[MNDude]

buying a bunch of copies of your own book is a very interesting idea.

Number 7 I would add would be. Hire a freaking professional to write your resume. Why go to school for 4 to 8 years, and then be too cheap to have a resume to sell yourself?

[Ken H]

Growing up, we knew a family with 9 kids - 8 boys and 1 girl. The father owned a plumbing business. He insisted that they each get a college degree and a plumbing license, which they did, including the girl. Every one of them turned out successful.

I think 5 either joined the family business or started their own plumbing company. The other 4 went on to success in other fields. The one in my class became a dentist.

[tbw2]

Live like a starving student after graduation, pay off student loan debt, and then you have all that money free to save and invest later.

Control lifestyle creep and invest the income you’d otherwise spend, and you’ll have a lot more money.

[Rodamala]

Learn a construction trade. With all these brainiacs going for MBAs, there is nobody left (other than illegal migrants) to actually dig the ditches that the world needs dug.

[Lake Living]

1. Develop strong sales skills
2. Gain fluency in another language
3. Learn to write code
4. Become a master storyteller (like our president)
5. Write a bestselling book
6. Start your own business
7. Mooch off your parents (ok, I made that one up)

[Buckeye McFrog]

IMHO MBA programs have inculcated a sort of inside-the-box groupthink which accounts for a lot of the problems we are seeing in business and the economy today.