Adventurous cylinder
Should’ve been an inanimate carbon rod.
Imo, it is because those jobs are gatekept for specific kinds of people. It is not about the difficulty. In fact, the more education, the easier the jobs get because the lowest class is assigned all the hard manual labor like farming, cleaning, etc. The credentialist system is designed specificaly for inequality and exclusion
I can barely deal with anything more complicated after dividing and percent, I think. (I last studied math at trade school like 15 years ago, in Europe)
I’m almost 60 years ago, using still this thing
Hey that’s really awesome! My dad showed me how to use one a long time ago. Those things are pure magic
I know, with it you can calculate everything, exept adition and substraction, this you must do still by hand. But it shows only the number value, not if it 13,48 or 1348. Later with the electronic calculators it was easier, more if they are programmable. Sadly when these appears I already finished my studies.
Electronic calculators have their own magic but with slide rules you conjure it yourself and it’s beautiful. I like seeing the how behind the why
Next time I visit I’ll ask to be shown again. I miss the long, boring explanations about how every single part of a keyboard works and how they all mechanically and electronically mesh to put our finger taps into words on a screen
I’m sorry for waxing nostalgia, it just kinda dawned on me I haven’t let him know I appreciated being taught those things because nowadays we just expect things to work and don’t question the “magic”
On earning my masters, my life really went to shit. Not that it wasn’t shit before. It just became shittier.
Why
It’s imperative the cylinder remains unharmed
