Yes, every where you go, forever, people are going to check your background and referrences. Especially in the work force. People tend to judge others on their achievements and level of education, as well as how they did.
there are some people that can start at the bottom and work their way up (start as employee end as manager) but if you want to be ’set’ in life it is important to have a degree as with it you secure the knowledge that you will always be needed (have work)
as if you work in a store or restaurant they may have cutbacks/no longer need your help (layoffs)
In most cases yes, in some cases no. Bill Gates does not have any type of college degree and is the richest man in the US. To become president of the United States you pretty much have to have at least a bacholores degree. It really depends.
It depends entirely on your definition of success.
For me, success means I’ve achieved the things that will make me happy. Ultimately, success = happiness. I will be happy as just a freelance writer with the time and the freedom to practice my music and art and play a few ameture gigs a week. Of course I also enjoy collecting knowledge, so to be happy I will also want to go to college, but not for career opportunities. Just simply for the gems of knowledge I’ll find there.
Society puts so much time and effort into striving to get into the most prestigious university, have the job that pays the most, the biggest house, the car with the most features, etc, etc. Life turns into a constent competition, and in the end you have pleanty of great things, but you aren’t really happy. Instead you’re stressed out, unfulfilled, always worried about losing what you have, always jealous of the “better” man–the grass on the other side of the fence so to speak-and wasting more than five sevenths of your life in a career that you don’t enjoy.
Success isn’t about having lots of degrees and carreer opportunities that offer lots of money or any of that… UNLESS that is what will truely make you happy.
For white collar jobs yes,where the job market gets too competitive.but you can be also successful if do not have a degree but run a viable business such as running a grocery shop.
Degrees, diplomas, certificates, are important if you are applying for a white collar job or if you are in the field of economics, teaching, law, medicine, nursing and the like but they are not guarantee that you could be successful with all those achievements. Skills, determination and will power are also important. A highly successful man armed with his skill could be more successful financially compared to a man who has full of certificates or degrees but not practicing it.
of course it is
Yes, every where you go, forever, people are going to check your background and referrences. Especially in the work force. People tend to judge others on their achievements and level of education, as well as how they did.
there are some people that can start at the bottom and work their way up (start as employee end as manager) but if you want to be ’set’ in life it is important to have a degree as with it you secure the knowledge that you will always be needed (have work)
as if you work in a store or restaurant they may have cutbacks/no longer need your help (layoffs)
In most cases yes, in some cases no. Bill Gates does not have any type of college degree and is the richest man in the US. To become president of the United States you pretty much have to have at least a bacholores degree. It really depends.
It depends entirely on your definition of success.
For me, success means I’ve achieved the things that will make me happy. Ultimately, success = happiness. I will be happy as just a freelance writer with the time and the freedom to practice my music and art and play a few ameture gigs a week. Of course I also enjoy collecting knowledge, so to be happy I will also want to go to college, but not for career opportunities. Just simply for the gems of knowledge I’ll find there.
Society puts so much time and effort into striving to get into the most prestigious university, have the job that pays the most, the biggest house, the car with the most features, etc, etc. Life turns into a constent competition, and in the end you have pleanty of great things, but you aren’t really happy. Instead you’re stressed out, unfulfilled, always worried about losing what you have, always jealous of the “better” man–the grass on the other side of the fence so to speak-and wasting more than five sevenths of your life in a career that you don’t enjoy.
Success isn’t about having lots of degrees and carreer opportunities that offer lots of money or any of that… UNLESS that is what will truely make you happy.
Success == Happiness
For white collar jobs yes,where the job market gets too competitive.but you can be also successful if do not have a degree but run a viable business such as running a grocery shop.
Degrees, diplomas, certificates, are important if you are applying for a white collar job or if you are in the field of economics, teaching, law, medicine, nursing and the like but they are not guarantee that you could be successful with all those achievements. Skills, determination and will power are also important. A highly successful man armed with his skill could be more successful financially compared to a man who has full of certificates or degrees but not practicing it.