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Master Don Juan
In the last couple posts of mine, I have questioned the importance, even the necessity, of a college diploma. There were a lot of mixed responses here, many saying it is obviously useful while others chanting the irrelevance of a diploma in actually building financial success.
However, over the past month or so, I have been out trying to support myself and trying to get a job, and what I realize is that I really have nothing to set me apart from anyone else.
If I could invest, I would. But without any money, how is one going to invest? And not only is money not there, but at 18, my line of credit isn't too developed, either.
And so, a useful college degree DOES have many benefits. First, it helps to set a person apart from the mass of people fighting for an 8 dollar per hour job. Now obviously just ANY degree won't help a person. Indeed, one has to have direction. Just obtaining a diploma for the hell of it probably IS useless. Secondly, many degrees allow a person to get into at least a moderately-good paying job.
An engineer, for example, can expect to make around 40000 his/her first year of working.
After obtaining a useful diploma and securing a moderately-good paying job, one actually has the assetts to invest. Sure, a job won't make you rich, but it will provide you with the safety net needed to make investments, which WILL make you rich.
For me, I want to focus on getting into the biotechnology business that is dfeinately developing. And so, I will get my degree in this field and then continue on to get a business degree.
At that point, I can begin to climb up the ladder. Would it be possible without the degree to achieve the same positions? Possibly. Is it a lot harder and more risky? Definately.
Sure, there ARE a few millionaires out there who have never graduated from college (I've known a couple personally). They worked up the ladder for many years and were excellent business men. However, there are also thousands of those who never got an education and are still sitting at the bottom rung trying to scrape up enough to survive.
In any place you look, people are looking for a quick buck. People flock to scams to make their millions "in just a couple years." But in the end, it seems that achieving financial success requires hard work, diligence, discipline, and most importantly, patience. Will education in itself provide a person financial sucess? Obviously not. But it can definately help make it a more secure journey.
It's easy to get disillusioned by "rags to riches" tales. People see the millions owned by the high-school dropout business man but forget the long years when he toiled for pennies trying to survive or the years it took to move up the ladder, inch by inch. There is no easy route, and if it someone says otherwise, there's probably a scam built into it.
And so, I have come to the conclusion that a diploma IS useful. As long as one doesn't become stuck in a drone job forever, but sees it as a way to move up, the couple years it takes to secure a solid education and receive a worthwhile degree seems very beneficial...there will still be ample time to build financial security, and education will ultimately help.
However, over the past month or so, I have been out trying to support myself and trying to get a job, and what I realize is that I really have nothing to set me apart from anyone else.
If I could invest, I would. But without any money, how is one going to invest? And not only is money not there, but at 18, my line of credit isn't too developed, either.
And so, a useful college degree DOES have many benefits. First, it helps to set a person apart from the mass of people fighting for an 8 dollar per hour job. Now obviously just ANY degree won't help a person. Indeed, one has to have direction. Just obtaining a diploma for the hell of it probably IS useless. Secondly, many degrees allow a person to get into at least a moderately-good paying job.
An engineer, for example, can expect to make around 40000 his/her first year of working.
After obtaining a useful diploma and securing a moderately-good paying job, one actually has the assetts to invest. Sure, a job won't make you rich, but it will provide you with the safety net needed to make investments, which WILL make you rich.
For me, I want to focus on getting into the biotechnology business that is dfeinately developing. And so, I will get my degree in this field and then continue on to get a business degree.
At that point, I can begin to climb up the ladder. Would it be possible without the degree to achieve the same positions? Possibly. Is it a lot harder and more risky? Definately.
Sure, there ARE a few millionaires out there who have never graduated from college (I've known a couple personally). They worked up the ladder for many years and were excellent business men. However, there are also thousands of those who never got an education and are still sitting at the bottom rung trying to scrape up enough to survive.
In any place you look, people are looking for a quick buck. People flock to scams to make their millions "in just a couple years." But in the end, it seems that achieving financial success requires hard work, diligence, discipline, and most importantly, patience. Will education in itself provide a person financial sucess? Obviously not. But it can definately help make it a more secure journey.
It's easy to get disillusioned by "rags to riches" tales. People see the millions owned by the high-school dropout business man but forget the long years when he toiled for pennies trying to survive or the years it took to move up the ladder, inch by inch. There is no easy route, and if it someone says otherwise, there's probably a scam built into it.
And so, I have come to the conclusion that a diploma IS useful. As long as one doesn't become stuck in a drone job forever, but sees it as a way to move up, the couple years it takes to secure a solid education and receive a worthwhile degree seems very beneficial...there will still be ample time to build financial security, and education will ultimately help.
