leadership

tonight instead of one last leadership meeting we ate some Chinese at the Hyv together. It was a real good time. I've been so blessed by God to have the friends I do- and a great support system like the students on the leadership team. it was so nice to hang out with the leadership and not talk about any businessy crusade stuff. we talked about a LOT of random stuff...

• cheating the system by having kids during college to get reduced tuition
• the possibility of adopting a 24 year old to get reduced tuition
• the fact that kids can be brats no matter how you raise 'em
• getting our mouths washed out with soap when we were little
• unsafe toys we played with when we were little
• causes of obesity (genetic/hereditary v. learned behavior/parenting)
• the fact that fischer price play people have even gotten bigger since we were little...

yup. pretty random. :]

job market!

The baby-boomers. A great generation that might drain my income for the rest of my life, unless we do actually get some social security reform. But the large amount of those people born between 1946 and 1964 (my parents included) will benefit those of us in Gen Y (or is there a more recent name for us?).

"For the first time in many years, a Bureau of Labor Statistics analysis finds that total college-level job openings between 1998 and 2008 will nearly equal the number of college-educated entrants to the labor force. And a primary reason is the large number of retirements expected from workers at the leading edge of the "baby boom" generation who are in college-level jobs. The shift in balance will help shrink the total number of college graduates expected to end up in noncollege-level jobs or be unemployed to about 7 percent between 1998 and 2008, down from 14 percent over the previous decade."

SaWEET!

"In addition to encountering a more favorable job market, college graduates usually enjoy other benefits associated with more education. Notably, college graduates as a whole have lower unemployment and higher median earnings than do less-educated members of the labor force. In 1998, the strong economy was reflected in a low overall unemployment rate of 4.5 percent. College graduates fared better than that average, with unemployment of just 1.9 percent, and even better than the average of 4.9 percent for high school graduates. In terms of median earnings, college graduates earned about $41,000 in 1998, compared with the $23,000 that high school graduates earned--a premium of 78 percent.

Good prospects for college-level jobs, lower unemployment rates, and higher median earnings are strong incentives for attending college. Nevertheless, prospective students should consider other factors, such as which occupations will offer the most college-level jobs and which jobs are tailored to a student's particular skills and aptitudes. Nature of the work, earnings, and advancement potential vary by occupation, even among college-level jobs.

To understand the future job market for college graduates, it is important to consider past trends. Reporting historical data is of little value, however, without an explanation of how those data are derived. This section begins by describing the BLS approach to determining the college graduate job outlook, then examines data from the 1998 market."

the rest of the article is here - pretty interesting (to me): http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1155/is_3_44/ai_65540674

give it time

how good are these lyrics from the awesome jon mclaughlin--

Quiet landslide when nobody knows
Regretted decisions that nobody chose
Under water and sinking fast
No way out, no way to get back
What might have been is lost in the past


Just give it time
It's gonna get better
Now is not forever at all
Just give it time
Everything changes
Tomorrow comes today will be gone
Everything's gonna be fine
Just give it time, give it time

work!

we don't have class tomorrow (yay observed holidays!) so i'm hanging out watchin tv and giving a guitar lesson. just chillin' thinking about life. i am also trying to write a paper that's due tuesday but i'm distracted by the thought of work tomorrow. we have a lot of big orders this time of year that need to be filled, so it's going to be really busy, which i love. and i get to work all day so that means almost double the money i made last week, which is benefitial.

so now i'm thinking to years from now when i will be able to chill on a sunday night and prep for a week of work that i will hopefully love. i'm getting to the point in my college career where i'm ready to be done with homework assignments and papers and tests. i wanna be in the 'real world.'

pretty sure in 5 years i'll be reminiscing about my college days, wishing i was back at the FH hanging with the girls on a friday night. life is going to be crazy busy outside of college, too, but i'm thinking it's a different kind of busy. we'll see. i'm excited for it either way!

amy remember this.

Amy-

this is a note to yourself. sometimes life might suck. but, it will begin to suck less. then it will get good. then it might suck again.

but there will be those times that it will get really, really good. and then you'll remember the sucky times and think "yeah...that sucked. but it was worth it to get to this point. definitely worth it."

and even if you think things won't ever get better -- think where you might be without Christ in your life right at this second. anything you're ever going to go through is going to be way better than your best day in your life when you didn't have Him. for sure.

Amy

one more.

i wanted to add one to the list below-

my HR prof
"If it looks walks like a duck and talks like a duck, you're going to get sued."

priceless.

quotable.

Ohhh I love when people say things that can be taken the wrong way. Or when people say things that just sound funny and make you think about what they probably meant to say, causing you to totally miss out on everything else they said.

1. A librarian that met w/one of my classes to teach us how to research. Yep, I'm a senior, I know how to use the library there, Al. What kept me from ditching the class was the fact that I knew Al knew a lot of big words, but tended to get really excited about research and flub up. Words he used included:
"Pamplets" (pamphlets. those silent h's are tricky)
"Gigarntuin" (gigantuin - but not...)
"Literatly" (literally)

2. I overheard some fun things the other day. Students, Professors - anyone can say something that can be taken the wrong way, or show how much they are not thinking about how they are sounding:
"I start wearing shoes when I see snow." (good luck when it's 0 degrees)
"The main reason we should switch to the metric system is that it's easier to add and subtract from 0 than it is from 32." not going to touch that one.
"If it's legal, it's ethical." - b school dean. hmm...
My Broadcast Prof-
"It's not a good idea to break the rules. You can bend them, but they might lead you away in handcuffs."
"The Augustana sports scene - that's what USD calls intramurals."
My Econ Prof-
"I now use Wikipedia more than I should. But I never leave any evidence."
"I've been a student longer than most of you have been alive."