Tuesday, February 26, 2013

5 Reasons NOT To Drop Out of School

1. In our country's current state, businesses are looking for highly educated and highly trained professionals to include into their work force. If you drop out, you immediately are sunk to a company's black list. Even if you do get your GED, businesses will still frown upon you. All joking aside, getting a high school diploma is a dramatic step in having a successful future.

2. Accomplishing any challenge in life leaves you feeling better after the matter. Finishing high school may give you that extra push to go on and proceed with your education in college or at a trade school.

3. Many businesses don't take applicants who haven't or didn't finish high school. Even if you are one of the lucky ones to get selected to work at a Burger King or McDonald's, you will not be treated as an equal. You will probably only make minimum wage, and when a promotion is available they will cross right over your name.

4. Many students don't realize this, but you learn more than just the basic subjects in school. Great teachers teach you life lessons. Lessons that down the road will help you overcome life challenges.

5. High school is for you. It is there to help you develop as not only a student, but also as a productive member of the society that surrounds you. In high school you learn to be involved with things outside of your comfort zone. You learn to work with people you would have instead not even given the time of day in the real world, and as you begin to learn more about these people you realize how they are special in their own way. As you start to see this, you too learn to see yourself as an individual. The relationships you make in high school will affect every aspect of your life from now on. Why drop out, get a job, and start a family? Finish your education, find a promising job, and benefit yourself as a human being. It's your life, and you only get one. So why not make it count?

Friday, February 22, 2013

Carnival Cruise Lines

As I write this article today, the passengers of the stranded Triumph are heading home safe and sound. As I sat enjoying the Miami Heat game, I felt only sorrow at the state of the stranded passengers. After the fire in the engine room, we, being the captain and I, soon found out that we were not prepared for an event like this. I will be the first to admit that we handled the situation very poorly, and I apologize to all of those affected by this tragedy. Now that I have said that, I must also explain to the press that there were certain safety precautions set into place in case of some emergency. It was also the responsibility of the passengers to abide by these rules, and when they didn't things turned chaotic. Before you take a trip on one of our ships, you sign a contract acknowledging that you understand the rules and regulations of the ship. Spelling out messages on the high deck, pooping on the walls, and going crazy isn't abiding by those rules. Now I assure you that you don't have to worry about your safety on our ships anymore. We have begun to do routine checks on all of our ships and put in more safety precautions. I once again sincerely apologize for the preceding events.

Monday, February 11, 2013

60 Minutes and Counting...

Now of course, living in Wellington and being invisible doesn't have a lot of excitement as opposed to being invisible in a big city. So instead of doing something important with the hour, I am going to have fun. Beginning with that first very second of invisibility I would make my way to the grocery store. Contrary to popular opinion, I am not going there to steal anything. Instead I want to sit at the entrance of the building and mess with people on their way in and out of the store. Just imagine that you are walking out of the grocery store with your basket and suddenly a sack starts to levitate and drift away from you. It would be funny, right? After about fifteen minutes of that I would go to a few people's houses and ding-dong ditch. Except instead of ditching I would just stand right there waiting at the door. Finally, I would go to Roberson's and trip a waitress just for fun. Or instead of tripping them, I would wait until they went to pick up their tip and slowly move the money away from them.