{"id":432,"date":"2020-01-15T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T07:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2020-01-15T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T07:24:00","slug":"not-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/not-prepared\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Prepared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tI suppose that none of us are really prepared for anything. If you<br \/>\nreally think about it. At a given moment you can be completly not prepared<br \/>\nfor something coming your way. Well what are you talking about Josh a meteor strike?<br \/>\nBecause that is truly unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>No not really, but in the same realm.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s for a moment go back to our high school days, if we are already<br \/>\nthere then great, you have time believe me.<\/p>\n<p>I took a class when I was in high school, trying to get my<br \/>\ngrade point average up for the most part. I started out my freshman<br \/>\nyear with a rank of 1 out of all the other freshman with by GPA. It<br \/>\nfell a bit and the only way to get it back up was to take AP classes. The<br \/>\nclass I took was AP Goverment.<\/p>\n<p>Now I can be the first to say that my student career in high<br \/>\nschool was more or less naive in the sense that I had no idea what<br \/>\nI wanted to do and what was really required of me to attend college, I had to be<br \/>\ntold my senior year that I needed to sign up for SATs, go figure.<\/p>\n<p>Well that&#8217;s fine, I ended up in college none-the-less. But what<br \/>\nI really wanted to convey with this blog was this; it&#8217;s all wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t go to college. Don&#8217;t waste your money. There are many many<br \/>\nways to earn a living that don&#8217;t require you to go to college. You do<br \/>\nnot have to go in to debt to earn a peice of paper that says &#8220;you<br \/>\nshould make more money&#8221;, because the truth of the matter is unless<br \/>\nyou are going to be a dentist\/doctor that peice of paper is worth<br \/>\nabout as much as Charmin toilet paper you have in your house. <\/p>\n<p>Stay<br \/>\nout of debt people, don&#8217;t fall in the trap. Find a way to make money<br \/>\nand be free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose that none of us are really prepared for anything. If you really think about it. At a given&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joshuadahl.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}