Wolfman.....I can tell by this comment that you were definitely one of those teachers that truly made a difference in kids lives. THANK YOU!
I was a diesel mechanic for years....and barely made it through high school math. If not for a very good, very motivated student teacher, I don't know what would have happened. Our algebra teacher always hammered into us that you could not hope to survive without advanced math skills. My problem with math is strange...If left to my own way of thinking, I can come up with the correct answer, maybe not fast, maybe I will check it 2-3-4 different ways to be sure, but I can figure it out...I just never did well in math because I could not think the way textbooks said I should. I remember getting papers back with"SHOW YOUR WORK" in red ink...in my mind, HOW I arrived at the correct answer was of no consequence; that it was correct WAS.
I say that the kid will do fine, but back when I was wrenching, the most perplexing math problem was how to live alone and pay all my bills on $7/hr. Times have changed, but I never made enough to live well until I quit fixing tractors!
As for military mechanics, and I make no statement against our military here, but some of the absolute WORST civilian mechanics I have ever been around had military mechanic backgrounds. I understand the military philosophy is different, but in my opinion, tends to breed parts changers as opposed to troubleshooters.
Just my opinion, but I say if your son wants to join the military, to go for it, but to not expect all of the training to apply in the civilian world.
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Today's Featured Article - Farming Never Left My Blood - by Stan Gordon. I was born in 1947 youngest of ten of a working farm. Our farm was located in Saskatchewan near Saskatoon. We had a mixed farm consisting of grain and dairy all done with old machinery and by hand. My dad had a tractor, a Farmall A which was used mostly to run the thrashing machine, a seed drill and for plowing. I remember locals used to help each other and threshing was done from daylight to after dark, one farm to another until all farms were done.
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