Is there something about you most people don't know?

[Mimi]

I sure didn't!!!!!!! My Mother was a hairdresser, too. When my grandmother died she did her hair. And when my Mother died I did her hair. I don't know who is going to do my hair, my daughter doesn't do hair. (snif, snif)

Mimi

Mimi -- I nominate Sluff! 

OK Sluff it is!!!  Sluff when I die you fly from Wisconsin to Atlanta and do my hair.  Make me pretty now!!

Mimi

[kitkatz]

Bring the straight razor when you go!

[mysty]

I quilt..

[annabanana]

I was conceived in Alaska and born in Mississippi.

[Ohio Buckeye]

Alaska, wow, they were probably trying to keep warm.

[annabanana]

No doubt!

[twirl]

I got twirling scholorships all thru college........I don't tell anyone now...They'd think YOU?

[monrein]

I hate wearing knickers in the summer under skirts.  I call it skinny dressing.

[okarol]

http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=3072.0 OMG I knew I had seen that photo before - LOL There's Goofynina and her real family!

[kitkatz]

I live with a crazy family!

[spacezombie]

I have a small piece of a twig stuck in my left wrist and I used to be in a moped gang! 

[paddbear0000]

http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=3072.0 OMG I knew I had seen that photo before - LOL There's Goofynina and her real family!

Am I missing something? This links right back to this page.

[UNIBALLER]

I never finished high school, But have done more with my life than the majority of the people that I was supposed to graduate with. It is something that will bother me for the rest of my life as something most people will have over me regardless of all of my qualifications and experiences and the hard work and sacrifices that I had to put in to achieve them.

[okarol]

http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=3072.0 OMG I knew I had seen that photo before - LOL There's Goofynina and her real family!

Am I missing something? This links right back to this page.

oops! Sorry - the family photo with Goofynina is on this post http://ihatedialysis.com/forum/index.php?topic=3072.msg43977#msg43977

[okarol]

I never finished high school, But have done more with my life than the majority of the people that I was supposed to graduate with. It is something that will bother me for the rest of my life as something most people will have over me regardless of all of my qualifications and experiences and the hard work and sacrifices that I had to put in to achieve them.

No one knows who did or didn't finish high school. The majority of people I know graduated college, and I only attended one year, having to drop out to work fulltime. I am very capable and I tell people I attended "The College of Life" - (one woman asked me if that was a Jesuit school  )

[twirl]

I was a center fold in high school


I was on the edge of the one and only fold out page of our year book-----

[paddbear0000]

What about going back to school and getting your GED?

[kellyt]

I never finished high school, But have done more with my life than the majority of the people that I was supposed to graduate with. It is something that will bother me for the rest of my life as something most people will have over me regardless of all of my qualifications and experiences and the hard work and sacrifices that I had to put in to achieve them.

I can believe it!  My husband dropped out of high school and got his GED.  He regrets not graduating, but since I met him in 1996 he has started and ran two successful companies, sold one of them,  and is in the process of starting a 3rd.  Learning NEVER ends if you don't want it to!  He's amazing to me!   Good for you!

[UNIBALLER]

I've thought about getting my GED but I don't have the time right now and when I get posted back to Kingston the unit I will be with is to active and operational with many unexpected deployments I will be unable to commit to it since my little bit of free time will be dedicated to being with Sarah and trying to be a normal family, and getting  a GED still wouldn't make me feel better about not finishing high school. But since then I've achieved numerous IT,communications engineering, certifications and am now working becoming certified in IT corporate level management. Fortunately my job in the military works with a lot of civilian equipment and systems and requires that we follow industry standards which require us to have civilian certifications and the military had made it possible for me to do this without high school or a GED.

[monrein]

On the flip side, concerning the whole education thing, I have worked with some quite "brilliant" people with Phds, publications, the whole nine yards but nada, zip, zilch common sense and limited social skills to boot.  So many paths to take in life, and so many different kinds of smarts.  In Jamaica we had an overseer who never went past primary school but he was a whiz with engines of any kind...pumps, milking machines etc,  Very cool.
Congrats on the path you took Uni.

[UNIBALLER]

Thank you Monrein, I'm thankful everyday for the path that I have taken and also disappointed  that more people don't take advantage of what there is out there and use what is available to them to expand their knowledge and better themselves and in my opinion throw away what could have been.

[kitkatz]

I know someone who never graduated from high school. He dropped out.  He is now a practicing neonatal intensive care doctor.

[Bajanne]

My dad never went to high school, yet he ended up as the principal of a high school.  He was born in 1906, completed his elementary education at age 12, became a trainee teacher at the same school and started teachers' certificate exams at age 15 until about 17.  He was top in our island in the teachers certificate.  (BTW, my mother had a similar history - they met when they went to sit the exam. Only when they got married, 18 and 19, my mother could not continue to be a teacher) Then he became a teacher and by 29 he was the principal of an elementary school.  At 58 he became the principal of a high school.
The thing is, with all my high school and university education I could never challenge my father where grammar and spelling are concerned.
The principal of the high school I taught at in this country also had the same experience, and he was a great principal. He retired a few years ago and now the school is named after him.

All this is to say, it isn't the piece of paper, it's what you have and what you develop!

[paddbear0000]

I know someone who never graduated from high school. He dropped out.  He is now a practicing neonatal intensive care doctor.

Ok, that one I'm a little concerned about! Does he have a legitimate medical degree? If he does, how on earth did he ever get into college?

[kitkatz]

He is very prestigious in the area.  He says he got his GED and went on to the junior college.  Good grades there and in college and off he went.