with hand written directions, and no cell phone. I had an AT&T Calling card to use at pay phones.
The good part was easily getting time to myself w/o a mobile phone. I would push all my appointments early, finish the day early, and then hit the beach. You can't get away with that today.
Even though some of the old ways may be better, doesn't mean you can't evolve and grow. I now speak into my Droid for the destination I need, and it talks back to me with directions on how to get there.
One of the big reasons we have such a bad unemployment problem (aside that the economy just sucks and confidence is low) is that too many people have not evolved to have the skills employers need. There are unfilled jobs because they can't find people that know how to do the jobs. This is a fact, not an opinion.
There is certainly some pleasant nostalgia for the past (which is part of the appeal of pipe smoking for some), but you can't live solely in the past and be successful in the present at the same time.
Ah, yes, the good old days. For the most part I'm content being where I am today. I don't treasure thoughts of having to walk 25 yards out back to the outhouse in winter time nor having to take a bath in the same water my sister just took one in. We had no indoor plumbing as far as bathrooms were concerned back then and no A/C. A "slop jar" was kept by the bedside in case you had to pee at 1:00 in the morning and didn't want to go outside. Heat was provided by a Warm Morning coal burning stove in the middle of the house we called the "heater room". It served no function except to house the stove and a chair with the telephone on it and of course, 80% of the time you tried to call someone there was already a conversation going on you could listen to. They called it a "party line" but I received no glee in someone else being on the phone when I tried to call my girlfriend.
Today I see people walking around taking to themselves with a green tooth something or other stuck in their ear and others walking about as they look at some electronic device with text on it. I don't know what it is and don't want to know. Nothing much is personal anymore it's texting and cell phones- no one on one anymore. I guess each decade has it's own good and bad points.
Today I see people walking around taking to themselves with a green tooth something or other stuck in their ear and others walking about as they look at some electronic device with text on it. I don't know what it is and don't want to know. Nothing much is personal anymore it's texting and cell phones- no one on one anymore. I guess each decade has it's own good and bad points.
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