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Originally posted by GS474:
Originally posted by svtizzle4stizzle:
Originally posted by Goonz SVT:
yea, you cant work sh!tty jobs all ur life in the begining and expect yourself living the rich life. School is the way to go and you will DEF. be rewarded in the end no matter how much you hate school, dont fail out..
kinda funny but out of the people i know closely, the highest paid ones never went to college.  all making pulling big salaries by the time they were 30. while a few people i know, not all, who got their bachelors work sh*tty jobs making average salaries.
of course, some of those who make good money are/went back to school because they eventually hit a ceiling at their job and couldnt go any higher.
yes there are exeptions look at bill gates he drop out of college of corse we all know were he is now
but he had a big idea and he knew it was big
but its like that old saying don't quit your day job
don't stop college until you know forshure that you can live the rest of your life off your idea/invention/ect
ive seen cases were 2 people doing the same job started the same time but one makes 2 dollars more an hour because he has a degree ofcorse its not always the case
that 2 more dollars an hour can make the difference between just making it and not having to base everything you do inlife on "do i have enough money"
unless your like me and worrie about everything even when i work full time and obiously i have more than enough money when i get my 50+ hours a few weeks in a role i still check the bank before i do anything involving money
I've seen studies both ways in regard to the value of a college education. I've seen studies that show a correlation between a higher income and advanced education, particularly in professional careers of course, that require advanced education (doctors, lawyers, engineering, etc.). I've also seen financial studies that show that the present value of the money that a highschool graduate can make of the course of their career versus the college graduate isn't really much different because the highschool graduate brings in 100-200k while the college graduate is bringing in zero money during the college years, and in many cases is actually going into hock to afford increasingly expensive tuition rates, so the college graduate actually starts out in the red. When you bring the future value of the differences in potential incomes back to present value, taking into account the money the highschool graduate makes while the other guy heads to post secondary school, the difference isn't near as much as people think.
Still, I believe this present value numbers game will change over time to favor college graduates, as we're increasingly moving from an industrial economy to an information/services based economy, where advanced education is increasingly required in order to be able to really contribute on the job. Why? Because in an information based economy, how much you know and how well you can utilize and apply what you know is what's valued, and education certainly does increase your information base, so long as it's applicable to the real world. 
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