TheJackAttack

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TheJackAttack
, 05-14-2010 at 09:24 AM (852 Views)
No this isn't a post about a 12 step program!

I guess I don't understand some of my own generation and not many at all of the younger generations. When I want or have wanted to learn something or start a new endeavor, I read and studied on that subject until I was ready to puke. I'd try to get my hands on whatever and take it apart. I took a tv apart at age 10 because I wanted to check it out. (Lucky for me it went back together! My Dad had big old a$$ whippin hands!)

It would seem that nobody can be bothered to use a search feature or if they do only one combination of keywords is utilized. It would also seem from the number of recent classroom assignment posts that even those taking classes just outright refuse to do their own research. I sure wish I knew how to fix that trend. There is a real joy in learning and understanding something on multiple levels that it would seem our society is missing out on.

Another aspect to learning that I see as a waning characteristic, is experiential and experimental observation. By that I mean one sketches out what one wants to accomplish (ie cable routing, interface GUI routing, OS optimization) and then actually try the idea out. I mean right then prior to ever having to utilize it at a gig!

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Updated 05-14-2010 at 08:03 PM by TheJackAttack (categorize)

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  1. Link555's Avatar
    Its the now generation. We expect everthing instantly and for free.
  2. TheJackAttack's Avatar
    I guess so. For me, every answer leads to three more questions.
  3. Big K's Avatar
    Born 1960, first TV set in the family (no colour): 1968, 1st telephon: 1969, 1st car ( uncles VW Beatle): 1971, 1st holiday further away then 30 km from home: 1978, ...
    Cinema visits: about 5 a year, TV programs: 3 (from 4 PM to 12 PM), sparetime spent outdoors with friends: 85 %, built first electro motor 1972, telephon: 1973, radio: 1973...
    Worktime: after school 5 to 8 hours a day in restaurant kitchen of parents eating place from age 10 to 15, no Holidays, no Sundays... learned to play 3 instruments well till 1977.
    Today: almost 50, house owner, studio owner, label owner, father, the occasional cigarette, could live without booze and beer, no drugs, 19 years spent in schools, colleges and advanced job trainings, total time of unemployment: 7 months ( in 1976). Lifestyle: acceptable, income: sufficient, overall condition: pretty close to happy, yet, still inquisitive, willing to learn and working on becomming better...
    A not entirely fictional live story of a friend... Compare that to the way kids grow up today...

    We kinda learned to make and plan and use things ourselves... There was no budget, time or help in most cases. BUT, we learned things from the bottom up. We were not
    looking for the ecalator from cloud No. 9 right up to the executive chair. The first thing most youngster ask when they come in to ask for an internship is what they're gonna earn...
    It leaves me speechless, sometimes, to see in what kind of weird privat world they live in....
    At least, not all of them are PC-gaming halfwits. Maybe there are just enough smart ones left for humanity to survive...
    ;-)
  4. TheJackAttack's Avatar
    That is not so very different from my growing up a decade later in a different country. I took apart the family tv at age 10 just to see how it worked. My grandfather regularly handed me some tools and a sprocket and told me to go change the combine cutter bar ratios to whatever crop we were harvesting. No instructions just a chart of sprocket teeth gear ratios. And he expected it to be done correctly by thinking it through from one end of the job to the other. By the time I left home to go to the big cities and start my life that was pretty much how I applied myself to any subject/task.

    That work ethic certainly paid off as an orchestral horn player-even after my severe car accident caused mouth trauma in 1993. I was once one of the best of my generation but really detested living in large cities. It's kind of hard to play in a real orchestra and not be in a large city. :(