A fat paycheck comes after a college degree for some, but not for everyone. Some of the richest people in the world dropped out of college or skipped the step all together.
A few of them inherited family companies, but others did it on their own. Like Ingvar Kamprad. He grew up on a farm in Sweden and started IKEA with a bit of cash his father gave him for doing well in high school when he was 17. Impressive no doubt, but that could have been any body who kept on their grind. Society has a way of shaping the culture of society perspectives. They tell us that Jesus was born on December 25th but it is nowhere in the Bible ( I searched many times), they tell us that a man has to purchase a diamond that is 2 months of his salary when he proposes (its a pagan tradition) and they tell us we have to have a college degree to be successful, employed and viewed as a leader. I think the dumb people are the ones who believe everything we hear. Heck Donald Trump just might become the President of America- Need I say more on that, lol!
I have a college degree in Business and Communications along with $60,000 in school loan debt, but that degree could not do a dang thang for me in a company that only saw me as an uneducated black person (they didn't even know I had a degree and probably didn't care either). The average person goes to college and take a bunch of classes that have nothing to do with the degree called electives ( just making the college more money of you while increasing your debt ratio) mixed with so called core classes for 4 years. If you survive the constant partying, late nights, dating and being alone for the first time in your young life, you get a degree that has you totally unprepared for the work world. My question is this: How does the college grad who gets the job to become Mr. High School grad's boss stack up in the leadership role??? Could it be the person who is the subordinate know more that the boss? We all know the rhetorical answer.
My point is this: If you have specific degree like a Nurse, Physician, Lawyer etc, then you can learn more on the street or reading the Awake magazines (www.jw.org). I can't tell you how many people who work at kiosks at the mall have degree that would love to have a real job with real money over what they do. I am not judging them, just being real with y"all. Work is what you do, not who you are-right? Degree's have a nasty habit of telling you how much money you will make, while hustle tells you the sky is the limit for you. We are just a world of follower, in fact 95% of the world is just that.......FOLLWERS. Look at the list below of people who have no degree from a college but make more than your whole family tree, then ask your self are you a follower of the Matrix or a leader!
*Micheal Dell- Dropped out of University of Texas-Austin to start Dell Computer's. He is now worth $14 Billion Bones!
*Li Ka-shing- Oriental man who dropped out of high school and sold plastic flowers and eventually started other business deals. Current net-worth is $21 Billion Bones
*Christy Walton- High School Grad. Family owns Wal-Mart. She is worth $24 Billion and counting
*Bill Gates- Who don't know this dude? Harvard Drop out who felt college wasn't for him. Net-worth is 54 BILLION!!!!!! (no school loans on this dude)
Honorable mention:
Lebron James, Kobe Bryant, Floyd May-weather, Serena and Venus Williams, Kevin Garnet, Jermaine O"Neal, Rush Limbaugh, Kanye West and many others.
Still people, especially black people- think the degree makes them legit. Think what you want, but keep in mind facts don't lie, but people do!
I am WarD (not rich college grad)
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