Re: Well if the US ships want the Chinese to keep out of the way
Sometimes the lawn mowing career does work out, though.
A friend got accepted to Berkeley, but had no clue what he wanted to do. He idled along, taking a minimal class load until he figured it out. Being poor, he paid his way mowing lawns and other general garden upkeep. He finally decided he wanted to become a lawyer, so transferred to Stanford. His lawn mowing business employed three other students at that time, so he decided to maintain control of it, and started another branch in Palo Alto. After another two years, he moved on to Davis to complete his JD. Lather, rinse repeat on the lawn care business.
After graduation, he got a job as a flunky at a big law firm in Sacramento while he studied to pass his State Boards. It didn't pay much, and the hours weren't exactly regular ... but he still had his three gardening branches. So he opened a fourth. After he passed his Boards, he was offered a job at a firm in San Francisco ... but they wouldn't pay him what he was earning gardening. So he said screw it, turned his back on Law and now runs a large gardening company here in the SF Bay Area.
He is earning three or four times what he would probably be earning as a lawyer.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
