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People get the wrong impression and somewhat defensive because they actually went to college. That's not so. *I* went. I went to (3) different colleges, too, still finished in 4 years. Not that I'm patting myself on the back, but generally those who transfer do it in 5 years, or never finish.
Going to college is not indicative of anything but the desire to learn. However, many follow it BLINDLY like some grandiose path to wealth. It isn't. Just like H.S. some step in line with only moderate ambition and follow the same line as everybody else.
You need college is your desire is to be an accountant, lawyer, doctor, or something technically-related, such as engineering or computer programing.
However, the biggest sham is business courses. Albeit wonderful, business is perhaps the course of study requiring the MOST intensive effort, yet least difficulty.
Business is such a broad course of study, so many kids elect "business" and finish with a BA that the market is saturated with business degrees.
EVERYTHING is business!!!!
A doctor's office is a business.
A golf course is a business.
A casino is a business.
A restaurant is a business.
A real estate investment company is a business.
By ONLY getting a Business Degree, you're basically relegating yourself to UNDERSTANDING business, but not IMPROVING it, nor providing any value to a business that might hire you.
Does this shock some? It should. If it doesn't then you already know it or you just ignore it.
To be a GOOD business student, you have to rise above the rest or don't really expect the big dollars.
*Take part in as many business group/classes @ your college.
*Use your electives in finance, accounting, and marketing. Gain a foundation OF business. Then you can go onto the REAL meat that works.
*Try to join a chamber of commerce, go to their meetings.
*Get into toastmasters (yes, while in college).
*Do an internship or job during the summer that's in a business field where you learn something. Or try to do a side project on your own making money, like lawn care, detailing cars, doing minor accounting or tax returns, selling things, ebaying, whatever.
*Look around the 'net' for other opportunities.
*Try to practice selling during college (companies like Cutco Knives -Vector Marketing, Herbalife, etc aren't all bad, despite their MLM nature).
Your business life is NOW! Not when you're done. I knew guys working for Vector Marketing driving NEW bmw's @ 23 years old, just because they were dedicated.
Business sounds sexy, and it CAN be, when you're at the forefront. I like to buy movies (yes they're fake), but nonetheless of the attitude of the top EXECs. Wall Street, Barbarians at the Gate, Boiler Room, GlenGarry GlenRoss, etc. They're motivating.
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See, Gates and all his other cohorts already had the DRIVE prior to college, and in most cases, his professors would NOT have fostered his ambition and vision. They would have tried to coral his energy and vision on the future and put it into plans, details, analyses, etc.
Schooling IN GENERAL tries to GIVE you a plan of attack. It is supposed to teach the basics.
But tell me, if the greatest wealth of our time was created from most things nobody every thought of or did, how can a school/college grant you these things, when wealth is the product of creativity and NEW thought???
It's one thing to GET accounting, finance, stocks, etc, but unless new thought is injected, all you get is OLD money. New money, new thought gets paid. Aren't we all looking for new thought to get new, greater wealth or success?
If you aren't, there's tons of programs already written on how to get ahead and get some cash. You don't even need college for that. You can buy a R/E one, a stock one, even sales programs that show how to make X sales that lead to Y commission.
But if colleges don't push people to think beyond the course load, beyond making income statements, and beyond analyzing them, then WHAT DO THEY DO? What are they for?
In a sense, in my opinion, it's like maintaing the ranks. The wealthy know we need a Doctor as much as we need a Garbage man. Someone will do any job for the right money, right? I mean if Garbage men made 100k, some guys would scoop that up.
Those who have companies DO need college grads like they need capital in company, so colleges SUPPLY the necessary human capital (far more value anyway) for corporations to continue. If society wasn't organzied, wealth creation wouldn't be systematic as it is.
Think: If you had a multi billion dollar company, you're not just going to CHUCK $1,000,000,000 out into the market knowing it's likely to fail or to just EXPERIMENT. It's all organized. It's a market, so therefore it's expected to be somewhat predictable. Colleges provice regular, systematic human capital to companies requiring managers and people.
It's like Nobles to Kings. Nobles in some extent were slightly ahead of peasants; they weren't normally or royalty, but they were given title to people and property for the allegiance to the king and control of the people and lands. They in effect worked to keep the system working. And because nobles benefited, they continued helping the kings. They didn't want to be a peasant and knew they'd never be king, so why not the next best thing???
It's no different nowadays. There are those who can't sell, or don't want to, so in some companies, they join large ranks mooching off the production of other people, because they can't or won't do it on their own. Yet, they work to keep the system intact for their own benefit because they are afraid. Why do you think people FEAR downsizing and job loss???
I mean, if you were self-sufficient, valuable, self-reliant, and self-starter, capable, independent, who CAREs about that job lost??? Really. it's just a job. If you can and are able, you're unplugged and don't require ONE company to be your WHOLE life. Yet, much of America is built this way because schooling does JUST THIS.
The best analogy was in the Movie the Matrix when "cypher" chose his fake reality to the real reality. He didn't want to be Free and live in shyt, so he chose to work for the enemy to have his pretty fake world kept together, rather than see life as it is. In the end, he died, and by the 3rd movie, the humans won out, so in the long-run it was worth it. It might be a movie, but all I wanted was the analogy, not the movie or the plot.
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People don't believe in abundance, so they don't have much. Moreover, they dont' belive in it, so they don't SPREAD it. These boards are pretty good, and guys believe girls come and go, so we're not afraid to share styles, tactics, ideas, heck, even girls when we use wing men! So why does society not do the same??
We are so focused on MAKING money rather than CREATING it and helping one another that nobody has any! Fact is, most places, college/h.s. are not positive places for breeding of positive forward thinking thought. When you consider HOW many intelligent kids are at a high school or college, why aren't MORE businesses just POPPING out of campuses?
Granted, they might no have the seed capital, but damn, all you need is the idea, the money will FIND YOU. An idea is harder than the money, and the idea is even easier anyways! Colleges should be breeding grounds and incubators for new businesses, new procedures, new EVERYTHING! They should have college students studying companies, dissecting them, and putting them back together more efficiently. THAT is how you APPLY knowledge rather than just learn it.
Instead everybody just reads the text, takes a paper exam, maybe does a course project and bam, you're done. You've done nothing of note (generally) to improve a company, which would be HUGE on a resume. You've not applied ANY of it to the real world so you can mention this or GET it.
It's one thing to learn stocks, it's another to TRADE them. We learn by doing, NOT by reading. You know something only by GOING through it, not by reading about, Good will hunting.
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.. Might be a little lower or highter than 50 percent, but it's damn close.
