Gillie da kid “college is overrated” all the rich people I know have no college degrees
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How many career professionals are multi millionaires before 50 like Gillie?
Yeah I hate those bums too … like the famous ones who gossip on VLAD TV … but to put that on everyone in a generation
Who are these people … I know Gen X’ers who are wearing suits everyday and making real money … like the ones in my fraternal circles …
Yeah Gillie is a bum who lucked out … acting like it’s 95 … people like that are usually X and need to grow up … agreed
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this is interesting.
So I met Gillie when I was 16-17 years old and I had just got into Wharton. He used to be on my mixtapes back in the day. I remember he congratulated me for getting into Wharton and told me I was dope. Gillie's no dummy but I think he's only seeing the narrow view.
Like everything else in life, college is what you make it but what college does provide is a strong network, it allows you to expand your horizons, learn about yourself and it provides options......options you don't have with just a high school diploma. Whatever you want to do in life, college will help you get there better with it as opposed to without it. Look at the difference between DJ Envy and going to Hampton or DJ Drama going to Clark Atlanta and how their education benefited them vs your average DJ who didn't go. Look at Puff......his entire crew at Bad Boy went to Howard, D. Dot, Harve Pierre, etc and they were able to build a base on campus to help them grow.
There's just no better environment for a 17-21 year old young adult to try to make something of themselves and be around like minded individuals.I came into college wanting to be a DJ and to work in the music industry and I was able to develop all sorts of skills and connections to help me get there.
I was throwing events and djing everything in college and built up a network of people who helped me win after I graduated. When I wanted an interview at Bad Boy, I could connect with the CFO of Bad Boy because his son went to Wharton. When I wanted a job on the radio station, I went on the alumni database and contacted the CEO of Radio One.
At some point I no longer wanted to be in the music industry anymore and instead of being stuck like an old rapper who's hanging on I was able to use my skills, knowledge and connections that I learned from college to pivot. Those Stat 101 and stat 102 classes I thought were meaningless.......became the source of new career in sports analytics, sports betting and became the thing that help me pivot into sports media and getting a job working at The Ringer. I learned all sorts of shyt in college in and out of the classroom........Most people will say the stuff you learn outside of the classroom is important but I look at how much I benefited being exposed to things I normally wouldn't have taken an interest in. I never would have thought about statistics if I never took it in college but I gained just as much from econ, accounting, philosophy, etc.
I have friends who didn't go to college and I see all the things they missed. They don't have a network of brilliant people from all over the world who can help them in their career. Their worldview is kinda narrow because they never really left their hometown and most of their network is in their same city. They don't have skills they can pivot to. Sure you can make good money working a blue collar job or a trade but your options to do anything else is limited......because of my degree and all the connections I've made and knowledge I've attained, I can damn near pivot to anything.
So I met Gillie when I was 16-17 years old and I had just got into Wharton. He used to be on my mixtapes back in the day. I remember he congratulated me for getting into Wharton and told me I was dope. Gillie's no dummy but I think he's only seeing the narrow view.
Like everything else in life, college is what you make it but what college does provide is a strong network, it allows you to expand your horizons, learn about yourself and it provides options......options you don't have with just a high school diploma. Whatever you want to do in life, college will help you get there better with it as opposed to without it. Look at the difference between DJ Envy and going to Hampton or DJ Drama going to Clark Atlanta and how their education benefited them vs your average DJ who didn't go. Look at Puff......his entire crew at Bad Boy went to Howard, D. Dot, Harve Pierre, etc and they were able to build a base on campus to help them grow.
There's just no better environment for a 17-21 year old young adult to try to make something of themselves and be around like minded individuals.I came into college wanting to be a DJ and to work in the music industry and I was able to develop all sorts of skills and connections to help me get there.
I was throwing events and djing everything in college and built up a network of people who helped me win after I graduated. When I wanted an interview at Bad Boy, I could connect with the CFO of Bad Boy because his son went to Wharton. When I wanted a job on the radio station, I went on the alumni database and contacted the CEO of Radio One.
At some point I no longer wanted to be in the music industry anymore and instead of being stuck like an old rapper who's hanging on I was able to use my skills, knowledge and connections that I learned from college to pivot. Those Stat 101 and stat 102 classes I thought were meaningless.......became the source of new career in sports analytics, sports betting and became the thing that help me pivot into sports media and getting a job working at The Ringer. I learned all sorts of shyt in college in and out of the classroom........Most people will say the stuff you learn outside of the classroom is important but I look at how much I benefited being exposed to things I normally wouldn't have taken an interest in. I never would have thought about statistics if I never took it in college but I gained just as much from econ, accounting, philosophy, etc.
I have friends who didn't go to college and I see all the things they missed. They don't have a network of brilliant people from all over the world who can help them in their career. Their worldview is kinda narrow because they never really left their hometown and most of their network is in their same city. They don't have skills they can pivot to. Sure you can make good money working a blue collar job or a trade but your options to do anything else is limited......because of my degree and all the connections I've made and knowledge I've attained, I can damn near pivot to anything.
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a person who claims black speaking down on education to other black people is c00ning
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No he is not right and there are statistics online that disprove this.
People with college degrees on average earn more money than people without.
Even some of the most famous CEOs you know went to college. Facebook was invented in a college dorm room.
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Of course the pretentious a$$holes on this site are gonna come in and shyt on him but he’s right actually. So much to the point that a lot of companies are lowering their education requirements to get ur foot in the door. So many people in debt and not even working in their field in this country it’s criminal at this point.
They only started to do that when CAC males and Asian males started to skip college in large numbers this past decade. When white folks get fed up with high tuition rates, all of a sudden they start to LOWER requirements for office work with good benefits
