Do you foresee the bachelor degree requirement ever going away

[Joe Flacco]

The degree requirement is just old-fashioned gate keeping. Everyone has to pass the same exam and get their hours in.

It's the hours that works more as gatekeeping. Get rid of the hours and require a degree with related course requirements.

 

[George Hatch]

I would get the SRA if I had a favorable opinion of the organization. But I don't. I've completed all of the requirements except the exam.

I think you'd do well for yourself by getting a CG and since you're on the east coast it might be worth your while to earn an MAI and assimilate into that crowd. If you ever had any interest in diversifying or switching around.

 

[Joe Flacco]

I think you'd do well for yourself by getting a CG and since you're on the east coast it might be worth your while to earn an MAI and assimilate into that crowd. If you ever had any interest in diversifying or switching around.

I'm not interested in doing that. I have a pretty good path in front of me right now.

 

[George Hatch]

I figured. Aside from that, making such a switch would only be worthwhile to someone if they were emotionally invested in it. Same as getting into any other aspect of this business. Clock-watchers will usually fail.

 

[Joe Flacco]

I figured. Aside from that, making such a switch would only be worthwhile to someone if they were emotionally invested in it. Same as getting into any other aspect of this business. Clock-watchers will usually fail.

What is the point you are trying to make? I don't get what you are saying.

 

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[Terrel L. Shields]

Meaning people in Arkansas don't tend to have bachelors degrees.

Most people in every state do not have college degrees. Arkansas has a HS graduation rate that is above the national average but true enough, fewer Arkansas residents have college degrees. That's largely due to poverty and the lack of jobs for such grads. Outside NW Arkansas which has a much higher percent of grads than the remainder of the state, the state isn't growing much and has a higher age average as retirees come here.

OTOH

Arkansas had a high number of billionaires, ranking 7th in the country, with 0.65 billionaires per million people. Specifically, the study placed Arkansas at #7 with 0.65 billionaires per million people. Wyoming had the highest number of billionaires per capita, followed by Hawaii, Nevada, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, and New York.​

 

[cpursley]

OTOH
Arkansas had a high number of billionaires, ranking 7th in the country, with 0.65 billionaires per million people. Specifically, the study placed Arkansas at #7 with 0.65 billionaires per million people. Wyoming had the highest number of billionaires per capita, followed by Hawaii, Nevada, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, and New York.

Walmart, baby.

 

[Joe Flacco]

Most people in every state do not have college degrees. Arkansas has a HS graduation rate that is above the national average but true enough, fewer Arkansas residents have college degrees. That's largely due to poverty and the lack of jobs for such grads. Outside NW Arkansas which has a much higher percent of grads than the remainder of the state, the state isn't growing much and has a higher age average as retirees come here.

OTOH

Arkansas had a high number of billionaires, ranking 7th in the country, with 0.65 billionaires per million people. Specifically, the study placed Arkansas at #7 with 0.65 billionaires per million people. Wyoming had the highest number of billionaires per capita, followed by Hawaii, Nevada, Oklahoma, New Hampshire, and New York.​

I didn't mean anything negative by it. Just pointing out culture differences.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Walmart, baby.

That's 4 or 5 of 'em but you also have the Tyson family, the Stephens family and several others including J. B. Hunt's widow. Hunt made his money by hauling rice hulls from E. Arkansas to Tyson's, George's and the other chicken companies for bedding in chicken houses. Now they are still huge in dedicated freight for those same companies.