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To: Daffynition

I am no longer annoyed that my eldest Son did not complete school or go to University. He left School at 15 and did some really awful jobs -Mushoom Farm, Chicken Farm, Plastic Welder, Cabinet fitter - he then bought a house, sold it for $70K profit and went and studied for a year - now he is managing a highend boutique winery and food place and his prospects are amazing on 50k plus a year with a car. He is now 28 and has not been without a job for longer than a couple of weeks in 13 years.

College or University is not what it’s cracked up to be unless you study to go into a proper profession. Better to get a job, work hard and not load yourself down with debt.

Mel


15 posted on 10/11/2011 10:41:47 AM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong....)
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To: melsec
What is with all of those no nothing degrees?? Don't they still teach Science Math Engineering, or some other degree that is in demand???
19 posted on 10/11/2011 10:51:58 AM PDT by BooBoo1000 ("IF YOU DON'T HOLD IT, YOU DON'T OWN IT" ( Wise old Gold Bug))
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To: melsec
College or University is not what it’s cracked up to be unless you study to go into a proper profession.

Every college age young adult I can get to listen to me gets the same advice: "If you go to college, learn how to do something. Don't just go learn about something." The colleges offer so many worthless degrees. They do so IMO strictly to make money and perpetuate the myth that the intelligentsia that run the schools are smarter than the rest of us.

36 posted on 10/11/2011 11:51:07 AM PDT by IamConservative (Government is the only institution that can add ink to paper and make both worth less.)
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