Dave Plummer

I'm just not going to go to class today.

And that's all you're deciding.

But you do that enough times, you're making a much bigger decision.

No, I was a terrible student in high school.

And even my first semester of college, I still wasn't taking it quite serious because I got mercy passed in Geometry 90, which is like the makeup class for the Geometry 12th grade class that I didn't have.

And that scared me because I realized by 1% or the grace of the professor that let me through,

I just about ended my entire university career here.

So fortunately, those marks don't count in the transcript because of remedial classes.

And so I got kind of a fresh start the next semester and did it for real.

I did it for me.

And that made all the difference.

Well, ideally, there's some aspect of school that you do enjoy, whether it's art, whether it's computer science, whether it's shop class, whatever.

So go for those classes and just put up with and do the hard stuff because it's way easier than having to do it later.

And that's easy to say when you're 50 something.

It's harder to say when you're 15 something, but it makes a lot of sense.

Yeah, it's a big jump.

So I had gone back to school and I think it was my third year of university.

I was working for the phone company for the summer as a summer job and I'm doing conversions of their UB net to TCP IP and modern networking.

which really amounts to swapping cars, but then figuring out why their config.sys doesn't allow Lotus to run anymore because it's got 10K less than it used to.

And it's just a horrible time to be working on computers, but I was doing it.