Which is what I tell my youngest, he is a single 35 year old, and was dumb enough to drop out of HS in his Senior year the day he turned 18. Won’t get his GED, doesn’t want anything to do with the education process, not even tech school, where he would do good. So he is forced to live on the $15 an hr factory job, he has his state issue fork lift operators license, can do small welding jobs, but won’t go to tech school to make a better life for himself. So he lives on the edge of poverty constantly. He works his butt off at the job.
His oldest bro lost his high pay job due to 0’s Depression, took a pizza delivery job, worked his way up to manager and is working on district manager now. He is on the wrong side of 40, for today’s market. They keep their heads above water. And limited family to 1. They will not prosper as well as if had gone to business school. This is not the day and age when hard work pays off, it’s that piece of paper.
You think that the advanced degree removes the need for hard work? You're flat out wrong. First it's hard work to get the degree. You have to go to school and forgo any decent income while you're in school. Second, once you have it you still have to use what you learned and there are plenty of other people with the same qualifications who are willing to work as hard or harder than you to get ahead of you. Real world problems don't work out to have the clean and pat solutions that class exercises have.
There ya go!!