{"id":600,"date":"2012-07-11T13:02:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2013-12-26T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T19:33:34","slug":"schooling-has-failed-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/schooling-has-failed-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Schooling has failed me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went through years of schooling and I didn&#8217;t learn anything to prepare me for life after school.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent walk, my wife and I were discussing how we&#8217;ve both been through many years of school<sup id=\"fnref:1\"><a href=\"#fn:1\" rel=\"footnote\">1<\/a><\/sup> and we feel totally unprepared for adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>We were never taught how to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prepare meals from fresh foods<\/li>\n<li>Find time and motivation to exercise<\/li>\n<li>Setup savings<\/li>\n<li>Make and keep a budgets<\/li>\n<li>Prepare for retirement<\/li>\n<li>How to keep a house in good repair<\/li>\n<li>Plan for unexpected expenses<\/li>\n<li>How to care for a car<\/li>\n<li>How to manage a credit card<\/li>\n<li>How to buy in bulk to cut costs<\/li>\n<li>How to research and choose the best product for you<\/li>\n<li>How to buy a car<\/li>\n<li>Splitting bills with roommates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you feel you were never prepared to handle as an adult?<\/p>\n<div class=\"footnotes\">\n<hr \/>\n<ol>\n<li id=\"fn:1\">\n<p>She holds a Master&#8217;s Degree and I a Bachelor&#8217;s.&#160;<a href=\"#fnref:1\" rev=\"footnote\">&#8617;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went through years of schooling and I didn&#8217;t learn anything to prepare me for life after school. On a recent walk, my wife and I were discussing how we&#8217;ve both been through many years of school1 and we feel totally unprepared for adulthood. We were never taught how to: Prepare meals from fresh foods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[305,354,355,356],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-education","tag-life-advice","tag-practical-skills","tag-schooling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1503,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}