Little Einstein

 There was a student/parent/counselor conference today for my youngest at the high school.  I attended.  During the meeting the discussion focused around what my youngest wants to study in the next 3 years and charting a path based on his current career interests.  My son came in and was well spoken, well thought, well mannered and well put together.  I was most pleased with how much thought he has given to his future studies and the strategy he employed in selecting his coursework over the next three years.  Well done, sir.

My son wants long hair, which I obviously am not a fan of.  However, I thought about it and at the beginning of November I made a gentlemen's agreement with my son.  You can wear your hair as long as you want as long as it's not in your eyes.  He has stuck by that.  Whenever he is spoken to, he looks up and brushes his hair to the side with his hand and exchanges in conversation.  As it turns out, this has transferred into talking to all adults.  When he came in and said hello to the counselor, the first the he does is get the hair out of his eyes as he acknowledges the room.  Very cool.  He knows if he doesn't comply he will be escorted to the barbershop in quick time to have the situation rectified.  I'm most pleased that he takes it seriously and strives to be courteous and honor the agreement, not only with me but with everyone else, too.

I guess you could say today was an affirmation that my wife and I are doing a satisfactory job in parenting our kids.  Whoda thunk?!?!

At the conference probably have the tables were filled with Indian kids and their Indian parents.  Probably here on H1-B visas because it's obvious English is not their language of choice.  The Indians have this smug look on their face.  The show up bright eyed and bushy tailed.  They kiss the counselor's ass.  Wobble their heads back and forth while listening and their soaking everything up trying to extract every morsel of information out of the meeting - especially when it comes to college strategies, programs to garner favor with the institutions, scholarships and how to work the system.  These people are hungry for success and want to take advantage of any opportunity they can to get ahead.  I find it offensive - even disgusting.

Musk and Ramaswamy understand the culture problem in the US and realize the people from "over there" are hungry and driven.  This is why they are both proponents for the H1b visa program.  They got a hunger that no longer exists in Americans.  In fact, that hunger is probably dropping off of Asian people after they've been here longer than a generation.  All the Asian kids start getting into ricing out their Hondas and Toyotas.  But the Indian people - they're still first generation and they are driven to make a better life for themselves after coming from a third world shit hole like India, Pakistan or Bangladesh.

How do Americans get this hunger for success back?  So many think they're entitled.  So many think they're all that but they're not.  

I think the entire situation is disappointing.  It's a reality check that if you don't stay hungry, someone will snatch your job from you because you lost the fire in the belly.  

Americans lost the fire in the belly.  A friend of my was a college instructor at the graduate level.  He also commented on the entitlement of the students and the lack of taking advantage of opportunity extended to them.  They didn't want the education.  They wanted the piece of paper.  

How many people have the piece of paper are ill-qualified for the jobs they're applying?  How many drs don't know what the hell they're doing because they use the googler and the AI for everything.

I've said many times that despite us being in the Information Age, I've never seen so many stupid people that are incapable of thinking.  I think that's what the H1b visa does.  It separates the hungry from the entitled and that bothers me.  If American's don't have the fire in the belly the H1b visa allows them to import people with the fire in the belly if they can't find any suitable candidates here.  That sucks.