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EDUCATION is a never-ending MUST. Call it EDUCATION, understanding, study, awareness; whatever you like...but stay on the PATH of CONSTANT mastery and your knowledge will on be exceeded by your net worth and income.
The FORMAT you choose, which can be IN a classroom, online, night classes, self-study, a mentor, or other unknown formats, is truly PERSONAL.
High school itself is the poorest preparation one can have to be an economic unit in the real world. AT best they're meant to drive kids into being slaves to the top 5%. Do they really give you ANY valuable skills you can use at that age? No. There's nothing of VALUE to be found in the walls of schools. There's no utility for today as a kids. Nothing to ENHANCE a person's future skills. For example, joining a play helps a kids self confidence and public speaking abilities, as well as providing enjoyment and the like. Joining sports teams teaches leadership as well as team unity and power in working a specific outcome. Widdling away on math problems endlessly teaches nothing. Basing them on FINANCE, MONEY, or GEOMETRIC math problems enables kids to use them NOW, such as building, balancing check books, or making small investment decisions. You'd be surprised how capable kids are when you give them tools and skill and empower them to THINK creatively NOW.
However, my girlfriend was sent to a top school which cost HER parents over 100k. I'm sure her dad wouldn't have GIVEN her that money in terms of INVESTABLE assets NOW, so her only option and rightly so a smart one was to attend a top B-school and get her degree and Sales and PSYCHOLOGY. Already out school she's one of the top sales people in her company, male or female.
If you're paying, it's YOUR decisions. Do you want to make payments, or can you find other ways to gain education? Can you take night classes? I know some people/kids who attend colleges where their parents are and go for near free. TAKE THAT! Why turn it down?
Each situation WILL be unique. To tell someone who'd have to BORROW the full cost or spend all available income of the parent's on college education is foolish. The delta BETWEEN harvard/yale/princeton/Wharton school of finance and a state school is HUGE. But the delta between a state school and small private school or community college is NOT. UNLESS you know famous, established people went there, or you get such an immense Fin. Aid package it becomes worth it.
What you guys are saying is like...Is Microsoft a Good Investment? Well, that depends. It made TONS of people millionaires, and it's individual. If you're an employee and can get stock options for free, go for it. But if you're a public investor with no advanced knowledge, you're not going to gain as much as YOU WOULD, or an employee w/free stock options would. It's a purchase like anything else.
I have a FINANCE/ECONOMICS/ACCOUNTING degree. For me, unlike most college students, it was like a HOBBY or a PASSION. Though I don't love it like GOLF, LIFTING, POKER, FOOTBALL, BASEBALL, READING, etc, I do like it MORE than my father likes his NON-Degree job. I set my own hours, most times, and don't report to anyone but a few government auditors, so that my records are true and clean. For now, that suffices. Having my degree makes me LOOK better and MORE ACCOMPLISHED than most other people in my field. Those without a degree look like a DR without MD after their name. They no credibility, even if the finance they learn AFTER school is worth more than what they learn IN school.
The people that I feel bad for are people like my X-gf during college. She went in for liberal arts. She wanted to be close to home, and chose a super expensive college at the time (25k+ per year). Then she switched and wanted to be a lawyer, so she studied history and hated that. Finally, she had a history or lib. degree, I believe (we broke up before her senior year), and ended up teaching special ed for one year. Then she went on to be a Nanny. Last I heard she was applying for pharmaceutical sales positions. Her best bet is to be a housewife and mother tons of children. Perhaps be a teacher. She has skills, but is very aimless and can't take standardized tests worth a darn. I knew LOTS of people like that. But it doesn't matter to them because they're blowing mommy and daddy's money. If you're not, give greater consideration to YOUR future. Go travel. Work shyt jobs until you want to move forward in a chosen career path. Take night classes to at least have an ASSOCIATE degree so you don't spend so long in college.
Ultimately it comes down to HOW the individual treats their education and their own educational pursuits. It isn't entirely WORTHLESS, but it's also NOT a requirement. Afterall, you're only LEARNING from people who've only LEARNED from books throughout most of their lives, and never ACTUALLY accomplished what it is you study about. Fortunately my college was chock full of EX-cpa's, tax counselors, investors, planners, brokers, and businessowners, all of which were a requirement, so the chosen course material was based on what they thought was needed relevant to our major and most classes had projects related to REAL WORLD occurences. As best they could make 'em.
