Regents: Fall 2019 enrollment down at South Dakota public universities

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6. So true.

Which is why vocational ed should be a huge part of high school. Even for the kids who are clearly going to do a four year degree and some sort of professional school.

I was an airline ticket agent for ten years at National Airport in Washington DC. Tough job. I learned to hate people. But more to the point, we noticed that people who themselves dealt with the public could empathize with what we were going through on the bad days. Doctors, lawyers, not so much. They expected the world to revolve around them and didn't understand that we had no control over things like weather and maintenance.

I've long thought that every single person should have to spend at least six months in some kind of serious public contact job, like waiting tables or retail.