I often wonder

How late is too late to go to college seriously?Many seniors go back to school to achieve that degree they missed because of marriage, finances, unplanned pregnancies and various other reasons. I can understand the desire to ‘get’ the degree, but sometimes I do not understand the real logic. To graduate with a degree in nursing at 82 sounds good, but is it logical?

(Even Corgi’s blame someone else)

Could a person  who dropped out of school at 16, and is now say 70 years old pursue a career as a medical doctor? That takes a minimum of 8 years right? Then some required …..(?)  OJT (On the job training).

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BREAK… the above is a true life example and one of the reason I ask the question. In the process of writing this simple blog entry my ‘old brain’ cannot think of a simple word, so I used OJT.  Most of us seniors have this problem, we cannot command our brain to give us a word we know as well as our name. I can just see me, spending 12 years becoming a surgeon. Now at 89 with a patient on the table ask the nurse for a --------, you know the thing I make a -------- , dadgummit, give me a knife!  The actual word scalpel might come to mind a minute or a week later.

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Now I know that is a silly  example, it is just to make a point. Not everyone can be sharp after retirement age like Heinz(Manfred's dad) over at ‘Stalled at 12’.  But he had his medical training at a young age.

So maybe the medical profession is out, unless some person just wants to prove to themselves he can do it in his/her 80’s.  I guess some of us want to be doctors so we can diagnose ourselves in the privacy of our own minds. LOL. (whoa, I forgot us old folk do that anyway) 

(Sometimes kids can hit the last nerve)

But what about ART or WRITING? Can school help then?   I have been called an artist, even have been paid for some art work, but I know I am not an ARTIST. But I want to be one. There are folks who read my blog that are artists. They have that natural talent.

Can I actually learn English and composition enough to become a REAL WRITER before I die?  Yes, I have written books, but I am no real author, I am a story teller. I know I am a good story teller, my grand kids have told me so. I even have several fans who say I am a writer, but I am still the story teller.

Enough of this nonsense. Maybe I will quit dreaming and face reality one day.

(Yeah, I coulda been…….  But this will do)

Nite Shipslog

PS:

It is enjoyable to see someone with a natural talent!

Oh, EARLY SPRING according to what-his-name! Some weather forecasters need NO education.

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I am old, I remember gas as low as 20¢ a gallon, but most of the time it was 25¢ to 29¢ a gallon. I believe the mystery car is a Hudson. I know the others.