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To: REPANDPROUDOFIT
Didn't Bill Gates drop out of College?

Rush Limbaugh doesn't have a College Degree and he owns a Gulfstream 550, at least until they get done building his Gulfstream 650.

I don't have a College Degree, but I somehow managed to start out as an 18 Year Old Mail Clerk and retire as a 50 Year Old Regional Vice President for a Fortune 500 Bank.

It's called hard work and dedication, not whining that somebody else owes you a living because you have a fancy piece of paper and memories of drunken Frat parties swirling in your head.

12 posted on 10/10/2010 4:48:54 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (My Rights are God given, not Obama approved...)
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To: Kickass Conservative
My grandfather never had a formal education past 4th grade.

After enlisting in the U.S.Navy, he recognized that the people who rose within that organization had special skills, so he taught himself to type. He left the Navy as the youngest Chief Petty Officer in WWI.

When he retired twenty years later, it was from an oil company where he had been the resident expert on contract law and an assistant to the company's President.

Note: if he had gone to college and earned a bachelor's degree he would have been made president of that oil company.

The man to whom he'd been an assistant died unexpectedly and grandpa ran the company for several months. But without that ‘sheepskin’, the board of directors chose someone else. In some businesses, it's just required.

14 posted on 10/10/2010 5:05:23 PM PDT by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Walker did attend Marquette University in Milwaukee... just hasn’t finished a degree. He worked for IBM, it would be interesting to learn how that happened without a degree.


17 posted on 10/10/2010 6:57:13 PM PDT by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Amen to THAT!

I didn’t finish my ‘Bidness Degree’ and I’m shy a few credits to be considered a ‘real’ Accountant, and I’m a few credits short of my Master Gardener certification...and yet, somehow, people with REAL money and REAL businesses and REAL livelihoods on the line have entrusted me to run a $1 million...and then a $2 million business FOR them, LOL!

Suckers... (Just kidding!) *BIG SMILE*


22 posted on 10/10/2010 7:30:42 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with Chocolate.)
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