Well i personally don't believe college is right for everyone one. However, it's not realistic to believe folks with trade jobs on average will do better than people with degrees. Stats show people with degrees do earn more than people with just HS degrees. Also, most folks are getting a lot of debt but some folks are doing a good job of managing how much debt they take on and the investment is worth it.
I'm a 3x Felon w/ a GED & No Degree but I Make More Than My College Masters Educated Wife
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Well i personally don't believe college is right for everyone one. However, it's not realistic to believe folks with trade jobs on average will do better than people with degrees. Stats show people with degrees do earn more than people with just HS degrees. Also, most folks are getting a lot of debt but some folks are doing a good job of managing how much debt they take on and the investment is worth it.
Again, most of the people graduating from college are going to work for billionaires who didn't graduate from college
The rockerfellers basically shaped modern medicine. The rockerfeller who made their fortune did not go to college
The actual number is 63 out of 400.
Or 16.26 percent
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fo...-the-numbers-education-of-the-forbes-400/amp/
If you add it globally it's 28 percent ( most were given by their families).
David_TheMan
Banned
Why isn't it realistic, when it is entirely realistic? Trade schools offer less debt, quicker transition to the work force, and greater job security and placement than your average 4 year degree.
Stats are misleading as well, the truth is that 4 year degree earnings vary by major, and when you remove super earners from 4 year degree, the average income evens out.
The Great College Hoax
LIke I say in everyone of these threads, it is very important before you go to college that you see the job outlook of your degree and compare it to the cost of gaining the degree, the opportunity costs needs to be included as well, compared to learning a trade.
Too many people believe in bogus stats about college education, and like yourself seem to want to default into the position that its good, when it isn't in reality.
Find a marketable skill should be the only goal in looking at education, when you look at how much it costs.
Stopped reading right here. I never said the majority of them went to HBCU's
This is so fukking true. Now they all might not say I wish I didn't have a degree. But many I have dealt with will say man I should have went into this field cause the pay is better or went into this field cause I could do less work and have more job security and/or a pension and so on.
Folks just don't know how many well to do educated white collar folks hate they fukking gig.
Grass always greener man.
I will never forget my professor who in college was my mentor. In grad school dude was like man think about getting your PHD and being a professor. I was like hell naw I want to get out there and get to 100k real quick.
My mentor was like man I am telling you that 100k is good but you gonna work for that shyt in corporate america. My mentor was like look at all us professors here. We make big time money, don't do shyt and get paid to talk. Plus our salary is based on 9 months of work. We professors chill in the summer and if we want extra money we consult in the summer and teach at a university and or JUCO.
My professor explained that he worked in corporate america for 20 years and hated every minute of that shyt even though he was making 6 figures when he left. But the professor gig was the easiest money he had ever made and the stress levels were way lower than corporate america.
Anyway the last bit of advice he told me was.....it ain't what you make. It is how little you have to do to make it and how little your mental stress is when you doing it.
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Makavalli
Sinister is a system
lol my man working himself to death, probably reaping the benefit of his wife's overall compensation package, and trying to flex. 'If I work 90 hrs a week, I make more than her!' LOL come on, folks. Don't get me wrong - there is nothing wrong w/ making an honest living, but he's gotta look at the bigger picture. I also think this line of thinking can be somewhat destructive
Sounds like a marriage thats heading for the split. My wife has a masters and makes more than me but we have a joint account so wut the fukk. When i pull out that debit the machine aint screaming "20% of your funds and the rest your wife's bread nikka catch up"
Quality of life is more important than money
BunchePark
Coli N Calisthenics
Well I am a felon and work 40 hrs per week clearing 90 before taxes with my kids but i get paid to work with my brain not my body
Stop talking shyt bas3d on where you are TODAY and live a full life none of this shyt matters I'm just happy to feed and keep my kids safe every night
Your bank balance and credit score are not part of you obituary find something deeper stop taking pride in nothing more than a game someone created for you the live with think about that shyt
This is why in prison I smiled and slept good every night same as I do on these streets
Stop talking shyt bas3d on where you are TODAY and live a full life none of this shyt matters I'm just happy to feed and keep my kids safe every night
Your bank balance and credit score are not part of you obituary find something deeper stop taking pride in nothing more than a game someone created for you the live with think about that shyt
This is why in prison I smiled and slept good every night same as I do on these streets
Like I said a lot of this shyt is a pissing contest cause folks are mad that some view their way isn't the best way. Which in the end it don't matter and each individual needs to choose the path that is best for them.
Truth be told a lot of white collar folks get pissed when successful entrepreneurs be like
you work in coprorate america.
I remember for engineering week a kat came in to talk at a job I use to work at. Dude was a success business owner who started his own mechanical design company.
Kat said something to the fact it is good to not have to work in corporate america anymore getting up in the morning making someone else rich.
boy you could have heard a pin drop... it was so quiet when he said that. Boy after his speech there was some pissed off mothafukkas in there....
Your boy sat there like.....
...........
Truth be told a lot of white collar folks get pissed when successful entrepreneurs be like
you work in coprorate america.I remember for engineering week a kat came in to talk at a job I use to work at. Dude was a success business owner who started his own mechanical design company.
Kat said something to the fact it is good to not have to work in corporate america anymore getting up in the morning making someone else rich.
boy you could have heard a pin drop... it was so quiet when he said that. Boy after his speech there was some pissed off mothafukkas in there....Your boy sat there like.....
...........
Insensitive
Superstar
Most current billionaires had extraordinary circumstances in the first place and if you're basing your choice not to go to
college on the couple hundred billionaires in this country vs. the hundreds of thousands of people finding work through a
college degree then you're looking at college and school totally wrong.
I don't put too much of my business on here but some brehs know I was a computer science
major, I now work at one of the largest aerospace companies on the planet.
You don't get jobs like that simply going to a trade school, I had to work my ass off on a college campus.
Marc Spector
the 4'11 Cuban
There's no fukking way she is bringing in less than him with a civil engineering Masters.
If she works for the state then its quite possible. Public sector drastically under pays their people but you have the best job security and all the benes you could ask for.
There are nearly 2000 billionaires in the world today. The vast, vast majority fall under the criterion I gave earlier. Finding exceptions to the rule, does not break the rule. Maybe you should have taken that college stats class, huh?