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EDUCATION is a never-ending MUST. Call it EDUCATION, understanding, study, awareness; whatever you like...but stay on the PATH of CONSTANT mastery and your knowledge will on be exceeded by your net worth and income.
The FORMAT you choose, which can be IN a classroom, online, night classes, self-study, a mentor, or other unknown formats, is truly PERSONAL.
High school itself is the poorest preparation one can have to be an economic unit in the real world. AT best they're meant to drive kids into being slaves to the top 5%. Do they really give you ANY valuable skills you can use at that age? No. There's nothing of VALUE to be found in the walls of schools. There's no utility for today as a kids. Nothing to ENHANCE a person's future skills. For example, joining a play helps a kids self confidence and public speaking abilities, as well as providing enjoyment and the like. Joining sports teams teaches leadership as well as team unity and power in working a specific outcome. Widdling away on math problems endlessly teaches nothing. Basing them on FINANCE, MONEY, or GEOMETRIC math problems enables kids to use them NOW, such as building, balancing check books, or making small investment decisions. You'd be surprised how capable kids are when you give them tools and skill and empower them to THINK creatively NOW.
However, my girlfriend was sent to a top school which cost HER parents over 100k. I'm sure her dad wouldn't have GIVEN her that money in terms of INVESTABLE assets NOW, so her only option and rightly so a smart one was to attend a top B-school and get her degree and Sales and PSYCHOLOGY. Already out school she's one of the top sales people in her company, male or female.
If you're paying, it's YOUR decisions. Do you want to make payments, or can you find other ways to gain education? Can you take night classes? I know some people/kids who attend colleges where their parents are and go for near free. TAKE THAT! Why turn it down?
Each situation WILL be unique. To tell someone who'd have to BORROW the full cost or spend all available income of the parent's on college education is foolish. The delta BETWEEN harvard/yale/princeton/Wharton school of finance and a state school is HUGE. But the delta between a state school and small private school or community college is NOT. UNLESS you know famous, established people went there, or you get such an immense Fin. Aid package it becomes worth it.
What you guys are saying is like...Is Microsoft a Good Investment? Well, that depends. It made TONS of people millionaires, and it's individual. If you're an employee and can get stock options for free, go for it. But if you're a public investor with no advanced knowledge, you're not going to gain as much as YOU WOULD, or an employee w/free stock options would. It's a purchase like anything else.
I have a FINANCE/ECONOMICS/ACCOUNTING degree. For me, unlike most college students, it was like a HOBBY or a PASSION. Though I don't love it like GOLF, LIFTING, POKER, FOOTBALL, BASEBALL, READING, etc, I do like it MORE than my father likes his NON-Degree job. I set my own hours, most times, and don't report to anyone but a few government auditors, so that my records are true and clean. For now, that suffices. Having my degree makes me LOOK better and MORE ACCOMPLISHED than most other people in my field. Those without a degree look like a DR without MD after their name. They no credibility, even if the finance they learn AFTER school is worth more than what they learn IN school.
The people that I feel bad for are people like my X-gf during college. She went in for liberal arts. She wanted to be close to home, and chose a super expensive college at the time (25k+ per year). Then she switched and wanted to be a lawyer, so she studied history and hated that. Finally, she had a history or lib. degree, I believe (we broke up before her senior year), and ended up teaching special ed for one year. Then she went on to be a Nanny. Last I heard she was applying for pharmaceutical sales positions. Her best bet is to be a housewife and mother tons of children. Perhaps be a teacher. She has skills, but is very aimless and can't take standardized tests worth a darn. I knew LOTS of people like that. But it doesn't matter to them because they're blowing mommy and daddy's money. If you're not, give greater consideration to YOUR future. Go travel. Work shyt jobs until you want to move forward in a chosen career path. Take night classes to at least have an ASSOCIATE degree so you don't spend so long in college.
Ultimately it comes down to HOW the individual treats their education and their own educational pursuits. It isn't entirely WORTHLESS, but it's also NOT a requirement. Afterall, you're only LEARNING from people who've only LEARNED from books throughout most of their lives, and never ACTUALLY accomplished what it is you study about. Fortunately my college was chock full of EX-cpa's, tax counselors, investors, planners, brokers, and businessowners, all of which were a requirement, so the chosen course material was based on what they thought was needed relevant to our major and most classes had projects related to REAL WORLD occurences. As best they could make 'em.
A-Unit