Chris and four-year colleges? -

[Bobby Boulders]

Was a four-year university ever on the horizon for Chris, or did Bob/Barb assume that he would find some dead-end job with an Associates' and stick with it? I know Chris has had a lot of time visiting/interacting with people at UVA, so maybe at one point, he might have considered it?

 

[The Joker]

It took him six years to finish a two year program.

 

[Henry Bemis]

I'd imagine anything not within a comfortable distance for a daily commute was right out.

 

[Uziumi]

Is there a such thing as being "Home-schooled" for adults without the internet?
As I think that's what Chris needed from the beginning.

 

[JULAY]

Was a four-year university ever on the horizon for Chris, or did Bob/Barb assume that he would find some dead-end job with an Associates' and stick with it? I know Chris has had a lot of time visiting/interacting with people at UVA, so maybe at one point, he might have considered it?

Borb assumed that Chris would never even graduate from high school or even write his own name. So four year program? Fuck no.

Wherein lies much of the problem, they expected him to amount to nothing, so they never pushed him to do anything, and thus he amounted to nothing.

 

[Kosher Dill]

For Chris, he's not qualified to live unsupervised, so he'd have had to go somewhere he could commute to - either one of the Virginia community colleges or UVA-Charlottesville. I think Bob and Barb must have understood on some level that even if he was admitted by some miracle, sending Chris to UVA would have been an utter waste of money they couldn't spare.

 

[Henry Bemis]

Was a four-year university ever on the horizon for Chris, or did Bob/Barb assume that he would find some dead-end job with an Associates' and stick with it? I know Chris has had a lot of time visiting/interacting with people at UVA, so maybe at one point, he might have considered it?

Borb assumed that Chris would never even graduate from high school or even write his own name. So four year program? Fuck no.

Wherein lies much of the problem, they expected him to amount to nothing, so they never pushed him to do anything, and thus he amounted to nothing.

But strangely, at the same time, they still expected Chris to go through the motions of everything that they believed was expected for a child to be considered "successful."

 

[homerbeoulve]

Chris Chan should have gone "hikikomori".

 

[CatParty]

He'd still be attending a four year school now, assuming he wasn't already kicked out for harassment.

But it would be interesting to seem him try to adjust to dorm life.

 

[FruitEater]

No. If we take from what was documented about his foray into Community College, he would never survive a year of a regular University without putting his parents deeply into debt.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

The only reason Bob forced him into community college was to get him to do something quasi-productive with his time. He wasn't going to go all out for a university.

 

[pickleniggo]

Wasn't he originally majoring in marketing or something? And then Bob told him to go into CADD because there were "no jobs"?
Bob might have thought he was capable of something. I don't know what, exactly.

 

[snowkitten91]

It would most probably have ended with a banhammer.

 

[Yawning Squirtle]

Wasn't he originally majoring in marketing or something? And then Bob told him to go into CADD because there were "no jobs"?
Bob might have thought he was capable of something. I don't know what, exactly.

Well, in some of those troll prank calls, I vaguely remember Bob saying something about Chris being good with computers, drawing, art, and all that. He sounds really sincere, but I don't think it would be enough to put Chris in college.

And yeah, somebody here in the forum said he was originally going for marketing, but decided to go into CADD. Not sure who said it.

 

[pickleniggo]

And yeah, somebody here in the forum said he was originally going for marketing, but decided to go into CADD. Not sure who said it.

I think it was mentioned in one of the Kacey calls, too.

 

[Marvin]

Wasn't he originally majoring in marketing or something? And then Bob told him to go into CADD because there were "no jobs"?
Bob might have thought he was capable of something. I don't know what, exactly.

Drafting is something that's very basic and consistent that an autist like Chris could easily handle.

Though, someone would need to clean Chris up in a lot of ways to prepare him to get any sort of job that would use those skills. Plus I can't imagine that there'd be a bunch of jobs in the Charlottesville area that would need someone with those skills.

 

[pickleniggo]

Drafting is something that's very basic and consistent that an autist like Chris could easily handle.

Though, someone would need to clean Chris up in a lot of ways to prepare him to get any sort of job that would use those skills. Plus I can't imagine that there'd be a bunch of jobs in the Charlottesville area that would need someone with those skills.

Yeah, if Chris was able to apply himself, he could very well have been suited for a "behind the scenes" kind of job like that. But alas, Chris was unleashed into the world no better than he was before college.

 

[___]

I can't think of a single major that would have been good for Chris. It would have to be something that could result in a job that hardly has any client or coworker interaction.

 

[hellbound]

Wasn't he originally majoring in marketing or something? And then Bob told him to go into CADD because there were "no jobs"?
Bob might have thought he was capable of something. I don't know what, exactly.

Drafting is something that's very basic and consistent that an autist like Chris could easily handle.

Though, someone would need to clean Chris up in a lot of ways to prepare him to get any sort of job that would use those skills. Plus I can't imagine that there'd be a bunch of jobs in the Charlottesville area that would need someone with those skills.

There's architects and small engineering firms everywhere, and he did get out before the big crash when the market was a little better.

 

[CatParty]

Drafting is something that's very basic and consistent that an autist like Chris could easily handle.

Though, someone would need to clean Chris up in a lot of ways to prepare him to get any sort of job that would use those skills. Plus I can't imagine that there'd be a bunch of jobs in the Charlottesville area that would need someone with those skills.

Yeah, if Chris was able to apply himself, he could very well have been suited for a "behind the scenes" kind of job like that. But alas, Chris was unleashed into the world no better than he was before college.

practically worse off.