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Re: A hello, an intro, and a question...

liberty student — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:26:43 GMT

Omoplata:
running around with 2 small children

That's your big contribution right there. Raise them libertarians!

Re: A hello, an intro, and a question...

hayekianxyz — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:06:00 GMT

Omoplata:
Which brings me back to educating myself in a formal capacity once again. Being 36, living in Long Island, New York, working for a huge telecommunications company as a fiber optic engineer, running around with 2 small children, practicing BJJ, staying married, what in your humble opinions would be the best way to pursue some form of useful education and perhaps eventually make a career change? (Doesn't neccessarily have to be an economic type degree either).

If you want to make a difference scholarly journals aren't the means to do it. Use the internet instead.

Re: A hello, an intro, and a question...

Stranger — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:51:56 GMT

You have the good life, why ruin it? Give money instead.

A hello, an intro, and a question...

Omoplata — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:58:21 GMT

Hello everyone I have been lurking here for quite some time and finally signed up. Over the last few years I find myself more and more sucked into the libertarian way of life. I can't read "mainstream" history books the same way, if at all (books 5-10 years ago I would have thought were pulitzer worthy I would now throw across the room in disgust). After I got my MBA in 2000 I wanted to completely shift gears and pursue some kind of Phd in history. Thankfully, work, hobbies (avid Brazilian Jiu Jitsu practitioner), and two small kids halted any delusions of a Phd in history. At my leisure I began dabbling in libertarian literature - always thought myself a libertarian but I needed to be better informed, I needed to articulate it better when I had the religion, current events, and political arguments with friends, co-workers, and gasp! in-laws.

After all this so-called home schooling in libertarianism I still get tongue-tied and can't hammer my points home. Don't get wrong, I don't go around picking fights with people to preach the libertarian creed. But lately I have wanted to start opening other people's eyes to what is going on around them. In the media, on TV, in politics, in history, etc...

Which brings me back to educating myself in a formal capacity once again. Being 36, living in Long Island, New York, working for a huge telecommunications company as a fiber optic engineer, running around with 2 small children, practicing BJJ, staying married, what in your humble opinions would be the best way to pursue some form of useful education and perhaps eventually make a career change? (Doesn't neccessarily have to be an economic type degree either).