Lawreston
En-Route
My young(25 or 26) cousin was valedictorian of her high school class; got a full scholarship to Univ. of Maine, but -- instead -- graduated w/honors from Vassar College at at her Dad's expense. After spending a couple years in New Mexico she moved to Los Angeles "area"; something about the boy friend. She doesn't have "a job", says her father, but is teaching youngsters in some manner. She now has been accepted for a Master's program at Columbia University which would cost about $100,000.00. But, the boy friend; he who has no education beyond high school and is doing very well for their California existence.
While in high school and being very adept at computers and systems he kept about six doctors' offices functioning, technologically, near the Univ. of Maine and was accorded some pretty good spending money for his efforts. Upon high school graduation he got a job interview with some firm in Seattle. His father accompanied him to the city and, figuring that if the kid got the job he'd need to get some furniture for an apartment. After scouting the stores he went back to get the kid who nonchalantly said, "OK, Dad; we/re going home."
"Didn't get the job, eh?"
"Oh, they offered me $35,000 a year and I turned it down." And back to Maine they came. He received other invitations for interviews and accepted a position in/about tinsel-town. $50,000 per year, to start, and that was several years ago. One of his most recent projects was working with the techno team to effect and work out the bugs of the movie, Spiderman-2, and getting the computer game clicking so that it could be on the market the same day the movie was released. There were 60 people at 100K a year, all working feverishly to get all the bugs cleaned.
"When you see the movie and you're looking down from 40 stories up you'll see little dot and dashes on the street. When you see it from 20 stories up they get clearer; and when you look down from 10 stores you see cars and trucks on the streets. I put those cars and trucks there and polished a lot of other effects."
Now, my uncle is perplexed that daughter is well-educated and looking for more, yet without a detailed career; and there's potential son in-law with no higher education and raking in the $$.
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While in high school and being very adept at computers and systems he kept about six doctors' offices functioning, technologically, near the Univ. of Maine and was accorded some pretty good spending money for his efforts. Upon high school graduation he got a job interview with some firm in Seattle. His father accompanied him to the city and, figuring that if the kid got the job he'd need to get some furniture for an apartment. After scouting the stores he went back to get the kid who nonchalantly said, "OK, Dad; we/re going home."
"Didn't get the job, eh?"
"Oh, they offered me $35,000 a year and I turned it down." And back to Maine they came. He received other invitations for interviews and accepted a position in/about tinsel-town. $50,000 per year, to start, and that was several years ago. One of his most recent projects was working with the techno team to effect and work out the bugs of the movie, Spiderman-2, and getting the computer game clicking so that it could be on the market the same day the movie was released. There were 60 people at 100K a year, all working feverishly to get all the bugs cleaned.
"When you see the movie and you're looking down from 40 stories up you'll see little dot and dashes on the street. When you see it from 20 stories up they get clearer; and when you look down from 10 stores you see cars and trucks on the streets. I put those cars and trucks there and polished a lot of other effects."
Now, my uncle is perplexed that daughter is well-educated and looking for more, yet without a detailed career; and there's potential son in-law with no higher education and raking in the $$.
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