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  • #16
    Lorenzo,
    Thanks for one of your more pleasent replies! I already have an associates in Computer Info Systems. Thats a dead end street if I've ever seen one. Sure, I can type up nice proposals, build a massive database, or teach my son about spreadsheets, but entering that job market around here brings you $10 bucks/hr. Thats what I call the bottom of the barrel. Besides, there's not that many qualified professionals in my area and we're already doing pretty well building a client base on no less than 300k properties.

    And about Mr Kinison, didn't he die of a drug overdose? If so, I'm not sure of the soundness of his advice.

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    • #17
      Mr. Kinison was killed in a car crash. He had, a short time before, gotten off of booze and drugs, and had just days before gotten married to his 3rd wife. His car was hit head-on while he was heading to a sold-out show in Nevada. Ironically, he was hit by a pair of drunken teenage drivers near Needles, California.

      Woody
      Woody

      "Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty." ---Benjamin Franklin

      "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." ---Abraham Lincoln

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      • #18
        Two Differing opinions:
        1. Had a boss one time tell me, "Skip the BA. Those people are a dime a dozen. People who know how to grow & manage landscapes are rarer."

        2. 30 years after I got my degree in turf management, I have fully realized that I am committed to this industry till the day I die. While I have experience in business mgmt, sales, accounting, supervision, training, and HR, everyone looks at the hort degree and tosses the resume.

        You decide, it's your life.
        The old shoe is both a reminiscence and a challenge, for if there have been previous generations enjoying these places, there should be future generations as well. We have work to do, to see that we are not the last. - Don Mitchell 11/1/5

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        • #19
          As to "who" will do the actual work ... you, your workers, or the currently laid off factory worker ... it doesn't matter ...

          What matters most is OWNING the rights to do the work ... a contract in your hand ... allows YOU to select the lowest cost of producing the work ... in-house ... sub out ... whatever. In other words ... you don't have to learn how to manage a complete 100% total company ... when you can manage the (contract rights) you "own" the most important thing ... you own the job ... which is to say you HAVE a job!

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          • #20
            I would take the busness degree with my electives in turf management.
            Wayne

            "If the grass on the other side of the fence appears greener...it must be all the fertilizer they are using!" (Kevin Rodowicz)

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