Some people have never liked school. I’m going to guess they often are of the rebellious type. It reminds me of the 1975 Pink Floyd song, Welcome to the Machine: “You bought a guitar to punish your ma And you didn’t like school and you know you’re nobody’s fool” I am of that archetype. Definitely I wasn't fond of school. I’ve bought plenty of guitars — 23 to be exact. Some are long gone. I currently own 14. I was definitely going “against the grain” in many ways. But I was a fool, as I’ve ended up working just as hard being an autodidact as if I had gone through college — no shortcut whatsoever there. I’ve been pondering for some time now as to where we’re heading as a society. It’s all moving so fast now. Not long ago it seemed, a school dropout like myself, if they were lucky enough or sufficiently resourceful, could inch themselves up from mid-middle class status to the upper-middle class (or even higher) by turning their trade into a business — that ma
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