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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: robert b furman who wrote (3807)	2/9/2016 12:20:20 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27108

At Berkeley, the slackers usually flunked out in the first year. There was one guy in my dorm in the first year that changed his major several times to avoid it. He had rich parents and a room filled with expensive stereo gear and records and a girlfriend with "large assets" who visited constantly, we felt sorry for his roommate who was a nerdy, hard working guy.... What is WAG 95? Berkeley had a reasonable tuition where I could pay it with summer jobs and my parents covered the $150 a month to stay in the dorms and get meals. I worked one year washing dishes. My roommate had a great job on student aid cleaning dorm floors. He was paid a ton compared to us and he could do his job in an hour and get paid for 2 hrs. You see they had these big, huge blimp sized women (who were wonderful people but not hard working) from Oakland as union workers who would supervise the students and clean 4 floors of the dorm in an 8 hour day. The two students would get "part time jobs" cleaning two floors each week day but it only took them an hour, if that to do the job since they didn't chat and were more efficient. I saw clearly how "time to do a job fills to the maximum amount when you get a high, hourly wage with no real supervision or pressure to be more efficient." Sadly, I believe it is one of the issues with public education also... we spend more and more with decreasing results. Anyway, I HC sounds like the only adult in the room with a grasp of reality, but she's damaged goods and they may have to draft someone else. As a fellow moderate, could you pick between the burn and trumpster? BTW, I got my shares in my net this AM that missed yesterday even though I nailed the low to the penny, there was not enough volume to fill the order. I was patient, it dropped again this AM to even lower, my order filled and now I'm hoping for a good rally to take profits and collect another "interest check" from this.