SUBMITTED: Tuesday, September 02, 2008
POSTED: Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Hmmmmm, just a thought, but how is putting your parents or yourself into debt by spending 30,50,100,200 thousand dollars on an "education" at a traditional university for 4 years, sometimes longer, eating ramen noodles, pbj sandwiches, and just scaping to get by, working part time at the bookstore or subway, or relying on your parents for beer money, i mean food and shelter.
You get out of said college, and well...now what??!! Oh, put my "RESUME'" on any one of the dozens of "Americans in the rat race looking for a new race, post your resume here" websites. hotjobs, careerbuilder, monster, etc.
Get out of college, straight to hotjobs! Put up your Resume' of your skills, goals, etc. And because you have a peice of paper from said university, you get to go on oh, 3, 4,maybe 5 interviews (for those of you that come from privileged families, im sure mommy or daddy can get you a job, if they can do that, why spend 150k on college, just goof off for a few years then ask daddy to get you a job) But for the rest of the schlubs out there, ya gotta put your resume on monster! AND then go to numerous interviews in high rise stale corporate buildings (gross!), and then hope and pray that the other 25 guys just like you that applied for the job they saw on hotjobs do not a)
Have parents or friend/family that already works there and you lose the job because they hire their friend or b)a girl hotter than you, or spent more than you on "college" gets it instead of you or c) you really don't even want this job, you are just doing what you were taught in college, get a job! so the interviewer can read you like a book and knows that you have no business applying for this job and that you really would rather be back in college at a keg party spending mom and dads money.
my point is this. traditional colleges yes, they provide a great experience for young kids out of high school, they are on their own, independent, allll those things, AND you learned how to pass tests and write papers, looooooooooooong papers that ramble on about nothing. but after about 20 years and you finally pay off those loans and worked 10,000 hours for someone else and probably got fired, changed jobs, quit numerous jobs, you have nothing.
Why not spend 10k on education that "immediately", as in the first year or sooner CAN if you work hard and stick with it, earn you money instantly, and teach you how to be an entrepreneur, run your own business, tax strategies, and build a foundation for your family and future. just a thought.
PS, for you out there saying "well, you can't even spell or your typing sucks" just goes to prove that you don't have to be a good typer or speller to be rich.