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Blanka:
--- Quote from: Level42 on March 11, 2009, 07:35:46 pm ---I'm in the same business, fire alarms. Boss told us at x-mas time 2008 that seeing the orders they had at that moment for 2009, it would _already_ be a better year than 2008....
We are actually still looking for new employees.
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Hire me. I will design a new line of architect-friendly fire-alarms. Dem those things screw up my projects all the time!
By the way, WTF is 401K? I know "Verplichte zorgvezekering" sounds crap too, but this is more like the name of a resistor.
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Blanka on March 13, 2009, 02:48:09 am ---By the way, WTF is 401K? I know "Verplichte zorgvezekering" sounds crap too, but this is more like the name of a resistor.
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Level42 already asked and Shardian asnwered a few posts up.
I guess it's like a "spaarloon regeling" that's put into a "lijfrentepolis" :P
ChadTower:
I paid my whole college bill myself as well as my wife's. Neither of us received anything from parents. Hell my mother used to "borrow" what were at the time large sums of money from me a couple times a year. When my wife graduated and I left in '98 (no I didn't graduate) we were $90k in student loan and college related credit card debt. The dot com crash whacked us later but only after it allowed me to pay off all of those loans and save the downpayment for our house.
I can see both sides of this debate. I intend to do what I can to help my sons pay for college but I'm not going to wrap my whole future around the cost. They will be pulling loans for a good amount of it. When they ask why I'll point out that mommy was home with them their whole childhood instead of out earning their college tuition while they sat in daycare.
RayB:
--- Quote from: Cakemeister on March 12, 2009, 03:21:57 pm ---Your parents did what they thought best for you, and I do what I think is best for my kids. Your parents obviously wanted you to have to work hard so that you would value college rather than treating it as a privilege and a constant party. I don't want my daughter to have a mountain of student loan debt when she gets out of school, so I am paying for it.
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Dude, keep that a secret then. Make her value her time there, and then pay her debt AFTER she graduates. Same ends, but better "lesson" and values instilled.
Dartful Dodger:
This has gone off topic, but keeping with the new topic:
I paid for my own education. Since I was going to college full time I had to work nights and weekends.
I was going to an art/design school and the students who weren't working had more time to put into their projects and it showed.
having your kids working for their education isn't really teaching them to value their education, it's teaching them their education isn't worth 100% of their attention.
If you want your kids to value an education it's up to you to teach them that while they are in grammar and high school.
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