What's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?
What's the wrongest thing a teacher ever told you?
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“You need to go to college to be successful or you’ll be flipping burgers!”
So said teachers, parents, career counselors, etc. and here we are, I beat school, and no jobs. Should’ve become an electrician.
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I couldn't even get the burger flipping job starting out. Rude.
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Most of the most successful people never went to college. Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, Simon Cowell...
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I mean you're looking at a few edge cases here. Most of us will tend to land in the average and never see that level of wild success. Yes, with the right skills you can get a well paying job without a degree but on the whole, people who get a higher education end up doing better financially.
https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2023/data-on-display/education-pays.htm
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They either had rich parents with rich connections, or had incredibly loyal, highly skilled friends, like Jobs had Wozniak.
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I wondered that too, but then you have people like Whoopi Goldberg and Chris Rock on that list. And it's not like Will Smith was that rich friend.
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Your also looking at a very specific field. Some fields require a degree and others require talent and a nonstop work ethic to just get out there and do it day after day and push through those hardships.
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